Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology

«Alchemy is a natural science which represents an attempt to understand material phenomena in nature; it is a mixture of the physics and chemistry of those early times» — su definición de arranque.

«They believed that they were studying the unknown phenomenon of matter» — los alquimistas observaban lo que salía y lo interpretaban sin plan previo.

«one could say that in alchemy, projections were made most naively and unprogrammatically, and completely uncorrected» — el rasgo que, para ella, distingue a la alquimia de toda meditación codificada.

«The alchemists were in a completely different situation.» — dicho frente a los *Exercitia Spiritualia* y las formas orientales de meditación, que sí traen programa.

«there exists in alchemy an astonishing amount of material from the unconscious, produced in a situation where the conscious mind did not follow a definite program, but only searched»

«that is why alchemical writings are especially helpful for the understanding of modern material» — la razón declarada del interés junguiano por el corpus alquímico.

«we can only speak of projection, in the proper sense of the word, when there already exists a certain uneasiness» — el punto sutil que atribuye a Jung: sin inquietud previa no hay proyección, solo identidad de sentimiento.

«even the most scientific and most modern and most accurate forms of modern natural sciences are all based on projections» — la partícula y la energía son, para ella, imágenes arquetípicas.

«it is too cheap to say that the old alchemist, i.e., the medieval natural scientist of antiquity, projected unconscious images into matter and nowadays we are enlightened» — su objeción explícita a la lectura condescendiente, incluida la propia.

«The psyche/matter problem has not yet been solved» — Por eso el enigma básico de la alquimia sigue sin resolver.

«alchemy is still an open problem to us, which is why when Dr. Jung touched it he felt that he was touching something which led still further»

«something like active imagination, performed with chemical substances which to a great extent is what alchemy is» — su fórmula más condensada, dicha a propósito de un recuerdo de infancia propio.

«That is what the alchemist did in a projected form when he said that the divine man had to be extracted from the lead coffin or from the corruptible matter.»

«at this time alchemy was also chemistry and therefore knowledge as to how to make alloys, etc., was a trade secret» — el secreto alquímico tiene también una razón financiera banal, según ella.

«the history of chemistry is completely identical with that of mathematics and astrology» — parte pasa al Imperio bizantino por Constantinopla y el resto vuelve a Europa por los árabes.

«The Church, represented chiefly by Albert the Great, St. Thomas of Aquinas, and certain others, endeavoured to eliminate the double tradition of Church and natural science» — Solo lo logró en parte.

«He was the famous man who introduced into chemistry the necessity of weighing matter.» — sobre ar-Razi (Rasis en latín).

«He was a pure technician.» — el mismo ar-Razi: mérito en lo químico, ninguno en lo simbólico, según ella.

«the name Senior is simply the Latin translation for "The Sheikh," which actually means "the old man"» — la identificación de Senior con Mohammed ibn Umail.

«But one should never believe Ruska, for he is always a doubter» — Julius Ruska sostenía que Senior no era árabe; ella lo da por equivocado desde 1933.

«He projected the whole symbolism of the alchemical opus into the mummification.» — sobre ibn Umail y las cámaras funerarias de las pirámides.

«the tabula smaragdina the emerald tablet. It is a classical text» — la sitúa como tópico clásico compartido por muchos textos alquímicos, no propio de Senior.

«The task of alchemy, according to Zosimos, consists in reassembling the light sparks of Adam and bringing him back to Paradise.»

«the Aurora consurgens is not a typical text, but unique and out of any kind of order» — por eso advirtió al auditorio antes de que votara qué texto leer.

«If you would like a text which, in my opinion, was written from an immediate religious experience of the unconscious, I would advise the "Aurora consurgens."»

«In most manuscripts the text was ascribed to St. Thomas of Aquinas, which I did not consider for one moment» — su reacción inicial, que el relato de las páginas siguientes desmiente.

«interpreted it symbolically, like a dream, and have concluded that it is the text of a dying person» — su lectura de la *Aurora consurgens*.

«not to try to force the inner coniunctio» — su glosa de la advertencia alquímica contra el exceso de fuego.

«As we have nine lectures, I thought I would give three lectures on Old Greek, three on Arabic, and three on later European alchemy, so that you may obtain at least a glimpse of every phase of the development of this science.» — el plan declarado del curso, en tres bloques cronológicos.

«As you know, Dr. Jung has devoted many years of study to this subject, which he practically dug up from the dunghill of the past, for it was a forgotten and despised field of investigation which he has suddenly revived.» — atribuye a Jung el rescate de la alquimia como campo de estudio.

«The fact that now the smallest pamphlet sells for about 100 Swiss francs, while about ten years ago an excellent book on alchemy could be bought for two or three francs, is actually due to Dr. Jung, because except for the interest displayed by some Freemason circles, and later developments by Rosicrucians, nobody really knew anything about the subject when he began his work on it.» — mide ese rescate por el precio de los impresos y sitúa a masones y rosacruces como los únicos interesados previos.

«This is because alchemy, in itself, is tremendously dark and complex, and the texts very difficult to read, so that an enormous kind of technical background of knowledge is needed if you wish to penetrate into this field.» — la razón que da para dictar un curso introductorio antes de los libros de Jung.

«In Psychology and Alchemy, Dr. Jung has, as it were, introduced alchemy into psychology, first by publishing a series of the dreams of a natural scientist which contain a great amount of alchemical symbolism, and then by quoting from old texts, whereby he hoped» — describe el procedimiento de esa obra de Jung: primero los sueños de un científico, después los textos viejos.

«He once told me that he frequently came across certain motifs in his patients' dreams which he could not understand, and then one day he started to look at old books on alchemy and noticed a connection.» — el origen del interés de Jung, según se lo contó él a ella.

«For Dr. Jung it was not a theoretical problem, but a striking parallel to the material with which he was dealing.» — acota el motivo del trabajo alquímico de Jung: paralelo clínico y no tesis histórica.

«One repeatedly sees how anyone who has had original and immediate experience of unconscious symbols begins afterwards to work upon them.» — sostiene que la elaboración consciente sigue siempre a la experiencia inmediata, y por eso lo transmitido ya viene trabajado.

«It seems, therefore, that symbolism handed on by tradition is to a certain extent rationalized and purged of the scurrilities of the unconscious, the funny little details which the unconscious tags on» — su tesis sobre la transmisión: la tradición limpia el detalle que no encaja.

«The reports we make of dreams the next morning are almost correct, but involuntarily we introduce order into them.» — el mismo mecanismo, medido en la escritura de sueños por la mañana.

«Cum grano salis, you could compare the above to the way in which religious experiences are handed on in a living religious system, namely that the personal immediate experience is usually purified, clarified» — traslada la analogía del sueño escrito a la transmisión religiosa, y avisa que es analogía.

«Australian aborigines say that if a dream contained a good idea, it was told to the tribe and adopted as a part of the festival, which in that way varied a little sometimes, though in the main they kept to the tradition» — el ejemplo del Kunapipi, donde el sueño individual entra a la tradición solo si le sirve.

«When analysing Catholics, I have often seen the same phenomenon, namely that they dream of the Mass but something special happens, for instance the priest distributes hot soup instead of the Host» — el mismo desvío observado en su propia práctica clínica.

«Renewal takes place according to the way in which the Mass is understood, and here the old man handed over to the two young men.» — su lectura del sueño de la monja en que el obispo interrumpe el Sanctus.

«There is very little immediate manifestation of the unconscious either in history or elsewhere.» — el problema de método del que arranca: casi todo el material histórico llega ya codificado.

«By observing dreams, visions, and hallucinations, etc., modern man can now for the first time look in an unprejudiced way at the phenomena of the unconscious.» — sitúa esa mirada sin prejuicio como novedad de su propio tiempo.

«In a number of Eskimo tribes there are practically no contents of collective consciousness.» — su ejemplo de sociedad sin doctrina colectiva que filtre la experiencia.

«I think it probable that this represents the remnants of an original condition, because, according to anthropological reflections, one can assume that mankind lived originally in little tribal groups of about twenty to thirty people, among whom there were usually two or three gifted introverts who had personal inner experiences and were the spiritual guides» — la conjetura antropológica que propone, declarada como probable y no como hecho.

«If, for example, he says that he has seen a lizard, then he is told that he belongs to the Thunderbird clan and will have to become such and such a medicine man.» — el rito de visión norteamericano, donde el iniciador traduce lo visto a la clave del clan.

«But there the interpretation of the individual experience is connected with collective conscious tradition and anything which is completely individual, anything strange, a medicine man would just omit.» — el filtro que, según ella, opera en esa iniciación.

«Paul Radin has published dreams of Indians showing how they interpret them and you see that they just skip what they don't understand.» — la fuente etnográfica en que apoya el filtro.

«Wherever a religion seems to be too codified a compensatory sect is usually formed to revivify individual experiences, and this accounts for the many splits.» — su regla general sobre la aparición de sectas dentro de sistemas religiosos cerrados.

«Naturally, he is still concentrating on symbols of the unconscious, for the cross is a symbol of the unconscious, but his mind is directed into a definite channel given through collective tradition.» — el límite que ve en la meditación ignaciana: material inconsciente, pero canalizado de antemano.

«There would be a lump of some strange matter, but as they did not know what it was they conjectured something or other, which of course would be unconscious projection, but there was no definite intention or tradition.» — cómo describe la operación mental del alquimista ante materia desconocida.

«He concludes, therefore, that this particular matter makes one feel sick if approached, and nearly kills you, and therefore he says that there is a demon in lead!» — el demonio del plomo, leído por ella como nombre arcaico de la toxicidad observada.

«Thus if you wished to melt something or have it in liquid form it could be melted or dissolved in acid solutions, and for this reason the projection was that acid was the dangerous substance which dissolves, but which also makes it possible to handle certain substances.» — el mismo procedimiento aplicado al ácido, peligroso y a la vez indispensable.

«Dr. Jung himself approached the unconscious in a similar manner, and in analysis we too try to get people to adopt an attitude where they do not approach the unconscious according to a program.» — la consecuencia de método que extrae para el análisis: partir sin programa, como el alquimista.

«A man called Ptolemaeus (his paper I think was published by Ulrich Wilcken) got into some trouble, I believe for debts, for which he should have been imprisoned, but instead he elected to become a Novice, a Katochos, in the Serapeum of Memphis the Serapis Sanctuary of Memphis.» — el papiro de sueños que presenta como excepción a la literatura onírica antigua; el troceo empalma la aposición sin puntuación.

«But the fragments of the dreams of Ptolemaeus show something completely different from the dream literature of antiquity, and one realizes that people then dreamt just as we do, though dream literature only relates the few dreams which fitted their theories» — su argumento: se soñaba como ahora, y lo que se conservó fue lo que cuadraba con la teoría.

«But if anybody dreams about a coffin, or a wedding, or a snake, that is discussed and they wonder if anyone in the family is going to die; that only applies to traditional motifs, all the other material goes down the drain.» — el mismo filtro, observado en el campo suizo de su tiempo.

«but all medieval dream material, as well as that of antiquity, is concretistic.» — su caracterización del material onírico premoderno.

«A dream is never taken as an inner thing, or an inner process, but is always projected onto the outer world.» — qué entiende ella por concretista.

«Dr. von Franz: Yes, which is why I often say to schizoid people that their madness does not consist in what they see and believe, but in telling it to the wrong people.» — su respuesta en el coloquio, que desplaza la locura del contenido al destinatario.

«A Jesuit told a friend of mine that you are allowed to believe something, like the man in the tribe mentioned above, provided that you do not tell anyone else about it, and do not make a doctrine of it and try to convert others to the same beliefs.» — la anécdota con que ilustra la tolerancia eclesiástica a la experiencia privada.

«He has to be burnt, because the orthodox creed must be defended, but the door is left open; they say that the heretic may be right, but that if he wants to adhere to his personal truth, he must accept being burnt for it.» — su lectura del trato inquisitorial a la verdad personal.

«The average modern man, particularly in Anglo-Saxon countries, but also increasingly in European countries, is trained mentally in the observation of natural science phenomena, while the humanities, as you know, are more and more neglected.» — el diagnóstico con que justifica entrar a la alquimia por su lado de ciencia natural.

«Therefore one might say that in his outlook on the ultimate realities of life, man is overwhelmed by ideas and concepts from within, symbols and images, but also deals with outer materials.» — la doble presión, interna y material, de la que deriva el trato mágico de la materia.

«You all know the concept of mana, which even by non-Jungian investigators of religion is compared to electricity.» — el mana como caso de fuerza divina no personificada, con la comparación que otros ya hacían.

«On the other hand, there is the counter swing, in Greek natural philosophy, for instance, where suddenly the whole emphasis is placed on symbols such as water, which is said to be the beginning of the world, or the fire in Heraclitus, etc., which is a revivification of the mana idea on a higher level.» — lee la filosofía natural griega como oscilación de vuelta desde la divinidad personificada.

«But in other religions there are either a number of human or other gods, so that we probably have to make the hypothesis that the unconscious likes to appear in its ultimate, archetypal manifestations, sometimes symbolised in natural phenomena and sometimes personified.» — su hipótesis sobre las dos formas en que aparece lo último: fenómeno natural o figura personificada.

«So far as I can see, it is not true that such personified manifestations or ideas of gods, or the Godhead, are more infantile.» — rechaza, con la reserva declarada, la escala evolutiva que pondría lo abstracto por encima de lo personificado.

«So manifestation in a human form would demonstrate the possibility of conscious relation, whereas an inhuman form, or a natural power form, is just a phenomenon and can only be related to as such.» — la diferencia que le importa entre las dos formas: con una se puede tener trato, con la otra no.

«Obviously, whatever the Divine is, it has both aspects, and in most theologies this has been maintained.» — sostiene que la doble cara ya está reconocida en las teologías, y no es aporte suyo.

«Therefore, probably there have always been the two aspects of this ultimate, inner centre of the psyche, one being completely transcendent, which manifests in something as remote as fire or water, and another which sometimes manifests in human form, which would mean that it was now approaching in a form to which one could relate.» — traduce esa doble cara al centro interno de la psique, marcando la conjetura con un probably.

«St. Niklaus dreamt, or had a vision, of Christ coming as a Berserk and in the same vision the Berserk afterwards told people the truth about themselves he saw into them and what they really were, and people ran away from him.» — la visión de Niklaus von der Flüe, que ella pone como caso de arquetipo aparecido en forma humana.

«Therefore obviously St. Niklaus had the same quality as Christ had in his vision, which would be an illustration of something belonging to the archetypal unconscious and entering the human being.» — su lectura del caso: lo visto en la visión pasó luego a la conducta del vidente.

«If you dream of an archetype in a human form, that means that you could, to some extent, incarnate it.» — la regla que extrae, acotada por el to some extent.

«It could manifest in you, and could express itself through you, that is the whole idea of the inner Christ.» — enlaza esa encarnación posible con la noción del Cristo interior.

«If you are honest, you feel obliged to admit afterwards that it was not you speaking.» — su criterio para no identificarse con el arquetipo que habla por uno.

«Because if you identify, you get into an inflation.» — el riesgo que nombra en esa identificación.

«If I am honest, I reply that I had not realized what I was saying, but said what came to me, and that happened to be something much wiser than anything I could have thought.» — lo dice de su propia práctica, no de un caso ajeno.

«Even if you say that at twelve o'clock you must remember to do a certain thing, if the unconscious does not cooperate, you will forget it.» — su ejemplo mínimo de que lo consciente no produce nada sin cooperación de lo inconsciente.

«The fire ball will not provide the same experience, though in a way it is even more marvellous, for the person will be much more affected emotionally he will be overwhelmed, gripped by the mystery, by the complete otherness of the Divine.» — la contrapartida de la forma no humana: menos trato posible, más impacto.

«An experience of the Divine is often of an overwhelming power beyond one's own comprehension, which is dangerous, but to which one has to adapt, as one has to adapt to a manifestation in nature such as the explosion of a volcano.» — consigna el peligro y a la vez la obligación de adaptarse.

«I refer to it arbitrarily and derisively as a pseudoproblem because originally it was no problem, and actually there is only the one thing the search for the ultimate truth.» — su desestimación del conflicto ciencia-religión, declarada arbitraria por ella misma.

«If you read the history of the development of chemistry and particularly of physics, you will see that even such exact natural sciences could not, and still cannot, avoid basing their thought systems on certain hypotheses.» — el argumento con que iguala ciencia y religión en cuanto a supuestos previos.

«Johannes Kepler, one of the fathers of modern or classic physics, said that naturally space must have three dimensions because of the Trinity!» — su caso mayor de supuesto teológico dentro de la física clásica.

«Further, until now the European scientific mind has been possessed by the idea of causality, an idea hitherto accepted without question: everything was causal, and the scientific attitude was that investigations should be made with that premise in mind, for there must be a rational cause for everything.» — la causalidad como el segundo supuesto no examinado de la ciencia europea.

«The doctrine of the immutability of God is one of the Christian tenets: the Divinity is unchanging, there must be no internal contradictions in God, or new ideas or conceptions.» — de donde deriva, en su lectura, la rigidez del modelo causal.

«The late physicist, Professor Wolfgang Pauli, frequently demonstrated the extent to which modern physical sciences are in a way rooted in archetypal ideas.» — atribuye a Pauli el trabajo sobre las raíces arquetípicas de la física.

«Great discoveries in natural sciences are generally due to the appearance of a new archetypal model by which reality can be described; that usually precedes big developments, for there is now a model which enables a much fuller explanation than was hitherto possible.» — su tesis sobre el mecanismo del descubrimiento científico.

«So science has progressed, but still any model becomes a cage, for if one comes across phenomena difficult to explain, then instead of being adaptable and saying that the phenomena do not conform to the model and that a new hypothesis must be found, one clings to one's hypotheses with a kind of emotional conviction and cannot be objective.» — la otra cara del mismo mecanismo: el modelo que abrió el campo lo cierra después.

«It is a question of belief, not of science, and therefore something which cannot be discussed, and people get excited and fanatical if you present them with a fact which does not fit the frame.» — describe la reacción emocional del científico ante el dato que no cabe.

«I knew a physicist whose dreams pointed to a new discovery not yet made, and which he himself had not made, but which was in the air, so to speak.» — el caso con que sostiene que lo inconsciente anticipa hallazgos externos.

«But about three months later, exact experimental results were published proving that what he had dreamt was correct, and that he would have to drop his former ideas about the cosmic order.» — el desenlace de ese caso, fechado por ella en tres meses.

«So the archetype is the promoter of ideas and is also responsible for the emotional restrictions which prevent the renunciation of earlier theories.» — la doble función que asigna al arquetipo en la ciencia: motor y freno.

«It is really only a detail or specific aspect of what happens everywhere in life, for we could not recognize anything without projection, but it is also the main obstacle in arriving at the truth.» — generaliza la proyección como condición del conocer y como su principal estorbo.

«At first, one has to project, or there is no contact, but then one should be able to correct the projection, and it is the same not only as regards human beings, but everything else also.» — su regla de trabajo: proyectar es inevitable, corregir es la tarea.

«But no projection is ever corrected without such a feeling of uneasiness.» — el disparador que exige para hablar de retirada de proyección.

«A quality in another person can only be recognized if one has the same quality and knows what it feels like to lie, and therefore one recognizes the same thing in the other person.» — el ejemplo del mentiroso, con el que niega que reconocer un rasgo ajeno lo vuelva falso.

«It would be very wrong to think it was only one's projection, and that one should believe the other person; one would be a fool to do so.» — el límite que pone al retiro de proyecciones cuando el rasgo ajeno es real.

«Progress in science is the replacement of a primitive projection by one more accurate, so that one can say that natural science is concerned with the projection of models of reality into which phenomena seem to fit better, or less well.» — su definición del progreso científico como sustitución de proyecciones.

«So Einstein says that the fact that a model constructed by the human mind in an introverted situation fits with outer facts is just a miracle and must be taken as such.» — la posición que atribuye a Einstein sobre el ajuste entre modelo y mundo.

«Plank does not agree, but thinks that we conceive a model which we check by experiment, after which we revise our model, so that there is a kind of dialectic friction between experiment and model by which we slowly arrive at an explanatory fact compounded of the two.» — la posición contraria que atribuye a Planck; el troceo imprime el apellido sin la c.

«We know something more than those two men, namely that when Einstein makes a new model of reality he is helped by his unconscious, without which he would not have arrived at his theories.» — lo que la psicología añadiría, según ella, a esa discusión entre físicos.

«Dr. Jung is inclined to think though he has never formulated the thought, or only hypothetically, because we cannot do more, we can only speculate or make a hypothesis that probably the unconscious has a material aspect, which would be why it knows about matter, because it is matter, it is matter which knows itself, as it were.» — atribuye a Jung esta conjetura y declara dos veces que no pasa de hipótesis.

«If this were so, then there would be a dim or vague phenomenon of consciousness even in inorganic matter.» — la consecuencia que extrae de esa conjetura, planteada en condicional.

«I tried last time to give you a brief sketch of the importance of alchemical symbolism: in the first place, it contains a collection of archetypal symbols with a minimum of personification; and secondly, there is a great deal of material symbolism from the images stored in the unconscious.» — resume en dos puntos por qué le importa el corpus alquímico.

«To man, these images of water, fire, and metal are just as important symbolically as any personification of the unconscious.» — iguala en peso simbólico la imagen material y la figura personificada.

«Moreover, here the unconscious psyche and matter are not yet separated; religion, magic, and the natural sciences are not yet divided.» — el rasgo histórico del que depende su interés: en la alquimia esas divisiones aún no existen.

«We are confronted with the original situation where all the faculties and categories by which we observe outer and inner nature are not yet differentiated.» — su caracterización de esa indistinción como situación original.

«For instance, in a medieval document attributed to Albert the Great there is a theory about heavy water which looks like a completely intuitive anticipation of the heavy water we now know.» — el ejemplo con que apunta a que la proyección a veces acierta; consigna la atribución como atribución.

«Ultimately, the question as to whether and how the unconscious is in some way connected with matter is, as I said, quite unsettled.» — deja sin resolver el vínculo psique-materia y lo declara así.

«We do not want to speculate and so refrain from making statements; we merely make the hypothesis that there is a psyche which manifests in dreams and in involuntary psychological ways which we can study, just as physicists say that there is something like matter, or energy, and study that.» — su abstención declarada, y el paralelo con el modo en que la física postula la materia.

«You remember that I also stressed, perhaps the most important point, that the alchemists, in observing and experiencing their symbols and in their written descriptions, worked without any conscious religious or scientific program, so that their conclusions are spontaneous, uncorrected impressions of the unconscious with very little conscious interference, in contrast to other symbolic material which had always been revised.» — repite lo que llama su punto principal: el material alquímico llegó sin revisar.

«The unprogrammed approach, so to speak, is common to both alchemy and analytical psychology.» — el puente de método entre las dos prácticas, que es su argumento de fondo.

«This time I want to look at one of the oldest of the known texts, namely one from the prophetess Isis to her son Horus, on which the sign of the sickle moon appears behind the title.» — el texto griego con que abre el bloque alquímico.

«Decisions as to who was who, who wrote what, and the age of the different writings would be pure speculation, for some speak of the first and others of the third century differing by as much as three hundred years in their estimates and very little order has been made in this salad of tradition.» — su balance sobre la datación y la autoría del corpus griego: sin resolver y sin orden.

«Though it is such promising material, so few people are interested in alchemy that nobody bothers about translation or publication.» — el estado editorial del corpus árabe hacia 1959, según ella.

«So there are gold mines ahead and nobody to work them!» — su valoración del material árabe sin publicar.

«He was called the Sheihk, and in the Latin this was translated as Senior, "the old one," which would be the correct translation, so that he became Senior in the Latin tradition, and only later was it discovered that this Senior was Mohammed ibn Umail.» — la identificación de Senior, con la grafía Sheihk tal como la imprime el troceo.

«They got into close connection with the Druses, a more mystical and pagan sect within the Islamic world, who were subject to the "Old Man of the Mountains," the Imam, i.e., the chief of the sect.» — la vía templaria-drusa que propone para el paso del material a Europa.

«Behind the title is the sign of the sickle moon, but what that means nobody knows.» — consigna el signo del manuscrito y se abstiene de interpretarlo.

«I will give you the material without speculation so that you can have the fresh impact and not what has since been said about it.» — su criterio de exposición: primero el texto, después el comentario.

«If you read what has been written about these books you will find it said that they were most probably written in such and such a century, but that they were certainly based on older texts, which implies some uncertainty.» — cómo lee la fórmula de datación habitual de la erudición sobre estos textos.

«The kairoi plays an enormous role in another very old alchemical text where the writer Zosimos, of whom you know through Dr. Jung's comments, says that the whole of alchemy depends upon the kairos, and he even calls the alchemical operation the kairikai baphai, the kairos colouring.» — atribuye a Zósimo la doctrina del momento oportuno como condición de toda la obra.

«His theory is that chemical processes do not always happen of themselves, but only at the astrologically right moment; that is, if I am working with silver, the moon, which is the planet of silver, must be in the right position, and if I am working with copper, Venus has to be in a certain constellation, otherwise these operations in silver and copper will not work.» — explica el kairos de Zósimo por la correspondencia metal-planeta.

«One cannot just take those two metals and unite them, but must also consider and wait for the astrological constellation and pray to those planet gods, and if these things are also in order, then the chemical operation might work.» — la operación exige técnica, constelación y plegaria a la vez, y aun así solo podría funcionar.

«Kairos therefore at that time and in this connection means the astrologically right time, the time when things can turn out successfully.» — fija el sentido del término para este corpus, acotándolo a ese contexto.

«It means that it is a tremendous mystery which Isis now gets from the angel and which she will only be able to tell her son Horus and her closest friend.» — su glosa del juramento de silencio en el texto de Isis.

«Whether her son is her closest friend, or there are two people, is not clear from the grammar; nor whether "so that you are me, and I am you" means "You, my son, are me" or the angel and Isis, but probably both apply.» — declara la ambigüedad gramatical del pasaje en vez de resolverla.

«One never knows where the quotes should be, but I think it is obvious that it begins here.» — el problema editorial de dónde empieza la cita dentro del texto griego, que resuelve a ojo y lo dice.

«But in the case of a number of other words, for instance Kobathia which I translated as "green stone" and the word which I did not translate but left as "magnesia" though it is not what we mean now by magnesia, we really do not know what they mean; we are pretty sure they refer to some cooked chemical substances, but they are so paradoxically described in the different texts that we cannot be certain.» — su declaración de límite sobre la identificación de sustancias en las recetas griegas.

«It is a general prejudice, or ancient superstition, that the urine of uncorrupted boys is particularly efficient, not only in chemical operations but in love charms, etc., where it is more efficacious than ordinary urine.» — sitúa el ingrediente de la receta dentro de una creencia mágica más amplia.

«There are innumerable magic recipes where, for instance, it is said that if you wish to find something which has been stolen, then put an uncorrupted boy to sleep, cook such and such a thing, give him such and such a thing to eat, and then when he is asleep, ask him where the lost subject is and while in a trance he will tell you.» — el uso adivinatorio del niño no corrompido, del que deriva su lectura del ingrediente.

«Shortly before puberty boys are more gifted mediums, a faculty which they lose later on.» — la razón que da para esa elección de médium.

«Dr. von Franz: Yes. In the Book of Enoch, there is a whole description of all the techniques given to the angels.» — su respuesta en el coloquio, que remite la enseñanza angélica de las artes al Libro de Henoc.

«Isis is frequently referred to as the widow in the text and therefore from the very beginning in alchemy the philosopher's stone, the mystery, is called the mystery of the widow, the stone of the widow, or the orphan's stone; there was a connection between the widow and the orphan, but it all points to Isis.» — hace derivar de este texto los nombres de la piedra como misterio de la viuda.

«Knowledge is either poisonous or healing. . . . One has to have a double attitude about it, the teaching of the felix culpa.» — su tesis sobre la ambivalencia del conocimiento; el troceo conserva los puntos suspensivos del editor.

«In Genesis the theft is looked on as being only evil, and in the Book of Enoch the theft of the technique is coloured in the same way, namely that the theft of these secrets by women has played a part in the corruption of our world,» — la valoración bíblica del robo del saber, que le sirve de contraste.

«But in our text the feeling is quite changed, for when Isis succeeds in getting the secret from those angels it is seen as a great achievement.» — la inversión que encuentra en el texto de Isis frente al relato bíblico.

«We can recognize the symbolism of the anima, for the story of Eve is even more true for the anima than just for women,» — su lectura junguiana del relato, dicha como lectura y no como sentido del texto.

«That she is also a prophetess is naturally stressed because she anticipates future developments:» — por qué el título del texto llama profetisa a Isis.

«He says that he knows all about it, namely that it is his mother complex, but nothing has changed.» — el caso clínico con que muestra que el saber sobre uno mismo no basta.

«Only in later Catholic interpretation is there the felix culpa which says, "Thank God Adam and Eve sinned, for otherwise Christ could not have redeemed us."» — sitúa la felix culpa como interpretación tardía y no como lectura original del Génesis.

«In our text, however, it is an achievement for now Isis has got the marvellous secret out of the angel and says she is going to tell her son about it.» — insiste en que aquí la obtención del saber se cuenta como logro.

«The text tells us that a lion generates a lion, and that is what Isis tells as the secret.» — el contenido concreto del secreto en el texto, que ella no infla.

«Mankind is quite divided over the evaluation of the origin of science and technique, the origin of chemistry and of the natural sciences, of some kind of knowledge.» — constata la división y no toma partido en ella.

«Knowledge is either poisonous or healing, it is one or the other, and that is why some myths say that knowledge brings about the corruption of the world and others that knowledge is healing, and then we have the biblical idea which says that it is first corruption, but later turns, thank God, into healing.» — el reparto de las tres posiciones míticas sobre el conocimiento.

«In an actual situation, however, you cannot assume a double attitude.» — el límite práctico de esa ambivalencia: en el caso concreto hay que decidir.

«Consciousness, or knowledge, is a terrific problem which we have not solved yet.» — deja el problema abierto en vez de resolverlo.

«In a most general way, you can say that it is the problem of mankind, for man is that strange invention of nature which carries a new form of consciousness.» — su formulación más amplia del asunto.

«Anthropology books say that man is distinguished by the phenomenon of consciousness and does not himself quite know how to evaluate this quality.» — apoya en la antropología la indecisión sobre el valor de la consciencia.

«But here, in the Isis story, the evaluation is entirely opposite, implying that we have made great progress, we have got this secret out of the angels, something so immense that I will only tell my son and my friend about it.» — la valoración positiva del saber robado que encuentra en el texto egipcio.

«The ego seized something which did not belong to it, so got inflated and lost its balance and everything went wrong.» — su traducción psicológica del robo del saber en la clave bíblica.

«You may say why dig up these heavy old texts with all their complications, but don't forget that that is the root of the good ideas and the prejudices of our civilization.» — la justificación que da para leer estos textos en un instituto de psicología.

«We must know what prejudices we have, though we may still keep them, saying that we like them, but one can think differently, opinions do differ.» — el objetivo que le asigna a ese trabajo histórico, sin exigir abandonar el prejuicio.

«The Greek mind just states that stealing knowledge from the unconscious must be paid for, but you can still have the right attitude!» — la posición griega, que registra el precio sin emitir juicio moral.

«In the Judaeo-Christian tradition the stress is on the ethical aspect, and in the Greek it is dispassionate and more a statement of facts, but here there is yet another nuance and the evaluation is highly positive and means divine progress.» — el reparto de las tres valoraciones, con la egipcia como tercera.

«The myth does not recommend doing or not doing it, but you must know that there is always the price to pay.» — lo que, según ella, el mito griego sí afirma y lo que deja abierto.

«If you are unprejudiced, you would first be obliged to try it out, but it has often been proved that to delay is wise.» — su consejo sobre demorar la toma del saber, apoyado en lo observado.

«it is wiser to stop and ask why this happened at this particular moment of the analysis?» — su procedimiento ante la irrupción de un impulso sexual en el análisis.

«It is a kind of below-stairs explosion, because it cannot come up by the staircase;» — la imagen con que describe el contenido inconsciente que no encuentra vía consciente.

«But sometimes it is a genuine sexual urge. You cannot always say that it is not exactly what it appears to be, because after all we are warm-blooded animals and have our normal physical reactions.» — el freno que pone a su propia lectura simbólica del impulso.

«Isis does not tell she is very discreet! She neither says she did or didn't.» — sobre lo que el texto calla acerca del trato de Isis con el ángel.

«That is a free ethical decision among human beings, or, as here, among gods, and that is on another level.» — dónde sitúa la decisión que el texto no resuelve.

«Jung in his writings sometimes refers to instinct as if it were the same thing as the archetype and sometimes as if it were different.» — señala la vacilación terminológica de Jung en vez de disimularla.

«What he means is that the archetype, if we look at it as opposite to instinct, would be an inherited and instinctive way of having emotions, ideas, and representations with symbols, and instinct would be the inherited way of acting physically, a certain kind of physical action.» — el reparto que propone entre arquetipo e instinto, con la reserva de que solo vale si se los opone.

«In the one case the warning comes as a physical reaction and in the other as a thought, which is the difference between instinct and archetype; the voice would be a manifestation of the archetype and the physical movement a manifestation of instinct, but really they are two aspects of the same thing.» — el ejemplo del peligro súbito, cerrado con la advertencia de que la distinción no separa dos cosas.

«If often happens that people have great psychological problems, the whole cause of which they consider to be psychological, and then they experience something on the physical side and the whole problem collapses.» — el paso de un extremo al otro del espectro, observado en su práctica; el troceo imprime If donde la lengua pide It.

«They had blocked an instinct, let us say a sexual urge, which then manifested in their minds as a philosophical problem about God.» — cómo describe el bloqueo del extremo instintivo.

«He saw that this often happened and thought that you could explain everything on that level, but that is not so, you might just as well block the other end and then it goes through the other way round.» — su objeción a Freud: el mecanismo existe, pero funciona en los dos sentidos.

«That is one of the eternal conflicts shall I live it concretely, or shall I take it symbolically?» — el dilema que, para ella, no admite regla general.

«Here it is said that by blocking, or delaying, a physical urge a progress in consciousness takes place.» — lo que el texto de Isis afirma sobre la demora, dicho como afirmación del texto.

«When the sun god Ra became old and senile and unable to carry on properly any more, Isis put a poisonous serpent in his path and it bit and poisoned him so that he became very ill.» — el mito paralelo de Isis y Ra que introduce para leer el trato con el ángel.

«In face of this blackmail, Ra broke down and told her his name, and from then on she had the power of the sun god.» — el desenlace de ese mito, del que saca el motivo del saber arrancado al dios envejecido.

«That was a development of the masculine world, of the mind world and the world of order, that went along with the sun cult.» — asocia el culto solar a un orden patriarcal de la ley y la mente.

«Our real problem at the present time is that of overpopulation and not tension with the Arabs or the Russians.» — su diagnóstico del presente, dicho en 1959 y en contraste con la agenda política del momento.

«The saving principle is the feminine principle and this time it will not be Noah in the ark, but a woman, that is, a goddess.» — la enantiodromía que anticipa: el relevo del principio masculino agotado.

«but whereas the angel made no use of his knowledge, Isis founded alchemy; she did something with it, whereas the angel just kept it to himself.» — la diferencia que le importa entre poseer el saber y ponerlo a obrar.

«We used amplifications from ancient legends which say, in effect, that all natural scientific knowledge, from mathematics to the making of women's cosmetics, was taught human beings by angels or giants.» — el motivo común a las leyendas que amplifica: el saber técnico viene de fuera del hombre.

«There are even late Egyptian prayers in which Isis is invoked as the one who is all other gods in a feminine form.» — el ensanchamiento tardío de la figura de Isis.

«Plato, for instance, says that space is like a nurse to the whole cosmic order, thus space is regarded as a feminine container, a nourishing function of the mother.» — el antecedente platónico del espacio como recipiente materno.

«Since the idea of matter is always secretly connected with the mother archetype, if the Pope shifts emphasis in the Christian cult onto the Virgin Mary, this is, consciously or unconsciously, a blow struck against communistic materialism.» — su lectura del dogma de la Asunción como movimiento compensatorio, con la reserva de que puede ser inconsciente.

«When young natural scientists choose their profession, frequently Mother Nature appears to them in dreams in the form of an old woman, or some such figure, and shows them the way.» — el material clínico con que apoya el vínculo entre materia y arquetipo materno.

«You can thus actually prove by the material of modern people that the drive towards interest in the material aspect of outer nature very often springs from the constellation of this archetype, which is the dynamism behind natural science.» — el paso de la observación clínica a la tesis sobre el motor de la ciencia natural.

«If the biblical story evaluates this imparting of knowledge to man as a catastrophe, or as unlucky, that certainly can be compared to the fact that natural science, including mathematics, has tended from the very beginning to possess people in an autonomous way, to possess their interest in a totalistic way to such an extent as to give them a demonic drive, upsetting not only their personal balance but also, to some extent, the balance of civilization.» — el punto en que le concede razón al relato bíblico sobre el saber.

«This excessive drive of natural science and its destructive aspect is nowadays such a banality that I do not need to enlarge upon it, but it springs from the fact that one archetype is, as it were, moving out of the general instinctual order.» — su explicación del exceso: un arquetipo desprendido del orden instintivo.

«We have in this oldest text something which we shall meet again and again throughout the history of alchemy, namely the motif of the great secret which cannot be just scientifically told and imparted from one individual to another.» — sitúa el secreto alquímico como motivo constante desde el texto más antiguo.

«In the history of alchemy and chemistry this has always been regarded as a trick to make the whole thing appear important and mysterious, and to veil secrets.» — la explicación corriente del secreto, que ella recoge antes de matizarla.

«If, for instance, you could make an alloy which looked like gold, thanks to the very indifferent police control at that time, false money could be made and a fortune quickly acquired, so that naturally the secret would only be imparted to one's best friends.» — la razón económica del secreto, que concede sin reservas.

«Perhaps you all have experienced that certain things can only be said, or explained, or done, with one other person, and generally, if an analysis goes deep enough, there comes a point where analyst and analysand share the secret which both know could not be shared with anybody else and which therefore establishes a unique relationship.» — la otra razón del secreto, que ella traslada al análisis.

«This is experienced by people in the surroundings exactly in the same way as was felt about alchemy, namely that there must be something dirty connected with it, for otherwise it could be spoken of straight out.» — el paralelo de sospecha social entre el laboratorio alquímico y el consultorio.

«But it is quite impossible to say and do certain things except with one person; that is the uniqueness and exclusiveness of every real human relationship, and of every real meeting with the unconscious.» — dónde sitúa lo indecible: en la exclusividad del vínculo, no en el contenido.

«That is why it is so difficult, and in a way misleading, to report on case material, for certain things come up which cannot be told, not for reasons of discretion or because they have to do with sex, or concern a divorce, or marriage, or have something to do with finances, or some kind of indiscreet dirt which people always think is the case but because the thing is ineffable.» — su reserva sobre la publicación de casos clínicos, con el motivo explícito.

«You can tell the dreams, and repeat what you told the analysand about their meaning, but you know perfectly well that you are telling only half the story.» — el límite de lo que un informe de caso puede transmitir.

«Therefore it is even misleading to recount a unique case for involuntarily people generalize about it, thinking that they now understand how therapy is conducted but they are already barking up the wrong tree.» — la consecuencia docente que extrae de ese límite.

«Often, when asked to speak on case material, when looking through my cases I think that it would be wrong to give any of them.» — lo aplica a su propia práctica de enseñanza.

«According to the Egyptian text, the snake which eats its own tail is considered to be the guardian of the underworld and it is probably this snake which is invoked here.» — su identificación del Ouroboros como guardián del inframundo, marcada como probable.

«One thinks first, naturally, of the Greek underworld stream Acheron, but since obviously the translation represents Egyptian ideas and images, we have to see what underworld godhead or figure might have given rise to such a name.» — su procedimiento ante un nombre griego en un texto de fondo egipcio.

«You see therefore that in the underworld when the sun god has reached the moment when death and resurrection meet, when he is in his tomb at the depth of the underworld, he is represented as surrounded by this snake.» — la lectura de la tumba de Sethi I con que fija la función del Ouroboros.

«In these late languages and in primitive old languages, Aker means not only the moment, but also the place and situation, the situation of death and resurrection, of yesterday and tomorrow, of the resurrection and regeneration of the sun god.» — el término egipcio nombra a la vez el instante y el lugar del cambio.

«Sometimes Aker is not represented as this deepest point of the underworld, but as the door to the Beyond to which the double lions are the doorkeepers, so there is an admixture of two ideas; it is the entrance to the Beyond, the limen, or the deepest point in the underworld itself.» — declara la mezcla de dos imágenes en la figura de Aker sin decidir entre ellas.

«Chepera is the resurrecting form of the sun god who is now as in the egg, he is in the envelope and next moment will appear over the horizon.» — la forma escarabajo como estado previo a la salida del sol.

«I think, therefore, it would not be too far-fetched to conjecture that Acharon, or Acharontos, alludes to this Egyptian god, for, as you know, the main content of the great secret imparted by Isis to Horus is that a lion generates a lion, barley generates barley, wheat generates wheat, and so on; therefore a man is only generated in the same way, and, it is also especially said, a dog a dog.» — su conjetura sobre el nombre Acheron del texto griego, declarada como conjetura.

«As you know, the resurrection of Osiris has very often been represented by the simile though it is more than a simile of the resurrection of the corn.» — el grano germinado como figura de la resurrección, con la corrección que ella misma se hace sobre la palabra símil.

«The form of the human being who lived is still there, but something is lacking, or has changed.» — el planteo del problema de la resurrección del cuerpo tal como lo formula.

«Clearly it seems to refer to certain late antique mysteries of the dead in the Hellenistic Egyptian world, and we can recognize the connection with the famous archetypal mystery of the death and resurrection of the young spring god.» — dónde sitúa el fondo del mito alquímico, con el seems marcando la reserva.

«We do not know what matter is, so from that basis, which we do not know and which is God's own secret, why should He not remake the whole body again?» — reconstruye el razonamiento sobre la materia básica que sostiene la esperanza de resurrección.

«So far, I have only asserted and amplified the above with a few Egyptian texts, but afterwards I am going to read you a completely different 5th century text from which you will see that such thoughts really existed.» — declara que hasta ahí solo ha amplificado y anuncia el texto en que va a apoyarse.

«Then the text goes on with the recipes, which I cannot interpret because I simply do not know what they mean.» — su abstención ante las recetas, dicha sin rodeos.

«What other substances refer to we don't know, and historians of chemistry conjecture and quarrel as to their probable meaning,» — el estado de la discusión entre historiadores de la química sobre esas sustancias.

«That sentence shows that some of the recipes refer to healing elixirs, to some powerful medicines, in the African sense of the word, rather than to the production of some kind of metal.» — lo que le hace leer parte de las recetas como farmacopea y no como metalurgia.

«I had an experience in my childhood which might elucidate this.» — introduce como material propio el recuerdo del laboratorio infantil.

«I had once read that amber was formed by resin falling into sea water and solidifying after many years.» — el punto de partida racional de aquel experimento suyo.

«I started talking to the resin, saying that it should not be unhappy if I burnt it for in the end it was to become a wonderful yellow pearl, and it must just bear being tortured with the fire now.» — el momento en que el experimento se le vuelve fantasía, y de donde saca su definición de la alquimia.

«It must be remembered that at that time it was very dangerous to make chemical experiments, because then you were looked on as a witch doctor with all the consequences that entailed.» — la condición social del trabajo químico antiguo.

«You were respected, but also hated and feared and therefore such things had to be done secretly and in loneliness, which always brings up the unconscious.» — de esa condición social hace derivar el material inconsciente del corpus.

«Active imagination can be done with colours; nowadays we do it chiefly by painting, or by writing stories, but it can also be done another way by collecting substances and mixing them.» — el puente entre la imaginación activa y la operación con materias.

«Synchronistic events do happen in these as much as in other fields of experiment; they are experienced as miracles, and naturally confirm such fantasies.» — el papel que asigna a la sincronicidad en la confirmación de la fantasía alquímica.

«The scientist became sick of watching it and got a helper to carry on and keep the heat at a certain temperature and himself went home and fell asleep and had the most amazing alchemical dream in which a voice said: "Now go, and you will see that it has crystallized!"» — el caso moderno con que ilustra esa sincronicidad.

«You can label that as synchronicity, but in doing so you have not explained anything.» — el freno que pone a su propio término técnico.

«There again we touch on a secret, and that kind of experience, but on a more primitive and crude basis, was generally at the back of the alchemists' experiments.» — sitúa esa experiencia como fondo de los experimentos alquímicos, y marca la diferencia de nivel.

«If we sum up the text we have just discussed, not from a psychological but from an historical standpoint, we see that in alchemy there are religious ideas and conceptions which lead back to Hellenized Egypt with its early admixture of Greek and late Egyptian religions.» — su balance histórico del texto de Isis, separado a propósito del psicológico.

«The other element, connected in thought but disconnected as far as the texts are concerned, is that of the recipes, obviously remnants of secret craft traditions, which originated with African medicine men and were concerned with the making of love charms, medicines to ensure beauty, and with the making of alloys and so on.» — el segundo componente del texto: tradición de oficio, no doctrina.

«They had few or no laboratories and most of their theories about nature came from speculative intuition, though they sometimes used practical examples to explain what they meant.» — su caracterización de la filosofía natural griega: intuición especulativa con poco experimento.

«But then Greek thought naturally, and unfortunately in a very watered-down phase met the Egyptian secret sciences, which consisted entirely of an age-old practical craft tradition about the behaviour of matter.» — el encuentro del que hace nacer la alquimia, con la reserva de que el pensamiento griego llegó ya diluido.

«They knew how to make enamel and invisible ink, and all sorts of complicated alloys, and when these two worlds met, in Ptolemaic Egypt, that was enormously fertile for both, because what in Egyptian tradition consisted of recipes and religious thought now met with the accurate scientific thought of the Greeks.» — lo que aportó cada lado en ese encuentro.

«the moment of the birth of alchemy, when the thought models of Greek philosophy met with the experimental practices of Egyptian traditions.» — su fórmula para el nacimiento de la alquimia.

«Some of his biographers say that at the same time he was known as a great magician and medicine man at the Byzantine Court and, according to the texts, was much occupied with alchemical experiments.» — lo que la biografía atribuye a Olympiodoros, consignado como atribución.

«However, in the histories of alchemy this is said to be not true, for he did not possess much practical knowledge, and even if he did perform such experiments it is certain that he was more interested in the theoretical or symbolic aspects of alchemy.» — recoge la corrección de los historiadores a esa biografía.

«The reason for this is that Olympiodoros had a Greek philosophical education which he tried to apply to his knowledge.» — la formación de la que hace depender el sesgo simbólico de ese autor.

«The word "arsenic" means male; it is not the arsenic we know, but refers to all substances which have a dynamic drive in them which affects other substances.» — desactiva la lectura química moderna del término y le devuelve su sentido de principio activo.

«Just as though, in an illness, the blood had been destroyed and was now renewed, so in her silver state she is seen to have red blood, and that is the gold.» — su glosa del paso de la plata al oro en el texto griego.

«That is a long literal passage of real alchemy, from which you can see how charitable Dr. Jung has been in selecting passages and publishing them together in chapters, because if you read the original text you too might go into the madness of the lead.» — advierte que lo que se lee en Jung es una selección piadosa del original.

«If you have once accustomed yourself to follow this line of thought, you will find that the whole thing is completely logical, it has the same logic as a dream and can be taken as such.» — la clave de lectura que propone para el texto alquímico: leerlo como se lee un sueño.

«For example, Olympiodoros speaks of the black lead and it is clear that this is the original substance and is therefore the mystery of which we have already spoken the prima materia the basic substance of the world in which lies God's secret of life and death.» — identifica el plomo negro con la prima materia.

«He then quotes the Bible, saying that the text must not be taken literally, which is also understandable, and says that the transformation of the lead is a secret.» — el propio Olympiodoros pide lectura no literal, y ella lo consigna.

«Therefore it could be said that Osiris was suffocated in lead, so you can think of the tomb of Osiris as a lead coffin, or a coffin sealed up with lead within which lies the dead god, or the divine spirit, in the form assumed in death.» — el ataúd de plomo de Osiris como figura del espíritu encerrado en la materia.

«Olympiodoros continues by saying that Osiris himself is the suffocated coffin, or tomb, which conceals his limbs and shows only the face to human beings.» — la identificación del dios con su propia tumba, atribuida al texto.

«Osiris is immortal, or the mortal immortal one; to mortals he only shows his human face, while the rest of his body is a secret.» — su formulación de la paradoja de Osiris en ese texto.

«The moist substance stands for the basic material of the cosmos, being caught in the sphere of the fire.» — cómo entiende la sustancia húmeda original atrapada por el fuego.

«I do not understand this, but it seems to me that this imprisonment in a coffin, or in an alchemical vessel, would represent a process of suffocation, the death of the prima materia by suffocation.» — declara que no entiende el pasaje antes de proponer su lectura.

«We do not know what the unconscious is, but we suffocate it through this concentrated treatment by which all projection is stopped, intensifying the psychological process.» — la traducción psicológica de la asfixia en el vaso, abierta con una declaración de ignorancia.

«The one within is naturally not the ego, but your whole being, for you are looking at your whole being and not your ego which would run away.» — precisa qué queda encerrado en el vaso cuando la figura se lee hacia dentro.

«The vessel is a symbol for the attitude which prevents anything escaping outside; it is a basic attitude of introversion which, on principle, does not let anything escape into the outside world.» — el vaso como actitud, no como recipiente.

«Olympiodoros is a Christian, and that is a definition of Adam!» — la adscripción del autor griego, que le sirve para leer al hombre de arcilla.

«It simply means to take two chemical substances (which we do not know) and make Adam.» — el nivel operativo de la receta, con las sustancias sin identificar.

«The man formed out of clay was therefore Adam, who at that time was a symbol of the Self, or, one could say, the man who has just come from the hands of God, the unspoilt man, the man who has not yet passed through the process of corruption.» — el Adán de arcilla como figura del hombre anterior a la caída.

«Put more accurately, it means: "Go back to the original point of your consciousness, try to return to the place from which your consciousness comes, to the threshold of the unconscious.» — su traducción de la instrucción alquímica al lenguaje del análisis, corrigiendo su propia formulación previa.

«That is the motif of the coniunctio, the bringing together of the opposites, and the result is the mystical divine water, the bitter water.» — nombra la coniunctio en el punto en que el texto une a Adán con el vapor.

«The insight we obtain by looking at ourselves is generally very bitter, which is why so few people do it; it is pikros bitter for it corrodes and is very disagreeable to the illusions of consciousness.» — por qué el agua resultante es amarga en su lectura.

«One of the great merits of Jung is that he gave us a key to these texts which are looked upon officially by historians of chemistry as absolute nonsense, for to them they mean nothing at all.» — sitúa el valor de Jung frente al juicio de los historiadores de la química, que consigna sin discutirlo.

«to us it is clear what Olympiodoros is driving at, namely an inner experience, an introverted religious experience which those people had in their meditations and experiments with material phenomena.» — su lectura del texto griego, dicha en primera persona del plural y como lectura.

«Dr. von Franz: I think before the Fall, because otherwise the text would say Adam, and not use this peculiar expression of the moulded or kneaded man.» — su respuesta en el coloquio, apoyada en la palabra que el texto usa.

«I think that can be corroborated by the fact that Olympiorodos knew Zosimos, who had a Gnostic theory about Adam being the unspoilt original man, before the Fall.» — el apoyo que da a esa lectura; el troceo imprime el nombre como Olympiorodos.

«Chemically, that probably alludes to the fact that lead is usually poisonous.» — el nivel químico de la locura del plomo, marcado como probable.

«That would be its chemical aspect, and naturally it coincides with the fact that at the beginning (of an analysis, for instance), when one looks at the unconscious such strong instinctual drives and emotions generally come up that one goes through states which could lead to madness.» — el paralelo entre la toxicidad del plomo y el riesgo del comienzo de un análisis.

«Alchemists frequently assert that many of them have gone off their heads, which may be taken literally.» — recoge el aviso de los propios alquimistas y lo toma en sentido literal.

«Many years ago I had an interesting experience showing that here in Switzerland there are still mad alchemists.» — introduce el caso del alquimista suizo que dice haber conocido.

«I looked at this man, whose name I have forgotten, and when I saw his eyes I saw at once that he was completely schizophrenic.» — el mismo caso, con el olvido del nombre declarado.

«Therefore our text is a variation of the idea that at bottom in matter there is, in an extended or dissolved form, or in the cosmic figure of a human being, Adam, the first man, called under different names, who has to be liberated or redeemed from matter.» — el motivo del hombre disperso en la materia como matriz común de estos textos.

«If you remember, he says that the myth of an angel, or Adam, or of a cosmic anima figure falling into matter, represents the moment when this figure is projected into matter, which means that such theories which come from the unconscious in alchemy bring in the idea that suddenly the symbol of the Self is consciously sought for in matter.» — la explicación de Jung sobre la caída en la materia como momento de la proyección, atribuida a él.

«The search for immortality was actually the search for an incorruptible essence in man which would survive death, an essential part of the human being which could be preserved.» — qué buscaba, según ella, la operación alquímica en su origen funerario.

«We can say that the emotional drive and interest in the phenomenon of matter was not a modern scientific interest, in the sense of curiosity as to what matter looked like, but that what gave the impulse and libido for the search to understand the mystery of matter was a real emotional drive and desire to find the immortal part of man.» — separa el motor de la alquimia del de la curiosidad científica moderna.

«This search continued till practically the 17th century with all the later theories of the elixir of life, the pharmakon of life, and so on.» — el alcance temporal que le da a esa búsqueda.

«In the late Greek Alexander novels there are many pseudoletters of Alexander the Great to his mother, Olympias, where he speaks of India and says that there Brahmins walk about naked and are the wisest men on earth and the most pious.» — consigna como pseudoepígrafas las cartas de Alejandro que cita.

«A study of primitive civilizations shows their religious attitude towards life as being something completely self-evident.» — el punto de comparación con que mide la pérdida griega.

«A return to the primitive self-evident attitude towards life is a requisite for the experience of the Self, which cannot be found through the conscious mind and with the developed part of the personality, but by first returning to that primitive human attitude.» — la condición previa que pone para la experiencia del Self.

«Yes, it has all the symptoms of primitive religion, namely participation mystique observation of synchronistic events, observation of signs, not acting without first observing inner and outer symptoms and signs, or, as it has been defined, the constant, careful attention towards unknown factors.» — su definición operativa de la actitud religiosa primitiva.

«According to that definition, religion means never acting only in accordance with conscious reasoning, but with constant attention and consideration of the unknown participating factors.» — la consecuencia práctica de esa definición.

«One can laugh at that as superstition, and naturally on that level it is not different from superstition, but it is not just a mechanical thing such as the idea that if a black cat crosses your path you should turn back, but rather that all the time one should concentrate and try to get some sign from the Self, or from inside oneself.» — concede el parecido con la superstición y marca dónde está la diferencia.

«When Dr. Jung was in Africa, his Safari guide was an Islamic, I believe a Shi-ite.» — el episodio africano de Jung con que ilustra la consulta de los signos antes de avanzar; consigna su propia duda sobre la adscripción del guía.

«But an Englishman who went to the same place some weeks later naturally did as most white men do he accused the men of being lazy and insisted that they had to arrive at their destination in five days time and used force, and he was killed.» — el contraejemplo con que cierra ese episodio.

«But really, telepathy only means being aware of something far away, and that explains nothing, for telepathy is only a word.» — desactiva el término que se ofrece como explicación y lo deja en nombre.

«There is nothing either mystical or transcendent or special about it; the basic religious attitude is linked with the idea of survival, and therefore to be religious is an immediate advantage for it ensures survival.» — le quita a esa actitud todo carácter extraordinario y la hace ventaja de supervivencia.

«Jung, of course, began as all doctors did, on the basis also of his contact with Freud, with the idea of helping people to become more instinctive, in order that they might be healthy, but then he discovered that behind instinct was also religion, or that the latter was something instinctive and completely natural, for the natural man is the religious man.» — el giro que atribuye a Jung respecto del punto de partida freudiano.

«There has been an etymological dispute as to whether the word religio comes from religare or religere.» — plantea la disputa etimológica sin cerrarla por su cuenta.

«Religare has been accepted as the official interpretation since the time of St. Augustine, with the theological reflection that it means to bind, to bind one back to God.» — a quién atribuye la fijación de la etimología oficial.

«All that can be true, but if applied mechanically, if careful consideration of the signs becomes codified, then superstition comes in.» — dónde pone el corte entre atención religiosa y superstición.

«It is only mechanical application that is superstition in the bad sense of the word; that is just a stupid habit and has nothing to do with the religious attitude.» — repite ese corte al cerrar el punto.

«When it comes in the evening, or at the evening of life, it is all right, but it is very bad to start the day with it.» — su lectura del signo de la araña según la hora en que aparece.

«In alchemy water was either the great healing factor, or poisonous and destructive.» — el doble valor del agua en el corpus, sin resolución.

«If in a patient's dream water is rising, or if there is a big inundation, then we would say: "Be careful, the unconscious is overwhelming you"; there the water would be negative, but on the other hand, if you are in the desert and thirsty, then it is the water of life.» — la misma ambivalencia trasladada al material onírico, decidida por la situación.

«If someone comes with a problem, instead of arguing with that person we look at the dream which comments on the situation; perhaps it can be interpreted in such a way as to vivify the other person and give a feeling of hope and a sense of the problem as having a hidden meaning, even though it may not yet be clear.» — su procedimiento clínico, con el límite de que el sentido puede seguir sin verse.

«Dr. von Franz: Yes, naturally! Very often we have not a very happy reaction but the contrary, for often the truth given by the unconscious is very bitter.» — su respuesta en el coloquio sobre el efecto del agua de la doctrina.

«They have too much of the water of life, although what they say is not nonsense.» — cómo describe al que se ahoga en el material inconsciente sin que ese material sea falso.

«Now here water is spoken of as bitter. Why? Answer: Because it is the truth.» — su explicación del agua amarga, planteada como pregunta y respuesta en la exposición.

«Olympiodoros says that the male water therefore seems to be the same thing as the sphere of fire, which in the earlier part of the text we saw was the tomb of Osiris who was suffocated in the lead.» — el encadenamiento que el texto griego hace entre agua masculina, esfera de fuego y tumba de Osiris.

«Saturn is the god of mutilated people, criminals, and cripples, but also of artistic and creative» — la doble adscripción de Saturno de la que hace depender su lectura de la depresión.

«So unless there is a latent psychosis, a depression should be encouraged and people told to go into it and be depressed not try to escape by the radio or The Reader's Digest and if the depressions says that life means nothing and that nothing is worth while, then accept that and say what about it?» — su indicación clínica sobre la depresión, con la excepción declarada al frente.

«People who are professionally creative, like artists or great actors and so on, know that before every performance or new piece of work they are likely to have such a depression.» — la depresión creativa como fase previa al trabajo.

«One can have it on a smaller scale, for instance I always have it before a lecture, for the libido first goes down.» — lo dice de sí misma y de las conferencias que está dando.

«one must think twice before encouraging the person to go into the depression because, though the mechanism is the same, there is the risk that what comes up may be too strong and burst the personality.» — el límite explícito de su propia indicación.

«Lead is therefore that heaviness, listlessness, that feeling of nothingness which covers up or suffocates the contents of the unconscious.» — qué nombra el plomo en su traducción clínica.

«for if you dig up depressive states in people, usually at the bottom there are either creative contents or a violent, unsacrificed desire.» — las dos cosas que dice encontrar en el fondo de la depresión.

«Frequently depressed people dream of voracious lions or other devouring animals such as dragons, but particularly lions, which means they are depressed because they are frustrated in the fulfillment of their wild desires.» — el material onírico con que enlaza el león verde alquímico y el deseo frustrado.

«If I think I ought to be top dog everywhere, have the most beautiful partner, have money, be happy, and so on, that is a paradise fantasy, and what is that? It is a projection of the Self!» — su lectura de la fantasía de perfección como proyección y no como síntoma a suprimir.

«The fantasy in itself is entirely legitimate, it has the idea of the coniunctio, a perfect state, a state of harmony.» — separa el contenido de la fantasía del modo infantil de querer realizarla.

«That gives it the drive, which is why people never know what to do for they cannot repress it; or if they are reasonable and just give the thing up and realize how childish it is and that one should be resigned and adapt to life, then they feel that they are cured but that they have been robbed of their best possibilities and so are frustrated.» — el callejón que describe entre reprimir la fantasía y resignarla.

«The Freudian patient then said that it was strange, but that though all his devils had been driven out, unfortunately so had his angels!» — la anécdota con que muestra el costo de la cura por resignación.

«A lid had been put on the mad spot, but the religious fantasy in it of perfection, the romantic fantasy, the fantasy of the Self, had also had the lid put on it, so that man will be a resigned, socially adapted animal who functions, but all his romantic dreams of truth and life and real love admittedly childish fantasies in both those young men are buried too.» — el diagnóstico de esa cura, con la concesión de que las fantasías sí eran infantiles.

«The great difficulty, therefore, to return to alchemical language, is to extract Osiris from the lead, to save the fantasy which is life giving and cut away the childishness of the wish to realize it.» — la tarea analítica dicha en lengua alquímica: separar sin tirar.

«Even the famous J. Ruska asserted most authoritatively that Senior was not an Arab, that that was a Latin misrepresentation.» — la posición de Ruska sobre Senior, consignada antes de rechazarla.

«For instance, they did not take the Koran literally, but allowed for symbolic interpretation, while the Sunnites insisted on literal obedience to the rules and on its literal truth.» — el contraste chií-suní que le sirve de analogía para la lectura simbólica.

«The Shiites would correspond to the Kabbalistic tradition, the true introverts who were more directed towards a psychological symbolic interpretation and personal experience of the religious truth, in contrast to the literal minded people who rather insisted on dogma and the holy text.» — la equivalencia que propone entre chiismo y cábala en cuanto a modo de lectura.

«The Shi-ites developed an extensive mystical system of symbolic interpretation and in that way could be compared to the mystics of the Middle Ages who also tried to interpret the Bible in a symbolic way, in contrast to other tendencies.» — extiende la comparación a la exégesis simbólica medieval.

«That sounds complicated, but it simply means there was a seated statue at the back of the room holding a tablet over which its fingers were clasped outwards, and it looked like an open book, which apparently it wanted to show to the person who came in.» — su reconstrucción de la escena que Senior describe en la cámara.

«It was as though they wanted to fly together, or as though the wingless one was keeping the other back, that is, the upper bird wanted to carry away the lower, but the lower bird held it back and prevented it from flying away.» — la relación entre las dos aves de la tablilla, una alada y otra sin alas.

«Actually we know that Mohammed ibn Umail was one of those damned robbers who broke open pyramids and investigated the inner coffin chambers.» — la ocupación material de Senior, dicha sin eufemismo.

«In those times the Arabs destroyed a great number of pyramids, stealing all the gold in them, so that nowadays most pyramids are empty, but Senior, or Mohammed ibn Umail, did not do it as most of the others did, just to find and steal the gold, but because he projected into the death chamber of the pyramids the alchemical secret.» — distingue el motivo de Senior del saqueo corriente.

«He thought, as we discover in the succeeding parts of the book, that the Egyptians knew alchemy, and that what was to be found in the innermost chamber of the pyramid was the secret of alchemy, but what was written in the old Egyptian language he could not read, which is why he speaks of a barbaric language this was before Champollion, as you know.» — el supuesto de Senior y la razón de que no pudiera leer las inscripciones.

«But what is even more interesting is that we know now, from what I told you before, that actually alchemy did originate from the Egyptian death cult, that the chemistry of mummification played an enormous role, that actually the Egyptians mummified their dead in order to obtain immortality and make the dead person divine, and that alchemy tried to do the same thing, namely produce the immortal man, produce immortality.» — el punto en que la proyección de Senior coincide, para ella, con el origen histórico del arte.

«Therefore there is a very good hook for old Senior's projection he just projected the whole thing backwards into Egyptian mummification, which is why he so passionately helped to break open and destroy the funeral chambers in the pyramids.» — su noción de gancho: la proyección se prende de algo que está ahí.

«The picture of this statue holding a tablet is a classic topic of many other alchemical texts. It is not specific to Senior.» — desatribuye el motivo de la estatua con tablilla a este autor.

«The oldest form of such a text was found in the writings of Gabir, which would be in the 7th century, and from the whole of this oldest version of the finding of the tabula it is clear that the tale goes back to Greek sources.» — la genealogía que traza para el relato del hallazgo de la tabla.

«Senior adds something which I have not found in any of the other tales of the finding of the tablet, namely the nine or ten eagles which, in the picture, shoot at the statue with bow and arrow.» — lo que sí es propio de Senior en ese motivo, acotado a lo que ella ha visto.

«I am now taking some of the information given in the rest of the book, all of which I cannot read to you.» — declara que resume y no lee el resto del tratado.

«According to it, the eagles represent the sublimated or volatile substance and therefore something similar to the wife of the steam in our other text.» — la identificación de las águilas que da el propio libro de Senior.

«The bow and arrow are quite mysterious and are never explained throughout the whole book, so we must either leave them unexplained or give a psychological explanation.» — plantea la alternativa entre abstenerse e interpretar, y la deja dicha.

«There is even a saying which questions who is closer to God I believe it is an Indian saying he who loves him or he who hates him? And the answer is the man who hates him, because he will think of God even more often and more intensely than the one who loves him, for his bow and arrow are constantly directed, that is the direction of libido through projection.» — el arco y la flecha como dirección de la libido, sea de amor o de odio; consigna la duda sobre el origen del dicho.

«Dr. von Franz: Apollo is the representative of the principle of consciousness, but that does not contradict the interpretation.» — su respuesta en el coloquio sobre la figura del arquero.

«If you have to learn about a subject you do not love, where you have no projection, which means that you have no relationship to it, it does not mean anything to you and is not connected with your flow of libido, so you have to toil and sweat at something and learn it for the exam, but ten minutes later you have forgotten it again.» — el ejemplo con que hace depender la atención de la proyección previa.

«If you are fascinated, however, which means that a projection has taken place, then you get emotional and acquire a tremendous amount of consciousness very easily and quickly.» — la contrapartida: la fascinación como vía rápida a la consciencia.

«We know quite well that we never make the projection, but that it is done to us.» — precisa que la proyección no es un acto voluntario.

«In most polytheistic systems of religion there is the secret knowledge that they are all aspects of one god.» — el monoteísmo latente que encuentra dentro del politeísmo.

«Even the Greeks knew that; in late Greek Stoic philosophy it is always said that there is really only one god and that all the other gods Athene, Hermes, and so on are only different aspects of that one, so you can say that there is a latent monotheism within Greek polytheism.» — el caso estoico con que apoya esa lectura.

«It can be said in general that in any monotheistic system, just as in Judaeo-Christianity, there is a secret tendency towards polytheism, which though not quite realized or admitted yet exists, just as in polytheistic systems there is a secret tendency towards monotheism, to ensure that all those many gods are really only different aspects of the one god.» — la simetría entre los dos sistemas, con la reserva de que la tendencia no está admitida.

«If you express that in psychological terms it would mean that the multitude of archetypal constellations are all really one in the Self, although the Self actually manifests in practical life very often in single aspects which we prefer to call different archetypes.» — su traducción psicológica de esa simetría.

«The problem is whether there are many archetypes or if the archetype of the Self is really the one archetype.» — deja planteado el problema como problema.

«For instance, when someone is dominated by the mother archetype, one speaks of a mother complex, but if we go into that it will always be found that the whole Self is in it.» — el material clínico que la inclina hacia el arquetipo único.

«If the many point to the one, I would say that in the unconscious there is a tendency towards putting all the energy onto the Self and away from the different single archetypes.» — formula esa tendencia en condicional y en primera persona.

«The archetype of the Self begins to be dominant and the dissociation into many archetypes begins to be ordered round a centre.» — el proceso que lee en las águilas reunidas de la lámina de Senior.

«It would follow that if a single archetype is dominant in one's psyche, let us say the mother archetype, or the anima archetype, or whatever it may be, then there is a certain amount of one-sidedness in that person.» — la consecuencia clínica de que un solo arquetipo domine.

«Dr. von Franz: Yes it is, and I cannot answer it.» — su respuesta en el coloquio cuando la pregunta excede lo que puede sostener.

«You can believe it or not, for such a thing cannot be proved.» — su marca de límite ante lo que no admite comprobación.

«But we have no means of checking such a thing, so it is a question of belief and you can believe it or not.» — insiste en dejar el asunto del lado de la creencia.

«If you read Dr. Jung's definition of projection, he says categorically that you can only speak of projection when doubt has arisen.» — la definición de Jung que adopta y de la que saca su regla clínica.

«But as long as there is no uneasiness, I have no right to cut into that participation by calling it projection; that is a horrible poisonous mistake people constantly make.» — la prohibición que se impone como analista, dicha en el registro más fuerte del libro.

«Only when within myself I feel insecure can I begin to speak of projection, and not before.» — el criterio interno que exige antes de usar el término.

«Projection implies that I am no longer entirely convinced, that I am already to a certain extent out of the participation mystique, or archaic identity; until then there is no projection.» — qué presupone hablar de proyección.

«But for the person involved there is no projection, and it would be an analytical mistake to say there was that would be infecting the other person with one's own doubt.» — el error técnico que nombra: contagiar la duda propia.

«I have to wait until the analysand begins to feel some disquiet, until the man she loves does not behave as she had expected he would.» — el momento en que sí se puede intervenir, fijado por la experiencia del analizando.

«We no longer believe that trees and animals are gods, but it would be wrong to assert that it is projection in the case of the primitive, for what to us is projection is to the primitive the whole experience of reality.» — la consecuencia etnográfica de la misma regla.

«If I were to go to Africa and become black myself emotionally, then I would not speak as I used to of the primitives' projection, I would say that now I see the primitives are right: God is in the tree.» — el experimento mental con que muestra que el término depende del lugar desde el que se habla.

«Afterwards I can say there was a projection, but that is only a relative and not an absolute truth.» — el estatuto que le da al enunciado sobre la proyección.

«The winged bird is above and the other below; the text says the latter prevents the winged bird from flying away.» — la disposición de las dos aves en la tablilla, según el texto.

«Each eats the other's tail, so it is a variation of the Ouroboros snake which eats its own tail.» — sitúa la pareja de aves como variante del Ouroboros.

«Although the text does not say so, I suppose that the sun with the two rays is the one which radiates with justice, for it is balanced, it has the two sides.» — su conjetura sobre los dos soles, marcada como añadido al texto.

«Senior says of the two birds that they are also sun and moon, that the wingless bird is the red sulphur and its exalted soul is the winged bird; he says the birds are brother and sister, and of the lower thing that it is the basis of the two birds, as the earth is the basis of the moon, or the lower world.» — lo que el propio Senior afirma de las aves, separado de la lectura de ella.

«Sulphur is the active part of the psyche, the part which has a definite goal. In a psychological connection, one watches to find out where the libido is driving towards its goal. It may not be sex, but another kind of drivenness; it could be ambition and the power drive, or something else.» — su traducción del azufre rojo, que se abstiene de reducirla a lo sexual.

«If you look at it from a certain religious angle, that would naturally be the devil; it is sex, for instance, but in the sense of being driven by sex, or sex in its overwhelming form, i.e., something not under one's control.» — cómo aparece ese mismo impulso leído en clave religiosa.

«The wingless bird is the red sulphur; it is the bird below, and is also referred to as the female, so that we have a paradox because, being driven, it is regarded as the male active quality but projected onto the lower bird it is the female.» — declara la contradicción de género en el símbolo en vez de resolverla.

«Many analysands resent the transference because of the dependence it entails, but nothing can be done about it for they are dependent; they are driven, they write letters, they telephone twenty times a day, etc.» — la manifestación concreta del impulso en el análisis.

«Our text says that the wingless bird prevents the winged bird from flying away, while the winged bird wants to raise the wingless bird, and so they remain attached, linked together in a kind of insoluble conflict, which keeps the whole thing arrested.» — el conflicto sin salida entre las dos aves, que ella lee como bloqueo necesario.

«The devil the red sulphur insists that all the same there is something real about it, or there should be, for otherwise it is only psychological, and a relationship which is "only" psychological is something I do not want.» — la voz del impulso que exige realización concreta, puesta en primera persona.

«But sometimes with the ambition the person will have the hidden feeling of being very special; he secretly feels he ought to have recognition and this he mixes up with ambition.» — lo que encuentra debajo de la ambición cuando se la examina.

«He is the great realizer who says that something which has no existence in concrete reality is just not real, and then begins the conflict between spiritualization of the problem and the concrete thing.» — el papel que asigna al azufre rojo en el conflicto entre lo espiritual y lo concreto.

«Then it can be pointed out that though the fantasy starts on a low level Christ after all was born in a stable it is really the fantasy of union with the divine wisdom and should be accepted in that way.» — cómo trata una fantasía de origen bajo sin despacharla.

«But as Goethe says, "Uns bleibt ein Erdenrest, zu tragen peinlich," that is, a little earthiness always remains behind, awkward to bear.» — el resto terreno que, según ella, ninguna sublimación agota; la traducción al inglés es suya.

«No, certainly not, that is an individual question having to do with each person's fate and open to conscious decision.» — se niega a dar una regla general sobre realizar o no el impulso.

«There are people who have no peace and think it is simply dishonest to cut the thing off and call it the devil; they feel that to be an absolute dishonesty, while others feel it is a heroic decision, the right one they intend to hold to all their lives.» — consigna las dos salidas sin ordenarlas.

«For one side it would be pure cowardice to cut that off, and for the other it would be weakness if he gave in to it.» — el mismo acto vale como cobardía o como debilidad según quién lo haga.

«Unfortunately Jungian psychology is so interwoven that every analytical experience is linked with every other one.» — su reserva sobre exponer un punto aislado de esa psicología.

«I cannot now go into the question of how to fantasize, but there are certain important technicalities which have to be observed.» — declara que la técnica de la imaginación activa queda fuera de esta exposición.

«You understand why you fell in love with that unknown woman and that much of it belongs to you; it is part of your pattern and is meaningful to you, and then perhaps you will put the fantasy aside because now you understand.» — el desenlace posible de la imaginación activa sobre un enamoramiento.

«Or the red sulphur wins, and you go to the telephone in actual life and ring the woman up, and then you fall into the world below, into the mundus inferior, the corruptible earth, which is reality, concrete reality, and the whole drama naturally begins there.» — la otra salida, nombrada con el vocabulario alquímico del mundo inferior.

«You ask nothing! There are always two possibilities.» — su respuesta a quien le pide una regla: la pregunta no se le hace al analista.

«I cannot settle the analysand's problem, he must speak to the image of the Godhead within him, say that something still worries him and ask what he should do about it.» — dónde deja la decisión y a quién se la devuelve.

«The only way the Self can manifest is through conflict» — la condición que pone para la aparición del Self.

«I have often seen in such cases that Sophia or some other divine figure, or the old wise man answers, if you look at it negatively, in an evasive form, and if you look at it positively, in a paradox.» — la forma de las respuestas que llegan desde dentro, con las dos lecturas posibles.

«It is the moment where the conflict transcends verbal discussion and becomes an intuitive experience of Oneness behind the two.» — dónde sitúa la salida del conflicto, fuera de la discusión.

«If you let yourself be torn in the conflict, then suddenly you change, you change from the deepest root of your being and the whole thing has another aspect.» — el desgarramiento aceptado como condición del cambio.

«You can say that it is an aspect of the symbol of the cross, that one has to be crucified utterly and say, as Christ did on the cross: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" And then something happens which outstrips the conflict.» — la imagen cristiana con que nombra esa fase.

«Dr. von Franz: He has stopped long ago, according to my hypothesis.» — su respuesta al auditorio sobre el caso del monje, con la hipótesis declarada como tal.

«For instance, in the Middle Ages it was said: "Ubi spiritus, ibi libertas." That is from St. Paul who said: "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." (2 Cor. 3:17) So the devil might say that since he has now solved his conflict, is he not free to live?» — el uso que el impulso puede hacer de la sentencia paulina.

«Dr. von Franz: That is your opinion, but it is not relevant to his situation.» — corta en el coloquio la opinión del auditorio sobre lo que otro debería hacer.

«He has to wait until God tells him what to do, it is not up to you to tell him what is right.» — dónde pone la instancia que decide en ese caso.

«Speaking generally, the introvert needs a concrete experience, an outer experience, in order to feel he is complete and that things are total, but the extravert does not.» — el reparto por tipos que introduce, marcado como generalización.

«Dr. von Franz: I mean it quite simply and concretely contact with an earthly, human, female being.» — precisa en el coloquio a qué llama experiencia concreta.

«To us the experience of God is greater and more unknown and therefore we consult Him again each time. We have not the idea that He has uttered His last word.» — la diferencia que marca con la posición teológica: no hay última palabra dicha.

«We simply say we should wait and see what God has to say about the situation in each case.» — el procedimiento que sí propone, caso por caso.

«We make no assumptions as to what He is going to do, so each human life becomes a unique spiritual and religious adventure, and a unique meeting with God.» — la consecuencia de esa abstención: cada vida sin guion previo.

«If it is a valid experience that is, if it is genuine for a person then there is nothing further to discuss.» — su criterio último, con la validez puesta del lado de quien la tiene.

«Think of the prophet Hosea. God told him to marry a prostitute.» — el caso bíblico con que muestra que la orden interior puede contradecir la norma.

«The colleague would probably ask if you are sure it was God, for he thinks God could not give such a command and therefore it could not be God.» — el razonamiento teológico que rechaza: se decide por el contenido y no por la experiencia.

«That is the human, rational, conscious way. The real mystery of God is right out of it.» — su objeción a resolver la pregunta por deducción.

«For us, there is always only the individual and his or her experience of God and all the rest is secondary.» — dónde pone el peso su posición frente a la teológica.

«In therapy it is not we who connect the individual with God, even that would be a megalomanic presumption of the psychotherapist though many do presume to do so, and by that they have already become hidden theologians again.» — el límite que le pone al oficio del psicoterapeuta, incluida la crítica a los que lo cruzan.

«If you are with an analysand the only way you may perhaps help is by always saying: "I don't know, but let us ask God.» — la única ayuda que se concede, formulada como abstención.

«By that you prevent the analysand from drawing rash conscious conclusions or seducing you into making them, and therefore every religious experience becomes a unique event.» — para qué sirve esa abstención en la práctica.

«You think God has published general rules which He keeps Himself, and we think He is a living spirit appearing in man's psyche who can always create something new.» — resume en el coloquio las dos posiciones en juego, la teológica y la suya.

«Dr. von Franz: To a theologian God is bound to His own books and is incapable of further publications.» — su formulación irónica de la posición contraria.

«If you raise the conflict to the realm of psychological inner detachment, then the problem of the opposites becomes clear: the Oneness becomes visible in the psychological realm and you realize your conflict is between two aspects of the psyche.» — qué se gana al llevar el conflicto adentro.

«But one unsatisfactory factor remains, for you have cut the moon into two.» — lo que ese movimiento deja sin resolver, dicho por ella misma.

«That is still an open question, which would mean that in analysis you realize the conflict but still cannot quite link it up with outer concrete life.» — declara abierta la ligadura entre el trabajo interior y la vida concreta.

«The lower world is a secret duality: it is a black sphere outside with a white shining moon inside.» — la estructura doble del mundo inferior en la lámina de Senior.

«The sun in general represents a male principle of collective consciousness, the unknown psychological factor which creates collective consciousness.» — su identificación del sol con la consciencia colectiva, con el factor declarado desconocido.

«It is very difficult to say what is an individual's own consciousness and how much in it is collective.» — el límite práctico de esa distinción.

«As a teacher I often fought with the children, begging them to write what they thought and not what I had told them, and there I saw that children have tremendous difficulty because it is the function of the school, and the tendency of the development of those years, to grow into collective consciousness.» — su propia experiencia docente como evidencia de esa asimilación.

«If you analyse an individual the sun is always shining; that is collective consciousness in which individual consciousness is enclosed, and the conflict is then either against the unconscious or against reality.» — cómo aparece la consciencia colectiva en el trabajo con un individuo.

«It is quite rightly said that the enemy with which consciousness is confronted is secretly double, for people come saying they have an outer conflict but you discover it is an inner one, or vice versa.» — el doble frente del conflicto, en los dos sentidos.

«In Senior's text the conflicting attitudes are characterized as one sun which directs two rays towards the opposite the dark thing and one sun which directs one ray, and it is said that the one ray is the sun without justice.» — lo que el texto de Senior afirma sobre los dos soles, separado de su lectura.

«Clearly there are two possibilities of consciousness, namely a rigid one and one which has a paradoxical attitude and therefore does justice to the paradoxical factor of the unconscious.» — el reparto que hace entre las dos consciencias posibles.

«One should always have an eye and an ear open towards the opposite, the other thing. That does not mean to be spineless, it doesn't mean just to sit there.» — la actitud doble que propone, acotada de inmediato contra la lectura blanda.

«It means to act according to one's conscious conviction, but still always having the humility to keep the door open and be proved wrong.» — la precisión de esa actitud: actuar con convicción y admitir el error.

«The unjust sun is that attitude of consciousness which knows exactly what is what, a rigid attitude that blocks contact with the unconscious, while the two-rayed sun has a moulding and formative» — la lectura psicológica del sol injusto.

«If we think of this man Senior who lived his life between the Shiites and the Sunnites, I imagine, though it is pure guesswork, that in his material the two suns would stand for that.» — su conjetura biográfica sobre los dos soles, declarada pura conjetura.

«In any case, consciousness always tends to be one-sided and sure of itself, and that does harm to the mystery of life.» — la tendencia de la consciencia que da por general.

«We are still faced with two unsolved mysteries which in a strange way are interdependent though we do not yet know how.» — deja sin resolver la relación entre los dos misterios.

«In the final analysis it is consciousness that makes the conflict between the inner and the outer by projecting the one as materially real and the other as psychologically real, because we do not really know the difference between material reality and the psyche.» — atribuye a la consciencia el corte entre lo interno y lo externo.

«Actually, if we look at it honestly, we are confronted with something unknown which appears sometimes as matter and sometimes as psyche, and how the two are linked we do not know as yet.» — su formulación más nítida de la abstención sobre psique y materia.

«The alchemists did not know and we do not know either.» — iguala su ignorancia a la de los alquimistas en este punto.

«If we describe it from the outside with an extraverted statistical approach it appears as matter, and if we approach it from within it appears as what we like to call the unconscious.» — hace depender el aspecto de lo desconocido del método con que se lo aborda.

«What is not said in the picture but is contained in the text, if you read the book, is that the whole thing together describes the philosopher's stone, the alchemical work.» — lo que el libro de Senior dice y la lámina no.

«As Jung says, every psychological truth is only a half truth and that also is only a half truth!» — la sentencia de Jung que aplica a su propia exposición.

«The sun then says that through it one reaches to any height, one is raised to any height; that is, the sun is that which lifts up.» — la función del sol en la carta alegórica de Senior.

«So the moon is inclined to point out that the sun needs her just as much as the cock needs the hen, that it is nothing without her, that though she is the recipient, the imperfect thing which receives from the light, yet the sun needs her too, because what would be the use of a sun which could not shed its light on something else?» — su glosa de la dependencia recíproca en ese texto.

«Therefore the moon in all feminine humility and submission points out her absolutely equal right to existence: the sun needs the empty vessel into which its light can be poured, it needs darkness on which the light can shine, it needs matter in which the spirit can become visible.» — lo que ella lee bajo la sumisión del discurso lunar.

«The moon uses a very vulgar and ordinary simile as the cock needs the hen which is an allusion to the fact that there is also a purely instinctive and even a sexual attraction between the two principles.» — no espiritualiza la imagen y le deja su nivel instintivo.

«In the mythology of the moon, the moon is wicked, for it is unreliable.» — el valor negativo de la luna en el material que maneja.

«The alchemists frequently quoted a psalm which says that in the darkness of the new moon the wicked shoot with their arrows at ethical just people, which means that the new moon protects thieves and the wicked when they attack the righteous.» — el uso alquímico del salmo sobre la luna nueva.

«It is of course a beautiful mandala, for fire is hot and dry and air is moist and cold.» — cómo lee el esquema medieval de cualidades y elementos: como figura de orden, no como descripción de la materia.

«Physicists know that these concepts are vaguely interwoven, and not quite as simple and clear as we think they are, but they have been created as a means of expression.» — el estatuto que da a esos conceptos: medios de expresión, no cosas.

«Therefore every time consciousness produces something, even two words, there are always four, because the unconscious is always there too; something unknown is involved, and that should also be taken into consideration.» — de dónde saca la cuaternidad: dos factores conocidos y dos desconocidos.

«But when the physicist looks at us, he naturally sees what we discover psychologically from a physical aspect and says we are unaware of that aspect, which is because we are not sufficiently developed in our consciousness to be able to keep a contradiction in mind, something very difficult to do, and yet we should.» — aplica a la propia psicología la crítica que dirige a la física.

«Every polarity contains its opposite, but it is most obvious when two human beings discuss together, as in analysis.» — dónde se ve mejor esa polaridad, según ella.

«In Mysterium Coniunctionis Jung describes the sun as an image of the spiritual divinity, i.e., the Self on the one hand, and an aspect of the ego on the other.» — la doble lectura del sol que atribuye a Jung, con la obra nombrada.

«In its rightful function the ego is the light in the darkness of the unconscious, and in some ways identical with the Self.» — la función que le reconoce al yo, con la identidad acotada.

«The sun with two rays, on the other hand, symbolises the ego as an instrument of realization for the Self, and in that sense it functions with justice.» — el yo como instrumento y no como centro.

«God needs our poor heart, says Angelus Silesius, in order to be real.» — la fórmula de Angelus Silesius que cita para esa función del yo.

«This would not mean wavering between the opposites but rather holding the tension between them.» — precisa que la actitud doble no es indecisión.

«People often say, for instance, that Dr. Jung does not write very clearly, but he does that on purpose he writes with a double attitude, giving full justice to the paradoxes of the unconscious.» — su explicación del estilo de Jung como decisión de método.

«But Jung uses a descriptive method, which has now also been adopted in nuclear physics, where facts are described in two complementary approaches which contradict each other but yet are needed in order that the whole thing may be grasped.» — el paralelo con la complementariedad de la física.

«Dr. von Franz: Yes, the Sol niger would be the dark shadowy aspect of consciousness.» — su respuesta en el coloquio sobre el sol negro.

«Drivenness pushing the ego from behind would illustrate the dark, demonic side of the sun, and there is a misuse of consciousness to justify the drive when the ego is not strong enough to decide on the objective facts but is swept away through the weakness of its passions: fear, power, or sex.» — cómo describe el abuso de la consciencia al servicio del impulso.

«If consciousness functions as it should, it is helpful to life, but when it gets off the track it becomes destructive.» — la condición de la que hace depender el valor de la consciencia.

«One aim of analysis is to get consciousness to function again according to nature.» — el objetivo que declara para el trabajo analítico.

«People use consciousness to convince you that they are right in doing the wrong thing.» — el uso de la consciencia que llama sol negro, dicho en su forma más simple.

«The myth of Adam in the Garden of Eden was the original pattern for this, showing that from the very beginning man's condition limped.» — el modelo bíblico de esa desviación.

«If consciousness works according to nature, the blackness is not so black or so destructive, but if the sun stands still, it is stiffened and burns life to death and then, according to certain Indians, the heart has to be sacrificed to keep the sun moving.» — el sol detenido como imagen de la consciencia rígida, con el paralelo ritual atribuido.

«The two moons and the two suns make four.» — el paso de los pares a la cuaternidad en la lámina de Senior.

«It is the Self which has this quality of unique creativeness in each moment of life, which is why the Japanese Master says that one can no longer guess the movements of his heart.» — su lectura de la casa cerrada del maestro zen.

«The ego must have the attitude of a human being among other human beings, and then the uniqueness, if it has been found within, will emanate involuntarily.» — cómo se manifiesta la unicidad según ella: sin proponérselo.

«It is just the opposite of being inflated with one's uniqueness, feeling so different from others and making those prince- and princesslike remarks such as: "I am so sensitive nobody understands me."» — el contraejemplo con que distingue unicidad de inflación.

«That is just not it, and if people say that to me I always say I know there are a lot of people like that, and I don't say that out of wickedness; it is quite true, it is a very common quality to be so sensitive that nobody understands you.» — cómo responde en la práctica a esa inflación.

«The enlightened one does not feel unique but very human and that is why you can say such people are very open to the world and very human with everybody, or paradoxically you can say they are infinitely unique and incomprehensible.» — la paradoja que deja en pie sin resolver.

«As soon as one touches the uniqueness of the partner in an analysis, discretion is imposed.» — el vínculo que establece entre unicidad y secreto.

«But not one of the writers has pointed out the fact that when they united the moon was gone, or darkened, blotted out completely.» — lo que dice haber echado en falta en toda la literatura sobre la coniunctio.

«When you are completely out and consciousness is gone, then something is born or generated; in the deepest depression, in the deepest desolation, the new personality is born.» — la luna nueva bajo tierra como figura de la depresión de la que nace lo nuevo.

«The sun gives its light to the moon, but at that moment the moon is blotted out and fades and becomes very thin, so it can be said that the sun harms the moon by coming closer.» — el daño recíproco que ve inscrito en el acercamiento.

«So the coniunctio is apparently dangerous, for the sun does some harm to the moon and the moon can harm the sun.» — el peligro de la unión, marcado con un apparently.

«That could perhaps be avoided, but the closer those two lights get to each other, the greater the danger that they destroy each other instead of uniting, which comes from the fact we discussed before, namely that both sun and moon have a shadow.» — de dónde deriva ese peligro: cada luz trae su sombra.

«If, for instance, a man shows his love for a woman, then he is exposed to her animus.» — la traslación de ese peligro al vínculo amoroso humano.

«If he does not love her, he just says it is her damned animus, but if he does, then he minds when she makes horrible animus remarks.» — por qué el amor expone: solo hiere lo que importa.

«I cannot say I am sure of the interpretation, but there is a parallel text» — declara su falta de certeza antes de apoyarse en un paralelo.

«It is only real if at each moment at least theoretically, for one never actually reaches that stage one is constantly in connection with it, constantly expressing it and knowing what it is.» — la condición que pone para llamar real a la realización del Self, con la reserva de que nadie llega ahí.

«For instance, what is right for today may be wrong for tomorrow, which is why someone who has reached this stage of consciousness will be unpredictable and always act differently in the same situations.» — la consecuencia práctica: la conducta deja de ser previsible.

«There are no more rules, for each moment is different, and therefore time acquires a creative quality; each time-moment is a creative possibility and there is no longer any repetition.» — cómo cambia el tiempo en esa condición.

«In The Secret of the Golden Flower, and in alchemy, this is called the circulatio, the rotation, and there are many different texts in alchemy in which it is said that the philosopher's stone has to circulate.» — el motivo alquímico de la circulación, con su paralelo chino.

«Usually that is connected with time symbolism, for they say the philosopher's stone has to pass through winter, spring, summer, and autumn, or it has to go through all the hours of the day and night.» — la forma temporal que toma esa circulación en los textos.

«Psychologically, this would mean that the Self begins to manifest in space and time, that it does not become something at a certain moment with afterwards a return to one's former way of living, but has an immediate effect upon the whole of life;» — su traducción de la circulatio, dicha en condicional.

«The stone, or the new light, the Self, can itself move.» — la autonomía que atribuye a lo que nace de la unión.

«There is no final judgement as to what is wrong and what is right.» — su abstención sobre el juicio moral de los actos que salen del Self.

«Many people will say it is wrong, and others will say it is right, and subjectively you will sometimes feel it is wrong or right.» — el desacuerdo que da por dato, sin arbitrarlo.

«It is a strange thing, if we look at it naively, that in alchemy the end product is something which in the order of nature we look upon as very low, namely a stone, something whose quality is just to be there.» — señala la rareza de que la meta del arte sea una piedra.

«If through fighting and meeting the unconscious one has suffered long enough, a kind of objective personality is established; a nucleus forms in the person which is at peace, quiet even in the midst of the greatest life storms, intensely alive but without action and without participation in the conflict.» — qué nombra la piedra en su traducción clínica.

«Naturally, two minutes later it begins again, for the conflict has not been solved, but the experience that one thing is just quietly beyond the conflict remains, and from then on the process becomes different.» — acota de inmediato ese logro: el conflicto sigue.

«Thereafter the opus has a goal, that of finding this moment again and slowly being able to keep it, so that it becomes something constant.» — cómo redefine la meta de la obra después de ese momento.

«In all the struggles of life there is always that one thing which is beyond the struggle; as Dr. Jung describes it so beautifully in his comment on The Secret of the Golden Flower, it is as though you were standing on the mountain above the thunderstorm.» — la imagen de Jung que adopta para ese núcleo.

«On a humbler or more minor scale, you have reached it if in a storm of despair or in a destructive dissolving attack of a conflict you can keep a sense of humour for a second» — rebaja la escala de la experiencia hasta un signo mínimo y comprobable.

«Usually they are only brief moments, but if you continue working on yourself long enough, the stone slowly grows and becomes more and more the solid nucleus of the personality which no longer participates in the ape-circus of life.» — el crecimiento lento de la piedra, con la brevedad de los momentos declarada.

«That is probably what is meant here: the moon, who is the ruler of life as a gorilla-circus, stops its flux and something appears that is eternal and beyond the conflict.» — su lectura de la coagulación lunar, marcada como probable.

«Life itself coagulates and steps out of its own rhythm, which is probably the preparation for death, since death is the natural end of life, the fruit which grows out of life: the lived life creates the eternal attitude which transcends death.» — enlaza esa coagulación con la preparación para la muerte.

«So the sun only confirms what the moon says and I think from what I said before that this is clear: now the moon, even in the fight of the fire which means even in the destructive attacks of emotions from within and without remains firm and beyond them, and is no longer rebellious against consciousness.» — su glosa del pasaje solar sobre la victoria en la batalla del fuego.

«Unconscious and conscious are at peace with each other.» — el estado al que apunta esa fase.

«It stands for resurrection, but also can be weakened by the flesh.» — la doble cara del león en el texto de Senior.

«That is the augmentum plumbi, as it is called here.» — nombra la fase en que el plomo crece por sí solo.

«The Chinese would call it doing nothing, just letting things happen;» — el paralelo chino con que glosa ese crecimiento sin intervención.

«Goat's blood, or he-goat's blood, really, was supposed to have a corrosive effect upon everything» — la creencia sobre la sangre de cabra en la que se apoya el motivo.

«An old legend says the adamant is the one precious stone which cannot be dissolved by goat's blood,» — la excepción legendaria que da sentido a la figura del diamante.

«In general, life is so complicated that if one has to think about things one is always too late.» — el problema práctico del que hace derivar la noción de instinto de verdad.

«The instinct of truth was there, something kept telling me to say No,» — lo dice de un episodio propio, no de un caso ajeno.

«That is the action of the Self becoming immediate, and only the Self can accomplish this.» — a qué atribuye esa reacción sin reflexión.

«That is why the Holy Ghost has also been called by certain theologians the instinct of truth,» — la equivalencia teológica que recoge, atribuida a otros.

«It is what gives me the truth without reflection; something within me knows the truth by my immediate reaction without my thinking about it, or even expressing it.» — su definición del instinto de verdad.

«Telepathic in Greek simply means "feeling from afar," which does not explain anything for telepathy is a mystery, we do not know what it is.» — vuelve a desactivar el término telepatía como explicación.

«They are one but have an opposite aspect and when the head and the tail, the opposites, meet, there a flow is born, which is what the alchemists mean by the mystical or divine water, which I described as the meaningful flux of life.» — su lectura del Ouroboros como encuentro de los opuestos.

«It is a very great paradox that liquid the unformed water of life and the stone the most solid and dead thing are, according to the alchemists, one and the same thing.» — declara la paradoja y la deja sin armonizar.

«I am sorry to have given you only one Arabic text, but I think this Shi-ite alchemist, Senior, was one of the very great men in alchemy.» — justifica haber dedicado todo el bloque árabe a un solo autor.

«But the instinctive truth is a manifestation of the Self and has nothing to do with a function.» — separa el instinto de verdad de las funciones psicológicas, y en particular de la intuición.

«Intuition can be 50% right and 50% wrong.» — la fiabilidad que le concede a la intuición, y por la que no la confunde con lo anterior.

«He says they either hit the nail on the head, hit the bull's eye without any reflection, or shoot away into the woods twenty kilometres on the other side.» — el juicio de Jung sobre los intuitivos, que ella recoge.

«We have now given all the time we can spare to Arabic alchemy and will dedicate the last three lectures to European alchemy.» — el reparto de las conferencias en el punto de bisagra.

«It has also been suggested that I take a text by Paracelsus, but I have avoided this writer because of the amount of specific explanation required, on account of the many strange words he uses.» — la razón por la que descarta a Paracelso para este curso.

«Chronologically that would be wrong, but I would prefer to do it that way.» — reconoce el desorden cronológico del plan que propone al auditorio.

«I am very happy about this decision because I think of the three possibilities this is the most exciting.» — su reacción al resultado de la votación del auditorio.

«Dr. Jung came across the text of "Aurora consurgens, Part II," a rather dry kind of chemical work, with at the beginning a brief note stating that it was only the second part of the text and that the first part was omitted by the printer because it was blasphemous.» — el hallazgo de Jung del que arranca todo el expediente de la Aurora.

«But as you will soon see, it is impossible to explain this phenomenon that way, because of the tremendous excitement and emotion contained in the text.» — por qué abandona su primera explicación de la atribución tomista.

«However, I do not think it is quite that, although it was probably written by someone overwhelmed by the unconscious.» — su reserva frente al diagnóstico de psicosis.

«The classic situation of someone in this condition is described as a psychotic episode, but in the opinion of Dr. Jung, given as his medical diagnosis, it would represent either the outbreak of a psychosis, or a phase in a manic depressive psychosis, or the description of an abnormal situation written by a normal person who at that particular time was overwhelmed by the unconscious.» — las tres posibilidades del diagnóstico de Jung, consignadas como suyas.

«I am inclined to agree with the third theory, though from the document it is not possible to come to a definite conclusion.» — su elección entre las tres, con el límite declarado en la misma frase.

«He asked me if I would be kind enough to write a brief, historical introduction the rest was finished giving the dates and saying who might be the author, and so on.» — el encargo de Jung del que salió su investigación sobre la autoría.

«I started with the assumption that although the text had been ascribed to St. Thomas of Aquinas, naturally there was no question of that.» — el supuesto con que empezó, que después abandonó.

«So, just out of conscientiousness, I decided to look into other writings of his and, in order to be rather more on the safe side, to read a biography, which however led me to the unsafe side» — cómo cuenta el giro de su propia investigación.

«It has generally been said that that was the beginning of his illness, while some say that as well as a rational side, he must have had a mystical streak in his personality, which broke through from time to time in these strange fits of absent-mindedness.» — las dos lecturas de los episodios de Tomás que la literatura ofrece, sin arbitrar entre ellas.

«Such conditions were more frequent in his later years he died at the age of 49 or 51, we don't know for sure because we don't know exactly when he was born» — consigna la incertidumbre de las fechas al dar el dato.

«He had a friend, Reginald of Piperno, a very humble monk, who was his follower and personal servant, a man who worshipped him and is one of the main biographical sources.» — declara quién es la fuente del relato y qué relación tenía con el biografiado.

«He went to his desk and pushed aside the pen with which he was writing his Summa, the chapter about penitence; he pushed away his writing utensils and just sat there the whole day in a kind of catatonic state with his head in his hands.» — la escena que le da el título de estado catatónico.

«Reginald of Piperno asked him why he was not writing and he only replied: "I cannot." That continued for several days.» — la única respuesta que da Tomás en la fuente.

«In later biographies, written by people who were not present, the words "in comparison with the magnificent visions I have had" have been added, but those words are not in the original» — separa lo que dice la fuente de lo que le añadió la tradición posterior.

«The monks of Santa Maria di Fossa Nuova, thinking they had caught someone marvellous, the famous Father Thomas, bothered him to give a seminar in spite of the dreadful state he was in.» — las circunstancias del último seminario de Tomás sobre el Cantar de los Cantares.

«Notes of this seminar have never been found and already at the time of his canonization, in 1312, this last episode is more or less skipped;» — el estado documental de esas notas y su tratamiento en la canonización.

«You will not find this in an official biography, but in the Acta Bollandiana, the original Latin sources and reports» — dónde está el material que usa y dónde no.

«After reading the above, I conceived the terrible suspicion that the "Aurora consurgens" might indeed have originated in the notes of St. Thomas's» — su hipótesis sobre el origen del texto, presentada como sospecha.

«I was quite anxious about my discovery, for I thought I would make myself very unpopular if I said» — cómo esperaba que se recibiera esa hipótesis.

«There is one exception: a Dominican Father and teacher of theology has reacted very positively.» — la única reacción eclesiástica favorable que registra.

«He is a specialist on St. Thomas and he said that it made complete sense to him, that there was nothing that could not be accepted in such a hypothesis if one were broad-minded.» — el contenido de esa reacción, con la condición que el dominico le puso.

«This female personification was an awkward figure for Christian theologians.» — el problema que la Sabiduría femenina plantea a la teología.

«The third explanation, which to my mind is the most interesting, is that she represents the sum of all archetypes this is medieval language, I am not projecting Jungian words the archetypi, or the eternal ideas in God's mind when He created the world.» — su lectura preferida de Sophia, con la advertencia de que el término es medieval y no junguiano.

«If we translate this into psychological language it would mean that the Wisdom of God represents the collective unconscious, the sum of all the original idea patterns of reality but that would be the feminine side of the Godhead.» — la traducción psicológica, marcada como traducción.

«I would rather make this distinction: some people experience and are most impressed by the unconscious through its spiritual orderedness, for instance in the meaning of a dream and that, by the way, would be more the thinking type.» — el reparto por tipos que propone para el modo de experimentar lo inconsciente.

«Though I interpret a good many dreams a day with different people, I am always overwhelmed by the marvellous structure of the dream.» — dice de sí misma en qué lado de ese reparto está.

«I would therefore say that the Logos would represent the structural element of the unconscious structure and meaning while in the feminine qualification there is more the idea of its pictorial, emotional manifestation.» — el reparto entre Logos y Sophia que propone.

«Avicenna the famous Arabic philosopher Ibn Sina, who was known in European literature as Avicenna developed an Aristotelian idea about the so-called nous poiétikos, which is the following: Within the cosmic reality of the world is a creative intelligence which exists in things themselves; it exists in the cosmos, it is created by God.» — la noción de Avicena de la que arranca el problema medieval.

«St. Albert was an intuitive and a great genius, but not a very accurate thinker, and he just remarked happily that that was something like the Holy Ghost.» — cómo caracteriza la solución de Alberto Magno al nous poiético.

«St. Thomas, who was a thinking type, could not completely swallow that and he therefore cut the nous into two, saying that in part the nous poiétikos was not in the cosmos but in the human mind, of which it was the basis in modern terms we would call it the basis of the mystery of consciousness and the other half, St. Thomas said, was simply the Wisdom of God.» — la solución de Tomás, partida en dos, que ella describe como corte.

«Then St. Thomas introjected, or withdrew, this projection and realized that, in part, it is a question of our own mental operations for there is no meaningfulness unless we see it and if nobody can describe causality then it does not exist.» — el movimiento que le atribuye a Tomás y que ella lee como retiro de proyección.

«Thus St. Thomas took the modern step of introjecting the theories of natural science, realizing that the terms we use come from our own minds.» — por qué llama moderno a ese paso.

«Being a great thinker, he went even further and asked why our own minds produced such ideas as meaningful connections and this he attributed to the nous poiétikos.» — el segundo movimiento de Tomás, que devuelve el problema al nous poiético.

«If you know your Bible well, a bell will constantly ring in your ears.» — advierte que el texto está tejido de citas bíblicas y que hay que oírlas.

«He must have had an experience about which he felt that what had entered him and got him was what the alchemists call the philosopher's stone.» — su conjetura sobre lo que le ocurrió al autor de la Aurora.

«He goes on to quote a few more alchemists, Senior, etc., about her being very precious but despised by ordinary people, and there is a long comparison to show how much more precious she is than worldly goods.» — el procedimiento del autor de la Aurora: encadenar autoridades alquímicas sobre la Sabiduría.

«If you do that, then your mind will begin to flow and follow its concupiscence.» — el papel que el texto asigna al deseo en el acceso a la Sabiduría.

«Either we cannot understand this text at all and just say that it is beyond us, or we must look at it like a dream.» — plantea la alternativa de lectura y declara que no hay tercera.

«From the feeling of the text, I think, and I hope you will agree with me, that this is not an invention of the intellect.» — su argumento sobre el origen del texto, apoyado en la impresión y ofrecido a discusión.

«It is therefore extremely important, if you have to reckon with such a possibility, that you treat such people as though they had a latent psychosis and provide them with a tremendous amount of symbolic knowledge.» — su indicación clínica ante una psicosis latente.

«If you can do that well enough, that is, prepare the ground by symbolic understanding ahead of time, even though they do not know its use, then when the experience comes they have a net in which to catch and re-express it.» — para qué sirve ese saber simbólico: dar red al momento de la irrupción.

«Dr. Jung told me that he once had a case of a very rational, narrow-minded woman doctor, a foreign medical doctor who had studied psychiatry and who wanted to have a training analysis.» — el caso de Jung con que sostiene esa indicación, referido de oídas.

«She began to bring that into order and around this formed the nucleus of a new ego personality.» — el desenlace del caso: el material simbólico como núcleo de la reconstrucción.

«She recovered, and according to the correspondence Jung had with her for many years he never saw her again personally, for she came from a faraway country she never had a relapse; that was her only psychotic episode and there is every reason to believe that the thing is now really integrated, that she is cured.» — el seguimiento del caso, con la fuente del dato declarada.

«So you see how a knowledge of symbolism is a net, so to speak, in which one can at least catch the unspeakable mystery of an immediate experience of the unconscious.» — la función que le asigna al conocimiento simbólico, acotada con un at least.

«I think our author had such an indescribable and overwhelming experience of the unconscious and that he tried, in a rather chaotic way, through a potpourri of biblical and alchemical quotations, to catch and describe that had happened to him.» — su hipótesis sobre cómo se compuso la Aurora.

«If our author were to proclaim on the street that the Wisdom of God had visited him and that he now knew all about it, that would not be the right thing, but he seems to have written a paper, or to have given a seminár on it, or if it was St. Thomas's last seminar then he was in a coma and just talked» — sitúa el texto entre lo publicable y lo indebido; el troceo imprime seminár con tilde.

«I don't think St. Thomas could write any more, so this must have been written up from notes taken, which would fit in with the fact that the manuscripts are very different, some richer and others poorer.» — el argumento manuscrito con que apoya la hipótesis de las notas de alumnos.

«It was usual at that time to take seminar notes and several of his writings have only been collected in that way by his pupils;» — la práctica de época que hace verosímil esa transmisión.

«I would imagine that he talked, as the original report says, in a half-ecstatic way and, when very weak, about the Song of Solomon.» — su reconstrucción del último seminario, apoyada en el informe original.

«One has not necessarily crossed the borderline if one uses such language, because that is the style of the unconscious.» — desacopla el estilo exaltado del diagnóstico de locura.

«It is carried by the whole emotion and is a ritualistic or sacramental style, like those beautiful songs of the North American Indians, with a lot of repetition and three Amens, and so on.» — a qué compara ese estilo.

«One can still observe dispassionately, but if such things are to be allowed expression in their original form one must allow for the very pompous and emotional way of speaking.» — la condición que pone para dejar hablar a ese material sin corregirlo.

«I would like to skip the next chapter for it is very disgusting.» — su reacción a un capítulo de la Aurora, que igual resume.

«It says that you should love the light of wisdom because then you will rule the world, that it is a sacrament of God which one should not betray to the common people because everybody would become jealous, and so on.» — el contenido del capítulo que le desagrada.

«Dr. von Franz: Yes, he has an inflation in this chapter.» — su diagnóstico del pasaje en el coloquio.

«I do not think any human being can have such an experience without for a moment going through such a stage; it belongs to the experience, the point is only whether one remains in it.» — normaliza la inflación como fase y pone el criterio en la permanencia.

«Therefore I would say that he has got out of his inflation and returned to a relatively sober state of consciousness and now tries to bring order into his experience.» — su lectura del cambio de registro en el texto de la Aurora.

«This order is very typically fourfold. He gives four explanations of the word "dawn" four reasons.» — la forma cuaternaria que toma ese intento de orden.

«Every time consciousness tries to establish itself, it puts a fourfold order onto things; that is the net with which it catches things and brings them into order, and he therefore now tries to give a fourfold explanation of the rising dawn.» — su regla general sobre el cuatro como forma de la consciencia que se ordena.

«His explanation seems to me to be very superficial. First he makes a play on words aurora, aurea hora and then he compares it to the morning dawn» — su juicio sobre el juego de palabras del título, que no adopta como hallazgo.

«It is a compensation for having been pulled too deeply into the emotions.» — a qué atribuye el vuelco de tono del autor.

«In extreme cases there occurs what doctors and psychiatrists even want to reach, namely the "regressive restoration of the persona," when people say that all they have seen was a part of their illness and that they will never think of it again.» — el caso extremo de esa compensación, con la crítica implícita a quienes lo buscan.

«The experience is absolutely rejected, because it is too hot.» — la razón que da para ese rechazo.

«If without therapy you get people out of such a state, through largactyl or some such remedy, or electroshock, then generally that is the reaction.» — la vía farmacológica y de electrochoque como causa habitual de ese desenlace.

«It is a normal rhythm in human reactions, illustrated for instance in the classical antique plays where three tragedies are succeeded by a comedy.» — el patrón cultural con que normaliza el vuelco tragedia-comedia.

«Or there is the typical mechanism where at the height of a very dramatic funeral one suddenly sees something funny and has a nervous reaction wanting to laugh.» — el mismo mecanismo en escala cotidiana.

«That also accounts for the Mock Mass of the Middle Ages.» — la Misa de burla medieval como institucionalización de ese vuelco.

«We have at home a maid who sees ghosts and can speak most graphically of her experiences.» — el caso doméstico con que muestra la retractación después del relato.

«Now the author tries to deal with his experience in another way he suddenly understands that all the symbolic texts he has read before, in the Bible and in alchemy, point to that same experience.» — el segundo movimiento del autor: leer toda la tradición como espejo de lo vivido.

«Here you see that what I described before now happens: he is trying to catch and consolidate and understand his inner experiences by amplifying them with other texts.» — su descripción del método del autor de la Aurora.

«She is called the Queen of the Midday, or the South Wind in Latin auster stands for both "south wind" and "midday" and that refers» — la ambigüedad latina de la que sale el nombre de la Reina del Sur.

«This text, which is more or less the same as Luke 11:31, refers to the famous Queen of Sheba who came to visit King Solomon and had with him, as you know, a love affair from which the present Abyssinian kings still stem.» — identifica a la Reina del Sur con la de Saba y consigna la leyenda dinástica.

«This love affair of the aging Solomon became the great theme of European love literature.» — la descendencia literaria que le atribuye a ese relato.

«Of the very earthy and understandable love poems of El Hafis, it is said that they must be read with a mystical meaning and that El Hafis is not describing an ordinary love affair with a woman, but uses that language to describe the unio mystica of the soul with God.» — consigna esa lectura mística como lo que se dice de esos poemas, no como su tesis.

«The love letter of the sun to the moon is a typical variation of this kind of love literature, in which you can say that the problem of the phenomenon of transference with the process of individuation is in the most beautiful way united and expressed in symbolic language.» — enlaza la carta de Senior con esa literatura amorosa.

«The experience of the anima for the man and the animus for a woman is really quite outside a real experience with a human partner.» — el deslinde que hace entre la figura interior y la persona real.

«You can therefore say that in every deep love experience the experience of the Self is involved, for the passion and the overwhelming factor in it comes from the Self.» — de dónde hace venir el exceso del enamoramiento.

«This experience was much better understood and cultivated more in the non-Christian realms which have a more balanced attitude towards the female principle; in the Jewish and in the official Christian tradition this kind of love literature, and the problem of the love union with God, has been rather rejected, with a few exceptions.» — su balance sobre dónde se cultivó el amor místico, con las excepciones anunciadas.

«In the Jewish tradition it is chiefly the Kabbala that has again taken up this theme, and in the Christian tradition there are a few mystics like St. John of the Cross and his famous poem, which is a paraphrase of the Song of Solomon and where again this language is used.» — las dos excepciones que nombra: la cábala y San Juan de la Cruz.

«Probably St. John of the Cross knew a great deal about Islamic literature, since he lived in Spain.» — su conjetura sobre el contacto islámico de San Juan de la Cruz, declarada probable.

«The Church has not encouraged this kind of mystical and religious literature, which therefore deeply affected the half-religious literature of the medieval novels, mainly the poetry of the Grail cycle and the Grail legends.» — dónde fue a parar ese material al no tener cabida eclesiástica.

«For the sublime aspect of the anima, the Virgin Mary stands as a fitting symbol, but for the less sublime aspect where could a man project it?» — el hueco de proyección del que hace derivar la fortuna de la Reina de Saba.

«The Queen of Sheba with her negro shadow, her negress servant, became a fitting object upon which this aspect of the anima could be projected, and therefore many novels elaborated the theme of the love story of King Solomon.» — la función que asigna a la sombra negra de esa figura.

«She foresaw that the wood would become the cross.» — la profecía que, en la leyenda, legitima a la Reina de Saba dentro de la literatura cristiana.

«It was all tolerable because she had foreseen the death of Christ.» — la operación de legitimación, dicha sin adornos.

«One could say he is now trying to circumambulate the meaning of the experience.» — su término para el rodeo con que el autor va cercando lo vivido.

«By repetition a shock is assimilated, and therefore if you have had a psychological shock you tend to digest it by repetition till you have integrated all its aspects and then you get your balance back.» — el mecanismo de digestión por repetición que propone.

«The same thing happened to St. Niklaus von der Flüe who, after he had his frightening vision of the Godhead, tried to digest it by making a painting and explaining it to a number of people, over and over again, and in that way he assimilated the shock.» — el caso histórico con que apoya ese mecanismo.

«I have an analysand, a woman who has tremendous experiences of the Godhead and she asked me the other day how many years it would take her until she had digested them.» — el caso contemporáneo, con la pregunta del analizando por el plazo.

«One cannot digest such an experience immediately, and in this case it means that every time I see her again we have to talk about hers from yet another angle.» — cómo trabaja ella esa digestión, ángulo por ángulo.

«He then described the same experience but in a rather prosaic way, which is typical for people when they come up again after having been pulled into the unconscious; there is a kind of dry disappointment about the whole thing which compensates for the inflation.» — la desilusión seca que sigue a la inflación, dada como regla.

«From the different ways in which he described her, we deduced that at first St. Thomas was quite overcome and afterwards identified with the image and became slightly inflated, saying that now he would tell people about her, etc.» — reconstruye las fases del autor a partir de cómo cambia su modo de nombrar a la Sabiduría.

«When he says he saw a big black cloud, one feels it must be the author who from above sees the black cloud which has covered the earth. But later this person, who asks who is the man who can save him, is the Wisdom of God.» — el desplazamiento de la voz dentro del mismo pasaje.

«One of the most interesting things in this text is that the "I," as seen from the context, on one line is the author and two lines later the Wisdom of God.» — señala esa mudanza del yo como el rasgo más notable del texto.

«The black cloud is a well-known alchemical symbol for the state called the nigredo, the blackness which very often occurs first in the opus; if you distill the material it evaporates and for a while you see nothing but a kind of confusion or cloud, which the alchemist compared to the earth being covered up by a black cloud.» — la identificación de la nube negra con el nigredo, y su lado de operación de laboratorio.

«But you find the cloud also in early medieval texts in a positive connection, namely as that unknown, bewildering aspect of the Godhead.» — el valor positivo de la misma imagen en otra tradición, que consigna junto al negativo.

«In Christian language the cloud is produced by the devil who is in the north and out of whose nostrils constant clouds of confusion and unconsciousness blow over the world.» — la versión cristiana negativa de la nube.

«There are many late Hermetic texts where it is said that the light of God cannot be found before one has come up from the dark cloud of unconsciousness which covers people and which is the negative connotation often met with in religious language.» — el uso hermético tardío de la misma imagen.

«The natural man in us is the genuine man, but also the man who does not fit into conventional patterns, and who in part is very much driven by his instincts.» — la doble cara del hombre natural, sin idealizarlo.

«It is Christ Himself, as God Himself, who promises to share His Kingdom, so we must conclude that the person speaking and the adjectives which here refer to the "I" are always feminine is the Wisdom of God, in absolute identity with God and Christ, who speaks out of the darkness of the nigredo and calls for help, asking for a human being who will save her soul from the underworld.» — su adjudicación de la voz del texto, apoyada en el género de los adjetivos latinos.

«In the Jewish religion, as you know, this process has already begun, because although from the beginning there was no feminine goddess, the Hebrew word for primordial chaos is Tohu wa bohu, which is really an allusion to the Babylonian Tiamat, a feminine goddess.» — el rastro femenino que encuentra en el relato bíblico de la creación.

«One could say that in the Jewish tradition the great mother goddess does not appear personified in the Bible, but only exists in a hidden way in these few allusions.» — el estatuto que le da a ese rastro: alusión, no figura.

«There are a few obscure allusions to a dark chaotic mother-mass underneath, which is identical with matter, and a sublime feminine figure which is the Wisdom of God, but even she was eliminated in Christianity for God was declared to be identical with the Holy Ghost or the soul of Christ, and matter supposed to be ruled by the devil.» — su balance sobre la eliminación de lo femenino en la tradición cristiana.

«If you remember, Jung explains that this represents what happens when something is projected, namely that there is the archetypal idea of the divine man, or the feminine Godhead, and that archetype is projected into matter, which actually means the image falls into matter.» — la explicación de Jung sobre la caída en la materia, atribuida a él.

«Marti points out very clearly that this is a switch, that the State is no longer the father but has become the mother, and as such interested in the physical welfare of her children» — la tesis de Hans Marti sobre el Estado suizo, consignada como suya.

«Over the last fifty or sixty years physical welfare has gradually become an important concern of the State, and with that it has by degrees become more and more the carrier of the projection of the mother, and less so of the father image.» — el desplazamiento de proyección que describe, con su plazo.

«We are slowly and without noticing it gliding into a matriarchal situation.» — su diagnóstico del movimiento de fondo.

«He ends his book very intelligently by saying that we should become conscious of what we are projecting onto the State and begin with a real Auseinandersetzung, or confrontation, and not change our laws by just projecting a mother image.» — la conclusión de Marti que ella suscribe.

«It is well known, also, that when Pope Pius XII declared the assumptio Maria his conscious aim was to hit Communistic materialism by elevating, so to speak, a symbol of matter in the Catholic Church, so as to take the wind out of the Communists' sails.» — el propósito que atribuye al dogma de 1950, esta vez como consciente.

«Since it is the Virgin Mary's body which is raised to Heaven, emphasis is on the physical material aspect.» — por qué lee ese dogma como elevación de la materia.

«Dr. von Franz: Yes, we must conclude that this author had no relationship with the feminine principle before.» — su conclusión en el coloquio sobre el autor de la Aurora.

«Boehme rejected the feminine completely I mean he had only a negative attitude towards it until the later phases of his life.» — el caso paralelo de Boehme, con la corrección que ella misma se hace.

«What for consciousness is a realization of an archetypal image is for the archetype a great downfall.» — la doble contabilidad que propone para la realización de un arquetipo.

«Many creation myths describe the creation of the world as the Godhead falling from Heaven, as is also typically illustrated in a dream of Gérard de Nerval, a French poet whose book Aurélia depicts the beginning of de Nerval's psychosis.» — el material mítico y el caso literario con que ilustra esa caída.

«Very often the reason for schizophrenia is not so much the invasion of the unconscious, but that it happens to someone who is too narrow for the experience, either mentally or emotionally.» — dónde pone la causa: no en la irrupción sino en la estrechez de quien la recibe.

«I only mention this dream as an illustration of the fact that what is seen from the conscious as a realization of the archetype is for the archetype falling down into matter.» — acota el uso del caso de Nerval a la ilustración.

«There is the same thing in the theological teaching about the kenosis of Christ, which refers to the biblical quotation where Christ shed his plenitude to come down as a servant and incarnate in man.» — la kénosis como versión teológica de la misma doble contabilidad.

«Whenever an archetype approaches human realization it means a great narrowing for the archetype, which accounts for the catastrophic visions and dreams of the fall of a divine being onto the earth.» — la regla general de la que hace derivar esas visiones catastróficas.

«If he had understood what was approaching him when he had those tremendous feelings and fantasies about the girl he loved, he would not have gone off his head, but it seemed to him it was all crazy and stupid and had to be repressed, which resulted in the catastrophe.» — su lectura contrafactual del caso de Nerval.

«In our text the fallen Wisdom of God calls for a human being of understanding to dig her up.» — la petición de la Sabiduría caída en la Aurora.

«When reading the text it is easy to overlook these strange allusions, but the Wisdom here clearly says that she herself is God the Father and that whoever saves her is the son of God himself.» — la identificación que lee en el pasaje de la Aurora tomado de Hebreos.

«This was predicted in the Bible by Christ Himself but has been ignored in theological interpretation because it is an awkward statement and means nothing more nor less than that each human individual could potentially live the same fate as Christ and be identical with the Godhead.» — la consecuencia que extrae, con la nota de que la teología la ha esquivado.

«It means that to follow Christ is not to follow outer rules, not the outward imitation, but to take upon oneself the total experience of Christ Himself in one's own form to go through the whole process oneself.» — su definición de seguir a Cristo, opuesta a la imitación externa.

«To the seven planets are attributed the seven metals, and it is quite customary in alchemy for the seven metals tin, copper, lead, iron, and so on to be attributed to the seven planets, but they are more than that; they are, so to speak, the same thing as the seven planets.» — la correspondencia metal-planeta, que no es analogía sino identidad en estos textos.

«The seven stars were mentioned before in our text; they are the seven stars the Godhead holds in His hands when He appears in the Apocalypse and at that time they naturally referred to the seven planets.» — el empalme de las siete estrellas del Apocalipsis con los siete planetas.

«In alchemical literature it is generally said that the great effort and trouble continues from the nigredo to the albedo; that is said to be the hard part, and afterwards everything becomes easier.» — dónde ponen los textos el peso del trabajo.

«The nigredo the blackness, the terrible depression and state of dissolution has to be compensated by the hard work of the alchemist and that hard work consists, among other things, in constant washing; therefore even the work of washerwomen is often mentioned in the text, or constant distilling, which is also done with the object of purification, for the metal is evaporated and then precipitated into another vessel, thus removing the heavier substances.» — en qué consiste ese trabajo en el laboratorio.

«The psychological analogy is obviously to the first hard part of an analysis where Venus, the love problem, must be washed, as well as Mars, the problem of aggression, and so on.» — su traducción de los lavados planetarios al trabajo analítico.

«That is not an easy thing to do; it is something very complicated and difficult, for it is not as though one understood that one was projecting and would therefore not do it any more.» — el límite práctico del retiro de una proyección: entenderlo no basta.

«As soon as a projection is really withdrawn a sort of peace establishes itself one becomes quiet and can look at the thing from an objective angle.» — el signo por el que se reconoce que la proyección se retiró.

«So what the alchemist symbolised with the idea of the whitening was that the material they had been working on had now reached a form of purity and oneness and they could now begin the synthetic work.» — qué marca el albedo dentro de la obra.

«The albedo is characterized by something wonderful, for, the alchemists say, from now on one has simply to feed the fire, keep it going, but the hard part of the work is done.» — lo que los alquimistas prometen para esa fase, consignado como lo que dicen.

«Only, as you will see, the process of getting from the nigredo to the albedo is repeated many times.» — el freno que pone de inmediato a esa promesa.

«Dr. von Franz: I would say our author has not yet any doubts.» — su respuesta en el coloquio sobre la fe del autor de la Aurora en la materia.

«Doubt appeared first at the end of the 15th or the beginning of the 16th century.» — la fecha que propone para la entrada de la duda en la alquimia.

«You could say that, on the whole, doubt started about the time of the Renaissance, after which alchemical symbolism became an allegory, no longer a genuine symbolic experience, and the old texts are thrashed out allegorically.» — el cambio de régimen que fecha en el Renacimiento: de símbolo a alegoría.

«They really did not believe any more that the thing was to be found in matter, or only half-believed it, or pretended to do so to themselves, but it was not a clean attitude,» — cómo caracteriza la posición de los alquimistas posteriores a esa fecha.

«But as you see, though it again starts with the nigredo and therefore with a disaster, the positive aspects are given at greater length.» — el cambio de proporción que observa en la repetición del ciclo.

«So it can be said that although the process is repeated there is already a lighter aspect, one which was not hitherto mentioned, namely that the catastrophe happened at the moment of a birth, that just when the nigredo was at its worst a secret birth took place in the unconscious.» — la coincidencia entre lo peor del nigredo y el nacimiento oculto.

«That is why, if there is a suicidal tendency in a person, it will always be strongest at that moment which might be called the crisis of the healing.» — la consecuencia clínica de esa coincidencia.

«In a deep depression, or a completely schizoid confusion, only rarely and exceptionally is the danger of suicide great, though it does exist under certain circumstances.» — corrige la intuición corriente sobre dónde está el riesgo, dejando la excepción.

«Naturally this is only an extreme illustration of something which is also true in analytical work on a less dramatic level it is what I call the last attack of the devil.» — el nombre que da a esa fase y la escala en que la usa.

«Generally that is a very good sign, for it simply means that now hell is losing its power and therefore there is a last attack, the devil» — cómo lee ese recrudecimiento final.

«He says the most shocking and amazing things, but in such beautiful biblical language that one wonders what he is really getting at, and then one realizes the terrible things he is saying, from a medieval point of view.» — el contraste entre la lengua y el contenido en la Aurora.

«I think that springs from the fact that he spoke unconsciously; he was overwhelmed by the image of the unconscious and proclaimed its compensatory truth without quite realizing the enormity of what he was saying.» — su explicación de que el autor pudiera decir eso sin escándalo.

«He just felt his own experience, that an image of a woman he thought to be the Wisdom of God had killed him and then restored him to life, which is why he describes her as the woman who brought in death and afterwards restored life.» — el núcleo de la experiencia del autor, del que sale la equiparación Eva-María.

«The extractio animae, the extraction of the soul, means in chemical language a distillation.» — la operación química que está detrás de la figura.

«Then the simile of the humidity comes in too, for by fire the corruptible humidity has to be distilled and then the vivifying humidity is poured in.» — el intercambio de humedades que describe el texto.

«If you have ever poured water on ashes you will know how much can be absorbed, so they say everything has to be burnt to ashes to make sure every bit of destructive humidity has left the substance; then pure water must be poured on to restore them to solid form.» — la operación de la ceniza, explicada por la experiencia manual.

«We do not even know in how many ways we are hampered in our fullness of life by unconscious assumptions or feelings.» — su traducción de la humedad corruptible: el supuesto que no se sabe que se tiene.

«For instance, there are many people who live far below their spiritual level because they assume they are nobodies and are so sure of it that they never even think of questioning the fact.» — el ejemplo con que muestra ese tipo de supuesto.

«Overanalysing, continuing the process too long, creates a second neurosis, which is a very general disease and very difficult to cure.» — el riesgo del análisis prolongado, nombrado como enfermedad frecuente.

«I know analysts who are completely passive and who excel in not interfering and can still produce overanalysed analysands, because the latter do it themselves!» — descarta que el sobreanálisis sea solo culpa del analista.

«I even think it is necessary that each case should reach a period of being overanalysed, that it is a necessary phase of the work, a stage which must be reached so that then this conscious return can take place, namely the realization of the need to return to spontaneity, and returning to it constantly, for otherwise you slip back unconsciously.» — el sobreanálisis como fase necesaria y no como error.

«The alchemist Gerhard Dorn says that the anima is caught in the body of a man and he has with a mental effort to fish her out, but then the body is dead.» — la operación de Dorn: extraer el alma del cuerpo por esfuerzo mental.

«If you reject the body you cannot live, so now you have to get the body back.» — el problema que esa extracción deja abierto.

«He says that now comes a terrible danger because the body should be redeemed too, but if mind and soul go only a bit towards the body they fall plumb into it; it is like an iron magnet and then the whole work is wrong.» — el peligro que Dorn señala en el regreso al cuerpo.

«That is why I think the state of being overanalysed is necessary; it is a stage which has to be reached in order that this unio corporis be accomplished in the right way, and not according to the old pattern.» — enlaza el sobreanálisis con la unio corporis de Dorn.

«I think the mistake an analyst can make is not to know about the necessity for the return, and so when the dreams announce the need for the change it is overlooked.» — el error de método que sí atribuye al analista.

«That was someone who had had eight years of analysis, beginning with a Freudian, and now he should swim with the fish.» — el caso del sueño de la pesca, con su historia clínica.

«This chapter is not as interesting as the others so I can finish it briefly.» — su juicio sobre un capítulo de la Aurora, que despacha rápido.

«There is again the idea of a prison being broken open, and then of the daughters of Jerusalem who have been arrogant and luxurious and have to be washed and punished by the spirit of wisdom and insight.» — el contenido del capítulo que resume.

«You probably noticed the repeated mention of the number seven.» — señala la insistencia del siete en el texto.

«It compensates what we all also know from our own experience of the unconscious, namely a tremendous conscious feeling of impatience where people always wonder why they do not get on and whether they cannot yet do this and that, and so on.» — a qué compensa, según ella, el simbolismo del tiempo largo.

«It can be long or short, because as Dr. Jung says, one does not solve conflicts, one outgrows them.» — la fórmula de Jung sobre los conflictos que adopta aquí.

«The problem here in our text is certainly one which cannot be solved, it can only be outgrown through an inner transformation of the author.» — aplica esa fórmula al problema del texto que comenta.

«That is the meaning of the endless repetition of the same problem, which is bound to a number which stands for evolution.» — su lectura de la repetición del ciclo en la Aurora.

«In Egypt it was thought that if somebody did not go through the process of resurrection properly, then that person would after death be imprisoned in the coffin chamber, while someone who had gone through the process of becoming Osiris and becoming divine, i.e., had gone through the whole ritual of the resurrection, would be able, as the papyri texts say, to appear in any shape any day.» — el ritual egipcio del que hace derivar la penetración de la piedra.

«The highest goal of the resurrection was thought of as this ability to be completely free to change into any shape and to move about through anything in this material world, a kind of ghostlike being which could walk through closed doors and could manifest in any desired form.» — en qué consistía esa meta.

«These reports have to be taken as they are, we cannot discuss them psychologically.» — su abstención ante los relatos de percepción fuera del cuerpo.

«We can believe them or not; we cannot make a point out of such things because they are reports of unique situations» — la razón de esa abstención: son casos únicos.

«If we take this, not as an experience of the death process, but as the experience of a living being, it could be the influence of the unconscious on the surroundings not an intentional one, but because one is in connection with the Self, the Self begins to have a certain effect on other people.» — la lectura alternativa que sí propone, en condicional.

«If one is connected with the Self inwardly, then one can penetrate all life situations.» — la traducción psicológica de la penetración de la piedra.

«That is a prison, for a prison is any kind of psychological factor in which one feels trapped, while if one has an awareness of and constant alertness to the Self, one is no longer caught in anything; there is an innermost part of the personality which remains free and cannot be caught any more.» — qué llama prisión y qué llama libertad en este contexto.

«One returns to experience, naive experience, but one is no longer caught in it.» — la fórmula del regreso a la vida sin quedar preso en ella.

«If you use Eastern terms, you could say that you go on living spontaneously but one part of you is concerned with Tao all the time.» — el paralelo taoísta con que dice lo mismo.

«You are not caught by what is happening, but are directed towards Tao, and if you can detach from life as much as that you have reached immortality; that is something which cannot be altered even by death death becomes a chance event which does not affect the nucleus of the personality, so that at least subjectively it is an experience of being immortal.» — su noción de inmortalidad, acotada en la propia frase a lo subjetivo.

«No, that is the paradox which has to be reached conscious spontaneity.» — nombra la paradoja que propone como meta.

«That I would call conscious spontaneity complete spontaneity yet always knowing what one is doing.» — su definición de espontaneidad consciente.

«He was an introvert and had overanalysed so much that he didn't live any more and he had simply to learn to go and live in spite of all he knew.» — el caso concreto en que aplica esa noción.

«So jumping into the water meant, among other things, just to be aggressive, but to time it right, because he could have hit this man and knocked him out, and to knock out your boss would not be a good thing for you depend on him for a living!» — la espontaneidad consciente medida en un episodio de ira.

«That was the result of for once jumping into the water and living, instead of always analysing his own aggression and the awfulness of his aggressive shadow but he had to do it consciously, because his naive, spontaneous reaction would have been to knock out the man's teeth, which would have been a bit too much!» — el límite de esa espontaneidad: sentirla, medirla y no dejarse arrastrar.

«From that we have to conclude that the spirit in matter and the author are sometimes contaminated the difference between the two is blurred, and the alchemist has become literally identical with the mystical object he is cooking in his vessel.» — la contaminación de voces que encuentra en la Aurora.

«We therefore do not quite know and cannot quite judge by the paper itself, whether we are faced with an involuntary psychosis or with what one could» — vuelve a dejar sin decidir el diagnóstico sobre el texto.

«If my hypothesis is correct and this document was written by St. Thomas of Aquinas in his death struggle, then both these things are not quite true.» — pone su propia hipótesis como condición antes de descartar los otros dos diagnósticos.

«But there is a third possibility, i.e., that in this case it is an irruption of an archetypal content of the unconscious which cannot be called a psychotic episode, but rather a premortal invasion of the unconscious, so to speak, which can also take on similar forms, reached not by meditation but by a sudden breaking through of the collective unconscious into the very rational mental system of an unusual personality.» — la tercera lectura que propone para la Aurora, distinta de la psicosis.

«It is not more than an hypothesis; I can only say it is probable, but cannot declare it as a certainty.» — su declaración de límite sobre esa propuesta.

«One can go out bathing in the unconscious, but if the sharks come there is the boat to get back into, which is why the Church has been compared to a boat, or an island, to which one can retire when the influx of the unconscious becomes too strong.» — para qué sirve, en su lectura, un credo formulado.

«If I have only my human reason and just tell myself to be reasonable, that is not enough to keep back the influx of the unconscious, but to have a belief which still exists in consciousness is like a boat, a place to which one can retire.» — por qué la razón sola no cumple esa función.

«We must conclude, therefore, that our author was not a heretic and did not doubt his Creed but believed it, as one would expect of a cleric of the 13th century.» — su conclusión sobre la ortodoxia del autor de la Aurora.

«If you look at the balance, he first confesses that he believes in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and that lasts for about the first ten lines of the first page, but the whole of the rest of the chapter is concerned with the effects of the Holy Ghost.» — el desbalance del capítulo, medido en líneas, del que saca el peso del Espíritu Santo.

«But, according to the Bible, the Holy Ghost is supposed to descend upon individuals again and again and that is not restricted by time.» — el rasgo del Espíritu Santo del que deriva todo el problema.

«God did incarnate "officially" only once in the person of Jesus Christ, but through the workings of the Holy Ghost any individual in the Christian community can again become a vessel of the divine spirit, which would be an incarnation of a little bit of the Godhead.» — la encarnación repetida y menor que abre esa doctrina.

«The Holy Ghost from the very beginning has therefore been a very awkward aspect of the Christian image of God, for according to the Bible it is said to enter the individual directly.» — por qué llama incómoda esa tercera persona.

«You can imagine that the Church did not approve such interpretations and therefore some sects of the Holy Ghost were partly condemned and even badly persecuted and had very largely to close down.» — la suerte de las sectas del Espíritu Santo.

«They anticipated, as was seen long ago, the development of the Reformation where also in the beginning there was an attempt to claim that each individual had the right to communicate with the Godhead directly, without the intermediary of a human organization.» — el parentesco que traza entre esas sectas y la Reforma, con la salvedad de que ya se había visto.

«Therefore if our author, who has passed through a religious experience, wants to keep his Christian attitude, he would naturally refer to the Holy Ghost as if the situation could be saved if he could understand that his experience was conveyed to him by the Holy Ghost; from this angle he could still integrate his experience into his conscious point of view.» — por qué el autor de la Aurora se apoya en el Espíritu Santo y no en otra persona trinitaria.

«He describes the Holy Ghost first in three forms of baptism: by water, by blood, and by fire, and then describes the seven processes in which the Holy Ghost affects matter.» — la estructura del capítulo que comenta.

«Afterwards the text shifts amazingly, for suddenly the Holy Ghost becomes a kind of chemical agency which cooks, cleanses, purifies, and subtilizes alchemical matter.» — el giro que encuentra en el texto: de persona divina a agente químico.

«Here the idea of spirit returns to its original, archetypal form, namely mana.» — a qué atribuye ese giro.

«From the comparative history of religion we know that one of the oldest concepts of the Divine in many primitive religions is the concept of mana, mulungu, and so on, the idea of a divine power, which many ethnologists have compared to a mystical kind of electricity.» — el apoyo comparativo de esa identificación, con la comparación atribuida a otros.

«A king has mana, a chief has it too, as do a menstruating woman and one who has given birth, and also a tree struck by lightning.» — el reparto del mana entre personas y cosas.

«Mana can also be neutral, for if the chief of a tribe has mana he can bestow fertility on the tribe, the cattle, and the soil in his dominion, or, if he is approached irreverently, he can bewitch people, making them ill and so on.» — la neutralidad moral del mana, que puede obrar en los dos sentidos.

«Psychologically one could say it was a representation of the effects of the Self, or of psychic energy which on this level is not experienced as a personified image of God, but rather as an impersonal aspect of divine power.» — su traducción del mana, ofrecida en condicional.

«The climax of this is to be found in the Greek religion, where the gods have human form, being representatives of the archetypes, and in the Judaeo-Christian religion where God is also conceived of as a being in human form, with semihuman reactions.» — dónde sitúa el extremo opuesto, el de la divinidad personificada.

«Dr. von Franz: It is, in a way, but on a more primitive level because the Ouroboros is the natural process of that thing, while here it is in the vessel as brought forth.» — su respuesta en el coloquio al equiparar el Ouroboros con la obra en el vaso.

«Where there is no emotion there is no life.» — su tesis sobre la emoción, en su forma más corta.

«Therefore emotion is the carrier of consciousness, there is no progress in consciousness without emotion.» — la función que asigna a la emoción en el hacerse consciente.

«You know how enjoyable it is if you keep an affect to yourself; if you don't let your negative emotion out it just eats you up from within, there is a growling dog within you for hours.» — la cara destructiva de la misma emoción, dicha con ironía.

«The answer to that is hard to accept: the fire has to burn the fire, one just has to burn in the emotion till the fire dies down and becomes balanced.» — su indicación ante la emoción destructiva, que ella misma llama difícil de aceptar.

«The burning of the fire, of the emotion, cannot be tricked out of one's system; there is no recipe for getting rid of it, it has to be endured.» — cierra negando que haya receta para eso.

«It cannot be hindered but only suffered till what is mortal or corruptible, or, as our text says so beautifully, till the corruptible humidity, the unconsciousness, has been burnt up.» — el sufrimiento aceptado como única vía, con la fórmula del texto.

«If an analyst pretends he can do that, then he is just a quack, because there is no such thing, and anyway it would be meaningless.» — su juicio sobre el analista que promete ahorrar ese fuego.

«Sitting in Hell and roasting there is what brings forth the philosopher's stone; as it is said here, the fire is extinguished with its own inner measure.» — la piedra como producto del infierno interior, con la medida propia del fuego.

«Passion has its own inner measure; there is no such thing as chaotic libido, for we know that the unconscious itself, as pure nature, has an inner balance.» — niega que la pasión sea caótica y le atribuye medida propia.

«If you only follow your own passion according to its own indications it will never go too far, it will always lead to its own defeat.» — la consecuencia práctica de esa medida interna.

«It is as though something within them knows this devil has to be hit on the head, which is why if one is friendly or weak, or understanding towards such fire, one does not help the person; generally such people walk out on you, because that is not what they want.» — por qué la comprensión blanda no sirve ante ese tipo de pasión.

«It is very important to know that in the treatment of borderline cases, for they usually suffer from tremendous emotions and always try to let the whole impact fall on the analyst in the hope and fear that he will hit back; that is because the fire knows its own inner measure.» — la indicación técnica que extrae para los casos límite.

«That is also called the colouring and whitening, for things become clear and the life feeling begins to flow again.» — qué nombra la fase de aclaramiento en su traducción.

«It is a fact that in the alchemical process not everything has to be integrated; there is something called either the damned earth, terra damnata, or res extraneae, exterior or outer things, which have to be cast out and not integrated.» — la parte que la obra descarta, contra la idea de que todo se integra.

«Often people who have read a little about Jungian psychology think that everything, whatever happens, belongs to the process and must be integrated, but that is only true cum grano salis;» — corrige un malentendido corriente sobre la propia escuela.

«Many people do not get to themselves because of their admiration for some other person, perhaps of the same sex; they always strive to be like that person and thereby lose the possibility of becoming themselves.» — el ejemplo de lo que no debe integrarse sino soltarse.

«Individuation therefore also means separation, differentiation, the recognition of what is yours and what is not.» — su definición de individuación como separación y no solo como integración.

«The whole process is then described as the earth changing into water, water into air, air into fire, and fire into earth.» — la circulación de los cuatro elementos tal como la trae el texto.

«There you have the classical idea of the circulatio, of moving through the four elements, of repeating the process again but always on another level.» — qué nombra la circulatio, con el matiz del otro nivel.

«In the process of individuation very often the same problems come up again and again; they seem to be settled, but after a while they reappear.» — la repetición que observa en el trabajo, dicha sin promesa de término.

«Even if you feel you have realized something you should always have the humility to say that that is how you feel for the time being; a few years later you may say you did not know at all before but now can understand what was meant.» — la reserva que pide sobre las propias realizaciones.

«They assimilate a great deal, but it has not become an ethical problem to them; feeling is left out, and with that the ethical aspect is omitted, which means that in their ethical behaviour in the world they continue in the same old style, perhaps according to reason» — la asimilación que se queda en el entendimiento y no llega a la conducta.

«The last section refers to the living spirit and the spiritualization of the body, making the body incorporeal and the spirit concrete. That is another aspect of a coniunctio, of bringing the opposites together, but again it has a different nuance.» — el doble movimiento cuerpo-espíritu que cierra el capítulo.

«They speak of the process of individuation as if they had arrived there and knew all about it, which in a way is quite true, for they have assimilated it, let us say in fire, but not yet in earth.» — la distinción entre asimilar en fuego y asimilar en tierra.

«But at the end of the process mountains are again mountains and that would involve resolidifying the spirit.» — la sentencia zen que usa para el regreso a lo concreto.

«You see here, in this document, an example of what Dr. Jung says, namely that alchemy compensates the one-sidedness of Christian spiritualization; it is that underlying movement which is not anti-Christian but completes it by bringing the opposites nearer together,» — la tesis de Jung sobre la función compensatoria de la alquimia, con el límite de que no es anticristiana.

«I would say that a real spiritual experience flows naturally into communication, but there is no "should" about it.» — sostiene que la experiencia tiende a comunicarse y niega que sea deber.

«You don't need to play the part of a governess and say one should do what the dream says, that is not the right way.» — su regla sobre no convertir el sueño en mandato moral.

«Suppose such a mother had a dream that to send money to her son meant poisoning him. You don't need to say: "Don't send money," but rather: "The dream says if you send money you are poisoning or castrating your son," and next time that woman will tell you she has made up her mind and is not going to send any more.» — el ejemplo con que muestra la diferencia entre interpretar y ordenar.

«That same mother swore to me in the analytical hour that she never made any demands on her daughter and allowed her complete freedom.» — el caso con que muestra el saber que no toca la conducta.

«They can talk about Jungian psychology as though they know all about it but there is no change.» — su queja sobre el saber psicológico sin efecto.

«It will take at least twenty years to educate that out of the system; it cannot be changed at once for it is ingrained in one's nature.» — el plazo que le pone a ese cambio, sin prometer atajos.

«But the first step is to be able to stand it better, not to be dissolved by it, to be detached and have a standpoint, to know that it is one's weakness to which one does not intend to give way and that it will pass.» — qué cuenta como primer paso, rebajado a lo que se puede comprobar.

«For example, if a paranoic says, "I believe, but forgive me, it may not be so, that. . .," it shows he has now something of a rock beyond his paranoid system;» — el signo mínimo por el que reconoce la formación de la roca interior.

«Or if one has always been swept off one's feet by the animus or some emotion, and there begin to be periods when one becomes reasonable, even though afterwards one may fall back again into the passionate possession, those moments are the beginning of the formation of the inner rock.» — el mismo signo en otro registro, con la recaída incluida.

«If they have come so far without snapping then they are not likely to do so, because something has coagulated within and become solid; and on that, as is the aim of the work, one can retire into the inner house of wisdom which is built on a rock and unshakable the text even says in eternity.» — la casa de la Sabiduría sobre la roca como figura de la firmeza adquirida.

«But the answer is No, from such a rock flows the water of life;» — corrige de antemano la lectura de la roca como endurecimiento.

«It means being flexible but unshakable, which is why Dr. Jung says the process of individuation, if it goes on unconsciously, makes the individual cruel and hard towards his fellow creatures, and if it is a conscious process then it leads to the philosopher's stone not to a hardening of the personality, but to firmness in the positive sense» — la advertencia de Jung sobre la individuación inconsciente, que ella hace suya.

«One is no longer easily dissociated and swept away by emotion, losing one's point of view through collective pressure and so on, but that would not mean a hardening which cannot be influenced.» — precisa el alcance de esa firmeza y su límite.

«It is a rock which is also a well, and therefore it is the most liquid thing and the opposite of rigidity or hardening.» — la paradoja de la roca-manantial, dicha sin resolverla.

«The qualities are not only ethical but include all sorts of suppositions as to what a human being should have:» — sobre los pilares de la casa de la Sabiduría, que no son solo virtudes morales.

«There are things in the inner process which cannot be speeded up and it is no good being impatient.» — la razón que da para la advertencia alquímica contra el fuego excesivo.

«In that there is always ego; it is a greedy, immature attitude which naturally leads to the wrong thing, and therefore the alchemists always give this warning about not overheating the process.» — qué hay detrás del apuro, según ella.

«Some even recommend that one should never have a greater warmth than that of fresh horse dung, which would be about the temperature of the human body, the temperature of the interior of the warm-blooded creature; it should be adequate to the human being and everything which is extra modum, as the text says, beyond measure, is wrong.» — la medida concreta del fuego en los textos, y su traducción a lo humano.

«Everything which contains the infantile pushing accent is wrong; it can be felt and one knows it will lead nowhere, even if the intention is good.» — su criterio para reconocer el exceso, con la buena intención descartada como excusa.

«The sixth parable is about Heaven and Earth and the situation of the elements, and here there is a cosmogonic myth.» — sitúa la sexta parábola de la Aurora.

«Even the highest and most important occupation connected with one's own inner development has a narcissistic quality, it has to be so.» — concede el carácter narcisista del trabajo interior en vez de negarlo.

«For a time one has to be shut up in the vessel and attend to one's own business, and to some extent not be open towards life during that period; that is necessary and inevitable.» — el encierro como fase, acotado en el tiempo.

«But in the state described now, the whole nature of the cosmos is again included and that is relationship towards God.» — la salida del microcosmos hacia la vida entera en la sexta parábola.

«In alchemical terms that is the beginning of the rubedo.» — nombra la fase que se abre cuando la novia entra a rescatar al novio.

«One of the monks who copied out the text got so pulled into the pleasure of it that when he came to the part about walking through the meadow and picking the flowers, instead of translating pratum» — el error de copia en el manuscrito de la Aurora, con su explicación psicológica.

«The poor monk used the word peccatum, sin, instead of pratum, something which in medieval stenography could very easily happen» — la explicación paleográfica del mismo error.

«For someone who knows the Bible it would be very shocking if the bridegroom and bride quoted the words of the world's sinners» — por qué el error importa: cambia quién habla en el pasaje.

«The three tents are an allusion to the announcement in Revelation 21:2-3 that God will live in one tent the tabernacle with man on earth» — la referencia apocalíptica de las tres tiendas.

«Those last words allude to a secret tradition which only the initiated hand on to each other, i.e., the tradition of this love union» — su lectura de las tres palabras preciosas como marca de tradición secreta.

«Based on a series of lectures given in 1959 at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland.» — la ficha de catalogación canadiense, que da también el año 1980 y la serie.

«This book is based on the transcription by Miss Una Thomas of the lecture series presented by Dr. von Franz at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zürich, in 1959.» — el texto fue editado después por Daryl Sharp y Marion Woodman; Sharp eligió las ilustraciones, escribió los pies y compiló el índice.

«He published the whole without much criticism» — sobre Berthelot y el Codex Marcianus, editado con Ruelle y una traducción francesa que ella llama superficial.

«It probably belongs to what we call the oldest writings and is entitled "The Prophetess Isis to her Son."» — el primer texto griego que comenta, del Codex Marcianus, datado por *communis opinio* hacia el siglo I d.C.

«Oh, my son, when you desired to go away to fight the treacherous Typhon [i.e., Seth] over your father's kingdom» — arranque de «Isis a Horus» en traducción propia de von Franz, que advierte que no usa la francesa.

«I will give you the Arabic text just as it is in all its complexities» — su criterio de presentación, el mismo que aplicó al texto griego.

«Pay attention, so as not to burn the king and queen with too much fire.» — dicho de los filósofos, citado por ella en el comentario a la *Aurora consurgens*.

Mohammed ibn Umail vivió hacia 900-960; uno de sus escritos se publicó en árabe en las *Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal* (Calcuta, 1933) según un manuscrito hallado por Stapleton en Hyderabad, donde quedan otro centenar sin publicar.

El texto latino de Senior se publicó como *De chemia*, pero el título árabe real es «Silver Water and Starry Earth», y la traducción latina «is quite correct and deviates only in minor details».

«INNER CITY BOOKS is devoted to the publication of Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts.» — la declaración editorial del sello que publica el volumen.

«Marie-Louise von Franz is a Jungian Analyst practising in Kusnacht, Switzerland.» — la solapa del editor, que declara la adscripción de la autora antes de cualquier página suya.

«The author and publisher are grateful to Miss Thomas for her faithful preparation of the original version.» — el reconocimiento editorial a la transcriptora de las conferencias.

«Daryl Sharp selected the illustrations, wrote the captions, and compiled the index.» — todos los pies de ilustración de este volumen son voz del editor, no de von Franz.

«The philosophical egg is both birthplace of, and container for, the new attitudes symbolised by the alchemical goal of the coniunctio, the union of opposites (male and female, consciousness and the unconscious, etc.).» — pie de la ilustración de portada, de Daryl Sharp: el huevo filosófico es lugar de nacimiento y a la vez recipiente de la actitud nueva.

«Here that goal is pictured as hermaphrodite in triumph over the dragon and the winged globe of chaos, threatening faces of the unconscious.» — el mismo pie editorial, que lee el dragón y el globo alado como las caras amenazantes de lo inconsciente.

«The seven planets represent different aspects of the personality and the seven stages of transformation.» — el pie de portada reparte los siete planetas entre aspectos de la personalidad y etapas del proceso.

«The process of psychological development is analogous to the stages in the alchemical transformation of base matter into gold» — pie de la lámina de la montaña del adepto, también de Sharp.

«the philosopher's stone here represented as a "temple of the wise" buried in the earth.» — el mismo pie, que identifica el templo enterrado de la lámina con la piedra.

«The phoenix, symbol of the renewed personality, straddles the sun and moon (the opposites as masculine and feminine).» — pie editorial de la misma lámina.

«The blindfolded man represents the stumbling search for truth; the right way is shown by the investigator prepared to follow his natural instincts.» — cierre del pie editorial de la lámina de la montaña.

«William Blake's image of God the Father as a wise old man with a beard, a typical personification of the Self, archetype of wholeness and the centre of the personality.» — pie de ilustración del editor, que rotula la lámina de Blake con el vocabulario junguiano del volumen.

«Formerly it was simply said: "Put a little bit of sulphur into a little bit of lead, and then you have it." But Razi said: "A little bit, that makes the whole difference.» — ar-Razi en boca de von Franz, contrastado con la práctica anterior a la pesada.

«After a certain passing of the kairoi and the necessary movement of the heavenly sphere, it happened that one of the angels who dwelt in the first firmament saw me from above and came towards me desiring to unite with me sexually. He was in a great hurry for this to happen, but I did not submit to him.» — habla Isis en la traducción propia de von Franz: el ángel del primer firmamento la desea y ella no cede.

«When I put my question, he said he did not wish to answer me since it was such a great mystery [the superlatively great mystery to give a freer translation because this mystery is too overwhelming], but said he would return next day and with him would be a greater angel, Amnaël, who would be able to answer me and solve my problem.» — sigue Isis; el corchete es aclaración de traducción de von Franz dentro del texto.

«I resisted him and overcame his desire till he showed me the sign on his head, and gave me the tradition of the mysteries without keeping anything back, but in the full truth.» — Isis obtiene la tradición de Amnaël después de resistirlo por segunda vez.

«After he had pronounced this oath, he made me with this oath promise never to tell the mystery I was now to hear, except to my son, my child, and my closest friend, so that you are me, and I am you.» — el juramento de silencio en el texto de Isis, en traducción de von Franz.

«the whole creation and the whole process of coming into being, and know that a man is only able to produce a man, and a lion a lion, and a dog a dog, and if something happens contrary to nature [probably meaning contrary to this law], then it is a miracle and cannot continue to exist, because nature enjoys nature, and nature overcomes nature.» — la doctrina de que lo semejante engendra lo semejante, dicha por el ángel en el texto de Isis; el corchete es de von Franz.

«Just as I said before, wheat creates wheat, and a man begets a man, and thus also gold will harvest gold, like produces like.» — la misma doctrina aplicada al oro, dentro del texto de Isis.

«The alchemical image of the "pissing mannikin," and the use of "the urine of an uncorrupted boy" as a solvent, relate to the psychological reality that the unconscious is more responsive to the naive and spontaneous attitudes associated with childhood.» — pie de ilustración del editor, que resume en clave psicológica lo que von Franz expone en el cuerpo.

«If you want to make something white of the bodies [i.e., the material], mix it with quicksilver and drops of asbestos and urine and goatsmilk and natron, and then you can make everything work, and if you want to know how to double a substance, or how to colour the material, and all the dispositions, then know that everything has the same meaning [and that is important], that everything tends to have the same meaning» — receta del texto de Isis en traducción de von Franz; los corchetes son aclaraciones suyas.

«Take arsenic, cook it in water, mix it with olive oil, and then leave it in a bottle and put coals on it until it steams and also the same thing can be made with Realgar.» — otra receta del mismo texto griego, en su traducción.

«Remark: It seems to me that the Bible says that knowledge which is what the apple represents is corruptive in itself.» — intervención del auditorio, no de von Franz; la transcripción marca con Remark las voces de la sala.

«Remark: You spoke twice of the angel's desire for sexual relations with Isis, and the second time you used the word "rape," but that would make a difference in terms of paying for it, for one is forced while the other is voluntary.» — objeción del auditorio a un desliz de vocabulario en la exposición.

«Remark: We never will solve it, it is the problem with which we live.» — respuesta del auditorio a su declaración de problema abierto.

«The spiritualization of matter portrayed as the coronation of the Virgin Mary.» — pie de ilustración del editor, que rotula la lámina de la coronación con la tesis del capítulo.

«The alchemist and his assistant make the sign of the secret, in accord with the experience that much of what happens in a relationship between two people cannot be shared with others.» — pie de ilustración del editor sobre la pareja alquímica y el gesto del secreto.

«In the Book of the Caverns, one of the books of the dead in the many Egyptian variations, the sun god when in the underworld says: "Oh, Aker, I went your way, you whose forms are mysterious, open thy arms before me.» — habla el dios solar en el Libro de las Cavernas, en traducción de von Franz.

«The text continues: "I have seen thy mysteries, my sun disc and Geb, the earth god, are those whom I carry on my back.» — continuación del mismo texto egipcio.

«Sometimes the double lions are replaced, as I mentioned above, by two of Anubis's jackals, two doglike animals, and then the inscription below is: "These are the openers of the way, the agents of resurrection.» — inscripción funeraria egipcia citada por von Franz junto a su descripción de la variante.

«While still giving such recipes, Isis says: "Now, my child, you know the mystery which is the elixir of the widow.» — cierre del texto de Isis en traducción de von Franz, de donde sale el nombre elixir de la viuda.

«If the Asem [an alloy like silver, though exactly what is not known] does not become gold, or could not become gold though it is a work, one should not despise what the old people said, namely that the letter kills but the spirit brings to life.» — habla Olympiodoros en traducción de von Franz; el corchete es aclaración suya.

«As I said before, common lead is black from the very beginning, but our lead becomes black, which at the beginning it was not.» — Olympiodoros distinguiendo el plomo del oficio del plomo de la obra, en traducción de von Franz.

«The double face of alchemy laboratory and library corresponds to the twofold nature of the individuation process: the active participation in outer reality and relationships, together with the process of inner reflection.» — pie de ilustración del editor sobre la lámina del laboratorio con oratorio.

«Osiris in the cedar coffin covered with lead, representing the eclipse of consciousness, i.e., depression.» — pie de ilustración del editor, que traduce la escena egipcia al vocabulario clínico del volumen.

«The alchemical sealed vessel (here containing Mercurius as symbol of the spirit imprisoned in matter) is comparable psychologically to a basic attitude of introversion which acts as a container for the transformation of attitudes and emotions.» — pie de ilustración del editor sobre el vaso sellado.

«"That is the beginning of all moist substances'' i.e., basic matter, original matter, the starting point (Arché).» — cita de Olympiodoros con la glosa intercalada de von Franz; el troceo cierra la comilla con dos apóstrofos.

«The alchemical "green lion" devouring the sun relates to the experience of consciousness being overwhelmed by violent, frustrated desires (often masked by depression).» — pie de ilustración del editor sobre la lámina del león verde.

«I and my dear Obouail [the ending is feminine] entered the Barba. [Barba means beard, and of course everybody said that one could not enter a beard, nobody knew what to say about the word, but it simply stands for "Birba" pyramid which was obviously something the translator had not understood, thereby causing a lot of confusion.]» — arranque de la visión de Senior en traducción de von Franz; los dos corchetes son enmiendas suyas al latín.

«The statue is the figure of a wise man, and on his lap is the occult science which he describes by means of symbolic figures so as to direct the one who knows and understands.» — habla el texto de Senior sobre la estatua de la cámara, en traducción de von Franz.

«I have now told you all this and have written a poem and without the grace of God, whose name be blessed, we should not have this secret.» — cierre del propio Senior, que atribuye el secreto a la gracia divina.

«In great weakness I will give you light from my beauty till I have reached perfection.» — habla la Luna en la carta alegórica del Sol y la Luna que Senior transcribe.

«You need me as the cock needs the hen, and I need your works, O Sun, without interruption, because you are of perfect character, the father of all lights, the high light, the great Master and Lord.» — la Luna al Sol en el mismo texto de Senior: dependencia recíproca y desigual.

«When we go up in the order of the Sheikhs, or the old men, the glowing substance of thy light will be united with my light and you and I will be like the mixture of wine and sweet water, and I will stop my flow and» — la unión del vino y el agua como figura de la coniunctio, en el texto de Senior.

«If you do this, and if you do me no harm, O Moon, and if my body will return, then I will give you a new virtue of penetration and after this you will be powerful in the battle of the fire of liquefaction and purgation and there will no longer be any diminishing, or darkness, as it is with the copper and the lead, and you will not fight me any more because you will not be rebellious any more.» — responde el Sol en el mismo texto, con la condición puesta al frente.

«Blessed is he who thinks about my words; my dignity will not be taken away from you and will not become cheap, as a lion will not become cheap, being weakened by the flesh [the lion is here another image of the sun], but if you follow me then I will not deny you or take away from you the increasing of the lead, but then my light will be extinguished and all my beauty will be extinguished,» — sigue el Sol; el corchete es aclaración de von Franz.

«I am the hard, dry iron, I am the strong ferment, every good thing is in me, the light of the secret of secrets is generated through me, and every active thing is my action.» — el Sol se nombra a sí mismo en el texto de Senior.

«What has light is created in the darkness of the light [everything that shines has been created in the darkness] but after I have been led to perfection I will recover from my illness and from my weakness, and then will appear that great liquid from the head and the tail and those are the two qualities and the ten orders or weights, five of which are without darkness and five of them are shining in beauty.» — cierre del mismo texto, con el líquido de la cabeza y la cola; el corchete es de von Franz.

«Remark: You talk of projection, but these are all archetypal figures.» — objeción del auditorio, que fuerza la precisión sobre el uso del término.

«The transformation of Mercurius, as prima materia, in the heated, sealed vessel is comparable to cooking the basic instinctive drives in their own affect until their essential fantasy content becomes conscious.» — pie de ilustración del editor sobre el vaso calentado.

«Instead of arguing with the drives which carry us away, we prefer to cook them and. . .ask them what they want. . . . That can be discovered by active imagination, or through a fantasy, or through experimenting in reality, but always with the introverted attitude of observing objectively what the drive really wants.» — destacado editorial armado con frases del cuerpo; los puntos suspensivos son del editor.

«Remark: If the monk is going to keep his vows he has to stop masturbating.» — intervención del auditorio sobre el caso del monje.

«You said before that the answer would come intuitively, but not everybody can get it intuitively.» — objeción del auditorio, que la lleva a introducir el problema de los tipos.

«Remark: I think God has already given His unique answer in each case.» — objeción del auditorio, que ella contesta oponiendo el libro cerrado al espíritu vivo.

«The sun says: "In great and ultimate weakness, I will give you from my beauty the light through which one reaches perfection."» — habla el Sol en la carta de Senior, en traducción de von Franz.

«Then the moon says to the sun: "You need me just as the cock needs the hen, and I constantly need your effect on me, because your ethics are perfect, you, the father of all planets, you are the high light, the great Lord.» — responde la Luna en el mismo texto de Senior.

«One aspect of the sun is open to the unconscious, for the two rays imply a principle of consciousness capable of embracing the opposites, while the other sun is "a closed system" it is one-sided and therefore destructive.» — pie de ilustración del editor sobre la lámina de los dos soles.

«Saturn as Sol niger, shadow of the sun (or dark side of God) devouring his children. "When the Self is not supported it sends a neurosis, i.e., the shadow of the Self comes into action and God and nature become enemies to man.» — pie de ilustración del editor, que cierra con una frase entrecomillada del cuerpo del texto.

«The peacock, symbolising the renewal of life, rises from the sealed retort ("the belly of the closed house") in which takes place the union of opposites, the integration of masculine and feminine.» — pie de ilustración del editor sobre la lámina del pavo real.

«A Japanese Zen Master also says: ''He has the door of his heart closed so that no one can guess his feelings.» — el maestro zen citado por von Franz; el troceo abre la comilla con dos apóstrofos.

«He doesn't need to hold himself aloof nor to be weighted down by a sense of duty or responsibility, nor to follow a set of patterns of other holy men, nor to imitate the past.» — la última de las diez imágenes del buey según Suzuki, citada por von Franz.

«But though in the market place he seems to be an ordinary man, something happens to the people among whom he mingles.» — continuación de esa misma imagen del buey.

«Remark: I think, to express it in another way, that the aim is to eliminate subject and object, while at the same time to honestly discriminate between subject and object.» — reformulación propuesta desde el auditorio.

«Later the sun says: "If you do me no harm in the coniunctio, O Moon," then this and that will happen.» — la condición que el Sol pone en el texto de Senior, citada por von Franz dentro de su comentario.

«The moon ''coagulates," the life process is seen as something eternal outside of life.» — destacado editorial sobre la coagulación lunar; el troceo abre la comilla con dos apóstrofos.

«"If you have followed me," the sun then says to the moon, "then I will not keep from you the growing of the lead.» — habla el Sol en el texto de Senior, citado dentro del comentario de von Franz.

«The "instinct of truth" is seen by some theologians as an aspect of the Holy Ghost,» — pie de ilustración del editor sobre el instinto de verdad.

«Psychologically, the immediate awareness of what is right and true for the personality ("the truth without reflection" von Franz) indicates a connection with the Self;» — el mismo pie editorial, que entrecomilla y atribuye a von Franz su propia fórmula.

«I am the hard, dry iron and the strong ferment, everything good comes through me and the light of the secret of secrets is generated by me» — el Sol nombrándose en el texto de Senior, en la versión que von Franz retoma al cerrar.

«As the Latin report of Reginald literally says: ''I thought he had become crazy.» — habla Reginaldo de Piperno en el informe latino, en traducción de von Franz; el troceo abre la comilla con dos apóstrofos.

«The Logos would represent the structural element of the unconsciousstructure and meaningwhile in the feminine qualification there is more the idea of its pictorial, emotional manifestation.» — destacado editorial armado con una frase del cuerpo; la normalización del troceo pega las palabras donde el impreso lleva guiones largos.

«All good things came to me through her, the Wisdom of the South [literally, the south wind], which complains in the streets, calling to the people, and which speaks at the entrance to the town: "Come to me and be illuminated and your operations will not be ashamed.» — arranque de la Aurora consurgens en traducción de von Franz; el corchete es aclaración suya.

«Come, my sons, and listen, for I will teach you the Wisdom of God, who is wise and who understands that about which Alphidius says that adult people and children pass it in the street, that it is stamped into the dung every day by the animals there, and of which Senior says nothing is outwardly more despised and nothing in nature more precious and God has not given it to be bought with money.» — la Aurora encadenando a Alphidius y a Senior sobre la cosa despreciada y preciosa.

«Gold in comparison with her is as sand, and silver in comparison with her like clay.» — la Aurora sobre el valor de la Sabiduría, en traducción de von Franz.

«Her ways are beautiful and praiseworthy works and neither despicable nor bad, and her paths are measured and not hasty, but connected with persistent continuous hard work.» — el mismo texto, que ata la Sabiduría al trabajo sostenido.

«Aristotle says the same thing in the second book, "About the Soul," where he writes that there are limits to the size and growth of every natural thing but the fire can grow eternally if given further nourishment.» — Aristóteles citado dentro de la Aurora, sobre el fuego que crece sin límite.

«She is the most perfect thing and in spite of that man has to add wisdom to her.» — la Aurora sobre lo que el hombre debe añadir a la cosa perfecta.

«She seems easy to those who know of her, for she herself goes around and seeks the one worthy of her.» — la Sabiduría que busca a quien la merece, en el texto de la Aurora.

«She goes towards him full of pleasure and meets him in each providence, because her beginning is the truest nature from which no deceit comes.» — continuación del mismo pasaje de la Aurora.

«Be happy, Jerusalem, come together in pleasure because God has had pity on the poor, and Senior says there is a stone which if somebody finds he will put over his eyes and never throw away because it is the elixir which drives away all distress and, besides God, man has no better thing.» — la Aurora citando a Senior sobre la piedra-elixir, en traducción de von Franz.

«You see what an official creed, or religious attitude, is good for: it is a boat into which one can retire when the sharks attack . . . . when the influx of the unconscious becomes too strong.» — destacado editorial armado con frases del cuerpo; los puntos suspensivos son del editor.

«This is the Wisdom, Queen of the South, who has come from the east like the rising dawn to hear and understand the wisdom of Solomon.» — habla la Aurora consurgens en traducción de von Franz.

«As a queen I will rule and my kingdom will not come to an end» — la Sabiduría en primera persona dentro del mismo texto.

«Looking from afar, I saw a big cloud which having been absorbed by the earth covered it with blackness, and covered my soul which the waters had entered so that they became corrupted, from the aspect of the deepest hell and the shadow of death because the flood has drowned me.» — la visión de la nube negra en la Aurora, traducida por von Franz.

«Then the Ethiopians will fall down on their knees before me and my enemies will lick my earth.» — el mismo texto, con el eco del salmo 72.

«He who enlightens me will have eternal life and I will give him to eat of the wood of life which is in Paradise, and I will let him share the throne of my kingdom.» — la promesa de la Sabiduría a quien la ilumine, en la Aurora.

«They shall be white as the snow on Mount Zalmon and the feathers of the dove which shine like silver and whose wings are radiant as gold.» — la Aurora sobre el albedo, con la imagen bíblica de la paloma.

«He who has ears to hear shall hear what the spirit of wisdom tells the son about the doctrine of the seven stars through which the holy work is fulfilled.» — la Aurora introduciendo la doctrina de las siete estrellas.

«After you have distributed those seven [metals] through the seven stars, and attributed them to the seven stars, and cleansed them nine times till they look like pearls, that is the state of whitness» — la operación de los siete metales y los nueve lavados en la Aurora; el corchete es de von Franz y el troceo imprime whitness.

«The prima materia, or massa confusa, as a black, chaotic cloud, a state of conscious confusion typical of the beginning of both the alchemical work and the process of individuation.» — pie de ilustración del editor sobre la lámina de la nube negra.

«Two paintings by a woman at the beginning of analysis: bottom, a state of depression in which unconscious contents are activated but repressed; top, conscious conflict and confusion after the unconscious contents have "broken through."» — pie de ilustración del editor sobre dos pinturas de una analizanda.

«The Wisdom of God as anima mundi (world soul), guide of mankind, herself guided by God.» — pie de ilustración del editor sobre la lámina del alma del mundo.

«Then comes a most surprising turn, for she says: "He in whose embrace my whole body melts away, to whom I will be father and he will be my son." This is taken from Hebrew 1:5, as you probably know, and is what God said to Christ.» — la Aurora citada dentro del comentario de von Franz, con la referencia bíblica que ella identifica.

«Senior says in his book in the chapter on the sun and the moon: "When you have distributed those seven with the seven stars and attributed them to the seven stars and then cleansed them nine times till they look like pearls, that is the whitening.» — Senior sobre el lavado de los siete astros, citado por von Franz.

«God has had pity on my sadness, God who reigns in Israel.» — arranque del pasaje de la Aurora sobre la muerte vencida, en traducción de von Franz.

«Today death brought by the woman has been driven away by her, and the locks of the underworld have been broken open.» — la figura femenina que introduce y quita la muerte, en el mismo texto.

«Today, my son, you must be happy for there will be no more crying nor pain, for the former things are passed away.» — cierre del mismo pasaje de la Aurora.

«This he amplifies in purely chemical or alchemical language by saying: "Take away his soul and bring back his soul.» — la fórmula de la extractio animae en la Aurora, citada por von Franz.

«The secret content of the alchemical work: alchemist and soror mystica fishing (centre) for Neptune (animus, the unconscious masculine) and (below) for mermaid (anima, the unconscious feminine).» — pie de ilustración del editor sobre la lámina de la pesca.

«The alchemical stage of reanimating the body (after the separatio, differentiating spirit and matter) corresponds to the psychological goal of ''conscious spontaneity," i.e., participating in the flow of life consciously yet without analysing everything.» — pie de ilustración del editor, que entrecomilla la fórmula de von Franz; el troceo abre con dos apóstrofos.

«Because this generation comes and goes, till that one comes who should be sent and who frees me from the yoke of my prison in which we sat for seventy years near the waters of Babylon, crying and hanging up our harps because the daughters of Jerusalem were proud and high-necked and flirted with their eyes.» — la Aurora sobre la prisión y las hijas de Jerusalén, en traducción de von Franz.

«On that day seven women will seize one man and they will say we have eaten our bread and covered ourselves with our own clothes, why do you not defend our blood which is shed like water in Jerusalem?» — el mismo texto, con la insistencia del número siete.

«And they will receive the divine answer: "Wait still a little till the number of our brothers is complete, and he who then will be left in Jerusalem will be saved and the filth of the daughters of Sion will be washed away by the spirit of wisdom and insight.» — la respuesta divina en el mismo capítulo de la Aurora.

«The alchemical seven-petalled flower, symbolising the seven planets and seven stages of transformation, relates psychologically to "evolution in time," the slow process of becoming conscious.» — pie de ilustración del editor sobre la flor de siete pétalos.

«To the Father is attributed wisdom by which He rules and orders all things in moderation, whose ways are incomprehensible and whose judgement is beyond understanding.» — la Aurora repartiendo los atributos trinitarios, en traducción de von Franz.

«To the Son is attributed the truth [but with the nuance of the realized truth] since when He dwelt among us He accepted something which He was not, perfect God and at the same time man sprung from human loins and rational soul; obeying the order of His Father and supported by the Holy Ghost He has redeemed the world lost through the sin of the parents.» — el mismo reparto; el corchete es aclaración de traducción de von Franz.

«To the Holy Ghost is attributed the love which transforms every terrestrial thing into a heavenly one and this in three respects: by baptising it in the stream, with blood, and in fiery flames.» — los tres bautismos en la Aurora, en traducción de von Franz.

«Snakes and dragons are common representations, in mythology and dreams, of the impersonal spirit of the unconscious; when it irrupts into consciousness it may demand to be pictured in order to assimilate the experience.» — pie de ilustración del editor sobre las láminas de serpientes y dragones.

«but when he baptises in blood he nourisheth.» — la Aurora sobre el bautismo de sangre, en traducción de von Franz.

«Here there is an allusion to evil emotion: "The fire was kindled in the assembly and the flame consumed the impious on earth.» — cita bíblica dentro del comentario de von Franz sobre el fuego destructivo.

«In alchemy the mercurial serpent devours itself in fire water, just as a destructive emotion has to burn itself out, i.e., be suffered» — pie de ilustración del editor sobre la serpiente mercurial.

«Then he went to a medicine man who said: "Your experience has not been given to you only, you owe it to your tribe.» — el hombre-medicina en Black Elk Speaks, citado por von Franz.

«Wisdom built a house and those who enter it will be blessed and find pasture, according to the testimony of the prophet.» — la Aurora sobre la casa de la Sabiduría, en traducción de von Franz.

«The earth is contaminated in my works, darkness has spread over the earth, I am at the bottom of the abyss and my substance has not yet been opened.» — habla el novio en nigredo en la séptima parábola de la Aurora, en traducción de von Franz.

«Behold I have waited on my couch the whole night for someone to comfort me and have not found any.» — el mismo novio esperando a la novia, en el texto de la Aurora.

«And I will say to her that now I live in eternity and will rest in her, for she will stand at my right dressed in a golden garment.» — la respuesta del novio a la novia en el mismo texto.

«I have spoken in my language: Tell me my end and the number of my days, for thou has circumscribed my days and my substance is as nothing before thee.» — la Aurora citando el salmo dentro de la parábola de los amantes.

«I am the chosen myrrh. I am the cleverest among the virgins who come forth like the aurora, the morning dawn, chosen like the sun and beautiful as the moon without mention of what is within.» — habla la novia divina en la Aurora, en traducción de von Franz.

«I am the land of promise in which the philosophers have sown their gold and silver.» — la novia de la Aurora nombrándose tierra de promisión de los filósofos.

«What is warm I cool and what is dry I make moist, and vice versa.» — la novia de la Aurora como mediadora de los elementos.

«I am the whole work and the whole science is hidden in me.» — la novia identificándose con la obra entera, en el mismo texto.

«I kill and I make alive, neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand (Deuteronomy 32:39).» — la Aurora poniendo en boca de la novia las palabras del Deuteronomio; la referencia la añade el volumen.

«I offer my mouth to my beloved and he kisseth me. He and I are one.» — la unión declarada en primera persona en el texto de la Aurora.

«We will live in a union of eternal love and will say how good and lovely it is to live two in one.» — el cierre del pasaje nupcial de la Aurora, en traducción de von Franz.

«Therefore we will build three tents, one for me, one for thee, and the third for our sons, for a threefold rope shall not be broken.» — las tres tiendas del mismo pasaje de la Aurora.

«instead of translating pratum (meadow) he wrote: "there is no peccatum we will not pick» — la lección errada del copista tal como la reproduce von Franz.

«One should speak to fools as one would to people who are asleep and one should never put them on a level with the wise man.» — la Aurora sobre los que desprecian la ciencia, en traducción de von Franz.

«But when it reaches its perfection then it recovers from its illnesses and weakness and then will appear this great flux of the head and the tail.» — cierre del texto de Senior, en traducción de von Franz.

Materia prima — La prima materia es, en su lectura, la sustancia básica del mundo en la que yace el secreto de la vida y la muerte, y también lo primero que hay que desenterrar en un análisis.

Nigredo (la obra al negro) — El alquimista encerrado en la nigredo se compara, en la Aurora consurgens, con un novio en su tumba esperando a su novia.

Microcosmos (el hombre-mundo) — La sexta parábola describe, según ella, la unión del mundo cósmico: salir del microcosmos del ser humano y abrirse a la vida entera.

Imaginación (phantasia) — La alquimia es, en gran medida, imaginación activa hecha con sustancias químicas.

Putrefacción (putrefactio) — La muerte de la prima materia por asfixia en el vaso o en el ataúd es análoga, para ella, a impedir que alguien siga proyectando ingenuamente.

Coniunctio — La unión de los opuestos es, en su lectura, el motivo que ordena todo el material; el editor la declara ya en el pie de portada.

Piedra filosofal (lapis philosophorum) — La piedra es para ella el núcleo objetivo que se forma tras sufrir bastante y que queda quieto en medio de la tormenta; a la vez señala la rareza de que la meta del arte sea algo tan bajo como una piedra.

Albedo (la obra al blanco) — El paso del nigredo al albedo es la parte dura de la obra, hecha de lavados y destilaciones repetidos, y su análogo clínico es el primer tramo del análisis.

Rubedo (la obra al rojo) — La entrada de la novia a rescatar al novio en nigredo marca, en su comentario a la Aurora, el comienzo del rubedo.

Azufre (principio sulfúreo) — El azufre rojo nombra la parte activa de la psique, la que empuja hacia un fin concreto, y no se reduce a lo sexual.

Mercurio de los filósofos (Mercurius) — El vaso sellado con Mercurio dentro vale, en el pie editorial, por el espíritu preso en la materia.

León verde (leo viridis) — El león que devora al sol corresponde al deseo violento y frustrado que aparece bajo la depresión.

Cuatro elementos (fuego, aire, agua, tierra) — El esquema medieval de cualidades y elementos es para ella un mandala y un medio de expresión, no una descripción de la materia.

Anima mundi (alma del mundo) — La Sabiduría de Dios aparece como alma del mundo, guía de la humanidad y a su vez guiada por Dios.

Secreto (lo que se jura no fijar por escrito) — El secreto alquímico tiene para ella dos raíces distintas: la financiera del oficio y la del vínculo que no se puede compartir con un tercero.

Ouroboros — La serpiente que se come la cola es el guardián del inframundo egipcio y, al mismo tiempo, la figura del encuentro de la cabeza y la cola de donde nace el flujo.

Huevo Filosofico — El huevo filosófico es a la vez lugar de nacimiento y recipiente de la actitud nueva, según el pie de portada del editor.

Kairos — El kairos es el momento astrológicamente propicio del que Zósimo hace depender toda la operación.

Proyeccion — Solo cabe hablar de proyección cuando ya hay inquietud; antes, nombrarla es un error técnico que contagia la duda propia.

Arquetipo — El arquetipo promueve las ideas nuevas de la ciencia y a la vez produce el freno emocional que impide soltar las viejas.

Circulatio — La circulación por los cuatro elementos repite el proceso siempre en otro nivel, y corresponde a que el Self se manifieste en el espacio y el tiempo.

Individuacion — La individuación es tanto integración como separación: reconocer qué es propio y qué no, y descartar la terra damnata.

Enantiodromia — Cuando la consciencia masculina del orden y la ley llega a su límite, el principio femenino aparece como fuerza que releva.

Sol Niger — El sol injusto o Sol niger es la consciencia rígida que sabe exactamente qué es qué y bloquea el contacto con lo inconsciente.

Extractio Animae — La extracción del alma es, en lengua química, una destilación: se separa la humedad corruptible y se repone la vivificante.

Augmentum Plumbi — El crecimiento del plomo nombra la fase en que la materia crece sola, superada la etapa conflictiva, y que ella compara con el no hacer chino.

Mana — El espíritu vuelve en la Aurora a su forma arquetípica de mana, poder divino impersonal que muchos etnólogos compararon con la electricidad.