Carl Jung Depth Psychology

1. Carl Jung on Opposites

Truth did not come into the world naked, but it came in the types and images

Stephan Hoeller: To believe is vastly inferior to perceiving the symbols whereby truth is revealed.

Stephan Hoeller: To believe is vastly inferior to perceiving the symbols whereby truth is revealed.

Carl Jung Evil – Anthology

In its struggle against this Mother Goddess,

Consciousness, no matter how extensive it may be, must always remain the smaller circle

Another useful analogy to the modern psychological Gnostic process is the fourfold structure of the classical Greek drama

To live oneself means to be one’s own task

[The Gnostic] cross had exactly the same function that the atman or Self has always had for the East

The desire for self knowledge is just as much a desire as the desire for food or sex.

Isaac Luria, the most Gnostic of all the Kabbalistic teachers