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
Ludovicus a S. Carolo Ludovicus a S. Carolo Ludovicus a S. Carolo (secular name Louis Jacob, Latin form "Ludovicus Jacob") (20 August 1608 – 10 March 1670) was a French Carmelite scholar, writer and bibliographer. He published the first yearly lists of printed books. He was born at Châlons-sur-Marne (according to some at Chalon-sur-Saône), the son of Jean Jacob and Claudine Mareschal. He entered the Order of Carmelites of the Old Observance in his native town, and made his profession 11 June 1626. While in Italy (1639) he took great interest in epigraphy, regretting the wholesale destruction of inscriptions in the catacombs. A lasting