alchemy
We have already discussed Jung's idea that in alchemy, when light and darkness and male and female come together, the filius philosophorum is born.
Dr. Stanton Marlan • The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology Book 10)
The first operation of alchemy therefore addresses itself to the breaking up (torturing, bleeding, dismembering) of this confining structure and reducing it to a condition of creative chaos ( massa confusa , prima materia ). From this, in the process of transformation, the true, creative binaries emerge and begin their interaction designed to bring... See more
C. G. Jung and the Alchemical Renewal
massa confusa
Mercurius: Or, the Marriage of Heaven & Earth
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The water that the mother, the unconscious, pours into the basin belonging to the anima is an excellent symbol for the living power of the psyche (cf. fig. 152). The old alchemists never tired of devising new and expressive synonyms for this water. They called it aqua nostra, mercurius vivus, argentum vivum, vinum ardens, aqua vitae, succus
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Written words cause ripples in the fabric of reality.
Paul Kingsnorth • The Great Work: Alchemy and the Power of Words – Paul Kingsnorth
The seven appears after the ace of clubs and not before. Presumably the idea is: first the Christian conception of God, and then the seven (stages). The seven stages symbolize the transformation (fig. 28) which begins with the symbolism of Cross and Trinity, and, judging by the earlier archaic allusions in dreams 7 and 13, culminates in the
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Editing is something most people hate, so it’s worth coining new metaphors (ie: alchemy) to make it more approachable and endurable.
next example how changing the name (language) changes “the reality”
Cleopatra the Alchemist
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Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul
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