The Seba library treats Mutus Liber in 5 passages, across 3 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, von Franz, Marie-Louise, Campbell, Joseph).
Centre, the soror mystica, with the artifex, fishing for Neptune (animus); below, artifex, with soror, fishing for Melusina (anima).—Mutus liber (1702)
Jung uses a plate from the Mutus Liber to illustrate the reciprocal anima/animus projections structuring the alchemical partnership, directly linking the text’s imagery to depth-psychological dynamics of the soror mystica relationship.
, Psychology and Alchemy, 1944thesis
Alchemist and Soror Mystica Fishing. Mutus liber (1702), fig. 3. Mellon Coll., Yale Univ. Lib. 231 … Alchemists At Work. Mutus liber (1702), p. 6. Mellon Coll., Yale Univ. Lib. 240
Von Franz draws on multiple Mutus Liber plates — depicting the fishing scene and the laboratory — as primary visual documents for her psychological interpretation of the alchemical opus as transformation of the self.
, Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology, 1980thesis
The Sign of the Secret. Mutus liber (1702), p. 14, detail. Mellon Coll., Yale Univ. Lib. 67
Von Franz reproduces the Mutus Liber’s ‘Sign of the Secret’ plate at the point where she introduces hermetic symbolism, treating the image as an emblem of esoteric transmission central to her psychological reading.
, Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology, 1980supporting
Alchemists and their Furnace; Mutus Liber, 17th century. From the Mutus liber in quo tamen tota philosophia hermetica, figuris hiero
Campbell situates the Mutus Liber alongside the Rosarium philosophorum as a key visual source for the alchemical mythology of coniunctio, using its furnace imagery to ground his comparative mythological argument.
, Creative Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume IV, 1968supporting
Liber mutus. Mutus liber, in quo tamen tota Philosophia hermetica figuris hieroglyphicis depingitur. La Rochelle, 1677.
Jung’s bibliographic citation of the Mutus Liber under its full title establishes its canonical status within his alchemical source apparatus, anchoring its authority as a primary hermetic document.
, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, 1959supporting