jung a pedacitos 2

in the writings of poimandres, a pagan gnostic, the krater was a vessel filled with spirit, which the creator-god sent down to earth so that those who stove for higher consciousness might be baptized in it, it was a kind of uterus of spiritual renewal and rebirth, and corresponded to the alchemical vas in which the transformation of substance took place. the parallel to this in jung' s psycology is the inner transformation process known as individuation.