Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 12: Psychology and Alchemy by Jung C. G. Hull R. F.C. Adler Gerhard

Author:Jung, C. G., Hull, R. F.C., Adler, Gerhard [Jung, C. G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1953-02-24T05:00:00+00:00

193. The white and the red rose as end-product of the transformation of king and queen.—“Trésor des trésors” (MS., 17th cent.)

[455] We can take this text as a variant of the mythical God-man and his triumph over death, and thus as an analogy of the Christian drama. Since the age and origin of this Hermetic text are still unknown, we cannot decide with any certainty whether Christian influence is at work here. Probably not. There is no reason to suspect Christian influence in the very early texts, such as that of Komarios.20 (The Christian prefaces, etc., to these manuscripts are interpolations by Byzantine monastic copyists.) And yet it is just the Komarios text that has all the characteristics of a regeneration mystery, although here the resurrection of the dead is effected not by a redeemer but by the ὔδωρ θεῑον (the aqua permanens of the Latinists; cf. fig. 194), to which the Christian water symbolism (aqua = spiritus veritatis, baptism, and Eucharist) forms an unmistakable parallel.

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