The Seba library treats Ruby in 6 passages, across 4 authors (including von Franz, Marie-Louise, Jung, Carl Gustav, Abraham, Lyndy).
Nam lucet in colore ut rubinus per animam tingentem, quam acquisivit ex virtute ignis; propter hoc ignis dicitur tinctor.
This passage establishes the ruby as the paradigmatic image of the fire-tinctured soul in alchemical Latin, where it shines by virtue of the animating tincture acquired through fire—making ruby the emblem of soul-infused, fire-perfected matter.
, Aurora Consurgens: A Document Attributed to Thomas Aquinas on the Problem of Opposites in Alchemy, 1966thesis
The rose in the centre is depicted as a ruby, its outer ring being conceived as a wheel or a wall with gates (so that nothing can come out from inside or go in from outside).
Jung identifies the ruby explicitly as the central image of a spontaneously produced mandala, equating it with the self-luminous, bounded centre of psychic wholeness in an individuating patient’s dream.
, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, 1959thesis
The rose in the center is depicted as a ruby, its outer ring being conceived as a wheel or a wall with gates… The magnolia turned into a sort of rose made of ruby-colored glass. It shone like a four-rayed star.
Jung recounts how a dreamed magnolia spontaneously transformed into a ruby-coloured glass rose shining as a four-rayed star, anchoring the ruby symbolism to the mandala’s self-radiating centre and the fourfold structure of the Self.
, The Red Book: Liber Novus, 2009thesis
the divine red tincture flushes the white stone with its rich red colour… The rich red (sometimes purple) of the rubedo is given many names by the al
Abraham situates ruby among the manifold alchemical names for the supreme red colour of the rubedo, which is produced when the divine red tincture penetrates and flushes the whitened matter of the Stone.
, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery, 1998supporting
rectification; ruby; Sol
Abraham’s index confirms that ruby appears as a discrete alchemical term within a systematic concordance of imagery alongside Sol and rectification, attesting to its standing as an established technical symbol in the alchemical lexicon.
, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery, 1998supporting
introverted feeling (Aunt Em, Almira Gulch, the Tin Man, the ruby slippers, the grouchy Apple Tree, the Witch’s Guard)
Beebe assigns the ruby slippers of The Wizard of Oz to the function of introverted feeling, extending the depth-psychological resonance of ruby into the domain of typological analysis and popular cultural symbolism.
, Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness, 2017aside