COLLECTED WORKS
Carl Jung
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"Which of us can improve himself in total isolation? Even the holy anchorite who lives three days' journey off in the desert not only needs to eat and drink but finds himself utterly and terribly dependent on the ceaseless presence of God. Only absolute totality can renew itself out of itself and generate itself anew."
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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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"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 characteristic feature of…synchronistic occurrences is meaningful coincidence, and as such I have defined the synchronistic principle. This principle suggests that there is an inter-connection or unity of causally unrelated events, and thus postulates a unitary aspect of being which can very well be described as the 'unus mundus' [one world]."
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"Everything that happens, happens in the same 'one world' and is a part of it. For this reason events must possess an a priori aspect of unity."
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"The life of the psyche is the life of mankind. Welling up from the depths of the unconscious, its springs gush forth from the root of the whole human race."
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"The all-powerful God….is in every one of us."
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"Let now the savage instincts sleep and all the violence they do; when human love stirs in the deep, the love of God is stirring too." Goethe, 'Faust'
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"Love is the dynamism that most infallibly brings the unconscious to light."
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"God made man to partake of his glory and created him in his image."
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"It can be ascertained with reasonable certainty from the literary records of the past that at least the universal human facts were felt and thought about in very much the same way at all times. Were this not so, all intelligent historiography and all understanding of historical texts would be impossible. Naturally there are differences,…but these differences are mostly on the surface only and lose their significance the more deeply one penetrates into the meaning of the fundamental motifs."
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"This idea of immortality of the individual and of his imperishable worth can be found on the earliest archaic levels."
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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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"He [Christ] reigns and rules over all things in equal power and glory (Ps. 8), and by his most powerful word preserveth and upholdeth all things (Hebr. 1) and maketh all things one (Acts 17)." 'Aquarium sapientium'
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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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"The wholeness of the personality…includes the collective unconscious, which as experience seems to show is everywhere identical."
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"Had there not been an affinity - magnet! - between the figure of the Redeemer and certain contents of the unconscious, the human mind would never have been able to perceive the light shining in Christ and seize upon it so passionately." 'Aion'
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"Do you wish to see the transfigured Christ? Ascend that mountain and learn to know yourself." Richard of St. Victor, 'Benjamin Minor', cols. 53-56
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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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"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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"Experience has amply confirmed that, in the psyche as in nature, a tension of opposites creates a potential which may express itself at any time in a manifestation of energy. Between above and below flows the waterfall, and between hot and cold there is a turbulent exchange of molecules. Similarly, between the psychic opposites there is generated a uniting symbol."
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"The circular sea with no outlet, which perpetually replenishes itself by means of a spring bubbling up in its centre, is to be found in [the writings of] Nicholas of Cusa as an allegory of God."
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"Circular is the matrix of the perfect form."
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"For what, pray, can be added to the One, what is lacking to it, or on what can it be supported? For in truth nothing exists beside that One." Gerhard Dorn, medieval Alchemist
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“According to Basilius Valentinus, the earth is inhabited by a spirit that is its life and soul. All created things, minerals included, draw their strength from the earth-spirit. This spirit is life…and it gives nourishment to all the living things it shelters in its womb.”
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