PARADISE LOST by John Milton From line 190


What reinforcement we may gain from hope;
If not, what resolution from despair.
-Thus, Satan talking to his nearest mate
With head uplift above the waves, and eyes
That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides
Prone on the flood, extended large and huge
Lay floating many a rood, as bulk and huge
Titanian or earth-born, that warred on Jove,
Briareos or Typhon, whom the den
By ancient Tarsus held, or that sea beast
Leviathan, which God of all his works
Created hugest that swim the ocean stream:
Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam,
The pilot of some night-foundered skiff,
Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell,
With fixed anchor in his scaly rind
Moors by his side under the lee, while night
Invests the sea, and wished morn delays:
So stretched out huge in length the arch-fiend lay
Chained on the burning lake; nor ever thence
Had risen or heaved his head, but that the will
And high permission of all-ruling heaven
Left him at large to his own dark designs,
That with reiterated crimes he might
Heap on himself damnation, while he sought
Evil to others, and enraged might see
How all his malice served but to bring forth
Infinite goodness, grace and mercy shown
On man by him seduced, but on himself
Treble confusion, wrath and vengeance poured.

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CARL GUSTAV JUNG, DREAMS (Captions from pictures).


Time-symbol of the lapis: the cross and the evangelical emblems mark its analogy with Christ.-Thomas Aquinas ( pseud.) "De alchimia.

Horoscope, showing the houses, zodiac and planets.- Woodcut by Erhard Schoen for the Nativity calendar of Leonard Reymann.

Christ in the mandorla, surrounded by the symbols of the four evangelists.- Mural painting, church o Saint-Jacquea-des-Guerets, Loir-et-Cher, France.

Osiris, with the four sons of Horus on the lotus.-Budge, The Book of The Dead.

Sponsus et sponsa.- Detail from Polittico con l' Incoronazione, by Stefano da Sant' Agnese.

God as Father and Logos creating the zodiac.- Peter Lombard, "De Sacramentis".





"Elixir of the moon".-Codex Reginensis Latinus 1458.

Virgin carrying the Saviour.-"Speculum humanae saluacionis".

Maya, eternal weaver of the illusory world of the senses, encircled by the Uroboros.-Damaged vignette from a collection of Brahiminic sayings.

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