• - Jung died in 1961.
• - If he become lax at his task, he took ill.
• - In "Late Thoughts" are his deepest convictions.
• - Information he was not at liberty to divulge.
• - This book contains Jung's religious testament.
• - his childhood visions
• - His discovery that the psyche spontaneously produces images with a religious content.
• - His conception of a God who is not entirely good.
• - Thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun. - Attracted to Him
• - The God-image in the human psyche
• - His controversial book "Answer to Job"
• - I have suffered enough from incomprehension and from the isolation one falls into when one says things that people don't understand.
• - His collected works comprise nearly twenty volumes.
• - My life is a story of the self-realization of the unconscious.
• - We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct.
• - Life is like a plant that lives on its rhizome.
• - The etymology of the word "phallus" - shining, bright (upward eye - man eater)
• - His father and eight uncles were parsons.
• - As a child he witnessed a large comet on the eastern horizon.
• - Jung had neurotic fainting spells.
• - Jung spoke of his higher ego as an old man who lived in the eighteenth century.
• - Then as now I am a solitary, because I know things and must hint at things which other people do not know.
• - A temple in which anyone who entered was transformed and suddenly overpowered by a vision of the whole cosmos.
• - This grace was accorded only to one who fulfilled the will of God without reservation.
• - And when I was there, - I was outside time.
• - The devil, for he too was a creature of God.
• - Goethe's "Faust", a miraculous balm.
• - There was a sudden inner silence, as though a sound- proof door had been closed on a noisy room. - A mood of cool curiousity came over me - excited
• - It was as though a breath of the great world of stars and endless space had touched me, or as if a spirit had invisibly entered the room.
• - Perpetually present in timelessness until far into the future.
• - In the light of - dawn on
• - He liked Gothic cathedrals.
• - Book: Only in Meister Eckhart did I feel the breath of life. But the great find resulting from my researches was Schopenhauer.
• - Kant afforded me an even greater illumination.
• - The best poem is the one which conceals the effort of creation.
• - revolves, rises, or falls, had all become one
• - Mountains: Where one can be without having to ask anything. - God's world
• - the genius loci of Brother Klaus
• - My insight had been slowly ripening for a long time and had then suddenly broken through in a dream. "This process"
• - Tower of Man: From the air they drew a certain inconceivable something which was conducted down the copper column into the cellar. - Here I had an equally inconceivable apparatus, a kind of laboratory in which I made gold out of the mysterious substance which the copper roots drew from the air. - Spiritual essence
• P 89- For the extraordinary idea that in the light of consciousness the inner realm of light appears as a gigantic shadow was not something I would have hit on of my own accord.
• - I knew it emotionally beyond a doubt.
• - Jung had an eighteenth century doctor as a guide.
• - The further from understanding, the longer the shadows reflected from the divine.
• - We the victims and promoters of a collective spirit whose years are counted in centuries.
• - At least a part of our being lives in the centuries.
• - From the Latin: Go not outside; truth dwells in the inner man.
• - The necessary experience - the most evident of all experiences - epistemology
• - One of those magical, infinitely profound dreams which He had sent to me.
• - Yes, He had even allowed me a glimpse into His own being.
• - No one to say the saving word.
• - God Himself had disavowed theology and the Church founded upon it.
• - Like all God's creatures are furnished with the dimmest light, never enough to illuminate the darkness in which they grope.
• - Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream.
• - The devil, properly speaking, had been born with Christianity.
• - Psychics of the eighteenth century: Zoellner and Crookes.
• - Kant's "Dreams of a Spirit Seer" (Book)
• - Also read Karl Duprel's book.
• - And read seven volumes of Swedenborg
• - What was of burning interest to me was null and void for others, and even a cause for dread.
• - And God's thoughts (plants and crystals)
• - No longer would I stand outside the world.
• - Read Nietzsche's book "Thus Spake Zarathustra".
• - Nietzsche had discovered his number 2 only late in life, when he was already past middle age; whereas I had known mine ever since boyhood.
• - Nietzsche had spoken naively and incautiously about this arrheton, this thing not to be named, as though it were quite in order.
• - What an insult it is to talk to one's fellows about anything that is unknown to them.
• - My mother's no. 2 looked at me.
• - Feeling that I was a united double nature carried me as if on a magical wave.
• - Dementia praecox or schizophrenia
• - Bizet's music put me in a springlike, nuptial mood.
• P120- Key to treatment - is the patient's secret, the rock against which he is shattered.
• - One patient uttered; I am the Lorelei, I am Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter.
• - Another patient: She heard voices which were distributed throughout her entire body, and a voice in the middle of the thorax was "God's voice". - After six years the voices were only on the left half of her body.
• - for incest is traditionally a prerogative of royalty and divinities.
• - Jung realized the importance of symbolism and mythology in treating psychosis in 1909.
• - He related the "collective views".
• - The psyche is the half of the world which comes into existence only when we become conscious of it.
• - The collective unconscious is common to all; it is the foundation of what the ancients called the sympathy of all things.
• - A Chassidim rabbi is called a Zaddik, kind of a saint and also possessed second sight.
• P139- An apostate to the Jewish faith. He betrayed the secret and turned his back on God. (???)
• - She had no mythological ideas, and therefore the most essential feature of her nature could find no way to express itself.
• - Jung had sensed the presence of the numen.
• - The idea of development was always of the highest importance to me.
• - Most of his patients were non-believers.
• - Mass is a symbol.
• - But to live and experience symbols presupposes a vital participation on the part of the believer.
• - The healing spa: The pool of Bethesda.
• - The light wind is the pneuma which bloweth where it listeth.
• - Christ, the numen by the pool?
• - Wherever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fright.
• - The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most.
• - We might have psychic reality
• - Jung's patients: One-third cured, one-third improved, one-third no change.
• - Doctor/patient: The rapport consists, after all, in a constant comparison, in the dialectical confrontation of two opposing psychic realities. They must become a problem to each other to impinge.
• - Neurotic - that is, divided against themselves.
• - felt this dichotomy to the depths of his being. (Division by two?)
• - The spirit does not dwell in concepts, but in deeds and in facts.
• - Anything can be settled by an intellect that is not subject to the controll of feeling. - And yet the intellectual still suffers from a neurosis if feeling is undeveloped.
• - Patients paraded an endless stream of images.
• - (Although Jung respected Freud, he had reservations, as I do.)
• - did not know that everything which arises out of the unconscious has a top and a bottom, an inside and an outside.
• - Freud: A man in the grip of his daimon.
• - Single motivating psychic force - like politive and negative electrical charges.
• - It is no secret that "Zarathustra" is the proclaimer of a gospel.
• - Numinous - both a god and a devil.
• P154- The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense.
• - Nothing has any existence unless some small - and oh, so transitory - consciousness has become aware of it.
• - Libido equates to transformation
• - Study the polarity and dymanics of the psyche.
• - Jung studied occultism over several decades.
• - It was as if my diaphragm were made of iron and were becoming red-hot. - He caused a loud report; an example of a so-called catalytic exteriorization phenomenon.
• - Jung tells of peat-bog corpses in N. Germany, Holstein, Denmark, and Sweden. These are mummified bodies of pre-historic men.
• - Jung believed that myths veiled deep mysteries, such as the symbols and meaning of life.
• - People who know nothing about nature are of course neurotic, for they are not adapted to reality.
• - As for a totally rational approach to life, that is, as experience shows, impossible.
• - Freud himself had a neurosis.
• - The spiritual significance of incest as a symbol.
• - Be sure to read Jung's book about the libido. Especially the chapter called "The Sacrifice".
• - Sex: Its spiritual aspects and its numinous meaning. The expression of the chthonic spirit - the dark face of God.
• - "When mystified" he analized Freud.
• - The assimilation of the fundamental insight that psychic life has two poles still remains a task for the future.
• - Now you possess a key to mythology and are free to unlock all the gates of the unconscious psyche.
• - I had explained the myths of peoples of the past; I had written a book about the hero, the myth in which man has always lived.
• - Only in the first hours of the night can I (the Dove) transform myself into a human being, while the male dove is busy with the twelve dead. - Then she flew off into the blue air.
• P172- Book: Read "Tabula Smaragdina", about the emerald table, and the alchemy of Hermes Trismegistos, written upon it.
• - There upon I said to myself, "Since I know nothing at all, I shall simply do whatever occurs to me." Thus I consciously submitted myself to the impulses of the unconscious.
• - Memories are accompanied by emotion. - There is still life in these things.
• - In 1912 he had two visions of the flood of Northern Europe. In 1914 he foresaw the land froze to ice in the middle of Summer.
• - Jung studied dreams and fantasies.
• - I had to do certain yoga exercises in order to hold my emotions in check.
• - Then I abandoned this restraint upon the emotions and allowed the images and inner voices to speak.
• - Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.
• - It was during Advent of the year 1913 - December 12 to be exact. - I was sitting - Then I let myself drop. Suddenly it was as though the ground literally gave way beneath my feet, and I plunged down into dark depths. But then, abruptly, at not too great a depth, I landed on my feet in a soft, sticky mass. In twilight - Before me was the entrance to a dark cave, in which stood a dwarf with a leathery skin.
• - Through icy water to the other end of the cave where, on a projecting rock, I saw a glowing red crystal I grasped the stone, lifted it, and discovered a hollow underneath. There was running water. - A corpse - He was followed by a gigantic black scarab, and then by a red, newborn son - then blood.
• - The above "a hero and solar myth".
• - The rebirth symbolized by the Egyptian scarab.
• - The dawn of the new day should have followed
• - December 18, 1913 he had another dream where he helped kill Seigfried, and was told: "If you do not understand the dream, you must shoot yourself!"
• - Archetypes speak the language of high rhetoric - sometimes feeling it with my mouth.
• - Below the threshold of consciousness everything was seething with life.
• - For there are higher things than the ego's will.
• - Symbols: The brown skinned native is the primitive shadow. - Rain is the tension between consciousness and the unconscious was being resolved.
• - New forces were released in me which helped me to carry the experiment with the unconscious to a con- clusion.
• - I frequently imaged a steep descent. I even made several attempts to get to a very bottom. The first attempt to 1000 feet depth, second time at the edge of a cosmic abyss. First came the image of a crater. (Dead?) Then came Salome and Elijah. - Whom he did not understand. - Then a black serpent.
• P182- Meditation: One frequently encounters an old man who is accompanied by a young girl.
• - The snake was an indication of a hero-myth.
• - Salome is an anima figure. She is blind because she does not see the meaning of things.
• - Salome, the erotic element.
• - The two represent "Logos and Eros".
• - Then Jung had a dream of a winged old man with four keys. - With bull's horns!
• - He had dialogues with personalities he met there. One figure (Egypto - Hellenistic - Gnostic) repre- sented superior insight. New figures appeared for each new areas of learning.
• - Philemon disentangled for me the involuntary crea- tions of my imaginations.
• - Between the kingfisher's wing and the head of Ka floats a round, glowing nebula of stars. - I am he who buries the gods in gold and gems. - Ka the earth or metal demon. - Like the Anthroparion of Greek alchemy. - A tiny man who does your bidding. Ka made earth real - also obscured the halcyon spirit.
• - Jung integrated his two natures through the study of alchemy.
• - Others may do these efforts.
• - I recognized it as the voice of a patient, a talented psychopath who had a strong transference to me. She had become a living figure within my mind.
• - Visions of Zosimos of Panopolis, an important alchemist of the third century.
• - After feeling great inner resistance, Jung suggested she use his speech centers, and she did.
• - The soul, called the anima, is the feminine part of a man. Woman has a male part of her spirit called the animus.
• - He wrote to display his views to his anima.
• - The old Greek maxim: Give away all that thou hast, then shalt thou receive.
• - The eccential thing is to differentiate one self from these unconscious contents by personifying them.
• - Thus the insinuations of the anima, the mouthpiece of the unconscious, can utterly destroy men.
• - I always turned to the anima when I felt that my emotional behavior was disturbed. I would then ask the anima: Now what are you up to? What do you see? I should like to know? - As soon as the image was there, the unrest or the sense of oppression vanished. - Today I no longer have such emotions.
• - Mandala drawings, which have a magical effect upon the psyche, were first written in the Black Book; later in the illustrated Red Book.
• - His life work was translating the unconscious.
• - Goethe's words: Now let me dare to open wide the gate, past which men's steps have ever flinching trod.
• P189- The second part of Faust, too, was more than a lit- erary exercise. - It is a link in the "Aurea Catena" which has existed from the beginnings to philosoph- ical alchemy and Gnosticism down to Nietzsche's "Zarathustra". It is a voyage of discovery to the other pole of the world.
• - The "Golden Chain" is a series of great wise men, linking heaven and earth.
• - Jung secretly authored "The Seven Sermons to the Dead", by Basilides in Alexandria. Written on request of ghost-air thick with ghosts.
• - For the unconscious corresponds to the mythic land of the dead.
• - Soon after the disappearance of my soul the dead appeared to me, and the result was the Septem Sermones.
• - From then on, my life belonged to the generality. Service to psyche was his greatest wealth.
• - Understand and draw ethical conclusions from the symbolic images that arise.
• - If we pay heed to what the inner personality desires and says, the sting vanishes.
• - Mandalas are small circular drawings of his inner psychic situation.
• - The scientific analysis of myths which I had begun in "Wandlungen und Symbole".
• - I had to let myself be carried along by the current- to the mid-point.
• - The mandala is the center.
• - Mandala: It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.
• - The goal of psychic development is the self.
• - There is no linear evolution, there is only a circumambulation of the self.
• - Uniform development exists, at most, only at the beginning; later, everything points toward the center. This insight gave me stability.
• - I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate. Perhaps someone else knows more, but not I.
• - Books: His Great Mandala, called "Window on Eternity". The picture is reproduced in "The Secret of the Golden Flower", of 1927 that had a golden castle in the center. The Chinese like mandalas. This Taoist - alchemical treatise was given him by Richard Wilhelm. The text on the golden castle, the germ of the immortal body. The text gave me un- dreamed of confirmation of my ideas about the man- dala and the circumambulation of the center.
• - A magnolia grows on the sacred island. Each quarter had a secondary center.
• - Liverpool is the "Pool of Life".
• P198- The center is the goal.
• - The center has a healing function.
• - I hit upon this stream of lava, and the heat of its fires reshaped my life.
• - This incandescent matter
• - The material that burst forth from the unconscious, and at first swamped me.
• - My encounter with alchemy was decisive for me. - He also studied the Gnostic writers.
• - Jung calls Gnosticism "neo-Platonism".
• - Alchemy is the link to Gnosticism.
• - Alchemists' preoccupation with the secrets of matter
• - higher god who gave to mankind the krater (mixing vessel), the vessel of spiritual transformation. - So that those who strove for higher consciousness might be baptized in it. - Alchemical YAS - in which the transformation of substances took place.
• - The krater was called a feminine principle.
• - Mother of God and Bride of Christ has been received into the divine thalamus (Bridal Chamber).
• - The Bride is united with the Son in the heavenly bridal chamber, and as Sophia (Wisdom) she is united with the Godhead.
• - Thus the feminine principle is brought into immediate proximity with the masculine Trinity.
• - Unconscious: The shadow side of the mind.
• - Jung says alchemy reached its height in the seven- teenth century.
• - Late alchemy texts need interpretation to reveal their treasures.
• - Alchemy book: "Artis Auriferae Duo" (1593)
• - The alchemists were talking in symbols.
• - Book: The sixteenth century "Rosarium Philosophorum" a lexicon of key phrases with cross references. It was ten years in the writing, and contains thousands of alchemy terms.
• - Jung had four years of vivid fantasies.
• - We must not be indifferent to our attitude toward the unconscious images.
• - the problem of types; for it is one's psychological type which from the outset determines and limits a person's judgment. - a clinical angle
• - Book: Seitteler's "Prometheus"
• - The unconscious is a process - and that the psyche is transformed or developed by the relationship of the ego to the contents of the unconscious.
• - Paracelsus - alchemy as a form of religious phylosophy.

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