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
Latin obscenity E. Housman; he also wanted to read "prō tēlō" as "prōtēlō" with the meaning "there and then". Others, however, understand Catullus to mean that the boy was caught having sex with a girl; in which case, "prōtēlō" probably means "in a threesome", since a "prōtēlum", according to the agricultural writer Cato the Elder, was a team of three oxen pulling a plough. Uden (2007) translates: "I just caught a kid banging his girlfriend", explaining that "pūpulum" is a derogatory diminutive. The verb "caedere" (literally "to cut" or "kill") is used as slang for homosexual penetration elsewhere in Latin literature, such