Complexio Oppositorum
“True
opposites are never
incommensurables; if they were they could never
unite.
All contrariety notwithstanding, they do show a constant propensity to
union, and
Nicholas of Cusa
defined
God himself as a
complexio oppositorum.”
Since dogma holds that God is wholly
present in each of the three Persons, He is also wholly present in each part of
the outpoured Holy Spirit; thus every man can partake of the whole of God and
hence of the filiation. The complexio oppositorum of the
God-image thus enters into man, and
not as
unity, but as conflict, the dark half
of the image coming into opposition with the accepted view that God is “Light.”
Cont’d … This very process is taking place in our own times, albeit scarcely recognized by the official teachers of humanity whose task, supposedly, is to understand such matters.
But the presence of (Greek lettering) does not prove
that the Autopator himself is
conscious, for the
differentiation of
consciousness results only from the
syzygies and tetrads that follow afterwards,
all of them symbolizing processes of
conjunction and composition.
Union of opposites is equivalent to unconsciousness,
so far as human logic goes, for
consciousness
presupposes a
differentiation into
subject and object and a relation between them. AION 193
It is therefore not surprising that the adepts ... piled up vast numbers of synonyms to express the mysterious nature of the substances - an occupation which, though it must seem utterly futile to the chemist, affords the psychologist a welcome explanation concerning the nature of the projected contents. Like all numinous contents, they have a tendency to self-amplification, that is to say they form the nuclei for an aggregation of synonyms. These synonyms represent the elements to be united as a pair of opposites (ordo compositionis); for instance as man and woman, god and goddess, son and mother, red and white, active and passive, body and spirit, and so on. The opposites are usually derived from the quaternio of elements ... MC 459
“Seek the coldness of the moon and ye shall find the heat of the sun.” -- Socrates