AURORA CONSURGENS
Marie Louise vonFranz
Medieval Alchemical text attributed to Thomas Aquinas with commentary by vonFranz; companion volume to Jung's CW13
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"God is the dynamic energy in all things, and everything is full of psyche and moves in perfect order."
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“All things are of one.” Senior, ‘De chemia’
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"The alchemists regarded the mystery of creation as divine."
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"Know, therefore,….that from that One the whole of creation proceeded." Pythagoras, 'Turba Philosophorum' (medieval Arabic text)
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"All things have their life and being from the wisdom of God…for according to the wisdom of God, which is the life of all things, was made all that was made…and this [wisdom] is that archetypal world, after whose likeness this sensible world was made." Hugh of St. Victor
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“What first sets the will and intellect in motion is something higher than the will and intellect, i.e., God.”
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"After the self has been experienced as a divine centre within the psyche, this experience expands into a feeling of oneness with the whole cosmos."
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"According to the medieval view the divine likeness reaches down even into the physical structure of natural things."
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“According to St. Thomas Aquinas there is an intellectual light innate in man, which by ‘participated likeness’ is capable of knowing the first principles.”
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"The meaning is clear: the neophyte, reborn, becomes God." Apuleius, 'The Golden Ass'
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“The Holy Spirit manifests liberty, for he is love.” Christopher Ulrich Hahn, ‘Geschichte der Ketzer im Mittelalter’
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"The anima mundi [soul of the world] is the Holy Spirit, for through God's goodness and will, which is the Holy Spirit, lives everything that exists in the world." Honorius of Autun
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"In the self the one is also the many, and the many are all comprised in the one."
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"There is One thing, that never dies, for it continues by perpetual increase."
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“Solomon says: The Spirit of the Lord has filled the whole world.”
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"Western alchemy's chief concern was the production of the One: 'one is the stone, one the vessel, one the procedure, and one the medicine."
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"Spirit, soul, and body are one, and all is of One." Zadith Senior (Zadith ben Hamuel), 'De chemia'
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"Bitterness is produced merely by the misunderstanding with which men approach Wisdom; if they surrendered to her, the bitterness of the struggle would no longer prevail, but only the 'sweetness' of pure love."
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“At the touch of Wisdom the human spirit flows and begins to follow its most natural desire, namely, for its own perfection and the knowledge of God.”
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“The Holy Spirit warms all things with the fire of love.”
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"The individual human being is the maturing-ground and birthplace of a divine inner man."
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"According to Wisdom 7:23f., Wisdom is a 'vapour of the power of God and a certain pure emanation of the glory of almighty God…the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted mirror of God's majesty, and the image of his goodness.'"
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“God manifests in everything. He is present in everything and is the visible and the invisible.”
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"A real continuation of God's creative power runs through the human soul."
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“The world-soul is a natural force which is responsible for all the phenomena of life and the psyche.” Guillaume de Conches (1080-1154), Platonist who taught in Paris
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