The Black Sun and the Oppositional Structure of Alchemy

Alchemy has a sort of oppositional structure to it, you know, in the same way that Jungian psychology does. And this is one of the things that Hellman rages against even in like a book like Dream in the Underworld. How can we think in terms of concepts that don't depend on strictly binarized terms? Well, that's a big question for me, but let me offer a thought just an intuition way of responding. I think that from my perspective, opposition is very important.

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