Thursday, February 14, 2008

JUNG DREAMS - Captions of the Pictures.

* The fountain in the walled garden, symbolizing constantia in adversis- a situation particulary chararacteristic of alchemy.- Boschius, Symbolographia.

*The eight-petalled flower as the eigth of the first of seven.-"Recueil de figures astrologiques.

*The alchemical apparatus for distillation, the unum vas, with the serpents of the (double) Mercurious.- Kelley, Tractatus de lapide philosophorum (1676)

*The Virgin as the vas of the divine child.- From a Venetian Rosario dela gloriosa vergine Maria (1524).

*Vision of the Holy Grail.- Roman de Lancelot de lac.

*The pelican nourishing its young with its own blood, an allegory of Christ.-Boschius Symbolographia.

*The bear representing the dangerous aspect of the prima materia.-Thomas Aquinas (pseud). De alchimia.

*Anima mundi.- Thurneisser zum Thurn, Quinta essentia.

* The alchemical process in the zodiac.- "Ripley Scrowle". . . ... . . . .

Dedicated to those of us in our task of Individuation!



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