Alchemy is one of forgotten
finds that Jung has brought to light from the darkness of our
past.
The deep intultion and revelations, derived by the tradition of
Hellenistic Gnosticism, led Jung to examine thoroughly thestudy
of the hermetic and alchemic literature which had caused endless
polemics.
It is mainly in A Psychological Approach to the Dogma
of the Trinity (1942/1948) and in Answer to Job
(1952) that Jung faced the problem of the relationship between
the positive and negative pole, shadow and light and good and
evil from a Christian point of view: the dualism and the necessary
overcoming of dualism.
Here is the meaning of the 'Alchemy', a pen divided in two: two
are the nibs, where symbolically thethought still lives, before
the necessary transformation, which will make Jung say, as already
anticipated by Alchemy, that we cannot speak of Good without the
Evil, of Light without Darkness and of Above without Below; the
substance of one is the substance of the other as the negation
of the one is the negation of the other.
The Emerald Table, dated between 6th and 8th century A.D. was
for the alchemists like the commandments by Moses and there was
no alchemist, of practical orientation or mystical specualtivewho
would not try to harmonise his discoveries with the solemn content
of the following twelve theses: "This true without lying, certain and most true.
That which is below is like that which is above and that which
is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one
only thing.
And as all things have been and arose from one by the mediation
of one: so all things have their birth from this one thing by
adaption.
The Sun is its father, the moon its mother, the wind hath carried
it in its belly, the earth is its nourse.
The father of all perfection in the whole world is here. Its force
or power is entire if it be converted into earth.
Alchemy Fountain Pen comes
only as a desk set. The body in red resin has two opposite nibs
to write in two different colours or in two different types of
nibs. The filling system, with eyedropper, has two seperate demo
reservoirs, one for each nib. The pen is magnetically suspended
indide a display with two dragons forming a circle which represents
the life cycle. A cone-shaped clear inkwell holds the dragons
and the pen vertically. Trims are in silver and gold plating for
the 1038 pieces edition, gold for the 238 pieces edition while
diamonds complete the 38 pieces edition.
Symbology
The hermetic thought has an endless number of symbols. We have
gathered in Alchemy Pen the most significant symbols of the Alchemic
Opus:
Ouroboros: figure of a snake eating its own tail.
With this imaginary symbol the pagan world wanted to represent
the perpetual movement of the world: the unity of everything (the
circle) which is distributed in the multiplicity of its cyclic
transformations (the coils of the snake symbolize the lunar phases)
returns in itself (the junction of the tail of the snake with
its head), thus reconciling the apparent contradiction between
and the unity and the multiplicity.
Red Color: Rubedo or final phase of the alchemic
process or great work consisting in the philosophers' stone.
Cosmic diagrams: from the Sylva Philosophorum.
They represent the macrocosm and the philosophers' stone with
their relationships.
Androgynous: gold and silver. The pholosophers
attribute the female character (the Moon) to the humid and cold
matter and the male character to the hot and dry matter (the Sun).
Alembic: the inkwell. It represents the laboratory
of alchemy and the necessary work to complete the Opus. Two are
the possible ways: the dry or the humid way.
Separate thou the eart from the fire, the subtile from the
gross sweetly with great indoustry.
It ascends from the earth to the heaven and again it descends
to the eart and receives the force of things superior and inferior.
By this means you shall have glory of the whole world and thereby
all abscurity shall fly from you.
Its force is aboe all force. For it vanquishes every subtile thing
and penetrates every solid thing.
So was the world created.
From this are and do come admirable adaptations whereof the means
is here in this.
Hence I am called Hermes Trismegist, having the three parts of
the philosophy of the whole world. That which I have said of the
operation of the Sun is accomplished and ended."
Here are the threads forgotten by man, always kept alive by the
Immortals, they take continuity and strength from the work of
Jung, anticipator of the Man's needs to live the new Myth, needs
which appear more and more evident in the intuitions and in the
experiences of other searchers, both of theWest and the East.
As Mahatma Gandhi already said, the choice of the man will not
be anymore between violence and non violence, but between survival
or, if the man does not become responsible of himself and of what
surrounds him, non-survival.
Alchemy pen is the symbol of this essential passage that Man is
called to accomplish.
"Visconti Alchemy"
