The fire-tried stone (signum atque signatum) : an enquiry into the development of a symbol

Prefaced by letters from the late Dr. C.G. Jung and Frau Aniela Jaffe.

Part 1 - An enquiry into the development of a symbol. Part 2 - The mysterium coniunctionis and the process of individuation. 1 Coniunctio and individuation. 2 The "medium" of the coniunctio. 3 The "power" of the symbol. William Blake. Franz von Baader. Novalis. J.P. Greaves. Laurence Oliphant. Vladimir Solovyev. Dmitri Merezhkovsky. Nicolas Berdyaev. 4 The power of the "symbol" in modern literature

'This book, first written in 1957, during the appearance in Zurich of the late Dr. C.G. Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis, was sent to him in several stages of its progress. On a final reading of the manuscript after completion, he was so kind as to accord it his high appreciation. The Author's object--apart from that of rescuing from oblivion the memory of the English Alchemist "Eirenaeus Philalethes", was that of bringing independent testimony in support of Dr. Jung's own thesis, to which this work should perhaps be regarded as in some sort ancillary.'

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