Viscom CM 235

In illustration 4, the King and Queen, still maintaining their mutual gesture of uniting their forces through the aid of the spirit, descend into the watery vessel. This is the realm of the unconscious, the inner ever-flowing Mercury of the soul, that we met in the first woodcut of the Mercurial Fountain. The higher archetypal forces within the soul have entered into the vast dark sea of the unconscious realm of the inner soul life. This vessel is here hexagonal, as the triplicity of Spirit, Sun and Moon is still working within this experience.