JUNG DREAMS - Captions of Pictures.

The deliverance of man from the power of the dragon.- Codex Palatinus Latinus 412 (15th cent).

Heaven fertilizing Earth and begetting mankind.-Thenaud, 'Traite de la cabale'.

Trimurti picture. The triangle symbolizes the tendency of the universe to converge towards the point of Unity. The tortoise represents Vishnu; the lotus growing out of the skull between two flames, Shiva. The shining sun of Brahma forms the background. The whole picture corresponds to the alchemical opus, the tortoise symbolizing the massa confusa, the skull the vas of transformation, and the flower the 'self' of wholeness.- After an Indian painting.

The tortoise; an alchemical instrument.- Porta, De distillationibus (1609).

Telesphorus, one of the Cabiri, the familiaris of Aesculapius: (a) Bronze figure from Roman Gaul; (b) Marble statuette from Austria.

Maria Prophetissa, in the background, the union (coniuncto) of upper and lower.- Maier, Symbola aureae mensae.

King Sol with his six planet-sons.- Bonus, Pretiosa margarita novella (1546).

Mercurius turning the eight-spoked wheel which symbolizes the process. In one hand he holds the telum passionis.- "Speculum veritatis".

Sol et eius umbra. The earth is midway between light and darkness.- Maier, Scruttinium chymicum.

The Anthropos with the four elements.-Russian MS. (18th cent).

Dante being led before God in the heavenly rose .- Illumination for the Paradiso, Canto XXXI. Codex Urbanus Latinus 365 (15th cent).

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