"In the persistent advance of consciousness towards always more spontaneous and finally reflective forms, we have an objective element, allowing us to follow, through and beneath all complications of detail, the continually ascending advance of a single fundamental greatness."
The Vision of the Past - Pierre Teilhard deChardin
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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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"The individual human being is the maturing-ground and birthplace of a divine inner man."
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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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"The movement of loving is circular, and love is the real unitive force."
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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 alchemists regarded the mystery of creation as divine."
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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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“The Holy Spirit is the bond of eternity and equality.”
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"The human psyche, like God, can intervene creatively in the physical and chemical processes of nature."
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“The Brethren of the Free Spirit taught that the human soul was of the substance of God.”
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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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"A real continuation of God's creative power runs through the human soul."
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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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"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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“All things are of one.” Senior, ‘De chemia’
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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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"Matter is one, soul is one, and God is one." 'Corpus Hermeticum'
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“The Holy Spirit warms all things with the fire of love.”
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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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"Spirit, soul, and body are one, and all is of One." Zadith Senior (Zadith ben Hamuel), 'De chemia'
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"Alchemical symbols have the function of uniting the opposites."
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"In the self all opposites – conscious and unconscious, psyche and physis, and so on – unite."
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"The temple of God is holy, and it is within you." Honorius of Autun, 'Speculum'
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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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"The divine existence…is infinite, and is not limited to any genus of being, but possesses within itself the perfection of all being." Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa Theologica', I, q. 25, art. 3 resp
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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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