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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: “When one lives for a long time in great solitude…”

The Anima Arises from the Unconscious…. The anima belongs to those borderline phenomena which chiefly occur in special psychic situations. They are characterized by the more or less sudden collapse of a form or style of life which till then seemed the indispensable foundation of the individual’s whole career. When such a catastrophe occurs, not…