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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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The Metaphor of the Magnetic North Pole and the Unconscious

    Correcting the Guiding Function of the Unconscious   Thus the unconscious has a symbol-creating function only when we are willing to recognize in it a symbolic element. The products of the unconscious are pure nature. Naturam si sequemur ducem, nunquam aberrabimus, said the ancients. But nature is not, in herself, a guide, for…