o the point of
the sun [in Solis punctum] [Cf. what has been said about the point in the
[Symbol: Gold].];" and still farther on: "Ye see that the [Symbol: earth]
turns to the sun, but the reason ye know not; if the earth had not in the
creation gone out of the Solis punctum, it could not have turned and
yearned according to its magnetic manner, so this turning around shows us
that the world was once renewed, and in its beginning, as [Symbol: Gold]
is punctum; it desires to return, and its rest will be alone in that;
therefore the soul of man is also similarly gone out of the eternally
divine sun, towards which it also yearns...."

Our parable, to which I should like now to revert, appears in a new light.
It would be a waste of time to lead the reader once more through all the
adventures of the wanderer. He again, without difficulty, will find all
the aforesaid elements in the parable, and will readily recognize the
introversion and rebirth. I therefore pick out for further consideration
only a few particular motives of the parable or alchemy which seem to me
to require special elucidation.

We should not forget the singular fact that after the introversion, at the
beginning of the work of rebirth, a deluge occurs. This flood takes place
not merely in the alchemistic process (when the bodies undergo
putrefaction in the vessel and become black), but we see the mythic
deluges coming with unmistakable regularity at the same time, i.e., after
the killing of the original being (separation of the primal parents,
etc.), and before the new creation of the world by the son of God. Stucken
(SAM., p. 123): "We see corroborated ... what I have already emphasized,
that on the appearance of the flood catastrophe the creation of the world
is not yet finished. Even before the catastrophe there was indeed an earth
and life on it, but only after the flood, begins the forming of the
present Cosmos. Thus it is in the germanic Ymir-saga, and in the
Babylonian Tiamat-saga, in the Egyptian and likewise in the Iranian." What
may the flood be in the psychological sense. Dreams and poetry tell us, in
that they figure the passions in the image of a storm-tossed sea. After
the introversion, whose perils have already been mentioned, there is
always an outbreak of the passions. Not without consequences is the Stone
of the Deeps elevated, which locks the prison of the subterranean powers.
(Cf. Book of Enoch, X, 5, and passim.) The point is to seize t