InThe Return of The Feminine and The World Soul , Sufi depth psychologist, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee asserts that “thealchemists also understood that there is a connection between theanima mundiand the soul or the innermost secret of man” (2009, p. 101). Citing Jung, he reminds us that the source of thewisdom and knowledge of the all-pervading essence of theanima mundiis the inner-most secretnuminosum of the human soul. It is well to remember that the name Adam means earth or clay.Hence the soul of Adam is not distinct or separate from the soul of the earth,anima mundi.On the other hand, the dark shadow in these same verses is that Adam’s mate is nameless, andhence she is his inferior mate, who lacks her own personhood and carries only his name. She isonly Adam’s mate. Her own identity is in shadow. Since Adam knows the names of all things,and he does not have a name for his soul-mate, he is forever bewildered by her presence as adisowned aspect of himself. She does not even merit her own name. The paradox of the DivineFeminine and the Dark Feminine are both present in these verses. Vaughan-Lee asks us to attuneourselves to the suffering of the Dark Feminine: “First we need to acknowledge the suffering of the feminine, of the earth itself, or the light within the feminine will be hidden from us” (2009, p