Great Work Great Work The term Great Work (magnum opus) is a term used in Hermeticism and in certain occult traditions and religions such as Thelema. The Great Work signifies the spiritual path towards self-transcendence in its entirety. This is the process of bringing unconscious complexes into the conscious awareness, in order to integrate them back into oneself. Accomplishing the Great Work, symbolized as the creation of the Philosopher's Stone, represents the culmination of the spiritual path, the attainment of enlightenment, or the rescue of the human soul from the unconscious forces which bind it. Eliphas Levi (1810–1875), one of the first
Great Patriotic War (term) on the Western front. On 9 April 2015, the Ukrainian parliament replaced the term "Great Patriotic War" ("Velyka vitchyzniana viina") in the country's law with "Second World War" ("Druga svitovna viina"), as part of a set of decommunization laws. Great Patriotic War (term) The Great Patriotic War (; , "Velyka Vitčyznjana vijna"; , "Vjalikaja Ajčynnaja vajna"), is a term used in Russia and other former republics of the Soviet Union (except for the Baltic states) to describe the conflict fought during the period from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945 along the many fronts of the Eastern Front of