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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Prefatory Note to the English Edition
Editorial Note to the First Edition
Editorial Note to the Second Edition
Translator’s Note
Foreword to the Swiss Edition
Contents
List of Illustrations
Part I: Introduction to the Religious and Psychological Problems of Alchemy
Part II: Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy
Chapter 1. Introduction
I. The Material
II. The Method
Chapter 2. The Initial Dreams
Chapter 3. The Symbolism of the Mandala
I. Concerning the Mandala
II. The Mandalas in the Dreams
III. The Vision of the World Clock
IV. The Symbols of the Self
Part III: Religious Ideas in Alchemy
Chapter 1. Basic Concepts of Alchemy
I. Introduction
II. The Alchemical Process and its Stages
III. Conceptions and Symbols of the Goal
Chapter 2. The Psychic Nature of the Alchemical Work
I. The Projection of Psychic Contents
II. The Mental Attitude Towards the Opus
III. Meditation and Imagination
IV. Soul and Body
Chapter 3. The Work
I. The Method
II. The Spirit in Matter
III. The Work of Redemption
Chapter 4. The Prima Materia
I. Synonyms for the Materia
II. The Increatum
III. Ubiquity and Perfection
IV. The King and the King’s Son
V. The Myth of the Hero
VI. The Hidden Treasure
Chapter 5. The Lapis-Christ Parallel
I. The Renewal of Life
II. Evidence for the Religious Interpretation of the Lapis
a. Raymond Lully
b. Tractatus aureus
c. Zosimos and the Doctrine of the Anthropos
d. Petrus Bonus
e. “Aurora consurgens” and the Doctrine of Sapientia
f. Melchior Cibinensis and the Alchemical Paraphrase of the Mass
g. Sir George Ripley
h. The Epigoni
Chapter 6. Alchemical Symbolism in the History of Religion
I. The Unconscious as the Matrix of Symbols
II. The Paradigm of the Unicorn
a. The Unicorn in Alchemy
b. The Unicorn in Ecclesiastical Allegory
c. The Unicorn in Gnosticism
d. The One-Horned Scarabaeus
e. The Unicorn in the Vedas
f. The Unicorn in Persia
g. The Unicorn in Jewish Tradition
h. The Unicorn in China
i. The Unicorn Cup
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Footnotes
Part I
Chapter 01
Chapter 02
Chapter 03
Part II
Chapter 01
Chapter 02
Chapter 03
Chapter 04
Chapter 05
Chapter 06
Epilogue
The Collected Works
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