Illustration to the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkrantz: Dissolution of Nebuchadnezzar II, Chaldean King of Babylon (Iraq) 605-562BC.Obvious implications of utilizing tryptamine based sacraments such as toad venom to induce visions. Depiction of dissolution is highly accurate in comparison with actual dissolution experienced from toad venom or similar sacraments.Daniel's interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's visions: 39 “After you, another kingdom will arise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth. 40 Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron—for iron breaks and smashes everything—and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others. 41 Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. 42 As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. 43 And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.44 “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. 45 This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold to pieces.King Nebuchadnezzar learns the lesson of God's sovereignty, "who is able to bring low those who walk in pride," and that all earthly power, including that of kings, is subordinate to the power of God.
