![]() ![]() Like the Tao, he is everything and nothing, everywhere and nowhere. ![]() He is the beginning, middle, and end of the Great Work – prime matter, secret fire and Stone… Mercurius… is one’s own soul and also the Soul of the World as personal as a lover, as impersonal as a god. “In Mercurius we see the characteristic that so excited Jung: he (or, she, or it) is coincidentia oppositorum, a coincidence of opposites, the point at which all the contradictions which rend existence are resolved. ![]() Here’s what Patrick Harpur says about Mercurius in The Philosopher’s Secret Fire: ![]() Mercurius is the imaginary figure who gets us started on a path of transformation, and is also the ever-elusive goal of the process. Jung sees alchemy and its fantastical images and chemical experiments as a reflection of human psychology, and especially of processes by which individuals and relationships go through developmental transformations. Depth Psychologist CG Jung was fascinated by the mythological figure of Mercurius, who shows up in ancient alchemy as a trickster deity. ![]()
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