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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 Holy Spirit manifests liberty, for he is love.” Christopher Ulrich Hahn, ‘Geschichte der Ketzer im Mittelalter’
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"The individual human being is the maturing-ground and birthplace of a divine inner man."
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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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"The soul knows the First Being and itself in its essence by its own reflection upon itself." Avicenna, 'De anima'
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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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"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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"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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"Knowledge of God occurs when the soul reflects on itself."
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"This earth itself is the risen Christ and the divine mystery - indeed, it is God himself."
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"The alchemists regarded the mystery of creation as divine."
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"Each individual becomes the vessel for an incarnation of God."
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"The meaning is clear: the neophyte, reborn, becomes God." Apuleius, 'The Golden Ass'
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"There is One thing, that never dies, for it continues by perpetual increase."
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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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“What first sets the will and intellect in motion is something higher than the will and intellect, i.e., God.”
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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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"Alchemical symbols have the function of uniting the opposites."
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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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"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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"Spirit, soul, and body are one, and all is of One." Zadith Senior (Zadith ben Hamuel), 'De chemia'
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"The temple of God is holy, and it is within you." Honorius of Autun, 'Speculum'
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"A real continuation of God's creative power runs through the human soul."
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“All things are of one.” Senior, ‘De chemia’
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“Solomon says: The Spirit of the Lord has filled the whole world.”
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