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The driving force behind Paracelsus was his compassion. “Compassion,” he exclaims, “is the physician's schoolmaster.” It must be inborn in him. Compassion, which has driven many another great man and inspired his work, was also the supreme arbiter of Paracelsus's fate:
The somewhat unusual allegory of Christ as the sword hanging on a tree is almost certainly an analogy of the serpent hanging on the cross:
I must make clear at once that the following observations on the visions of Zosimos of Panopolis, an important alchemist and Gnostic of the third century A.D., are not intended as a final explanation of this extraordinarily difficult material. My psychological contribution is no more than an attempt to shed a little light on it and to answer some of the questions raised by the visions:
I must make clear at once that the following observations on the visions of Zosimos of Panopolis, an important alchemist and Gnostic of the third century A.D., are not intended as a final explanation of this extraordinarily difficult material. My psychological contribution is no more than an attempt to shed a little light on it and to answer some of the questions raised by the visions:
I must make clear at once that the following observations on the visions of Zosimos of Panopolis, an important alchemist and Gnostic of the third century A.D., are not intended as a final explanation of this extraordinarily difficult material. My psychological contribution is no more than an attempt to shed a little light on it and to answer some of the questions raised by the visions:
The lapis-Christ parallel was presumably the bridge by which the mystique of the Rose entered into alchemy:
Sun and moon supply the seeds that are planted in the earth (= Mercurius), and presumably the four other planets form the trunk of the tree:
I must make clear at once that the following observations on the visions of Zosimos of Panopolis, an important alchemist and Gnostic of the third century A.D., are not intended as a final explanation of this extraordinarily difficult material. My psychological contribution is no more than an attempt to shed a little light on it and to answer some of the questions raised by the visions:
The theology of kingship best known to us, and probably the most richly developed, is that of ancient Egypt, and it is these conceptions which, handed down by the Greeks, have permeated the spiritual history of the West:
Because the king in general represents a superior personality exalted above the ordinary, he has become the carrier of a myth, that is to say, of the statements of the collective unconscious:
The round vessel or stronghold is the skull. “The divine organ,” says the “Liber quartorum,” “is the head, for it is the abode of the divine part, namely the soul.” That is why the Philosopher must “surround this organ with greater care than other organs.” Because of its roundness, “it attracts the firmament and is by it attracted; and it is attracted in similar manner by the attracter, until the attraction reaches its end in the understanding”
Owing to the theory of “correspondentia,” regarded as axiomatic in the Middle Ages, the principles of each of the four worldsthe intelligible or divine, the heavenly, the earthly, and the infernalcorresponded to each other:
Another alexipharmic is the lily. But it is much more than that: its juice is “mercurial” and even “incombustible,” a sure sign of its incorruptible and “eternal” nature. This is confirmed by the fact that the lily was conceived to be Mercurius and the quintessence itselfthe noblest thing that human meditation can reach.The red lily stands for the male and the white for the female in the coniunctio, the divine pair that unite in the hierosgamos. The lily is therefore a true “gamonymus” in the Paracelsan sense
We spoke earlier of two categories of patients: those who prove impervious to catharsis and those who develop a fixation after catharsis. We have just dealt with those whose fixation takes the form of transference. But, besides these, there are people who, as already mentioned, develop no attachment to the doctor but rather to their own unconscious, in which they become entangled as in a web. Here the parental imago is not transferred to any human object but remains a fantasy, although as such it exerts the same pull and results in the same tie as does the transference. The first category, the people who cannot yield themselves unreservedly to catharsis, can be understood in the light of Freudian research. Even before they came along for treatment they stood in an identity-relationship to their parents, deriving from it that authority, independence, and critical power which enabled them successfully to withstand the catharsis. They are mostly cultivated, differentiated personalities who, unlike the others, did not fall helpless victims to the unconscious activity of the parental imago, but rather usurped this activity by unconsciously identifying themselves with their parents:
THE BENZENE RING AS A VISION
THE BENZENE RING AS A VISION
Our baptism means the detaching of the child from the merely natural parents and from the overpowering influence of the parental images:
Professor Jung: I am told that Dr. Bennet has brought some pictures by a patient. Will he be so kind as to show them:
The quaternity symbol has as much to do with the Godhead as the Trinity has. As soon as I begin to think at all about the experience of “God,” I have to choose from my store of images between [concepts representing him as a] monad, dyad, triad, tetrad or an indistinct multiplicity:
A custom in early times where fire was the chief method of sacrifice to the gods:
Calcinatio constitutes one of 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. 002.00) of calcinatio is shown below:
Flood myths may be seen as cosmological versions of the alchemical operation of solutio where there is a cosmic catastrophe by flood (fig. 003.12) . In Hebrew myth it is Noah's flood; in Greek myth, the story of Deucalion and Pyrrha:
Solutio constitutes one of 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. 003.00) of solutio is shown below:
Solutio constitutes one of 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. 003.00) of solutio is shown below: