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C.G. Jung: “The ‘heart’ of Mercurius is at the North Pole.”

Carl Jung talks about the alchemical Mercurius Many treatises define Mercurius simply as fire.  He is ignis elementaris  noster naturalis ignis certissimus, which again indicates his “philosophic” nature. The aqua mercurialis is even a divine fire. This fire is “highly vaporous” (vaporosus).  Indeed, Mercurius is really the only fire in the whole procedure. He is…

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C.G. Jung talks about the nature of “spirit”

  Spirit, like God, denotes an object of psychic experience which cannot be proved to exist in the external world and cannot be understood rationally. This is its meaning if we use the word “spirit” in its best sense. Once we have freed ourselves from the prejudice that we have to refer to concepts of…