C. G. JUNG: LETTERS, 1951-1961
Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors
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"The archetypes are in us, and eternal." Charles Lamb, 'The Essays of Elia (1821)
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"The solidarity and communal life of mankind go to the roots of existence."
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"There is no energy without opposites."
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"There is as little doubt of the existence of a supreme being as of matter. The world beyond is a reality, an experiential fact."
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"What we need is the development of the inner spiritual man, the unique individual whose treasure is hidden on the one hand in the symbols of our mythological tradition, and on the other hand in man's unconscious psyche."
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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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"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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"That which is eternally present appears in the temporal order as a succession."
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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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"The archetypal world is 'eternal', i.e., outside time, and it is everywhere."
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"Man (Anthropos) is the visible manifestation of the original One, i.e., God."
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"The paths leading to a common truth are many. Therefore each of us has first to stand by his own truth, which is then gradually reduced to a common truth by mutual discussion. All this requires psychological understanding and empathy with the other's point of view. A common task for every group in quest of a common truth."
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"Archetypes are forms of different aspects expressing the creative psychic background. They are and always have been numinous and therefore 'divine.' In a very generalizing way we can therefore define them as attributes of the creator. That would explain the compelling character of such inner perceptions."
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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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"God is the One, the All."
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"Emotions have a typical 'pattern' (fear, anger, sorrow, hatred, etc.); that is, they follow an inborn archetype which is universally human and arouses the same ideas and feelings in everyone."
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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 depth of the psyche, the unconscious, is not made by man but is divinely created nature."
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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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"Whole numbers may well be the discovery of God's 'primal thoughts.'"
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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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"I'm inclined to believe that something of the human soul remains after death, since already in this conscious life we have evidence that the psyche exists in a relative space and in a relative time, that is in a relatively non-extended and eternal state."
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"Becoming conscious reconciles the opposites."
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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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"Every self has the quality of belonging to the 'self of all selves,' and the self of all selves consists of individual selves."
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