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Building upon the expunging of impurities through Nigredo (Putrefaction), the step of Albedo (Purification) works mostly upon realizing and sweeping these impurities clean. This step is very simplistic in a literal, truly alchemical sense, and is more of a preparation for more work to come.

However, re-analyzing in the context of the previously mentioned Carl Jung, he chose to examine this step as a way of self-realization, of a way to truly clean all of these impurities away once we've become aware of them. To become a balanced person requires the scrubbing away of these flaws, though this does not come without its negatives.

Quite a bit of this philosophy dwells o... [Read more]