By C. G. Jung, Gerhard Adler, R. F.C. Hull
Jung's final significant paintings, accomplished in his 81st 12 months, at the synthesis of the opposites in alchemy and psychology.
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The prototype of the picture can be found in the so-called Drivaltigkeitsbuch j fol. 2 r . ) as well as in the Codex Germ. Alch. , 16th cent. There she has a proper snake's tail. One text describes the vapours as arrows ("Consil. ," p. 127). Cf. the eagles armed with arrows in the picture of Hermes Trismegistus from Senior (Psychol ogy and Alchemy, fig. 128). 164 Berthelot, A Ich. · 165 Cf. Psychology and Alchemy, fig. 131. , vol. 172, col. 419. 167 "Vulnerasti cor raeum soror mea sponsa. " 168 Cf.
75 Cf. the "matrices of all things" in Rulandus, Lexicon of Alchemy, p. 226. 76 Symb. aur. mensae, p. 344. I. THE COMPONENTS OF THE CONIUNCTIO 1447. 77 stresses that this author insisted particularly on the mother-son incest. Maier even constructs a genealogical tree showing the origin of the seven metals. At the top of the tree is the lapis. Its father is "Gabritius," who in turn was born of Isis and Osiris. " The widow appears here as the classical figure of the mourning Isis. " 7 9 "But this marriage, which was begun with the expression of great joyfulness, ended in the bitterness of mourning," says Maier, adding the verses: Within the flower itself there grows the gnawing canker: Where honey is, there gall, where swelling breast, the chancre.
Consequently, the usual quaternary structure of the mandala 5| would coincide with the alchemists' quaternio of opposites. Lastly, there is the interesting statement that an Ecclesia spiritualis above all creeds and owing allegiance solely to Christ, the Anthropos, is the real aim of the alchemists' endeavours. Whereas the treatise of Hermes is, comparatively speaking, very old, and in place of the Christian Anthropos mystery 5S contains a peculiar paraphrase of it, or rather, its antique parallel, 59 the scholia cannot be dated earlier than the beginning of the seventeenth century.