Corpus Alchemicum Arabicum Vol. 1B (CALA1 B)
Book of the Explanation of the Symbols
Theodor Abt
9783952260883
pages
Daimon Verlag
Overview
This second commentary on Muhammed ibn Umail's Hall ar-rumuz (See CALA I) gives important additions and clarifications that had become possible in the light of other texts of Ibn Umail and authors quoted by him, which at the time when Dr. von Franz wrote her first commentary (see CALA I A), were either poorly translated into Latin or not yet available in any European language. That allowed an enlarged understanding of this text, based on Ibn Umail's own reflections. The text is accompanied by one hundred illustrations that help the reader better to understand the symbolic world of Ibn Umail.
Author Bio
Theodor Abt has a Ph.D. from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, and has served on the board of the C. G. Jung Institute, Zurich. He has been in private practice as a Jungian Analyst since 1975 and since 1990 has been the Professor for Rural Sociology at the ETH. He is a member of the board of the Research and Training Centre for Depth Psychology according to C. G. Jung and M.-L. von Franz, Zurich, since 1995, and has been president of the Society of the Friends of the Royal Tombs of Egypt since 1988. His research focuses on the relationship of the outer world with the needs of the inner unconscious world.
