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ARCHETYPES
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"Truth did not come into the world naked, but it came in types and images." The Gospel of Philip (3rd century ad Christian Gnostic catechesis)
The Other Bible
(Willis Barnstone, editor)
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"Archetypes use the analogical-allegorical method rather than the descriptive-analytical one. This means that they are multidimensional, having not one set of meanings, preestablished and socially standardized, but many sets of meanings and correspondences….they are not static and closed but rather dynamic and open, with ever-new emergent levels that come to the foreground as new layers and states of consciousness are activated; they are based on the principle of correspondence and homology, derived from the classical assumption that all things in the universe are interrelated and that the microcosm (human nature) is a reflection of the macrocosm (the world."
Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity
(Peter Roche deCoppens)
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"The Greek root, 'arche', refers to beginnings, to origins; 'type' derives from a Greek verb meaning 'to strike' and from the related noun that refers to an impression or model. 'Archetype' thus signifies the model from which copies are cast, the underlying pattern, the beginning point from which something develops."
Mirrors of The Self, Archetypal Images That Shape Your Life
(Christine Downing, editor)
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"This beautiful world is a reflection and an image of the Original, the Divine Spirit." Plotinus
Men Who Have Walked With God
(Sheldon Cheney)
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"The sense of being in touch with something that feels collective, shared, is indeed part of what 'archetypal' connotes." Christine Downing, Prologue
Mirrors of The Self, Archetypal Images That Shape Your Life
(Christine Downing, editor)
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"Space is not an empty void, but a reservoir filled with the models of all things that ever were, that are, and that will be."
Isis Unveiled
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"The ancient magical and mythological levels of our being, although 'unconscious' to our current modus operandi, need to be recognised as vital capacities of ours. If we fail to integrate them with our rational world view, we are likely to regress into a new barbarism rather than take the next step of conscious evolution."
Return of the Goddess
(Edward C. Whitmont, MD)
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"Instincts and archetypes share in common the fact of being essentially collective, that is, universal and regularly occurring."
The Meaning in Dreams and Dreaming
(Maria F. Mahoney)
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"The unconscious, as the totality of all archetypes, is the deposit of all human experience right back to its remotest beginnings. Not, indeed, a dead deposit, a sort of abandoned rubbish-heap, but a living system of reactions and aptitudes that determine the individual's life in invisible ways."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"Through the genome of our species we inherit the archetypal predispositions of our ancestors, and it is on these basic, universal, and persistently active themes that individual cultures work out their sets of variations and transmit them from generation to generation."
Ariadne's Clue, A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind
(Anthony Stevens)
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"The fact is that with the knowledge and actual experience of these inner images [archetypes] a way is opened for reason and feeling to gain access to those other images which the teachings of religion offer to mankind."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"Since archetypes are what give form to the collective unconscious, awareness of the archetypes in everyday living is a means by which the elements of existence may acquire a more conscious structure. Situations exist for the purpose of our being able to center and create ourselves anew through them."
Mandala
(Jose and Miriam Arguelles)
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"The archetypes…are the first point where our formless or seamless organismic consciousness starts to take on an animate form."
Spectrum of Consciousness
(Ken Wilber)
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"The images of created things are in the divine mind 'before' the created things themselves, acting indeed as their archetypes….God does not stand outside of the world, deriving knowledge from it; on the contrary, the world derives its being from the knowledge of it that God continually pours into it."
Thomas Aquinas, Spiritual Master
(Robert Barron)
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"Ideas are certain original forms or permanent and immutable models of things which are contained by the divine intelligence. They are immutable because they themselves have not been formed; and that is why they are eternal and always the same. But though they themselves neither come to be nor perish, yet it is accordfing to them that everything, which can come to be or pass away or which actually comes to be and passes away, is said to be formed." St. Augustine, Lib. 83 Quaest., q. 46
Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas
(Anton C. Pegis, editor)
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"The history of religion in its widest sense (including therefore mythology, folklore, and primitive psychology) is a treasure-house of archetypal forms from which [we] can draw helpful parallels and enlightening comparisons for the purpose of calming and clarifying a consciusness that is all at sea."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"Ideas are exemplars existing in the divine mind."
Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas
(Anton C. Pegis, editor)
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"The materialization of a form originates upon the archetypal planes, through the agency of divine thought, and from thence (through directed streams of intelligent energy) acquires substance as it is reproduced upon each plane, until eventually, upon the physical plane, the form stands revealed at its densest point of manifestation."
A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"Within the divine, incorporeal, and eternal sphere are included all the lower manifestations of life – all that is, has been, or ever shall be. Within the Kosmic Intellect all things spiritual or material exist as archetypes, or divine thought-forms."
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
(Manly P. Hall)
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"Joy is the quality which grows out of self-realisation….We are told that there is an archetype, a pattern, a way, a goal, and a light which shines upon the Path. But, realising this, do I know anything of the joy which should irradiate my way?"
Discipleship in the New Age
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"For all the beautiful things in the world would never have been what they are if they hadn't been molded after the archetype of true beauty, the Uncreated, the Blessed, the Imperishable." Philo (c. 15bc-45ad), Alexandrian Jewish philosopher
God, A Companion for Seekers
(David Schiller)
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"The archetype is an archetype because it represents a past reality; its power over us as internal image is so profound because it was once an experienced fact of the external world."
Great Cosmic Mother, Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth
(Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor)
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"Every major culture of the world includes in its mythology archetypal figures representing death and rebirth or transformation." Stanislav Grof
Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions
(Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.)
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"As the intellectual historian Richard Tarnas points out,'Platonic Forms are not conceptual abstractions that the human mind creates by generalizing from a class of particulars. Rather, they possess a quality of being, a degree of reality that is superior to that of the concrete world. Platonic archetypes form the world and also stand beyond it. They manifest themselves within time and yet are timeless. They constitute the veiled essence of things.'"
Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential
(Caroline Myss)
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“Archetypes represent the precipitate of psychic functioning of the whole ancestral line, i.e., the heaped-up, or pooled, experiences of organic existence in general, a million times repeated, and condensed into types. Hence, in these archetypes all experiences are represented which since primeval time have happened on this planet.”
Basic Writings of C G Jung
(V S DeLasslo, editor)
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