SPIRIT OF THE WORLD |
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Carl Jung
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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."
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"The greatest and best thoughts of man shape themselves upon these primoridial images (the archetypes) as upon a blueprint."
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"Wholeness wants to be transformed from a latent state of unconsciousness into an approximate consciousness of itself."
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"The way in which man inwardly pictures the world is still, despite all differences of detail, as uniform and as regular as his instinctive actions."
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"All the world is God's, and God is in all the world from the very beginning."
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"The collective unconscious, unlike the personal unconscious, is one and the same everywhere, in all individuals, just as all biological functions and all instincts are the same in members of the same species."
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"God is contained in the individual creature."
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"Since olden times the circle with a centre has been a symbol for the Deity, illustrating the wholeness of God incarnate."
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"Religious symbols are phenomena of life, plain facts and not intellectual opinions."
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"Man is an image of the great world, and is called the microcosm or litle world….Therefore, to know the heaven and earth of man, is the same as to have a full and complete knowledge of the whole world and of the things of nature." 'Theatrum Chemicum', VI
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"There are no accidents, but only intentional designs."
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"The self is made manifest in the opposites and in the conflict between them; it is a 'coincidentia oppositorum'."
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"Christ espoused the sinner and did not condemn him. The true follower of Christ will do the same, and, since one should do unto others as one would do unto oneself, one will also take the part of the sinner who is oneself."
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"Man must know something of God's nature and of metaphysical processes if he is to understand himself and thereby achieve gnosis of the Divine."
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"There is probably no more suitable psychological concept for this (the Anima Mundi) than the collective unconscious, whose nucleus and ordering principle is the self, the 'monad' of the alchemists and Gnostics."
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"Sooner or later nuclear physics and the psychology of the unconscious will draw closer together as both of them, independently of one another and from opposite directions, push forward into transcendental territory, the one with the concept of the atom, the other with that of the archetype."
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"Christ did not merely symbolize wholeness, but, as a psychic phenomenon, he was wholeness." 'Aion'
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"In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness. This gradually brings liberation from imprisonment in unconsciousness, and is therefore a bringer of light as well as of healing."
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"The collective unconscious….is not individual but common to all men, and perhaps even to all animals, and is the true basis of the individual psyche."
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"Man has the gift of thought, which can strive after the highest things."
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"God is near you, he is with you, he is within you." Seneca to Lucilius (Gummere translation)
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"Let thy imagination be guided wholly by nature. And observe according to nature, through whom the substances regenerate themselves in the ..earth. And imagine this with true and not with fantastic imagination." Rosarium philosophorum, Art. Aurif., II, p. 214 (medieval alchemical text),
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"The tension of opposites that makes energy possible is a universal law, fittingly expressed in the yang and yin of Chinese philosophy."
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"The unconscious is the universal mediator among men. It is in a sense the all-embracing One, or the one psychic substratum common to all."
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“O great, greatest, incomprehensible fabric of the world, formed in a circle!” ‘Secret Inscription’ in the Great Magic Papyrus of Paris
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