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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"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 soul knows the First Being and itself in its essence by its own reflection upon itself." Avicenna, 'De anima'
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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 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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"Alchemical symbols have the function of uniting the opposites."
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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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"The alchemists regarded the mystery of creation as divine."
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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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"Know, therefore,….that from that One the whole of creation proceeded." Pythagoras, 'Turba Philosophorum' (medieval Arabic text)
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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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“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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"Matter is one, soul is one, and God is one." 'Corpus Hermeticum'
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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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"The individual human being is the maturing-ground and birthplace of a divine inner man."
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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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“The Holy Spirit is the bond of eternity and equality.”
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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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"Each individual becomes the vessel for an incarnation of God."
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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 movement of loving is circular, and love is the real unitive force."
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“The Holy Spirit warms all things with the fire of love.”
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"In the self all opposites – conscious and unconscious, psyche and physis, and so on – unite."
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"The meaning is clear: the neophyte, reborn, becomes God." Apuleius, 'The Golden Ass'
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