oneself.
Love of combat. [Symbol: Mars] Warring against
oneself.
Libido. [Symbol: Sol] Sublimated
libido.
Sexual life, incest. [Symbol: Venus] Regeneration.
Hypercriticism, fussing. [Symbol: Mercury] Knowledge.
Joy in change; Improvement. [Symbol: Luna] Changing
oneself.

[Freud is of the opinion that the original inquisitiveness about the
sexual secret is abnormally transformed into morbid over subtlety; and yet
can still furnish an impulsive power for legitimate thirst for knowledge.]

Beside the partition of the fundamental powers according to the favorite
number seven, there are to be sure in alchemy still other schemata with
other symbols. We must furthermore continually keep in mind that the
symbols in alchemy are used in many senses.

In so far as the Constellations, as is often to be understood in the
hermetic art, are fundamental psychic powers, it sounds just like
psychoanalysis when Paracelsus expresses the view that in sleep the
"sidereal" body is in unobstructed operation, soars up to its fathers and
has converse with the stars.

With regard to intro-determination I must refer to my observations in the
following sections on the extension of personality. It is an important
fact that those external obstructions which oppose the unrestrained
unfolding of the titanic impulses are gradually taken up as constraints
into the psyche, which adopts those external laws, that would make life
practicable. In so far as deep conflicts do not hinder it, there arises by
the operation of these laws a corresponding influence upon the
propensities. Habit, however, can learn to carry a heavy yoke with love,
even to make it the condition of life. I have just made the restriction:
if conflicts do not hinder it; now usually these exist, even for the
mystics; and the "Work" is above all directed toward their overcoming. For
the annihilation of the opposition, the weapons aimed outward in the
"titanic" phase must be turned inward; there and not outside of us is the
conflict. [Here we see the actual intro-determination briefly mentioned
above.]

B. Effects Of Introversion.

Introversion is no child's play. It leads to abysses, by which we may be
swallowed up past recall. Whoever submits to introversion arrives at a
point where two ways part; and there