--- product_id: 14162769 title: "Aurora Consurgens" price: "€ 108.85" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.at/products/14162769-aurora-consurgens store_origin: AT region: Austria --- # Aurora Consurgens **Price:** € 108.85 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Aurora Consurgens - **How much does it cost?** € 108.85 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.at](https://www.desertcart.at/products/14162769-aurora-consurgens) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description From the Publisher Aurora Consurgens A companion work to C.G. Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis. Translated by RFC Hull and ASB Glover. Edited, with a commentary by Marie-Louise von Franz . Published by Inner City Books. Published by Inner City Books Originally published in 1966 as a companion volume to C.G. Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis , this scholarly gem is scattered throughout with insights relevant to the psychological process of individuation. Aurora Consurgens is a rare medieval alchemical treatise, reputed to be the last work of St. Thomas Aquinas, which was rediscovered by Jung in the course of his researches. It bears out Jung's long-standing view that the traditional practice of alchemy is best understood symbolically, as an attempt to express unconscious psychic contents through their projection onto matter. The analysis of Aurora Consurgens by Marie-Louise von Franz suggests that the author experienced a breakthrough of the unconscious while in an ecstatic state shortly before his death. History records that Thomas Aquinas died in a trance soon after expounding the Song of Songs, and Aurora ends with a paraphrase of the same Biblical verses and a vision of the mystic marriage. Von Franz's penetrating commentary shows how Jung's analytical psychology may be used as a key to unlock the meaning of this cryptic but psychologically significant text. The medieval Latin text is given with a translation by A.S.B. Glover. Von Franz's commentary has been translated from the German by R.F.C. Hull, who also translated Jung's Collected Works . Marie-Louise von Franz , Ph.D. (1915-1998), is the author of many books on the psychological interpretation of dreams, fairy tales and alchemical texts. Her most recent titles in this series are Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales (1997), C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time (1998), The Cat. A Tale of Feminine Redemption (1999) and The Problem of the Puer Aeternus (2000). Inner City Books Inner City Books was founded in 1980 to promote the understanding and practical application of the work of C.G. Jung. Review: Five Stars - PERFEITO Review: A Marvelous Companion Work to Jung’s Mysterium. - I’ve never been a fan of Dr. Von Franz. When reading her, I always feel trapped in a school-room, while a well-intentioned school teacher goes point by point though what what she obviously believes to be a very important lesson, while outside through an open window, the seabirds are shrieking, the waves are crashing, one can even feel the salt-spray beading on your skin. All you can do is sneak out a pocket edition of Robinson Jeffers and read it under the desk. Robinson Jeffers .... or this book! It’s pure prose poetry, pure nature poetry in the text, and Dr. Von Franz’s commentary in support and illumination of the text seems, to me, on fire, as if that teacher, inspired by the moment, has put away her prepared notes and started reading poetry with a Sybil like voice. Scholars have supposedly discredited the notion that St. Thomas himself composed the text in the mystical, perhaps, post-stroke state, in which he declaimed ‘All I’ve written is as straw’. Perhaps. But textual scholars sometimes overweight the text itself to the neglect of an imaginative prehension of the times in which the author lived and wrote. St. Thomas’ era was the era in which a new vital, invigorating worldliness, almost Classical Greek in nature, awakened the world, the Hohenstaufen Renaissance, as it’s been called, the time of Frederick the Great, ‘Stupor Mundi’, and of his advisor Michael Scot, the Alchemist, Scientist and Statesman, the arrival in the West of translations of Aristotle from the far more advanced and civilized Arab world. The Western World woke up as if from a longstanding Platonic, neo-Platonic, Dionysus the Areopagite inspired sleep. If we think of Alchemy less as some kind of Medieval science of personality development, though in part it surely was, and a method of Spiritual Discipline too (see Titus Burckhardt’s splendid interpretative work) and more as a manifestation of a renewed, spring-like engagement with the world, then it doesn’t seem far-fetched at all that St. Thomas who chanted the poetry of the Latin Mass nearly every day of his life, St. Thomas whose teacher was Albert the Great, renowned as a great philosopher and Alchemist, St. Thomas who was born and died during the era that he did, the Hohenstaufen Renaissance, near the end of this, composed Aurora Consurgens, this marvelous text in a vision and with a language that is more exultant Canticle than anything else. Dr. Von Franz intended this volume as a companion to Jung’s Mysterium Coniunctionis. It is. And it is exceptional! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #632,978 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #453 in General Chemistry #1,988 in Medical General Psychology #13,135 in Psychology & Counseling | | Customer Reviews | 4.9 out of 5 stars 20 Reviews | ## Images ![Aurora Consurgens - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41kAuCWWYzL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars *by A***R on February 5, 2018* PERFEITO ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Marvelous Companion Work to Jung’s Mysterium. *by R***N on March 18, 2020* I’ve never been a fan of Dr. Von Franz. When reading her, I always feel trapped in a school-room, while a well-intentioned school teacher goes point by point though what what she obviously believes to be a very important lesson, while outside through an open window, the seabirds are shrieking, the waves are crashing, one can even feel the salt-spray beading on your skin. All you can do is sneak out a pocket edition of Robinson Jeffers and read it under the desk. Robinson Jeffers .... or this book! It’s pure prose poetry, pure nature poetry in the text, and Dr. Von Franz’s commentary in support and illumination of the text seems, to me, on fire, as if that teacher, inspired by the moment, has put away her prepared notes and started reading poetry with a Sybil like voice. Scholars have supposedly discredited the notion that St. Thomas himself composed the text in the mystical, perhaps, post-stroke state, in which he declaimed ‘All I’ve written is as straw’. Perhaps. But textual scholars sometimes overweight the text itself to the neglect of an imaginative prehension of the times in which the author lived and wrote. St. Thomas’ era was the era in which a new vital, invigorating worldliness, almost Classical Greek in nature, awakened the world, the Hohenstaufen Renaissance, as it’s been called, the time of Frederick the Great, ‘Stupor Mundi’, and of his advisor Michael Scot, the Alchemist, Scientist and Statesman, the arrival in the West of translations of Aristotle from the far more advanced and civilized Arab world. The Western World woke up as if from a longstanding Platonic, neo-Platonic, Dionysus the Areopagite inspired sleep. If we think of Alchemy less as some kind of Medieval science of personality development, though in part it surely was, and a method of Spiritual Discipline too (see Titus Burckhardt’s splendid interpretative work) and more as a manifestation of a renewed, spring-like engagement with the world, then it doesn’t seem far-fetched at all that St. Thomas who chanted the poetry of the Latin Mass nearly every day of his life, St. Thomas whose teacher was Albert the Great, renowned as a great philosopher and Alchemist, St. Thomas who was born and died during the era that he did, the Hohenstaufen Renaissance, near the end of this, composed Aurora Consurgens, this marvelous text in a vision and with a language that is more exultant Canticle than anything else. Dr. Von Franz intended this volume as a companion to Jung’s Mysterium Coniunctionis. It is. And it is exceptional! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An excelent bilingual version *by E***N on October 10, 2005* Fit for academical study, with interesant -though always arguable- Junguian commentaries by Marie-Louise von Franz, it is a great acquisition for those interested in Alchemy, in Psychology, or in History of Thought. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.at/products/14162769-aurora-consurgens](https://www.desertcart.at/products/14162769-aurora-consurgens) --- *Product available on Desertcart Austria* *Store origin: AT* *Last updated: 2026-07-27*