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.Thus another formof Mercury is the Trickster archetype - like Puck or Robin Goodfellow, "a very slippery andmischievous demon" (Liz Greene) who leads men astray in the dark night, with false lights,just as reasoning used by itself is always doing.As Puck (seen especially in the painting byRichard Dadd), the child is united with the trickster.Hermes himself, as a little boy, and notlong after birth, slipped away from his mother and went off to steal the cattle of Apollo.AsAriel in The Tempest this figure appears specifically associated with air, the element ofthinking, as Hermes was with the wind.As trickster Mercurius "is duplex and his maincharacteristic is duplicity".15 He is many-sided, changeable and deceitful.He is morallyneutral, good and evil.He can be both animal and divine.His gradual development into asaviour represents the transformation of the meaningless into the meaningful.On one side heis the shadow, a character-component both sub-human and super-human.All clowns play thisdual role of ridiculing and redeeming."Hermes is a god of thieves and cheats, but also a godof revelation who gave his name to a whole philosophy." Jung is here referring to HermesTrismegistus, the mysterious author of the Tabula Smaragdina, which encapsulates thedoctrine of correspondences, "as above, so below", the logic which is basic to both alchemyand astrology, and the key to a new order."Seen in historical retrospect, it was a moment of the utmost significance when the humanistPatrizi proposed to Pope Gregory XIV that Hermetic philosophy should take the place ofAristotle in ecclesiastical doctrine.At that moment two worlds came into contact, which -after heaven knows what happenings! - must yet be united in the future." 16The primary form of the Hermetic doctrine of "As above so below" is the astrological one ofcorrespondence between the macrocosm of the solar system and the zodiac and themicrocosm of the human being, both bodily in terms of cosmic man, and spiritually in termsof the psychological archetypes.Referring to alchemy Jung wrote:"The stages of the work are marked by seven colours which are associated with the planets.This accounts for the relation of the colours to astrology, and also to psychology, since theplanets correspond to individual character components." 17 87In the solar system the Sun is the ruling deity.All the planets are powered and illuminated bythe Sun, and revolve around it.All are in their various orbits and tones mediators of the Sun,or transformers of solar energy - one might say functions of the Sun.They all refer to the Sunand are aspects of the solar Logos, therefore they all contain a solar ingredient, and theirfunctions relate to the Sun on the one hand, and to the means and levels of its fulfillment interms of life on earth on the other.The fact that they have a solar aspect does not make themsymbols of the actual Sun, but is part of the reason for the fluidity and interchangeability ofthe archetypes, as mentioned by Jung, since they are all related together and part of the samesolar system.They are part of the same chord, and related by different intervals to thefundamental.This also has to be understood in relating mythological motifs to the planetary archetypes;"solar heroes" do not have to be forms or symbols of the Sun itself, nor the divine child, northe many other forms of Mercurius in alchemy, though constituting a prefiguration of thegold, or the means of attaining to it, be considered as representing the gold itself.The Sun isthe central fire and the animating principle or life-giver; in astrological terms its sign is Leo,which rules the heart.But there are two other fire signs and planets assciated with them, Arieswith Mars, and Sagittarius with Jupiter.These two are very much connected with the solarprinciple, and for this reason their mythological and psychological associations are oftenattributed to the Sun by astrologers, causing much confusion.The Sun in astrology is oftenassociated with consciousness, reason, will, goals and ego, but we can only get a clear idea ofeach of the planetary archetypes by considering them all together, and how they relate to oneanother in one system, as well as how they are illuminated by mythical archetypes, andeventually how they relate to Jung's psychological components.Like all archetypes they areso inter-related that much confusion prevails in this area, even among the best astrologers, andit is not at all easy to sort things out.The planetary principles or psychic components form various pairs, according to the contextin which we are considering them, and we cannot understand them without referring to thesepairs and their particular implications.Sun and Moon are the most obvious pair, withoutastrology being needed at all; but we also have to understand Sun-Saturn as a pair, and Moon-Saturn, Mercury-Jupiter or Mercury-Saturn, and ultimately the relation of every planetaryprinciple to each of the others in turn, as well as to the whole system and to us, as microcosmsof the system.It is impossible therefore to take them one at a time and sort out separatecategories of ideas exclusively connected with each.We cannot very well discuss form exceptin relation to content, or vice-versa, or light except in relation to darkness, and they can onlybe understood in terms of polarities, which are various; that is, each can constitute one pole ofmore than one pair.This is the same as saying that all the planets can form oppositions withone another, except that Mercury and Venus can never be in opposition to the Sun nor to oneanother, being inside the earth's orbit [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Thus another formof Mercury is the Trickster archetype - like Puck or Robin Goodfellow, "a very slippery andmischievous demon" (Liz Greene) who leads men astray in the dark night, with false lights,just as reasoning used by itself is always doing.As Puck (seen especially in the painting byRichard Dadd), the child is united with the trickster.Hermes himself, as a little boy, and notlong after birth, slipped away from his mother and went off to steal the cattle of Apollo.AsAriel in The Tempest this figure appears specifically associated with air, the element ofthinking, as Hermes was with the wind.As trickster Mercurius "is duplex and his maincharacteristic is duplicity".15 He is many-sided, changeable and deceitful.He is morallyneutral, good and evil.He can be both animal and divine.His gradual development into asaviour represents the transformation of the meaningless into the meaningful.On one side heis the shadow, a character-component both sub-human and super-human.All clowns play thisdual role of ridiculing and redeeming."Hermes is a god of thieves and cheats, but also a godof revelation who gave his name to a whole philosophy." Jung is here referring to HermesTrismegistus, the mysterious author of the Tabula Smaragdina, which encapsulates thedoctrine of correspondences, "as above, so below", the logic which is basic to both alchemyand astrology, and the key to a new order."Seen in historical retrospect, it was a moment of the utmost significance when the humanistPatrizi proposed to Pope Gregory XIV that Hermetic philosophy should take the place ofAristotle in ecclesiastical doctrine.At that moment two worlds came into contact, which -after heaven knows what happenings! - must yet be united in the future." 16The primary form of the Hermetic doctrine of "As above so below" is the astrological one ofcorrespondence between the macrocosm of the solar system and the zodiac and themicrocosm of the human being, both bodily in terms of cosmic man, and spiritually in termsof the psychological archetypes.Referring to alchemy Jung wrote:"The stages of the work are marked by seven colours which are associated with the planets.This accounts for the relation of the colours to astrology, and also to psychology, since theplanets correspond to individual character components." 17 87In the solar system the Sun is the ruling deity.All the planets are powered and illuminated bythe Sun, and revolve around it.All are in their various orbits and tones mediators of the Sun,or transformers of solar energy - one might say functions of the Sun.They all refer to the Sunand are aspects of the solar Logos, therefore they all contain a solar ingredient, and theirfunctions relate to the Sun on the one hand, and to the means and levels of its fulfillment interms of life on earth on the other.The fact that they have a solar aspect does not make themsymbols of the actual Sun, but is part of the reason for the fluidity and interchangeability ofthe archetypes, as mentioned by Jung, since they are all related together and part of the samesolar system.They are part of the same chord, and related by different intervals to thefundamental.This also has to be understood in relating mythological motifs to the planetary archetypes;"solar heroes" do not have to be forms or symbols of the Sun itself, nor the divine child, northe many other forms of Mercurius in alchemy, though constituting a prefiguration of thegold, or the means of attaining to it, be considered as representing the gold itself.The Sun isthe central fire and the animating principle or life-giver; in astrological terms its sign is Leo,which rules the heart.But there are two other fire signs and planets assciated with them, Arieswith Mars, and Sagittarius with Jupiter.These two are very much connected with the solarprinciple, and for this reason their mythological and psychological associations are oftenattributed to the Sun by astrologers, causing much confusion.The Sun in astrology is oftenassociated with consciousness, reason, will, goals and ego, but we can only get a clear idea ofeach of the planetary archetypes by considering them all together, and how they relate to oneanother in one system, as well as how they are illuminated by mythical archetypes, andeventually how they relate to Jung's psychological components.Like all archetypes they areso inter-related that much confusion prevails in this area, even among the best astrologers, andit is not at all easy to sort things out.The planetary principles or psychic components form various pairs, according to the contextin which we are considering them, and we cannot understand them without referring to thesepairs and their particular implications.Sun and Moon are the most obvious pair, withoutastrology being needed at all; but we also have to understand Sun-Saturn as a pair, and Moon-Saturn, Mercury-Jupiter or Mercury-Saturn, and ultimately the relation of every planetaryprinciple to each of the others in turn, as well as to the whole system and to us, as microcosmsof the system.It is impossible therefore to take them one at a time and sort out separatecategories of ideas exclusively connected with each.We cannot very well discuss form exceptin relation to content, or vice-versa, or light except in relation to darkness, and they can onlybe understood in terms of polarities, which are various; that is, each can constitute one pole ofmore than one pair.This is the same as saying that all the planets can form oppositions withone another, except that Mercury and Venus can never be in opposition to the Sun nor to oneanother, being inside the earth's orbit [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]