Carl Jung and Alchemy, Lead, Quicksilver

Date: February 23, 2020Author: Mr. Purrington

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Alchemical Studies (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.13)

Cold, inert metal certainly seems to be the direct opposite of spirit but what if the spirit is as dead and as heavy as lead?

A dream might then easily tell us to look for it in lead or quicksilver!

It seems that nature is out to prod man’s consciousness towards greater expansion and greater clarity, and for this reason continually exploits his greed for metals, especially the precious ones, and makes him seek them out and investigate their properties.

While so engaged it may perhaps dawn on him that not only veins of ore are to be found in the mines, but also kobolds and little metal men, and that there may be hidden in lead either a deadly demon or the dove of the Holy Ghost ~Carl Jung, CW 13, Para

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