“The alchemists saw it in the transformation of the chemical substance. So if one of them sought transformation, he discovered it outside in matter, whose transformation cried out to him, as it were, “I am the transformation!” But some were clever enough to know, “It is my own transformation-not a personal transformation, but the transformation…
(Jung is talking here about the Philosophers’ Stone) “The union of opposites in the stone is possible only when the adept has become One him/herself. The unity of the stone is the equivalent of individuation, by which [we are] made one; we would say that the stone is a projection of the unified self. This…
THE FIRST TREATISE In the Following Treatise We shall Discourse on the Origin of the Stone of the Philosophers and the Art How to Produce It. The Philosopher’s Stone is produced by means of the Greening and Growing Nature. HALI the Philosopher, says thereof: “This Stone rises in growing, greening things’. Wherefore when the Green…
I will try to explain the term “individuation” as simply as possible. By it I mean the psychological process that makes of a human being an “individual”-a unique, indivisible unit or “whole man.” from a lecture at the Eranos Meeting at Ascona The Meaning of Individuation Prometheus bound Amphoriskos C6th B.C., Vatican City Museums What…