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(IIj 899). This applies to the dragon and tiger also:
El drag6n es el mercurio. Es-semen y sangre El
....
tigre es el plomo. Es I-Alito y fuerza corporal. Sale
del espiritu y es conservado en los pulmones Para
....
ello el taoismo estableci6 lo que ellos Ilaman la respiraci6n
embrionaria, que trataba de imitar la respiraci6n
del feto (11,899).
en el vientre maternal
Finally, the white tiger represents "comienzo de todas las mutaciones., re-
gi6n en la que penetra Lao-tse sobre su b6falo, en el vaclo embrionarib" (II,,
906). The tiger licking th&"m6dula de sauco" (1,, 645) is indeed a sign
that Cemi's troubled breathing and inner conflict are being eased by the
essence of Taoism. Inspiration follows true self-knowledgeg in the form
of the fountain, since sexual energy is transmuted into poetic creation.
The circular movement of the tiger ("un tigre blanco que daba vueltas cir-
culizadas en torno a las llamas
...
" Iq 645) is a sign of the alchemical or
spiritual process of union of opposites and the mirror being a sign of its
successful completion, the tiger ceases to breathe outwardly: "llevaba al
tigre por los dngulos del espejo, lo abandonaba, ya. muy mareado, con el rabo
enroscado al cuello" (1.645). Cemi has recovered foetal breathing, the
inspiration of the maternal Unconscious and Tao. He is the puer senex (II,
890).
Ceml is now prepared to I'descender a las profundidades, al centro de
la Tierra donde se encontraria con Onesppiegel sonriente" (1.645). The
latter entity comes from the German ohne (without) and spiegel (mirror),
according to Wallerwho concludes that Cemi is "without reflection (without
ego), " hence Onesppiegel "symbolizes the realization of Cemi's spiritual
resurrection. "
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1 believe that it reveals that he is completely at one
with himself, since as Neumann has said,, "Centroversion persistently
strives to ensure that the ego shall not remain an organ of the unconscious
but shall become more and more the representative of wholeness .
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He
has moulded himselft with Oppiano Licario's help, into a very special kind