A Concordance by Thornton Ladd
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This very succinct recipe for the Philosophers' Stonewhich is what the Emerald Tablet is all aboutis probably the most sacred alchemical scripture that exists. It is really a summary of the individuation process and at the same time has its alchemical referents and I'd suggest you paste it in your copy of Mysterium because it belongs with it:
Alchemical operational procedures provide us a way to understand alchemy:
Coagulatio 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. 004.00) of coagulatio is shown below:
A theory which has nothing to do with the symbolism of the alchemical sublimatio. According to Hinsie and Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary, the term “sublimation” as used in psychoanalysis is defined as, “the process of modifying an instinctual impulse in such a way as to conform to the demands of society. Sublimation is a substitute activity which gives some measure of gratification to the infantile impulse which has been repudiated in its original form.Unlike the usual defenses, in sublimation the ego is not acting in opposition to the id; on the contrary, it is helping the id to gain external expression. Sublimation, in other words, does not involve repression” ( Psychiatric Dictionary, pp. 699f. )
The origin of the symbolism of translation to eternity is probably Egypt:
When upward movement [sublimatio] is combined with descending movement [coagulatio or incarnation], we get another alchemical process, namely circulatio:
The essence of the three stages of the coniunctio are as follows:
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:
Jung deals with a text by Michael Maier which also has the Red Sea as a major image. This is what I call the Peregrinatio textI want to condense and summarize Maier's Peregrinatio text for you:
Now, all these myth pictures represent a drama of the human psyche on the further side of consciousness, showing man as both the one to be redeemed and the redeemer. The first formulation is Christian, the second alchemical:
Chapter 14 of Aion continues with the series of quaternity images from the Gnostic texts. We have previously considered four quaternities:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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: