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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"This earth itself is the risen Christ and the divine mystery - indeed, it is God himself."
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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 Holy Spirit manifests liberty, for he is love.” Christopher Ulrich Hahn, ‘Geschichte der Ketzer im Mittelalter’
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"The meaning is clear: the neophyte, reborn, becomes God." Apuleius, 'The Golden Ass'
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"In the self all opposites – conscious and unconscious, psyche and physis, and so on – unite."
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"The alchemists regarded the mystery of creation as divine."
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“Solomon says: The Spirit of the Lord has filled the whole world.”
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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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"The movement of loving is circular, and love is the real unitive force."
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"The temple of God is holy, and it is within you." Honorius of Autun, 'Speculum'
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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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"The art, or wisdom, or Word of almighty God is the form of all creatures. For it is at the same time both the exemplar and the efficient and formal cause preserving things in the form given them, until created things are directed and recalled to it." Robert deGrosseteste, 'De unica forma omnium'
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"The earth is identical with the sublime figure of Wisdom….On closer examination this is really a tremendous thought. The 'Wisdom of God' in the Bible was the playmate of Yahweh, who was with him before the beginning of the world. In patristic literature she was defined as the 'archetypal world' or as the sum of eternal ideas in the mind of God, the prototypes from which he created all things."
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"The feminine aspect of the God-image, as an archetype, is in fact form without limitation, eternal and yet manifest and repeatable in an infinite number of individuals."
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"Knowledge of God occurs when the soul reflects on itself."
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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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“The Holy Spirit is the bond of eternity and equality.”
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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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"In all things that operate God is the cause of their operating." Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa contra Gentiles', III, 66
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“God manifests in everything. He is present in everything and is the visible and the invisible.”
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“All things are of one.” Senior, ‘De chemia’
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"The individual human being is the maturing-ground and birthplace of a divine inner man."
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"The soul knows the First Being and itself in its essence by its own reflection upon itself." Avicenna, 'De anima'
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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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"A real continuation of God's creative power runs through the human soul."
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