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Canistris, Opicinus de - Diagram with Zodiac symbols
Identifier
001659
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious - Carl Jung
“While, in Church mysticism, the primordial image of the hieros gamos sublimated on a lofty plane and only occasionally-as for instance with Mechthild of Magdeburg-approached the physical sphere in emotional intensity, for the rest of the world it remained very much alive and continued to be the object of especial psychic preoccupation. In this respect the symbolical drawings of Opicinus de Canistris afford us an interesting glimpse of the way in which this primordial image was instrumental in uniting opposites.” (Carl Jung, CW 9i, para. 295)
Detail of picture below showing the Mystic marriage/chemical wedding - Canistris was depicting Nirvana
Opicinus de Canistris (1296–ca. 1354) "Diagram with Zodiac Symbols," folio 24r Avignon, France, 1335–50 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, Pal. Lat. 1993
A description of the experience
