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[Ian Livingston]

“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.


“The  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).
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