“We have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter.” — Éliphas Lévi
The Ouroboros is a dramatic symbol for the integration and assimilation of the opposite, i.e. of the shadow 🐍
This ‘feed-back’ process is at the same time a symbol of immortality, since it is said of the Ouroboros that he/she slays himself and brings himself to life, fertilizes himself and gives birth to himself.
He symbolizes the One, he is the secret Prima Materia — Carl G. Jung
“This Path is called the Great Work (the Magnum opus, the Alchemical Wedding) because it involves coming to face our deepest anxieties, doubts, and fears as well as those parts of ourselves that we neglect, distort, or deny completely 🛑
—- most people are afraid of their own shadow, they become very controlling, their lies and narcissism exposes their weak soul.
So they form attachments to a weaker person and material objects to feed of like a parasite 🦠