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 meaning is clear: the neophyte, reborn, becomes God." Apuleius, 'The Golden Ass'
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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 temple of God is holy, and it is within you." Honorius of Autun, 'Speculum'
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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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"The movement of loving is circular, and love is the real unitive force."
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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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"In unity, in a point, and a centre, which are the three principles of number, measure and weight, are all things created…and in God they are all things;…for in the centre He sustains all, in the point fulfils all, and in unity perfects all." 'Theatrum Chemicum' (1622),
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“God manifests in everything. He is present in everything and is the visible and the invisible.”
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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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"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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"There is One thing, that never dies, for it continues by perpetual increase."
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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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"In all things that operate God is the cause of their operating." Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa contra Gentiles', III, 66
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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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“The Holy Spirit warms all things with the fire of love.”
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"Alchemical symbols have the function of uniting the opposites."
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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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“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 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 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 individual human being is the maturing-ground and birthplace of a divine inner man."
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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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"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 Brethren of the Free Spirit taught that the human soul was of the substance of God.”
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