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."
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"The centre is the indivisible monad of the self, the unity and wholeness of the experiencing subject."
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"Whole numbers may well be the discovery of God's 'primal thoughts.'"
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"That which is eternally present appears in the temporal order as a succession."
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"The 'imago Dei' [God-image], is the archetype of the self in us."
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"The depth of the psyche, the unconscious, is not made by man but is divinely created nature."
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"Many paths lead to the central experience. But the nearer one gets to the centre the easier it is to understand the other paths that lead there."
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"The archetypes are in us, and eternal." Charles Lamb, 'The Essays of Elia (1821)
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"Christ is the first-born who is succeeded by an ever-increasing number of younger brothers and sisters."
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"The secret passion which keeps spiritual techniques alive through the centuries is connected with an original experience of wholeness."
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"The self is a unit, consisting however of two, i.e., of opposites, otherwise it would not be a totality."
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"Man is the mirror which God holds up to himself, or the sense organ with which he apprehends his being."
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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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"Synchronicity…is an all-pervading factor or principle in the universe, i.e., in the Unus Mundus [One World]."
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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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"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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"If you learn about yourself and if eventually you discover more or less who you are, you also learn about God, and who He is."
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"God is certainly Being itself."
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"Man (Anthropos) is the visible manifestation of the original One, i.e., God."
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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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"Mandalas are also formed with the hands, danced, and represented in music (for instance Bach's 'Art of Fugue')….When a mandala is being formed, everything round and square known to man works on it too. But the impetus for its formation comes from the unconscious archetype."
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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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"Christ is in us and we in him! Why shouldn't the workings of God and the presence of the Son of Man in us be real and experienceable? I thank God every day that I have been permitted to experience the reality of the imago Dei in me."
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"I know that the psyche is capable of functioning unhampered by the categories of time and space. Ergo, it is in itself an equally transcendental being and therefore relatively non-spatial and 'eternal.'"
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