TRTR(I.7) I Shall Be Released

[alice wellintown]

Thanks. When you say Gaddis "lifted the epigraph from Jung" and that
Jung quotes Lully, are you saying that Jung emplyys the same passage
from Lully?

Also, does Jung capitalize "Lapis"?

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Jed Kelestron <jedkelestron at gmail.com> wrote:
> The epigraph by Raymond Lully is lifted from Jung's IP, p. 253 in a
> chapter titled, 'The Idea of Redemption in Alchemy.' In this chapter
> Jung presents alchemy as a mirror image of Christianity. In
> Christianity the goal is the redemption of man. For alchemy the goal
> is the redemption of matter. The central image for Christianity is
> Christ. For alchemy; the lapis. Jung quotes Lully as the earliest
> known reference to a connection between Christ and lapis. The chapter
> refers to Goethe's Faust as the final summit of alchemy and contrasts
> it at length with Nietzsche's Zarathustra.
>