Memory, or memoria as it was once called, is a form of imagination. What it recalls into the present is always, in part, a function of perspective currently dominating the present.
The present is haunted by the archetypal dynamics which remind us that any story untold is an unconscious present. An unconscious present is a story which will insist on being told and will spill into our biographies.
Again, progression should not be confused with development, for the continuous flow or current in life is not necessarily development and differentiation,
To understand a thing is a bridge and possibility of returning to the path. But to explain a matter is arbitrary and sometimes even murder. Have you counted the murderers among the scholars?
Alchemical language is a mode of therapy; it is itself therapeutical. – Alchemical Psychology