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That which is above is like to that which is below, and that which is below is like to that which
is above, to accomplish the miracle of one thing. —from the Emerald Tablet by Hermes
Trismegistus This Alchemical dictum is a reference to the effects of the celestial upon terrestrial
events. As the drawing shows that which is above is like that which is below in symbolic form
which Carl Jung and Heraclitis called the Archetypes, Plato called Forms and we Astrologers
know as Planets (representations of our psyche in symbolic form).
Self realization was called the Opus/ is collective. For this reason it is felt to be
the great work. something alien to us, and we suspect it
Learning about our shadow, which is of belonging to the particular person with
a part of our personal unconscious is a whom we have emotional ties. In addition
prerequisite for eventually discovering a man’s unconscious has a feminine
and having a relationship with the Anima character; it hides in the feminine side of
(feminine in man) and Animus (the him which he naturally does not see in
masculine in a woman). These archetypes/ himself but in the woman who fascinates
soul images are not part of our ego so they him. That is probably why the soul (anima)
are much more difficult to see as being is feminine. If, therefore, man and woman
inside us. We see them in you! are merged in some kind of unconscious
identity, he will take over the traits of her
Because the latter cannot be seen directly, animus and she the traits of his anima.
it is always projected; for, unlike the —Carl Jung, The Practice of
shadow, it does not belong to the ego but Psychotherapy, par 469
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