The Suffering of Salt

Excerpt-James Hillman-Alchemical Psychology

Some seek not gold, but there lives not a man who does not need salt.

—CASSIODORUS

Toward a Substantial Psychology

Alchemical salt, like any other alchemical substance, is a metaphoric or “philosophic” salt. We are warned in various alchemical texts not to assume that this mineral is “common” “common” salt, our table salt or sodium chloride. Yet, as we sha…