A Concordance by Thornton Ladd
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Mythical thinking distinguishes two types of fire. The Stoics spoke of a terrestrial fire and an ethereal fire. The latter corresponded to Nous, the divine Logos, and is analogous to the later Christian conception of the Holy Spirit. Bevan describes the concept of ethereal fire as follows: “All round the world was an envelope of the fiery ether, pure and unmixed, but it also penetrated the whole mass, as its soul” ( Bevan, Stoics and Sceptics, p. 43 )
The grandest symbol of coagulatio is the Christian myth of the Incarnation of the Divine Logos:
Sublimatio constitutes one of the seven major alchemical operations as distinguished by Edinger, each one a center of an elaborate symbol system making up the principle content of all culture-products. The author's cluster diagram (fig. 005.00) of sublimatio is shown below:
Sublimatio constitutes one of the seven major alchemical operations as distinguished by Edinger, each one a center of an elaborate symbol system making up the principle content of all culture-products. The author's cluster diagram (fig. 005.00) of sublimatio is shown below:
Jung tells us that according to certain early texts, the original sea monster was split into two:
Jung tells us that according to certain early texts, the original sea monster was split into two:
Light-symbolism gradually develops as the intensity of a vision increases, into the figure of the sun-hero, the “well-beloved.” These visionary processes are the psychological roots of the sun-coronations in the mystery religions.the early Church stood in a special relationship to Christ as the Sol novus, [new sun]. Philo Judaeus saw in the sun the image of the divine Logos, or even the deity itself.At the time of Marcus Aurelius, Melito, in his treatise,called Christ “The sun of the East.As the only sun he rose in the heavens”
An idea exemplified by the following:
The cross has various meanings in addition to that of the tree of life:
There is a distinct fire symbolism in the mystic quadriga mentioned by Dio Chrysostom:
If a regression occurs in a young person, his own individual life is supplanted by the divine archetypal drama, which is all the more devastating for him because his conscious education provides him with no means of recognizing what is happening, and thus with no possibility of freeing himself from its fascination. Herein lay the vital importance of myths: they explained to the bewildered human being what was going on in his unconscious and why he was held fast. The myths told him: “This is not you, but the gods. You will never reach them, so turn back to your human avocations, holding the gods in fear and respect”
The dual mother may be replaced by the motif of dual birth, which has attained a lofty significance in various religions:
A prenatal condition to which undisturbed libido regressesto an immemorial world of archetypal possibilities where, “thronged round with images of all creation,” slumbers the “divine child,” patiently awaiting his conscious realization
The meaning of sacrifice may be understood as follows:
As goddess of the underworld, Hecate, is dog-headed, like Anubis. As Canicula, she received dog sacrifices to keep away the pest
The worship of woman and worship of the soul are factors which had a profound effect on the psychic culture of manmore specifically: