[Originally given as a lecture to the Eranos Conference at Ascona, Switzerland, in August 1937, and published under the title “Einige Bemerkungen zu den Visionen des Zosimos,” Eranos-Jahrbuch 1937 (Zurich, 1938). Revised and considerably expanded, as “Die Visionen des Zosimos,” in Von den Wurzeln des Bewusstseins: Studien über den Archetypus (Psychologische Abhandlungen, Vol. IX; Zurich, 1954), which version is translated here.—EDITORS.]