<div dir="ltr"><span style="mso-ansi-language:CS" lang="CS">“Those marshaling
them wear cockades the color of lead, and do not speak. It is some vast, very
old and dark hotel, an iron extension of the track and switcher by which they
have come here“ GR 4.</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:CS" lang="CS">Â </span></p>
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="CS">“The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">Â
</span>basis of the opus, the prima materia, is one of the most famous secrets
of alchemy This is hardly surprising, since it represents the unkown substance
that carries the projection of the autonomous psychic content. It was of course
impossible to specify such a substance, because the projection emanates from
the individual and is consequently different in each case. For this reason it
is incorrect to maintain that the alchemists never said what the prima meteria
was; on the contrary, they gave all too many definitions and so were
everlastingly contradicting themselves. For one alchemist the prima materia was
quicksilver, for others it was ore, iron, gold, lead, salt, sulphur…“ CGJ,
Psychology and Alchemy, 317 (1968).</span>
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