COLLECTED WORKS
Carl Jung
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"They [mandalas] are among the oldest religious symbols of humanity and may even have existed in paleolithic times (cf. the Rhodesian rock paintings). Moreover they are distributed all over the world."
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"According to Mechthild of Magdeburg, the soul is compounded of love."
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"The self is a union of opposites par excellence."
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"Morality is a universal attribute of the human psyche."
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"Christ is the still living myth of our culture. He is our culture hero who embodies the myth of the divine Primordial Man. He is in us and we in him." 'Aion'
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“Self-knowledge is not possible without knowledge of God.”
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"The One is the midpoint of the circle."
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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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"Religious symbols are phenomena of life, plain facts and not intellectual opinions."
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"The archetypes…are to be understood as inborn modes of functioning that constitute, in their totality, man's nature."
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"According to Hippolytus ('Elenchos', IV, 43. 4), the Egyptians said that God was an indivisible unity."
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"Myth is not fiction; it consists of facts that are continually repeated and can be observed over and over again."
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"As Seneca says: 'God is near you, he is with you, he is within you,' or, as in the First Epistle of John, 'He who does not love does not know God; for God is love,' and 'If we love one another, God abides in us.' (1 John 4:8 and 12)
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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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"Although 'wholeness' seems at first sight to be nothing but an abstract idea, it is nevertheless empirical in so far as it is anticipated by the psyche in the form of spontaneous or autonomous symbols. These are the quaternity or mandala symbols, which occur not only in the dreams of modern people who have never heard of them, but are widely disseminated in the historical records of many peoples and many epochs. Their significance as symbols of unity and totality is amply confirmed by history as well as by empirical psychology. What at first looks like an abstract idea stands in reality for something that exists and can be experienced, that demonstrates its a priori presence spontaneously."
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"Immortality is a clock that never runs down, a mandala that revolves eternally like the heavens."
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“The source of it all is the Divine Will.” Theatre Chemicum, II
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"When all visible lights are extinguished, one finds, according to the words of the wise Yajnavalkya, the light of the self."
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"The self is made manifest in the opposites and in the conflict between them; it is a 'coincidentia oppositorum'."
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“It is a great mystery, one unique mother of all mortal things, and they have all originated in her.” Paracelsus
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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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"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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"The religious need longs for wholeness, and therefore lays hold of the images of wholeness offered by the unconscious, which, independently of the conscious mind, rise up from the depths of our psychic nature."
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“However much its names may differ, yet it is ever one thing alone.” ‘Rosarium’, Art. Aurif., II
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"Every tension of opposites culminates in a release, out of which comes the 'third'. In the third, the tension is resolved and the lost unity is restored."
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