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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

1 "God is the dynamic energy in all things, and everything is full of psyche and moves in perfect order."

2 "This earth itself is the risen Christ and the divine mystery - indeed, it is God himself."

3 "Alchemical symbols have the function of uniting the opposites."

4 "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

5 “What first sets the will and intellect in motion is something higher than the will and intellect, i.e., God.”

6 "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."

7 “All things are of one.” Senior, ‘De chemia’

8 "The meaning is clear: the neophyte, reborn, becomes God." Apuleius, 'The Golden Ass'

9 "Spirit, soul, and body are one, and all is of One." Zadith Senior (Zadith ben Hamuel), 'De chemia'

10 "A real continuation of God's creative power runs through the human soul."

11 "The alchemists regarded the mystery of creation as divine."

12 “Solomon says: The Spirit of the Lord has filled the whole world.”

13 "According to the medieval view the divine likeness reaches down even into the physical structure of natural things."

14 “The Holy Spirit is the bond of eternity and equality.”

15 "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'

16 "There is One thing, that never dies, for it continues by perpetual increase."

17 "In all things that operate God is the cause of their operating." Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa contra Gentiles', III, 66

18 "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."

19 “God manifests in everything. He is present in everything and is the visible and the invisible.”

20 "The soul knows the First Being and itself in its essence by its own reflection upon itself." Avicenna, 'De anima'

21 "The individual human being is the maturing-ground and birthplace of a divine inner man."

22 “The Holy Spirit manifests liberty, for he is love.” Christopher Ulrich Hahn, ‘Geschichte der Ketzer im Mittelalter’

23 "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

24 "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."

25 "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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