Alchemical Studies, by C.G. Jung
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Alchemical Studies
by C.G. Jung
© 1967 BY BOLLINGEN FOUNDATION, NEW YORK, N.Y.
BOLLINGEN SERIES XX
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF C. G. JUNG
VOLUME 13
EDITORS: SIR HERBERT READ, MICHAEL FORDHAM, M.D., M.R.C.P., GERHARD ADLER, PH.D., WILLIAM MCGUIRE, executive editor
PUBLISHED BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, PRINCETON, N.J.
TRANSLATED BY R. F. C. HULL
54 ILLUSTRATIONS
NOTICE: THIS WORK MAY BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT
Table of Contents:
• Editorial Note
• I: Commentary on "The Secret of the Golden Flower"
Translated from the "Europaischer Kommentar" to Das Geheimnis der goldenen Blute: Ein chinesisches Lebensbuch, 5th edn. (Zurich: Rascher, 1957).
• Foreword to the Second German Edition
1. Difficulties Encountered by a European in Trying to Understand the East
2. Modern Psychology Offers a Possibility of Understanding
3. The Fundamental Concepts
A. TAO
B. THE CIRCULAR MOVEMENT AND THE CENTRE
4. Phenomena of the Way
A. THE DISINTEGRATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
B. ANIMUS AND ANIMA
5. The Detachment of Consciousness from the Object
6. The Fulfilment
7. Conclusion
Examples of European Mandalas
• II: The Visions of Zosimos
Translated from "Die Visionen des Zosimos," Von den Wurzeln des Bewusstseins (Zurich: Rascher, 1954).
I. The Texts
II. Commentary
1. GENERAL REMARKS ON THE INTERPRETATION
2. THE SACRIFICIAL ACT
3. THE PERSONIFICATIONS
4. THE STONE SYMBOLISM
5. THE WATER SYMBOLISM
6. THE ORIGIN OF THE VISION
• III: Paracelsus as a Spiritual Phenomenon
Translated from "Paracelsus als geistige Erscheinung," Paracelsica: Zwei Vorlesungen uber den Arzt und Philosophen Theophrastus (Zurich: Rascher, 1942).
Foreword to Paracelsica
1. The Two Sources of Knowledge: The Light of Nature and the Light of Revelation
A. MAGIC
B. ALCHEMY
C. THE ARCANE TEACHING
D. THE PRIMORDIAL MAN
2. "De vita longa": An Exposition of the Secret Doctrine
A. THE ILIASTER
B. THE AQUASTER
C. ARES
D. MELUSINA
E. THE FILIUS REGlUS AS THE ARCANE SUBSTANCE (MICHAEL MAIER)
F. THE PRODUCTION OF THE ONE, OR CENTRE, BY DISTILLATION
G. THE CONIUNCTIO IN THE SPRING
3. The Natural Transformation Mystery
A. THE LIGHT OF THE DARKNESS
B. THE UNION OF MAN'S TWO NATURES
C. THE QUATERNITY OF THE HOMO MAXIMUS
D. THE RAPPROCHEMENT WITH THE UNCONSCIOUS
4. The Commentary of Gerard Dorn
A. MELUSINA AND THE PROCESS OF INDIVIDUATION
B. THE HIEROSGAMOS OF THE EVERLASTING MAN
C. SPIRIT AND NATURE
D. THE ECCLESIASTICAL SACRAMENT AND THE OPUS ALCHYMICUM
5. Epilogue
• IV: The Spirit Mercurius
Translated from "Der Geist Mercurius," Symbolik des Geistes (Zurich: Rascher, 1948).
Part I
I. The Spirit in the Bottle
2. The Connection between Spirit and Tree
3. The Problem of Freeing Mercurius
Part II
1. Introductory
2. Mercurius as Quicksilver and/or Water
3. Mercurius as Fire
4. Mercurius as Spirit and Soul
A. MERCURlUS AS AN AERIAL SPIRIT
B. MERCURIUS AS SOUL
C. MERCURIUS AS SPIRIT IN THE INCORPOREAL, METAPHYSICAL SENSE
5. The Dual Nature of Mercurius
6. The Unity and Trinity of Mercurius
7. The Relation of Mercurius to Astrology and the Doctrine of the Archons
8. Mercurius and Hermes
9. Mercurius as the Arcane Substance
10. Summary
• V: The Philosophical Tree
Translated from "Der philosophische Baum," Van den Wurzeln des Bewusstseins (Zurich: Rascher, 1954).
I. Individual Representations of the Tree Symbol
II. On the History and Interpretation of the Tree Symbol
1. THE TREE AS AN ARCHETYPAL IMAGE
2. THE TREE IN THE TREATISE OF JODOCUS GREVERUS
3. THE TETRASOMIA
4. THE IMAGE OF WHOLENESS
5. THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL TREE
6. DORN'S INTERPRETATION OF THE TREE
7. THE ROSE-COLOURED BLOOD AND THE ROSE
8. THE ALCHEMICAL MIND
9. VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE TREE
10. THE HABITAT OF THE TREE
11. THE INVERTED TREE
12. BIRD AND SNAKE
13. THE FEMININE TREE-NUMEN
14. THE TREE AS THE LAPIS
15. THE DANGERS OF THE ART
16. UNDERSTANDING AS A MEANS OF DEFENCE
17. THE MOTIF OF TORTURE
18. THE RELATION OF SUFFERING TO THE CONIUNCTIO
19, THE TREE AS MAN
20. THE INTERPRETATION AND INTEGRATION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX
• ILLUSTRATIONS
For "Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower"
Four stages of meditation
Drawings from the Hui Ming Ching, as reproduced in the original Swiss edition of Das Geheimnis der goldenen Blute ( 1929).
A1-A10. Examples of European mandalas
Drawings or paintings by patients in analysis. Author's collection, except A4: C. G. Jung Institute.
For "Paracelsus as a Spiritual Phenomenon"
The spiritus mercurialis represented as a monstrous dragon
Illuminated drawing from a German alchemical ms., c. 1600, in the collection of Paul Mellon (now in the Yale University Library). It replaces an almost identical woodcut from Nazari, Della tramutatione metallica sogni tre (Brescia, 1599), reproduced in Paracelsica. P: Yale Univ. Library.
B1. A fish meal, with statue of the hermaphrodite
Miniature from "Le livre des ansienes estoires," in British Museum MS. Add. 15268 (13th cent.), fol. 242V. P: British Museum.
B2. The filius or rex in the form of a hermaphrodite
Woodcut from Rosarium philosophorum (second part of De alchimia, 1550), fol. X, iiiv (copy in author's collection).
B3. The Rebis
Painting from "Das Buch der hl. Dreifaltigkeit ... und Beschreibung der Heimlichkeit van Veranderung der Metallen" (1420), in the Codex Germanicus 598, Staatsbibliothek, Munich. p: Staatsbibliothek.
B4. Melusina as the aqua permanens
Woodcut in Reusner, Pandora (1588), p. 249 (copy in author's collection).
B5. The anima as Melusina
Drawing from a variant of the Ripley Scrowle (1588), British Museum MS. Sloane 5025. p: British Museum.
B6. The King's Son and Hennes on a mountain
Engraving from Lambspringk, "De lapide philosophico," fig. XII, in Musaeum hermeticum (1678), p. 365. p: C. G. Jung Institute.
B7. The Pelican, in which the distillation takes place
Page from Rhenanus, Solis e puteo (1613), as reproduced in Paracelsica.
For "The Philosophical Tree"
Figs. 1-32. Drawings, paintings, etc., by patients in analysis Author's collection, except Fig. 9: from Gerhard Adler, Studies in Analytical Psychology, pl. 12, reproduced by courtesy of Dr. Adler; Figs. 22, 25, 27, 30, and 31 (a design in embroidery): C. G. Jung Institute.
by C.G. Jung
© 1967 BY BOLLINGEN FOUNDATION, NEW YORK, N.Y.
BOLLINGEN SERIES XX
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF C. G. JUNG
VOLUME 13
EDITORS: SIR HERBERT READ, MICHAEL FORDHAM, M.D., M.R.C.P., GERHARD ADLER, PH.D., WILLIAM MCGUIRE, executive editor
PUBLISHED BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, PRINCETON, N.J.
TRANSLATED BY R. F. C. HULL
54 ILLUSTRATIONS
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Table of Contents:
• Editorial Note
• I: Commentary on "The Secret of the Golden Flower"
Translated from the "Europaischer Kommentar" to Das Geheimnis der goldenen Blute: Ein chinesisches Lebensbuch, 5th edn. (Zurich: Rascher, 1957).
• Foreword to the Second German Edition
1. Difficulties Encountered by a European in Trying to Understand the East
2. Modern Psychology Offers a Possibility of Understanding
3. The Fundamental Concepts
A. TAO
B. THE CIRCULAR MOVEMENT AND THE CENTRE
4. Phenomena of the Way
A. THE DISINTEGRATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
B. ANIMUS AND ANIMA
5. The Detachment of Consciousness from the Object
6. The Fulfilment
7. Conclusion
Examples of European Mandalas
• II: The Visions of Zosimos
Translated from "Die Visionen des Zosimos," Von den Wurzeln des Bewusstseins (Zurich: Rascher, 1954).
I. The Texts
II. Commentary
1. GENERAL REMARKS ON THE INTERPRETATION
2. THE SACRIFICIAL ACT
3. THE PERSONIFICATIONS
4. THE STONE SYMBOLISM
5. THE WATER SYMBOLISM
6. THE ORIGIN OF THE VISION
• III: Paracelsus as a Spiritual Phenomenon
Translated from "Paracelsus als geistige Erscheinung," Paracelsica: Zwei Vorlesungen uber den Arzt und Philosophen Theophrastus (Zurich: Rascher, 1942).
Foreword to Paracelsica
1. The Two Sources of Knowledge: The Light of Nature and the Light of Revelation
A. MAGIC
B. ALCHEMY
C. THE ARCANE TEACHING
D. THE PRIMORDIAL MAN
2. "De vita longa": An Exposition of the Secret Doctrine
A. THE ILIASTER
B. THE AQUASTER
C. ARES
D. MELUSINA
E. THE FILIUS REGlUS AS THE ARCANE SUBSTANCE (MICHAEL MAIER)
F. THE PRODUCTION OF THE ONE, OR CENTRE, BY DISTILLATION
G. THE CONIUNCTIO IN THE SPRING
3. The Natural Transformation Mystery
A. THE LIGHT OF THE DARKNESS
B. THE UNION OF MAN'S TWO NATURES
C. THE QUATERNITY OF THE HOMO MAXIMUS
D. THE RAPPROCHEMENT WITH THE UNCONSCIOUS
4. The Commentary of Gerard Dorn
A. MELUSINA AND THE PROCESS OF INDIVIDUATION
B. THE HIEROSGAMOS OF THE EVERLASTING MAN
C. SPIRIT AND NATURE
D. THE ECCLESIASTICAL SACRAMENT AND THE OPUS ALCHYMICUM
5. Epilogue
• IV: The Spirit Mercurius
Translated from "Der Geist Mercurius," Symbolik des Geistes (Zurich: Rascher, 1948).
Part I
I. The Spirit in the Bottle
2. The Connection between Spirit and Tree
3. The Problem of Freeing Mercurius
Part II
1. Introductory
2. Mercurius as Quicksilver and/or Water
3. Mercurius as Fire
4. Mercurius as Spirit and Soul
A. MERCURlUS AS AN AERIAL SPIRIT
B. MERCURIUS AS SOUL
C. MERCURIUS AS SPIRIT IN THE INCORPOREAL, METAPHYSICAL SENSE
5. The Dual Nature of Mercurius
6. The Unity and Trinity of Mercurius
7. The Relation of Mercurius to Astrology and the Doctrine of the Archons
8. Mercurius and Hermes
9. Mercurius as the Arcane Substance
10. Summary
• V: The Philosophical Tree
Translated from "Der philosophische Baum," Van den Wurzeln des Bewusstseins (Zurich: Rascher, 1954).
I. Individual Representations of the Tree Symbol
II. On the History and Interpretation of the Tree Symbol
1. THE TREE AS AN ARCHETYPAL IMAGE
2. THE TREE IN THE TREATISE OF JODOCUS GREVERUS
3. THE TETRASOMIA
4. THE IMAGE OF WHOLENESS
5. THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL TREE
6. DORN'S INTERPRETATION OF THE TREE
7. THE ROSE-COLOURED BLOOD AND THE ROSE
8. THE ALCHEMICAL MIND
9. VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE TREE
10. THE HABITAT OF THE TREE
11. THE INVERTED TREE
12. BIRD AND SNAKE
13. THE FEMININE TREE-NUMEN
14. THE TREE AS THE LAPIS
15. THE DANGERS OF THE ART
16. UNDERSTANDING AS A MEANS OF DEFENCE
17. THE MOTIF OF TORTURE
18. THE RELATION OF SUFFERING TO THE CONIUNCTIO
19, THE TREE AS MAN
20. THE INTERPRETATION AND INTEGRATION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX
• ILLUSTRATIONS
For "Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower"
Four stages of meditation
Drawings from the Hui Ming Ching, as reproduced in the original Swiss edition of Das Geheimnis der goldenen Blute ( 1929).
A1-A10. Examples of European mandalas
Drawings or paintings by patients in analysis. Author's collection, except A4: C. G. Jung Institute.
For "Paracelsus as a Spiritual Phenomenon"
The spiritus mercurialis represented as a monstrous dragon
Illuminated drawing from a German alchemical ms., c. 1600, in the collection of Paul Mellon (now in the Yale University Library). It replaces an almost identical woodcut from Nazari, Della tramutatione metallica sogni tre (Brescia, 1599), reproduced in Paracelsica. P: Yale Univ. Library.
B1. A fish meal, with statue of the hermaphrodite
Miniature from "Le livre des ansienes estoires," in British Museum MS. Add. 15268 (13th cent.), fol. 242V. P: British Museum.
B2. The filius or rex in the form of a hermaphrodite
Woodcut from Rosarium philosophorum (second part of De alchimia, 1550), fol. X, iiiv (copy in author's collection).
B3. The Rebis
Painting from "Das Buch der hl. Dreifaltigkeit ... und Beschreibung der Heimlichkeit van Veranderung der Metallen" (1420), in the Codex Germanicus 598, Staatsbibliothek, Munich. p: Staatsbibliothek.
B4. Melusina as the aqua permanens
Woodcut in Reusner, Pandora (1588), p. 249 (copy in author's collection).
B5. The anima as Melusina
Drawing from a variant of the Ripley Scrowle (1588), British Museum MS. Sloane 5025. p: British Museum.
B6. The King's Son and Hennes on a mountain
Engraving from Lambspringk, "De lapide philosophico," fig. XII, in Musaeum hermeticum (1678), p. 365. p: C. G. Jung Institute.
B7. The Pelican, in which the distillation takes place
Page from Rhenanus, Solis e puteo (1613), as reproduced in Paracelsica.
For "The Philosophical Tree"
Figs. 1-32. Drawings, paintings, etc., by patients in analysis Author's collection, except Fig. 9: from Gerhard Adler, Studies in Analytical Psychology, pl. 12, reproduced by courtesy of Dr. Adler; Figs. 22, 25, 27, 30, and 31 (a design in embroidery): C. G. Jung Institute.