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Reading The Red Book (30)
“I feel the things that were and that will be. Behind the ordinary the eternal abyss yawns. The earth gives me back what it hid.” Liber Secundus, chapter XVII Chapter XVII of Liber Secundus, the second part of The Red … Continue reading
Posted in The Red Book by C.G. Jung
Tagged analytical psychology, Aquarius, archetypes, astrology, Atman, Atmavictu, Bollingen, breath, Carl Jung, Christ, dragon, gift, Hermes, Holy Grail, kabiri, lapis philosophorum, Leo, Liber Novus, Mercury, opposites, Parsifal, philosopher’s stone, pleroma, polarization, psyche, Saturn, shadow, Soul, stone, symbolism, symbols, talent, Telesphoros, The Red Book, Wagner
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Turin like a Dream
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears,” wrote Italo Calvino in Invisible Cities. Though Turin is not the first Italian city I have fallen in love with, what I experienced there had not happened to me before. I … Continue reading
Posted in Turin, Uncategorized
Tagged 45th parallel, alchemical caves, alchemy, Angelic Fountain, Apis, archetypes, art, “White Magic”, black magic, black magic triangle, Castor, Church of the Great Mother of God, cities, coniunctio oppositorum, darkness, duality, Egyptian Museum of Turin, first capital of Italy, Frejus monument, Giorgio de Chirico, Holy Grail, isis, Italo Calvino, Italy, light, magic, Nietzsche, Nostradamus, occultism, Osiris, Palazzo Madama, Piazza Solferino, Piazza Statuto, Pillars of Hercules, Pollux, shroud of Turin, symbolism, symbols, Torino, Turin, union of opposites, white magic triangle
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