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The Coincidentia oppositorum (n.) is the equal standing of conscious and unconscious possible at the highest level, signalled in alchemy by coronation, apotheosis and royal marriage, with redeeming effects.
The Coincidentia oppositorum (n.) is a union of opposites that consciousness can only picture as mutual annihilation, yet its symbols speak of an adamantine, everlasting stone.
The Coincidentia oppositorum (n.) must include even God's opposite, hell-fire, yet must not be so radical that God cancels himself out; it is completed only by absolute opposition, reaching full paradox and psychological validity.
A Coincidentia oppositorum (n.) is a union of opposites, which the self essentially is and must be if it is to represent totality; the ambiguous, pagan stone represents all that was eliminated from the Christian model.