"Choice constitutes growth and differentiation of consciousness. Hence an old Jewish saying, 'Man was born for the sake of choice'. Ample evidence testifies that this dynamic is basic to life, even on the biological level."
Return of the Goddess - Edward C. Whitmont, MD
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Carl Jung
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"Since knowledge of the world dwells in his own bosom, the adept should draw such knowledge out of his knowledge of himself, for the self he must seek to know is a part of that nature which was bodied forth by God's original oneness with the world."
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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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"Certainly the difficulties and adversities of the struggle for existence may oppress us, yet even the worst conditions need not hinder love; on the contrary, they often spur us on to greater efforts."
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"The opposites are necessarily of a characterilogical nature: the existence of a positive virtue implies victory over its opposite, the corresponding vice. Without its counterpart virtue would be pale, ineffective, and unreal." Mysterium Coniunctionis
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"Unity embraces the multiplicity of all beings."
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"Self-knowledge is not an isolated process; it is possible only if the reality of the world around us is recognized at the same time."
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"Mathematics has more than once proved that its purely logical constructions which transcend all experience subsequently coincided with the behaviour of things. This, like the events I call synchronistic, points to a profound harmony between all forms of existence."
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"The idea of the 'anima mundi' [soul of the world] coincides with that of the collective unconscious whose center is the self."
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"It is worth man's while to take pains with himself, and he has something in his soul that can grow."
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“In the one thing are hidden all parts.” Laurentius Ventura, 16th century Venetian physician
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“The ancients could get along with the Greek wisdom of the ages: Exaggerate nothing, all good lies in right measure.”
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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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"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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"There is no balance, no system of self-regulation, without opposition. The psyche is just such a self-regulating system." 'On the Psychology of the Unconscious'
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"Indeed the very intimacy of the relationship between God and the soul precludes from the start any devaluation of the latter."
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"The self is a union of opposites par excellence."
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“There is but one single thing, one medicine.” ‘Abraham le Juif’, from the Paris codex (Fr. 14765)
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“The circle is the primary law.” Aphorism 29 in Horneffer, ‘Nietzches Lehre von der Ewigen Wiederkunft’
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"The spirit is at work in science, in art, philosophy, and religious experience…for there is something in man that is of divine nature….This spirit wants to live."
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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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"Man is a single Monad, uncompounded and indivisible, yet compounded and divisible; loving and at peace with all things yet warring with all things and at war with itself in all things; unlike and like itself, as it were a musical harmony containing all things;…showing forth all things and giving birth to all things." Hippolytus, 'Elenchos' VIII, 12, 5ff.
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"If you know yourself rightly, you will also know the pure nature; for the pure nature is in yourself. And when you know the pure nature which is your true selfhood….then also you will know God, for the Godhead is concealed and wrapped in the pure nature like a kernel in the nutshell." John Pordage (1607-1681), English Alchemist, 'Sophia'
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"Love makes a man better, hate makes him worse – even when that man is oneself."
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"However we may picture the relationship between God and soul, one thing is certain: that the soul cannot be 'nothing but'. On the contrary it has the dignity of an entity endowed with consciousness of a relationship to Deity." 'Introduction to the Religious and Psychological Problems of Alchemy'
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“All things proceed from the meditation of the One.”
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