COLLECTED WORKS
Carl Jung
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“Everything is connected with everything else and therefore, despite their multifarious modes of manifestation, they are at bottom a unity.”
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“And behold it is One thing, One root, One essence with nothing extraneous added.” Nicolaus Melchior, chaplain at King Louis II’s court, 1490-1516
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"As history shows, incalculable psychic forces transform the life of peoples and civilizations in ways that are unforeseen and unforseeable."
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"Man has the gift of thought, which can strive after the highest things."
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"The invisible centre is Adam Kadmon, the Original Man."
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"The history of religion in its widest sense (including therefore mythology, folklore, and primitive psychology) is a treasure-house of archetypal forms from which [we] can draw helpful parallels and enlightening comparisons for the purpose of calming and clarifying a consciusness that is all at sea."
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"God is contained in the individual creature."
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"Imagination is a concentrated extract of the life forces, both physical and psychic." 'Psychology and Alchemy'
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“For the alchemists the world was an image and symbol of God.”
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"The one attracts the one, and the one rules the one…It is the whole in all things. And it has life and spirit." Zosimos, 3rd century Alchemist, 'Alch. Grecs', III, ix
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"My body is a shell in which a chick lies closed about; brooded by the spirit of eternity, it waits its hatching out." Angelus Silesius, 'The Cherubinic Wanderer'
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"The mandala represents the idea of totality."
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"Myth is the primordial language natural to these (unconscious) psychic processes, and no intellectual formulation comes anywhere near the richness and expressiveness of mythical imagery." 'Psychology and Alchemy'
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"A species of magical power capable of transforming even brute matter dwells in the human mind." 'Psychology and Alchemy'
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"God made man to partake of his glory and created him in his image."
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"Our own psyche [is] constantly at work creating new spiritual forms and spiritual forces which may help us."
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"The existence of the atom and its components may well consist in a continually repeated process of rejuvenation, and one comes to similar conclusions in trying to account for the numinosity of the archetypes."
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"The animate world is the larger circle, man is the smaller circle. He is the microcosm. Consequently, everything without is within, everything above is below. Between all things in the larger and smaller circles reigns 'correspondence'."
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"We understand another person in the same way as we understand, or seek to understand, ourselves."
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“Heraclius said: This magistery proceeds first from one root, which afterwards expands into several things, and returns again to the one.” Morienus, ‘De transmutatione metall’
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"Spirit and matter may well be forms of one and the same transcendental being. For instance the Tantrists say that matter is nothing other than the concreteness of God's thoughts."
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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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"'Time' is a relative concept and needs to be complemented by that of the 'simultaneous' existence, in the Bardo or pleroma, of all historical processes. What exists in the pleroma as an eternal process appears in time as an aperiodic sequence."
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"The self is a union of opposites par excellence."
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"The wholeness of the personality…includes the collective unconscious, which as experience seems to show is everywhere identical."
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