<< Deo concedente
There is an alchemical notion pointing at the art* being of divine nature and inspiration. As such, the alchemists believed no one can really learn alchemy unless thought by a master or by divine inspiration.
One such expression: Deo Concedente (God wills it), embodies this philosophy in a rather concrete manner. Jung quotes a passage from the De trasnmutatione metallorum:
…For God bestows this divine and immaculate science on his faithful servants, namely those on whom he resolved to bestow it from the original nature of things… Nor were they (the elect) able to hold anything back save through the strength granted to them by God, and they themselves could no longer direct their minds save towards the goal appointed to them by God…’**
The alchemist saw itself, clarifies the author, as a laborer of the divine, tasked with continuing the divine labor of universal redemption. And in doing so, it identified with the Christ persona and by act of imitation gradually was taken over by the divine archetype.
One slightly less obscure interpretation might be that as we allow the grace of the divine to permeate ourselves, we become more capable of projecting it to the world.
The Deo Concedente from the Christian tradition presupposes the acceptance of these divine graces, because free will is a prerogative of sentient life. This transformation turns us into individuals with an integrated psyche. This because of the rebirth within the figure of the savior, receiving redemption from the ignis gehennalis*** as a consequence.
In effect, a transmutation by the will of god.
The practical implication being that by grace of the divine, which manifests in the unconscious we as individuals transform and become more complete, saved from the interior darkness of our hearts and minds; escaping the false son of god, the dark image that counterweights all that’s good within us.
A tenet of Chrstianity is that a spark of the divine resides in each and every one of us and that we’re made in God's image; it therefore only makes sense that God's will is something required to achieve our full potential.
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