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"Numbers keep recurring not because we make them do so but because they are inherent in the proportions of nature that express the timeless mathematical archetypes."
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science
(Michael S. Schneider)
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"The archetypes are abstract patterns formulated in the Divine Mind."
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
(Manly P. Hall)
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"Certain basic images are universal. From culture to culture, they may vary somewhat in surface details, or content, but in underlying form they are basically the same. These include the archetypes of figures such as the Hero, the Wise Old Man, the Great Mother, the Self, the Sun-God, the Demon, and events such as Birth, Death, the Initiation Rite, the Sacred Marriage."
The Sphinx and The Rainbow: Brain, Mind and Future Vision
(David Loye)
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"At that moment, when true Ideas rise up, there occurs in the soul of him who sees them an altogether indescribable process of the highest intensity. It is the amazed awe that Plato speaks of in the Phaedrus, with which the soul remembers, as it were, something it had unconsciously possessed all along." Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), 'Science and the Beautiful'
Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists
(Ken Wilber, editor)
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"Appearing in dreams, fantasy, art, myth, and religion, and even in scientific thought, the archetypes design the entire field of human experience."
Journey Into Consciousness: The Chakras, Tantra and Jungian Psychology
(Charles Breaux)
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"Growth at all levels must include spiritual development as its most subtle and valuable aspect. The life of the spirit, manifest in the psyche, must evolve in accordance with certain principles and forms, which, in turn, must be related to all the other levels of human existence...to designate these principles and forms Jung has adopted the term 'archetypes.' Violet Staub deLaszlo, introduction
Basic Writings of C G Jung
(V S DeLasslo, editor)
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"In its created being (the soul) incessantly receives the impress of its Eternal Archetype, like a flawless mirror, in which the image remains steadfast and in which the reflection is renewed without interruption by its ever-new reception in new light." John of Ruysbroeck, 'Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage'
Behold the Spirit, A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion
(Alan Watts)
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"The extraordinary degree of similarity between symbolic manifestations and the agreement about what they signify across history and across the planet points to their archetypal roots in the phylogenetic psyche (the collective unconscious) of humanity."
Ariadne's Clue, A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind
(Anthony Stevens)
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"The physicist's models ultimately rest on the same archetypal foundations that also underlie the speculations of the theologian."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"The archetypes serve as blueprints to guide the growing forms. They are like the perfect song on a conceptual level which individual singers bring into being in their unique way."
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight
(Shirley Nicholson)
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"Ideas, by the analysis St. Anselm makes of them, are thenselves things; and for them to be is indication of something concerning the nature of things." Richard McKeon, introduction to St. Anselm
Selections From Medieval Philosophers
(Richard McKeon, editor and translator)
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"Culture and psyche are not opposed entities but two aspects of the same psychobiological process – the actualization of innate archetypal propensities."
Ariadne's Clue, A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind
(Anthony Stevens)
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"The archetypes…are to be understood as inborn modes of functioning that constitute, in their totality, man's nature."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"Universal archetypes are valid for all human beings, irrespective of race, culture and social conditions." Lama Anagarika Govinda, 'Symbols of Transformation'
The American Theosophist
(various)
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"Archetypal images are not remnants of archaic thought, not a dead deposit, but part of a living system of interactions between the human psyche and the outer world."
Mirrors of The Self, Archetypal Images That Shape Your Life
(Christine Downing, editor)
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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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"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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"Archetypes are forms of different aspects expressing the creative psychic background. They are and always have been numinous and therefore 'divine.' In a very generalizing way we can therefore define them as attributes of the creator. That would explain the compelling character of such inner perceptions."
C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961
(Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors)
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"As animals of the same kind show the same instinctual phenomena all over the world, man also shows the same archetypal forms no matter where he lives. As animals have no need to be taught their instinctive activities, so man also possesses his primordial psychic patterns and repeats them spontaneously, independently of any kind of teaching."
C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961
(Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors)
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"The archetypal world is 'eternal', i.e., outside time, and it is everywhere."
C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961
(Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors)
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"The archetypes represent the uniquely human means whereby instinctual, biological energy is transformed into the meaningful symbolic life of the human psyche." J. J. Clarke
The Strong Eye of Shamanism, A Journey Into the Caves of Consciousness
(Robert E. Ryan, Ph.D.)
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"Physically the structure of a cell retains its identity, even while the matter that composes it is continually altered. The cell rebuilds itself in line with its own pattern of identity, yet is always a part of emerging action, alive and responding even in the midst of its own multitudinous deaths. So psychological structures form to which various names are given. The names are meaningless, but the structures behind them are not. Such psychological structures also retain their identity, their pattern of uniqueness, even while they change constantly, die and are reborn."
The Nature of Personal Reality
(Jane Roberts)
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“Archetypes are universal themes – cross-cultural, transhistorical, and transreligious in world consciousness, i.e., in the collective Self.”
Mary Within
(David Richo)
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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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"Archetypal ideas are part of the indestructible foundations of the human mind. However long they are forgotten and buried, always they return….continually reproducing themselves in new forms representing the timeless truths that are innate in man's nature."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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