COLLECTED WORKS
Carl Jung
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"There was a time when the utterances of mythology were entirely original, when they were numinous experiences, and anyone who takes the trouble can observe these subjective experiences even today."
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"In God all opposites are abolished."
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"When I say as a psychologist that God is an archetype, I mean by that the 'type' in the psyche. The word 'type' is, as we know, derived from (the Greek word for) 'blow' or 'imprint'; thus an archetype presupposes an imprinter." 'Psychology and Alchemy'
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“The circle is the primary law.” Aphorism 29 in Horneffer, ‘Nietzches Lehre von der Ewigen Wiederkunft’
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"A movement that grips a whole nation must have matured in every individual as well."
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"Self-realization or – what comes to the same thing – the urge to individuation gathers together what is scattered and multifarious, and exalts it to the original form of the One."
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"That there is something beyond the borderline, beyond the frontiers of knowledge, is shown by the archetypes and most clearly of all, by numbers, which this side of the border are quantities but on the other side are autonomous psychic entities, capable of making qualitative statements which manifest themselves in a priori patterns of order." 'Flying Saucers: a Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies'
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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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"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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"All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes. This is particularly true of religious ideas, but the central concepts of science, philosophy, and ethics are no exception to this rule. In their present form they are variants of archetypal ideas, created by consciously applying and adapting these ideas to reality. For it is the function of consciousness not only to recognize and assimilate the external world through the gateway of the senses, but to translate into visible reality the world within us." 'The Structure of the Psyche'
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"The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution, born anew in the brain structure of every individual." 'The Structure of the Psyche'
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"Ultimately, every individual life is at the same time the eternal life of the species." 'Psychology and Religion'
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"In the last analysis every life is the realization of a whole, that is, of a self."
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"The mandala…portrays an autonomous psychic fact, characterized by a phenomenology which is always repeating itself and is everywhere the same. It seems to be a sort of atomic nucleus."
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"Old Heraclitus, who was indeed a very great sage, discovered the most marvelous of all psychological laws: the regulative function of opposites. He called it 'enantiodromia', a running contrariwise, by which he meant that sooner or later everything runs into its opposite."
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"It is dawning on us that humanity is ONE, with ONE psyche."
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"The most important of the fundamental instincts [is] the religious instinct for wholeness."
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"God clothes himself in our human nature."
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"There is an incorruptible essence potentially present in every human being."
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“If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.”
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"The alchemist…knew definitely that as part of the whole he had an image of the whole in himself."
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"A knowledge of mythology is needed in order to grasp the meaning of a content deriving from the deeper levels of the psyche." 'The Structure of the Psyche'
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"The goal of psychological, as of biological development is self-realization….self-realization – to put it in religious or metaphysical terms – amounts to God's incarnation."
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"That Jacob Boehme should obtain a glimpse into the center of nature by means of a sunbeam reflected in a tin platter is understandable."
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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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