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The Squaring of the circle (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the archetype of wholeness, meaning, one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies.

The Squaring of the circle (n.) could ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be called the archetype of wholeness — the “quaternity of the One,” schema for all images of God.

Squaring of the circle (n.) symbolizes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the alchemical work: break the chaotic unity into four elements and recombine them into a higher one.

The Squaring of the circle (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a synonym for the magistery: the square bed becomes round, the four hostile elements reduced to unity, the One born of the Four as quintessence.

Squaring of the circle (n.) and ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠perpetual motion meant something to the medieval philosophers who laboured over them that our rational mind calls nonsense: "we are the fools, not they."