Prima Materia
The formless, despised stuff from which the Work begins, found everywhere and valued by no one; in the soul, the raw and unredeemed material of a life.
From Alchemy.
In Symbols of the Psyche
- Lead: The heaviest and darkest metal, where the work begins.
- The Prima Materia: The chaos from which the work begins: despised, everywhere, and everything.
- The Stone: What endures: the philosophers’ stone.
- The Dragon: The guardian who must be faced.
- The Toad: Earthbound and poisonous, with a jewel in its head.
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