(urth) More aquastor
Matthew King
automatthew at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 11:00:20 PST 2007
Aquaster, actually. Jung apparently noodled with the Paracelsan idea
of the aquaster.
The PDF abstract of Jung's collected works found at the link below
has this:
The Iliaster and the Aquaster are compared, and the latter is
described as a spiritual principle
whose characteristics correspond to the alchemical concept of the
water in prima materia.
Christ is said to have taken his body from the celestial Aquaster;
Mary, from the iliastric
Aquaster. The Aquaster is interpreted as a psychic principle, closely
related to the modern
concept of the unconscious. In Paracelsus' writings, it was
personified as the homunculus. Both
Iliaster and Aquaster were believed to extend upwards and downwards,
assuming a spiritual
form as well as a quasi‐material one; in this respect they are seen
to resemble the alchemical
prima materia.
And this:
The alchemical concept Ares is discussed and compared to the
Paracelsan Aquaster. In the
alchemic view, Ares is presented as the determiner of individual form
and species, hence, an
intuitive concept for a preconscious, creative and formative
principle to individual creatures.
Paracelsus endowed Ares with a watery character, bringing it into
relationship to the body. The
Paracelsan concept of Ares is seen to be scarcely distinguishable
from that of Aquaster, a
situation not uncommon in alchemy where concepts are seen to take the
place of one another
ad infinitum.
http://www.cgjungcenterphiladelphia.org/
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