Daniela Boccassini: At the Roots of Jung’s Alchemy

[Paul Ferguson]

"I believe Jung’s visit to the Ravenna Baptistery may have played a role in reviving his interest in alchemy. If Jung could see, projected against the walls of the Neonian Baptistery, four non-existing “mosaic frescoes” of biblical events illustrating rebirth, this is likely because, on that afternoon of September 1932, his inner eye allowed him equally to see the baptismal font at the center of the building as a gnostic-alchemical krater filled with the water of life, and imself intent upon circumambulating it as if it were the central empty space of an ancient, blue-tinged, three-dimensional mandala."

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