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 Work of Time later. Winterset notes in the "Times" newspaper "the sale of the single known example of the 1856 magenta British Guiana" stamp, known to have been owned in 1956 by the Otherhood, and Winterset states that he realises that time-travel means that all the narrative sequence of his story is still vulnerable to being re-written by time-travel. As noted by critic Susan Young: The story won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella in 1990. Great Work of Time "Great Work of Time" is a science fiction novella by American writer John Crowley, originally published in Crowley's 1989 book collection "Novelty".