Freher — Paradoxes, Emblems & Enigmas, 18th-Century MS (1720) - Page 19

Emblem 23: A circular frame shows a group of small figures, like putti or children, walking in a continuous circle on a path. They carry various objects such as baskets of fruit. Two Latin mottoes arch above and below the circle.

Neither beginning, nor end. original: "Nec Initium, nec Finis."

The Beginning has hidden the end within itself. original: "Finem in se recondidit Initium." This reflects the cyclical nature of eternity where the start and finish are inseparable.

Emblem 24: A circular frame containing an Ouroboros a serpent eating its own tail, a symbol of eternity and the cycle of nature. Inside the serpent's circle are three dark, textured spheres arranged in a triangle, connected by dotted lines. The Latin motto arches above the circle.

It had a beginning, but it has no end. original: "Initium habuit, Finem non habet." This likely refers to the created soul or the universe, which was brought into being by God but is granted an eternal existence thereafter.