Alchemical studies

Hardbound; xiv + 444 pp., including one color plate, 53 black-and-white illustrations, bibliographic references in footnotes, a bibliography, and an index. The first and only edition of CW 13 was published in 1967. The first edition is the terminal version of CW 13, as reflected in Princeton's digital edition of Jung's Collected Works, which is also among the Library's holdings. Vol. 13 of the Collected Works was the fifteenth to be published. Publication histories of the 5 principal papers included in CW 13 are provided in the table of contents, footnotes to the text, and editorial notes. Notably, earlier versions of Jung's "Commentary on 'The Secret of the Golden Flower'" are among the Library's holdings: • A translation by Cary F. Baynes was first published in English under the title "The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of LIfe" (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.; 1931). • A revised translation by Baynes (with additional material) was published under the same title in 1962 (Harcourt Brace and World, Inc., New York). • Baynes' first translation was also included in a collection of Jung's writings under the book title "Psyche and Symbol" (edited by Violet S. de Laszlo; Doubleday Anchor Books; 1958). Contents: Editorial note List of illustrations I: Commentary on "The Secret of the Golden Flower" Foreword to the second German edition 1. Difficulties encountered by a European in trying to understand the East 2. Modern psychology offers a possibility of understanding 3. The fundamental concepts A. Tao B. The circular movement of the center 4. Phenomena of the way A. The disintegration of consciousness B. Animus and anima 5. The detachment of consciousness from the object 6. The fulfilment [sic] 7. Conclusion II: The visions of Zosimos I. The texts II. Commentary 1. General remarks on the interpretation 2. The sacrificial act 3. The personifications 4. The stone symbolism 5. The water symbolism 6. The origin of the vision III: Paracelsus as a spiritual phenomenon Foreword to "Paracelsica" 1. The two sources of knowledge: The light of nature and the light of revelation A. Magic B. Alchemy C. The arcane teaching D. The primordial man 2. "De vita longa": An exposition of the secret doctrine A. The iliaster B. The aquaster C. Ares D. Melusina E. The Filius Regius as the arcane substance (Michael Maier) F. The production of the one, or centre, by distillation G. The coniunctio in the spring 3. The natural transformation mystery A. the light of the darkness B. The union of man's two natures C. The quaternity of the homo maximus D. The rapprochement with the unconscious 4. The commentary of Gerard Dorn A. Melusina and the process of individuation B. The hierosgamos of teh everlasting man C. Spirit and nature D. The ecclesiastical sacrament and the opus alchymicum 5. Epilogue IV: The spirit Mercurius Part I 1. The spirit in the bottle 2. The connection between spirit and tree 3. The problem of freeing Mercurius Part II 1. Introductory 2. Mercurius as quicksilver and/or water 3. Mercurius as fire 4. Mercurius as spirit and soul A. Mercurius as an aerial spirit B. Mercuirus as soul C. Mercurius as spirit in the incorporeal metaphysical sense 5. The dual nature of Mercurius 6. the unity and trinity of Mercurius 7. The relation of Mercurius to astrology and the doctrine of the archons 8. Mercurius as Hermes 9. Mercurius as the arcane substance 10. Summary V: The philosophical tree I. Individual representations of the tree symbol II. On the history and interpretation of the tree symbol 1. The tree as an archetypal image 2. the tree in the treatise of Jodocus Greverus 3. The tetrasomia 4. The image of wholeness 5. The nature and origin of tthe philosophical tree 6. Dorn's interpretation of the tree 7. The rose-coloured blood and the rose 8. The alchemical mind 9. Various aspects of the tree 10. The habitat of the tree 11. The inverted tree 12. Bird and snake 13. The feminine tree-numen 14. The tree as lapis 15. The dangers of the art 16. Understanding as a means of defence 17. The motif of torture 18. The relation of suffering to the coniunctio 19. The tree as man 20. The interpretation and integration of the unconscious Bibliography Index