C. G. JUNG: LETTERS, 1951-1961
Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors
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"The Deity has taken its abode in man with the obvious intention of realizing Its Good in man."
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"The way to the cognition of God begins with the cognition of oneself."
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"The archetypes have a life of their own which extends through the centuries and gives the aeons their peculiar stamp."
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"Becoming conscious reconciles the opposites."
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"Why do we ask about God at all? God effervesces in you and sets you to the most wondrous speculations."
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"That which is eternally present appears in the temporal order as a succession."
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"Man and his soul, the individual, doesn't just work, eat, sleep, reproduce, and die but also has a meaningful destiny reaching far beyond him."
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"Everything living dreams of individuation, for everything strives towards its own wholeness."
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"In every feature Christ's life is a prototype of individuation."
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"The 'Holy Ghost' is an impelling force, creating wider consciousness and responsibility and thus enriched cognition. The real history of the world seems to be the progressive incarnation of the deity."
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"The 'imago Dei' [God-image], is the archetype of the self in us."
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"Myth is pre-eminently a social phenomenon: it is told by the many and heard by the many. It gives the ultimately unimaginable religious experience an image, a form in which to express itself, and thus makes community life possible."
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"That Christ is the self of man is implicit in the gospel, but the conclusion Christ = self has never been explicitly drawn. This is an assignment of new meaning, a further stage in the incarnation or actualization of Christ."
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"The psychological 'merit' (or rather, significance) of Christ consists in the fact that, as the 'firstling', he is the prototype of the integral man. This image, as history testifies, is numinous and can therefore be answered only by another numinosity. It touches the imago Dei, the archetype of the self in us, and thereby awakens it. The self is then 'constellated' and by virtue of its numinosity compels man toward wholeness, i.e., towards the integration of the unconscious or the subordination of the ego to a holistic 'will', which is rightly conceived to be 'God's will."
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"I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story. It has been long before I was, and it will most probably continue after the conscious interval in a three-dimensional existence."
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"I do KNOW of a power of a very personal nature and an irresistible influence. I call it 'God.' I use this term because it has been used for this kind of experience since time immemorial. From this point of view any gods, Zeus, Wotan, Allah, Yahweh, the Summum Bonum, etc., have their intrinsic truth. They are different and more or less differentiated expressions or aspects of one ineffable truth."
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"If turmoil and torment become too great, there is still the oneness of the self, the divine spark within its inviolable precincts."
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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."
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"Looking at it in one way, we do indeed partake of divinity, as Christ himself pointed out when he said: 'Ye are gods.' (1 John 10:34)."
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"The archetypal world is 'eternal', i.e., outside time, and it is everywhere."
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"God is certainly Being itself."
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"God is the One, the All."
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"The realm of the psyche is immeasurably great and filled with living reality. At its brink lies the secret of matter and of spirit."
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"Be aware of the law of synchronicity. As the old Chinese saying goes: 'The right man sitting in his house and thinking the right thought will be heard 100 miles away.'"
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"The solidarity and communal life of mankind go to the roots of existence."
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