source—the Nile and its rich symbolism. To understand
this connection we must unravel the cryptic language of alchemy,
just as we have to interpret the rich symbolism of the Osiris myth.
Fortunately, Carl Gustav Jung, the twentieth-century psychiatrist who
coined the terms “individuation” and “collective unconscious,” took up
the daunting task of deciphering what the alchemical riddles and recipes
meant to the development of consciousness. In my view, his achievement
is comparable to Jean-François Champollion’s decoding the Rosetta
Stone; without either man’s work the wisdom of the unconscious, both
historic and psychic, and its relevance to modern thought would have
remained inaccessible to us." p. 47 See More Osiris
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