Everything that was naively presumed to be a knowledge of transcendental and divine things, which human beings can never know with certainty, and everything that seemed to be irretrievably lost with the decline of the Middle Ages, rose up again with the discovery of the psyche. This premonition of future discoveries in the psychic sphere expressed itself in the phantasmagoric speculations of philosophers [alchemists], who, until then, had appeared to be the arch-peddlers of sterile verbiage.
-Carl Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis
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