Doodle alchemy guide 1.315/8/2023 ![]() We should not rise above the earth with the aid of “spiritual” intuitions and run away from hard reality, as so often happens with people who have brilliant intuitions. We can never reach the level of our intuitions and should therefore not identify ourselves with them. Only the gods can pass over the rainbow bridge mortal men must stick to the earth and are subject to its laws. In the light of the possibilities revealed by intuition, man’s earthliness is certainly a lamentable imperfection but this very imperfection is part of his innate being, of his reality. He does not know that his own soul is rebelling against him in a suicidal way. If he does not learn this, his own nature will destroy him. What he lacks is conscious recognition of his inferiority to the nature around and within him. He has both in almost devilish perfection. Western man has no need of more superiority over nature, whether outside or inside. īut no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. I conjecture that the treasure is also the “companion,” the one who goes through life at our side-in all probability a close analogy to the lonely ego who finds a mate in the self, for at first the self is the strange non-ego. Natural man is not a “self”-he is the mass and a particle in the mass, collective to such a decree that he is not even sure of his own ego. Life that just happens in and for itself is not real life it is real only when it is known. The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive. Just as the father represents collective consciousness, the traditional spirit, so the mother stands for the collective unconscious, the source of the water of life. Wholeness is realized for a moment only-the moment that Faust was seeking: all his life. ![]() It is only the intervention of time and space here and now that makes reality. In the last analysis every life is the realization of a whole, that is, of a self, for which reason this realization can also be called “individuation.” ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy. But every carrier is charged with an individual destiny and destination, and the realization of these alone makes sense of life. Īll life is bound to individual carriers who realize it, and it is simply inconceivable without them. “Sense” and “nonsense” are merely man-made labels which serve to give us a reasonably valid sense of direction. True, what the soul imagines happens only in the mind, but what God imagines happens in reality. įor the alchemist, the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter. ![]() ~Liber Platonis Quartorum, Psychology and Alchemy. That from which things arise is the invisible and immovable God. Not for nothing did alchemy style itself an “art,” feeling-and rightly so-that it was concerned with creative processes that can be truly grasped only by experience, though intellect may give them a name. We strongly recommend completing your upgrades prior to the end of the sale.But Mercurius is the divine winged Hermes manifest in matter, the god of revelation, lord of thought and sovereign psychopomp.
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