As Jung says more clearly of Christ: This Gnostic Christ, symbolizes man’s original unity and exalts it as the saving goal of his development.
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Perhaps because alchemy combines the ancient, Gnostic focus on the immaterial and transcendent soul, or spark, with the modern, scientific-like focus on the transformation of worldly matter, it serves to connect the two. Despite his professed closer kinship to alchemy.
