1. Millenarianism and Science in the Late Seventeenth Century
2. The most useful study of this correspondence is C. G. Jung'sPsychology and Alchemy, trans. R. F. C. Hull, 2nd ed. (Princeton, 1953), 345–431. Jung's main focus is the origins of this tradition in works of Mediaeval alchemists, such as Lull and Petrus Bonus. Although his treatment of lapis-Christ parallels in seventeenth-century writers is slight (423–31), it is sufficient to reveal both continuities of content and style and to show the effects upon alchemy of an age in which themysticawas being separated from thephysica (423). Jung thus sees the dawning of science and technology as chiefly responsible for the shift in emphasis in seventeenth-century alchemical writing previously noted. He states: "Paracelsus and Boehme between them split alchemy into natural science and Protestant mysticism" (430), thus hastening its demise.