Welcome back to our TTS reading of Carl Jung's Mysterium coniunctionis.

In this episode, we cover Chapter three of the book The Personification of the Opposites. This section highlights the characteristics of the distinct units that make up the Opus. The opposites are personifications of properties which represent the waring ingredients that must be unified to synthesize the Lapis philosophorum. An unresolved combination of the opposites forms a dark Arcanum called chaos, which is a representation of the world in Genesis 1:2. This unconscious world lacks unity with the Logos, the distinguishing principle, thus consciousness as a principle of light did not exist.

The goal of the alchemists therefore was to recreate this world through their Opus Alchymicum and engraft the opposites into an advanced combined edifice through the symbolic Hierosgamos, the royal conjunction of the opposites.

Psychologically, this means an integration of the complexes that make up an individual's psyche into a unified whole, eliminating their inherent antagonism . This marriage is solemnised by an element designated as salt, which is hailed as the arcane substance. Salt in the language of the sages is the Gloria mundi, the aspects of God hidden in matter with a dual significance.

Colloquially it is the soul of matter or of the world which is weakened by it's imprisonment in physis chthonic matter. However, when this base salt is, extracted from the earth, cleansed, spiritualized and caused to ascend, it assimilates virtues from the superior region of holiness and then on it's decent it penetrates the pores of matter perfecting and purifying it and thus displacing corporeality with spirituality i.e. Endowing matter with incorruptibility. Ecclesiastically this corresponds with the dogma of redemption in which the Son of Man is Conceived in the Womb of the Virgin (earth) through fructification by the descending Holy spirit and then later in the epic, the Virgin is lifted up into Heaven and crowned the Queen of angels.

Since alchemical processes are projections, the processes they represent are mirrored in the mind, making it possible to attain wholeness by partaking in this procedure of transformation.

Salt plays a significant role in this connection since it also represents the correspondentia which is the finest instance of matter present in living beings. The internal processes of the body can then mirror the described "circular distillation" as it is called in the scholia to the Tractus Aureus Hermaticum, and effect the transmutation of the feminine principle of Eros to the pneumatic principle, Logos in the adept freeing him from original sin.

I have added the names of the treatises quoted by Jung to the Visuals

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