y with them because,
going over into the regressive phase, they show their "titanic"
countenances. I have with some daring, but not without right, just cited
the Siddhi as the anagogic equivalent of autoerotism. The regressive
phase, however, appears as soon as one indulges in the gratification of
the Siddhi. It is not the Siddhi themselves that are the evil (I regard
them indeed as anagogic), but the losing of oneself in them. They can be
both divine and diabolic. That depends on one's attitude towards them.

In the result of introversion, the diabolic mysticism is opposed, as we
saw, to the divine. The true mysticism is characterized by the extension
of personality and the false by the shrinking of personality. We can also
say, by an extension or shrinking of the sphere of interest that
determines the socially valuable attitude. I say advisedly "sphere of
interest," for mysticism in the end will not merely fulfill the social law
without love, but it labors for the bringing out of this very love. It is
not satisfied with superficially tincturing the substance into gold (i.e.,
among other meanings, to get man to do good externally); but it would
change the substance completely, make it gold through and through (i.e.,
to orient the entire impulse power of man for good, so that he desires
this good with the warmth of love and therefore finds his good fortune in
virtue). Only the good and not the good fortune is chosen as the leading
star, as I must note in order to avoid a misconception about the hermetic
procedure. Happiness arises only at a certain point, and seems to me like
a fruit ripened in the meantime. The most subtle representatives of this
doctrine among the alchemists are not so far, after all, from the Kantian
ethics.

Alchemistic ethics presupposes that there is an education, an ennobling of
the will. The person that wills can learn to encompass infinitely much in
his ego. [Cf. Furtmueller (Psychoanalyse und Ethik, p. 15): "The individual
can ... make the commands of others his own." He quotes Goethe (Die
Geheimnisse):

From the law which binds all being
The man is freed who masters himself.

The poles of shrinking and extension are the following: The magician and
the pathological introversionist contract the sphere of their interest
upon the narrowest egoism. The mystic expands it immensely, in that he
comprises the whole world in himself. The person egotistically entering
into introversion c