The relationship with [an] emerging energy and descent to its depths can be seen in an alchemical image, taken from the Rosarium, entitled Reviving [image below]. This descent, which depicts the soul’s return to the material body, is also a vitalization and “revivication.” It is a way of imagining what a soul wants and is a relinking with the body and the world. It is a relinking to the instinctual/archetypal lived body—animal, erotic, and sacred. It is the moment where the soul descends from heaven, “beautiful and glad” (Hillman 1993, 264). The soul yearns to enjoy this world and “has its goal a resurrection in beauty and pleasure” (Hillman, 261). It heralds the alchemical rubedo, the vital reddening of life. (Marlan 30-31)
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