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Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts

Chapter 20: Index.
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The work uses an allegorical parable as a starting point to trace symbolic motifs in dreams, myths, and mystical literature, interpreting alchemical and occult imagery through psychoanalytic and comparative methods. It offers close readings of alchemical, Hermetic, Rosicrucian, and Masonic motifs, addresses the problem of multiple interpretation, and connects these traditions to processes of introversion, sublimation, and psychic regeneration. Analytic sections translate mythic symbols into psychological functions, while synthetic chapters outline a goal of inner transformation often called the royal art, framing occult practices as symbolic pathways toward personal integration.

Index.

A
Abudad, 71
Adam, 75
and Eve, 75
Aeson, 10
Affects in dream, 33
Air, 106, 127
Alchemistic, 16
Alchemy, 16, 112
definition, 169
Alum, 144
Amniotic fluid, 103
Anagogic, 241
aspect, 263
Animals, 66, 67
Annihilation, 259
Antæus, 271
Anubis, 77
Anus, 135
Anxiety, 261
in dreams, 48
Apple, 77
Argentum, vivum, 161
Art, hermetic, 16
royal, 16
Askesis, 292
Astral content, 61
Astrology, 176
planets, 267
Astronomical interpretation, 218
Atman, 167
B
Basilisk, 139
Bath, 123
Bear, 66
Beast, 250
Beja, 134
Bhagavad-Gita, 280
Biblical parallels, 163
Bibliography, 427
Birth dreams, 91, 92
phantasy, 107
theories, 76
Bisexual, 131
Black, 131
and death, 102
white and red, 368
Blood, 56, 106, 124, 131
of lion, 212
Blowing, 135
Boehme, J., 170
Bones, 56, 82, 85
Boy, 225
Breaking bones, 85
Bride and bridegroom, 8, 11
Buddha, 211
Building lodges, 176
Bull, 250
C
Camel, 66
Carpet, 224
Castration, 201
Catharsis, 377
Celestial Stone, 164
Censor, 24
Chemical science, 150
Christ, 165, 171
Christianity, early, 182
Circle, 185
Circumcision, 162
Cloth, 84
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Coitus, 99
and grinding, 97
and milling, 77
Color, 136
symbols, 368
“Complexes,” pathogenic, 26
Concentration, 290
Condensation, 31, 239
Confession, 174
Conscience, 155
Cooking, 143
Corruption, 163
Cross, 188
Crystal gazing, 247
D
Dasas, 66
Defecation, 106, 124
Deluge, 105
Dementia precox, 243
Desire, 344
Dew, 106, 124
Diabolic mysticism, 287
Dirt, 90
Dirty feet, 214
work, 90
Dismemberment, 82, 83, 85, 200
Displacements, 31, 51, 55
Distillation, 152
Dogs, 250
Dragon, 51, 128, 143, 200, 211
fight, 85
Dream, 14, 19
and myth, 36
Dreams as wish phantasies, 23
Dream disfigurement, 24
(unction), 305
interpretation, 19
logic of, 22
Dry, 167
Duality, 185
Dying, 298
E
Earth, 94
Education of will, 290
Egg, 116
Egyptian myths, 73
stone, 116
Elders, 7
Emasculation, 74
Ethical gymnastics, 292
Ethics and psychoanalysis, 281
Eve, 75
Examination, 64, 87
dreams, 49
Excreta, 106, 124
Exhibitionism, 57, 104
F
Face, 130
Fairy stories, 36
tales, 246
Fama, 174
Family romance, 85, 109, 217
Father symbols, 60, 70
Feces and gold, 418
Feet, 214
Female and silver, 121
Fermentation, 152
Fire, 104, 130, 187
Flatus, 106
Flood, 105, 201, 320
Fludd, Robert, 175