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Jung on Alchemy (5): Hermes, the Arcane Interpreter of All
“Mercurius is an adumbration of the primordial light-bringer, who is never himself the light, but…who brings the light of nature, the light of the moon and the stars which fades before the new morning light.” C.G. Jung, Alchemical Studies, par. … Continue reading
Posted in Alchemy, Hermes, Uncategorized
Tagged alchemy, archetypes, Blavatsky, goddess, Greek myth, Greek mythology, hermaphrodite, Hermes, Hermes Trismegistus, hermeticism, Maia, maya, number four, psychopomp, symbols
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Deeper and Deeper into the Heart of Darkness
On 10 July 1941, the most shameful chapter of my native Poland’s history was written. In a small town of Jedwabne, occupied by the Nazis, its sizeable Jewish community was brutally murdered by the Poles. For years, the perpetrators shifted … Continue reading
“From love’s first fever to her plague” by Dylan Thomas: A Study of Consciousness
“From love’s first fever to her plague, from the soft second And to the hollow minute of the womb, From the unfolding to the scissored caul, The time for breast and the green apron age When no mouth stirred about … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged adolescence, archetypes, awareness, “From love's first fever to her plague”, childhood, consciousess, Dylan Thomas, growth, manna, maturity, Moon, poem, poetry, sun, symbolism, symbols
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Ariadne Awakens
“Enter the turret of your love, and lie close in the arms of the sea; let in new suns that beat and echo in the mind like sounds risen from sunken cities lost to fear; let in the light that … Continue reading
Posted in Ariadne
Tagged Ancient Greece, archetypes, Ariadne, art, bull, C.G. Jung, Corona Borealis, depth psychology, Dionysos, Dionysus, Greek myth, Greek mythology, Libera, Minotaur, myth, Naxos, Picasso, Seven Sermons of the Dead, Statue of Liberty, symbolism, symbols, Theseus
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The Fateful Shipwreck of Antikythera
“All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.” Ecclesiastes 1:7 I have had the opportunity recently to see a splendid exhibition that arrived in Basel, … Continue reading
Posted in The Antikythera
Tagged Ancient Greece, Antikythera, archetypes, art, astrology, Basel, Bronze, collective unconscious, exhibition, fate, marble, mechanism, sculpture, ship, ship symbolism, shipwreck, symbols
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The Magnificent Imperia of Constance
She is splendid, imposing, imperial. 9 metres high, she slowly revolves round her axis, revealing all the facets of her provocative ensemble. In her left palm sits a naked minuscule pope, in her right – a minuscule naked emperor; both … Continue reading
Posted in Imperia of Constance
Tagged archetypes, art, Constance, Council of Constance, goddess, Imperia, Jan Hus, Minoan snake goddess, Peter Lenk, Power, sculpture, symbolism, symbols
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Asclepius: Earth-Walking Healer, Son of Apollo
“Coronis was pregnant by Apollo when she found herself attracted to a stranger. He came from Arcadia, and his name was Ischys. A white crow watched over her. Apollo had told the bird to guard the woman he loved, ‘so … Continue reading
Posted in Asclepius
Tagged adyton, Apollo, Asclepius, Asklepios, C.G. Jung, cock, Coronis, death, Demeter, depth psychology, dog, dream, Dreaming, Eleusis, Epidaurus, Greek myth, Greek mythology, healing, Hermes, incubation, medicine, Medusa, Ophiuchus, rebirth, rite, Ritual, rod of Asclepius, serpent, snake, symbolism, symbols
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“The Canticle of the Void” by Paul Murray
“Smaller than the small I am that still centre within you that needle’s eye through which all the threads of the universe are drawn. Perhaps you think you know me but you do not know me. Of everything that is, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Canticle of the Void, darkness, God, goddess, nothingness, Paul Murray, poetry, void
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The Scent of Autumn Earth
“September 13, 1907 (Friday) . . . never has heather so touched and almost thrilled me as recently, when I found those three twigs in your sweet letter. Since then they have been lying in my Book of Pictures and … Continue reading
Posted in Quotations
Tagged autumn, earth, fall, Letters on Cezanne, Reiner Maria Rilke, scent
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Struggle for Love in a Dream
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Poliphilo’s Strife of Love in a Dream or Poliphilo’s Struggle for Love in a Dream), more than just a book but rather a milestone in depth psychology, was published in Venice in 1499. It featured beautiful woodcut illustrations and … Continue reading
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