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ARCHETYPES
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"The material world illustrates for us the Archetypal Powers in action, and then the pattern of the Archetypal Powers gives us a further clue by which we can penetrate more deeply into the lessons of the material world without losing our way."
The Sword and The Serpent
(Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips)
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"Nature can put us in touch with the archetype of regeneration."
A Passion for This Earth, Exploring a New Partnership of Man, Woman & Nature
(Valerie Andrews)
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"Each god has his sympathetic representative in the animal, the vegetable, and the mineral world." Proclus (410-485ad), Greek philosopher
Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works
(John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)
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"In the psyche, at a depth which cannot be called 'personal', there exist the great archetypal images. These images are demonstrably related to the true Archetypes; and although, in dreams for instance, they may sometimes move in the personal levels of the psyche and participate in actions which reflect personal conditions, still their more profound character is manifest."
The Sword and The Serpent
(Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips)
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"The purpose of human learning and philosophy is to reawaken in the soul remembrance of the eternal, spiritual realm of pure forms and ideas."
The Roots of Consciousness
(Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D.)
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"The Godhead IS, and his 'isness' contains goodness, love, wisdom, in their essence and principle." Meister Eckhart
The Perennial Philosophy
(Aldous Huxley)
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"Number should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature both within and without." Marie Louise vonFranz
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science
(Michael S. Schneider)
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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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"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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"The greatest and best thoughts of man shape themselves upon these primoridial images (the archetypes) as upon a blueprint."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"All my life, as a student of mythologies, I have been working with these archetypes, and I can tell you, they DO exist and are the same all over the world."
Myths To Live By
(Joseph Campbell)
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"The earth is identical with the sublime figure of Wisdom….On closer examination this is really a tremendous thought. The 'Wisdom of God' in the Bible was the playmate of Yahweh, who was with him before the beginning of the world. In patristic literature she was defined as the 'archetypal world' or as the sum of eternal ideas in the mind of God, the prototypes from which he created all things."
Aurora Consurgens
(Marie Louise vonFranz)
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"The 'Ideal Forms' are the archetypal or formative ideas…the eternal and subjective concepts of things subsisting in the divine mind prior to becoming."
The Secret Doctrine
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"This world is but the shadow of God….All that is in the invisible archetypal sphere is revealed in the sensible corporeal world by the light of Nature."
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
(Manly P. Hall)
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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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"The archetypes of the psychic processes – in which the great universal truths about the nature of man are contained – rest in the deepest recesses of the objective unconscious."
Jung's Psychology and Its Social Meaning
(Ira Progoff, Ph.D.)
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"Archetypes are vital to understanding and defining who we are, individual expressions of a collective consciousness."
Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire
(Deepak Chopra)
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"I understand that there arise and are made in me, when I seek them out earnestly, certain ideas like intelligible species, of the intelligibles within, which I contemplate with the mind alone." John Scotus Eriugena (800?-877?), 'On The Division of Nature',
Selections From Medieval Philosophers
(Richard McKeon, editor and translator)
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"Dr. Jung points out that he has borrowed his term 'archetype' from classic sources: Cicero, Pliny, the Corpus Hermeticum, Augustine, etc. ('Psychology and Religion', par. 89). Bastian notes the correspondence of his own theory of 'Elementary Ideas' with the Stoic concept of the 'Logoi spermatikoi'. The tradition of the 'subjectively known forms' (Sanskrit: antarjneyarupa) is, in fact, coextensive with the tradition of myth, and is the key to the understanding and use of mythological images."
Hero With A Thousand Faces
(Joseph Campbell)
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"All things have their life and being from the wisdom of God…for according to the wisdom of God, which is the life of all things, was made all that was made…and this [wisdom] is that archetypal world, after whose likeness this sensible world was made." Hugh of St. Victor
Aurora Consurgens
(Marie Louise vonFranz)
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"Wherever conscious life becomes one-sided or adopts a false attitude, these [archetypal] images instinctively rise to the surface in dreams and in the visions of artists and seers to restore the psychic balance, whether of the individual or of the epoch."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"Since the archetypes, or elementary ideas, are not limited in their distributions by cultural or even linguistic boundaries, they cannot be defined as culturally determined."
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, Metaphor as Myth and as Religion
(Joseph Campbell)
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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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"The archetypes have a life of their own which extends through the centuries and gives the aeons their peculiar stamp."
C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961
(Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors)
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"Quintessentially, archetypes are about relationship….As inhabitants of the We Are realm, archetypes bridge spirit with nature, mind with body, and self with universe. They are always within us, essential elements within the structure of our psyches."
A Mythic Life, Learning to Live our Greater Story
(Jean Houston)
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