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“Flat and flexible truths are beat out by every hammer; But Vulcan and his whole forge sweat to work out Achilles his armour.”
― The Garden of Cyrus
― The Garden of Cyrus

“The art of the alchemist, whether spiritual or physical, consists in completing the work of perfection, bringing forth and making dominant, as it were, the 鈥渓atent goldness鈥 which 鈥渓ies obscure鈥 in metal or man. The ideal adept of alchemy was therefore an 鈥渁uxiliary of the Eternal Goodness.鈥 By his search for the 鈥淣oble Tincture鈥 which should restore an imperfect world, he became a partner in the business of creation, assisting the Cosmic Plan. Thus the proper art of the Spiritual Alchemist, with whom alone we are here concerned, was the production of the spiritual and only valid tincture or Philosopher鈥檚 Stone; the mystic seed of transcendental life which should invade, tinge, and wholly transmute the imperfect self into spiritual gold. That this was no fancy of seventeenth-century allegorists, but an idea familiar to many of the oldest writers upon alchemy鈥攚hose quest was truly a spiritual search into the deepest secrets of the soul鈥攊s proved by the words which bring to an end the first part of the antique 鈥淕olden Treatise upon the Making of the Stone,鈥 sometimes attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. 鈥淭his, O Son,鈥 says that remarkable tract, 鈥渋s the Concealed Stone of Many Colours, which is born and brought forth in one colour; know this and conceal it . . . it leads from darkness into light, from this desert wilderness to a secure habitation, and from poverty and straits to a free and ample fortune.”
― Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness
― Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness

“Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.”
― The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
― The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

“I can look a whole day with delight upon a handsome picture, though it be but of an horse.”
― Religio Medici
― Religio Medici

“Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.”
― Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 14: Mysterium Coniunctionis
― Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 14: Mysterium Coniunctionis
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