Jung's essay on The transformation symbol in the mass

Paper delivered before the APC of London and later before the Guild of Pastoral Psychology; reprinted with permission of Guild from their pamphlet No.69. Passages quoted from Jung's paper are translated by the author with permission of the Bollingen Foundation.

'...Jung deals with the psychological symbolism of the Roman Catholic rite of the Mass, or rather with those parts of it which relate more particularly to the transformation symbol. He throws light on it by discussing other forms in which the same archetypes have appeared in human history, especially in primitive religions and in alchemy; and for his main alchemical parallel he takes the visions of Zosimus, on whihc he has also written a separate essay....In giving you a summary of what Jung says on all this, I shall be obliged to simplify a good deal....' --p.1

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