From:
"Ian Marr" <ianmarr@zzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Sat, 6 Dec 2003 11:52:54 +1100
Subject:
The stone which the builders rejected
You might like to know about how Carl Jung saw this many-layered story.
In _Memories, Dreams, Reflections_, Jung tells how the wrong stone --
rectangular instead of triangular -- was delivered; instead of sending it
back, he said "That is my stone"; it seems to be identified both as the
biblical 'headstone of the corner' and, for Jung, the philosopher's stone.
Jung chiselled into one face a verse from Arnauldus de Villanova (d. 1313)
which is
Here stands the mean uncomely stone
Tis very cheap in price!
The more it is despised by fools
The more loved by the wise.
Jung himself carved text into faces of this stone, which, to me, makes him
charmingly one of us (letter-cutters, stonies, of the guild).
Always interested to hear these narratives which link the world and
tradition of stone with the wider literature.
Ian Marr
http://www.users.bigpond.com/ianmarr/
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