In its heyday alchemy was a comprehensive theory of transmutation describing not only transformations of base into precious metals but also transformations of the soul up and down the great chain of being. Alchemy was not just a physics but also a metaphysics. Alchemy as metaphysics attracts interest to this day, as in Carl Jung's writings about the soul and personal identity. As he noted, "The...

In Eastern Christian philosophy, there are several views on the origin of soul, which, in turn, were borrowed from ancient philosophy. This article deals with study three main hypotheses about which originate philosophy and pre-Christian religious beliefs. The reception these some transformation adaptation was adopted further developed by prominent thinkers both East West. Therefore, emphasis i...

21s. 312 pp. This latest work by the author of "God and the Unconscious" aPpears as we go to press, so that its profound reflections were not Mailable to any of our contributors, including the Editor, whose Writing is already in proof. The book is in part an enquiry into the relationship of Psychiatry and religion. Fr. White starts by considering the main Question posed in our editorial?the rel...

One of the arguments for which Kant is best known (or most notorious) is the so-called “moral proof” of the existence of God, freedom, and the immortal soul. Versions of the proof can be found in each of the Critiques, in various lectures, and in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. “Proof” has to be taken loosely here, since the attitude licensed by moral considerations, for Kant, is...

I prefer commencing with the consideration of an effect. Keeping originality always in view – for he is false to himself who ventures to dispense with so obvious and so easily attainable a source of interest – I say to myself, in the first place, “Of the innumerable of effects, or impression, of which the heart, the intellect, or (more generally) the soul is susceptible, what one shall I, on th...