An introduction to Alchemy:  In 1959 Jung wrote in his Epilogue to the Red Book:  “I worked on this book for 16 years.  My acquaintance with alchemy in 1930 took me away from it . . . In 1928 . . . Wilhelm sent me the text of the “Golden Flower”, an alchemical treatise.  There the contents of this book found their way into actuality . . . ”  In a similar vein, he wrote in 1938:  “My deceased friend, Richard Wilhelm . . . sent me “The Secret of the Golden Flower” at a time that was crucial to my own work.  This was in 1928.  I had been investigating the processes of the collective unconscious since the year 1913.  The text that Wilhelm sent helped me out of this difficulty” . . . i.e. the way that the revelations of the “Red Book” could be made available to the public.

In this set Dr. Hoeller speaks of the great Alchemists and explores the entire body of Jung’s alchemical work, viewing it – – as Jung declared – – as a continuation of the work begun in the “Red Book”.

The individual titles are:

• What is Alchemy? An Introduction to the Great Art. Once envisioned as the turning of base metals into gold, Alchemy has been revealed in modern times as the art of transforming the human psyche.  The principles and basic symbols of this process is discussed. 72:57 #301500
• The Secret of the Golden Flower. Chinese Alchemy and Richard Wilhelm open the way for Jung to give to the world his insights gained in the visions of the Red Book. 79:36 #301501
• A Basic Outline of the History and Nature of Alchemy. What was the image of Alchemy that attracted C.G. Jung? 78:32 #301502
• Psychology and Alchemy: Jung’s chief work on Alchemy. The major statement regarding the nature of Alchemy. 82:08 #301503
• Zosimos; Alchemy, Sacrament and Gnosis. Gnosis into Alchemy; vision and Alchemical Sacrament: Eucharistic Transformation symbolism. 72:48 #301504
• Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas; Christian Alchemy. St. Albert the Great (A. Magnus), Doctor of the Church, Adept of Magic and Alchemy and his pupil, the monk Thomas, author not only of works on theology but of the treatise “Aurora Consurgens” on the alchemical liberation of Wisdom from matter. 79:14 #301505
• Raymond Lully, prophet of “Hyperreality”. A martyred and beatified alchemist who developed the mystical philosophy of Hyperreality (“Ultra-Reality”) which has great relevance to today’s spirituality and psychology. 71:22 #301506
• Mysterium Conjunctionis. Jung’s Alchemical statement of the Mystery of the Bride Chamber. 73:21 #301507
• Red Book approach to Alchemy. How Alchemy may be practiced today on the basis of the Red Book. 74:29 #301508