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Sol et Luna: Jung, Alchemy, and the Dreaming Mind
The alchemists thought they were transmuting lead into gold. Jung saw what they were really doing: describing the transformation of the psyche in the only language available to them — the language of matter. The Splendor Solis, that luminous 22-plate manuscript from 1582, is not a chemistry textbook. It is a dream journal written in…
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The Knight of the Royal Art
The Knight of the Royal Art On the Splendor Solis, Crowley’s Art, and the vertical cosmology of VITRIOL. The Knight on the Fountain Splendor Solis Plate 3 is one of the most densely encoded images in Western esotericism. A giant knight stands on the rim of a double fountain — silver armor decorated with gold…
