Carl Jung: … in my psychology the "mythological" aspect means "religious attitude."

Carl Jung: … in my psychology the "mythological" aspect means "religious attitude.": Letters Volume I To K. W. Bash Dear Colleague, 12 December 1958 Best thanks for your expose. I fully agree with it, only I would ask you to state explicitly that in my psychology the “mytholo…

Carl Jung on the real secret of the Gnostics.

Carl Jung on the real secret of the Gnostics.: Aion [Carl Jung on the real secret of the Gnostics.] Now for the Gnostics and this is their real secret the psyche existed as a source of knowledge just as much as it did for the alchemists.…

Carl Jung on India and Hindus

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Some Carl Jung Quotations

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The thinker’s passions are bad

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The Woman is accused of all the Darkness

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Carl Jung and the Assumption and Coronation of Mary

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Sacrificial Murder

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Carl Jung and “Mountains” [Anthology]

Carl Jung and “Mountains” [Anthology]: You barricade yourself from the world with exaggerated saviour fantasies. So climb down from the mountain of your humility and follow your nose. Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Page 559. That you have p…

Some Carl Jung Quotations

Some Carl Jung Quotations: But if you want to go your individual way, it is the way you make for yourself, which is never prescribed, which you do not know in advance, and which simply comes into being of itself when you put…

Ruth Bailey on the Death of Carl Jung

Ruth Bailey on the Death of Carl Jung: C.G. JUNG & HERMAN HESSE: A Record of Two Friendships Dear Mr. Serrano,                           Kusnacht, Zurich June 16, 1961 Thank you so much for your very kind letter which was a great co…

Carl Jung on the Alchemist’s Truth

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Carl Jung on Aion, Christ, Gnostic, Antichrist

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Does individuation originate from the ego or the Self? This confronts us with the ego-Self paradox.

Does individuation originate from the ego or the Self? This confronts us with the ego-Self paradox.: [Does individuation originate from the ego or the Self? This confronts us with the ego-Self paradox.] [For the alchemis] . . . . it is not a question of a one-way ascent to heaven, but, in c…

Carl Jung and excerpts from “Answer to Job.”

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For the alchemist the one in need of redemption is not man, but the deity lost and sleeping in matter.

For the alchemist the one in need of redemption is not man, but the deity lost and sleeping in matter.: Psychology and Alchemy “For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter. Only as a secondary consideration does he hope …

Carl Jung on the “continued and progressive divine incarnation.

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Carl Jung: I will be no savior, no lawgiver, no master teacher unto you. You are no longer little children.

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Carl Jung on the “Assimilation of the Christ-image” and the Passion of Christ.

Carl Jung on the “Assimilation of the Christ-image” and the Passion of Christ.: Mysterium Coniunctionis [Carl Jung on the “Assimilation of the Christ-image” and the Passion of Christ.] If the adept experiences his own self, the “true man,” in his work, then, as the…

Per Edward F. Edinger the “X” in the passage below was Father Victor White.

Per Edward F. Edinger the “X” in the passage below was Father Victor White.: C.G. Jung Speaking [Per Edward F. Edinger the “X” in the passage below was Father Victor White.] I [Esther Harding] spoke of the clergy and how they are reaching out for his ideas. . . . He said, &…

The Littleness of the Holy Spirit stems from the fact that God’s pneuma dissolves into the form of little flames

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Some Carl Jung Quotations

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the devil is the sum of the darkness of human nature

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Carl Jung Foreword to Moser: “Ghost: False Belief or True?”

Carl Jung Foreword to Moser: “Ghost: False Belief or True?”: Fanny Moser Personal Life The author has asked me for a few introductory words to her book. It gives me all the more pleasure to comply with her request as her previous book on occultism, written w…

Carl Jung on “Hypnosis” – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Hypnosis” – Anthology: [Carl Jung on Hypnosis] In the beginning I employed hypnosis in my private practice also, but I soon gave …

Gnostic Hand

Gnostic Hand: Gnostic Hand

Optimism should also occupy the Mind….

Optimism should also occupy the Mind….: “If everything is or can go wrong; its opposite should also populate the mind, i.e. the optimism. This would be sure to have built-in tools to safely exit the psychic state of chaos, m…

Carl Jung "I had to understand that I was unable to make the people see what I am after. I am practically alone."

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Carl Jung and "I look upon the receiving of the Holy Spirit as a highly revolutionary fact…"

Carl Jung and "I look upon the receiving of the Holy Spirit as a highly revolutionary fact…": Symbolic Life There were very good reasons why the Catholic Church has carefully purified Christ and his mother from all contamination by the peccatum originate. Protestantism was more coura…

Erich Neumann: My wife would urgently like to work with Miss Wolff and I consider this also to be crucially important

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Carl Jung: True Life is Invisible

Carl Jung: True Life is Invisible: Memories, Dreams, Reflections ‎Life has always seemed a plant that lives on its root. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the root. The part that emerges above ground lasts only a single summer. …

Man stands higher than Science

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A Forest Goblin and Prankster

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Does individuation originate from the ego or the Self? This confronts us with the ego-Self paradox.

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Carl Jung: There is not the ghost of a plan for my going to America during the war.

Carl Jung: There is not the ghost of a plan for my going to America during the war.: Letters Volume I To M. Esther Harding Dear Dr. Harding, 28 September 1939 Thank you for your kind letter. I have put you down on my list for next May and I hope I shall be able to keep the a…

Leprosy of the Soul

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Carl Jung on how to look upon our “Thoughts.”

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Way of the Cross ~Carl Jung

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Carl Jung on … the Yogin is identical with the eternal Buddha essence.

Carl Jung on … the Yogin is identical with the eternal Buddha essence.: ETH Lectures Lecture IX January 1939 We began the second phase of our text in the last lecture. The important statement in the first phase, which is laid down as a thesis, is that the Yogin is iden…

Carl Jung:Enlightenment,” “Godhead,” “Gnostics,” “Sacrifice,” “Redemption."

Carl Jung:Enlightenment,” “Godhead,” “Gnostics,” “Sacrifice,” “Redemption.": Psychology and Religion [Carl Jung on The Tibetan Book of the Dead and “Dharma Kaya,” “Perfect Enlightenment,” “Godhead,” “Gnostics,” “Sacrifice,” “Redemption.”] O nobly born (so and so), listen. N…

Carl Jung’s Foreword to “Apparitions and Precognitions” by Aniela Jaffe.

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Carl Jung on the sequence of Religious Creeds.

Carl Jung on the sequence of Religious Creeds.: Psychology and Religion [Carl Jung on the sequence of Religious Creeds.] The sequence of creeds illustrates the evolution of the Trinity idea through the centuries. In the course of its deve…

Carl Jung on Christ, Tao, Atman, The Timaeus and The Holy Ghost.

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Carl Jung “…The present is a time of God’s death and disappearance.”

Carl Jung “…The present is a time of God’s death and disappearance.”: Psychology and Religion [Carl Jung “…The present is a time of God’s death and disappearance.”] I only know and here I am expressing what countless other people know that the present is a time of Go…

Carl Jung: “Visions Seminar” – Quotations

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Carl Jung on Islamic and Christian Meditations

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misunderstanding arise from the assumption that I am an irreligious man…

misunderstanding arise from the assumption that I am an irreligious man…: Civilization in Transition It is a misunderstanding to accuse me of having made out of this an “immanent God” or a “God-substitute.” I am an empiricist and as such I can demonstrate empirically the…

Carl Jung: …but that is what I have always seen with my books:

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Nox Quarta

Nox Quarta: Thomas à Kempis on Mount Saint Agnes – (1569)   I hear the roaring of the morning wind, which comes over the mountains. The night is overcome, when all my life was subject to eternal con…

Carl Jung: I think the night has descended upon Europe.

Carl Jung: I think the night has descended upon Europe.: Letters Volume I My dear Mrs. Mellon, 19 June 1940 Thank you for your friendly letter, which arrived today. I send you these few words in haste, because this evening at 7 o’clock the last mai…

Carl Jung: Divine Folly

Carl Jung: Divine Folly: Red Book       I am standing in a high hall. Before me I see a green curtain between two columns. The curtain parts easily. I see into a small deep room with bare walls. There…

Some Carl Jung Quotations

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Carl Jung on Psychology’s view of “Metaphysics” and of a “Universal Mind.”

Carl Jung on Psychology’s view of “Metaphysics” and of a “Universal Mind.”: [Carl Jung on Psychology’s view of “Metaphysics” and of a “Universal Mind.”]Psychology accordingly treats all metaphysical claims and assertions as mental phenomena, and regards them as statements …

Carl Jung: The alchemical operations were real…

Carl Jung: The alchemical operations were real…: “The alchemical operations were real, only this reality was not physical but psychological. Alchemy represents the projection of a drama both cosmic and spiritual in laboratory terms. …

Before I discovered alchemy, I had a series of dreams…

Before I discovered alchemy, I had a series of dreams…: “Before I discovered alchemy, I had a series of dreams which repeatedly dealt with the same theme. Beside my house stood another, that is to say, another wing or annex, which was strange to m…

Carl Jung on the Incarnation of the God-Man and Sophia…

Carl Jung on the Incarnation of the God-Man and Sophia…: [Carl Jung on the Incarnation of the God-Man and Sophia.]Just as the decision to become man apparently makes use of the ancient Egyptian model, so we can expect that the process itself will follow …

Carl Jung Quotations from “Wounded Healer of the Soul” by Claire Dunne

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Nox Secunda ~Carl Jung

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Some Carl Jung Quotations

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“Analytical Psychology in Exile the Jung-Neumann Correspondence” – Quotations

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Carl Jung: I was the first to raise the question of the relation between psychotherapy and religion

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Carl Jung: If England & France lose the war, we also shall not escape the reign of the Antichrist.

Carl Jung: If England & France lose the war, we also shall not escape the reign of the Antichrist.: To Henriette Goodrich My dear Mrs. Goodrich, 20 May 1940 Your very kind letter has touched me profoundly. I hope I have not to avail myself of your most generous proposition. My whole family…

Carl Jung on "within" (Anthology)

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International Psychoanalytic Congress 1911 with Emma Jung, Toni Wolff, Cindy Lou Andreas-Salome, etc.

International Psychoanalytic Congress 1911 with Emma Jung, Toni Wolff, Cindy Lou Andreas-Salome, etc.: International Psychoanalytic Congress. Photograph, 1911. Front row left to right: 1) Poul Bjerre 2) Eugen Bleuler 3) Maria Moltzer 4) Maria Gincburg 5) Cindy Lou Andreas-Salomé 6) Beatrice M…

Dr. C. G. Jung, Zürich “On the Psychology of the Concept of the Trinity”

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Crucified between the Two Thieves

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The Churches stand for traditional and collective conviction

The Churches stand for traditional and collective conviction: If, for instance, the statement that Christ rose form the dead is to be understood not literally but symbolically, then it is capable of various interpretations that do not conflict with kno…

Carl Jung: I think the night has descended upon Europe.

Carl Jung: I think the night has descended upon Europe.: Letters Volume I My dear Mrs. Mellon, 19 June 1940 Thank you for your friendly letter, which arrived today. I send you these few words in haste, because this evening at 7 o’clock the last mai…

Carl Jung: Divine Folly

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Carl Jung on “Thoughts” – Anthology

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Some Carl Jung Quotations [LI]

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Carl Jung: I have read your brilliant account of the Kore figure

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Carl Jung: Dissolving an image means that you become that image.

Carl Jung: Dissolving an image means that you become that image.: 1925 Seminar I told you last time about the dream concerning the killing of the hero and then the fantasy about Elijah and Salome. Now the killing of the hero is not an indifferent fact, but one th…

The Apocryphon of James [Jung Codex]

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Jesus was probably a definite human person…

Jesus was probably a definite human person…: Letters Volume II “As far as I can judge from the documents of Christian tradition, Jesus Christ was probably a definite human person, yet highly enveloped in archetypal projections, more so …

“The Gospel of Truth” [Jung Codex]

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Carl Jung on the Symbolism of the Mass

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Carl Jung: The extravert feels prospectively, the introvert retrospectively,

Carl Jung: The extravert feels prospectively, the introvert retrospectively,: Question of Psychological Types: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Hans Schmid-Guisan [Carl Jung: The extravert feels prospectively, the introvert retrospectively, so that the latter rema…

Carl Jung and a brief overview of Satan.

Carl Jung and a brief overview of Satan.: Psychology and Religion   [Carl Jung and a brief overview of Satan.] I do not wish to multiply examples needlessly, but only to make it clear that the figure of Satan, too, has undergone a cur…

Prayer of the Apostle Paul from the Jung Codex

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Carl Jung on “Zeus” – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Zeus” – Anthology: Naturally a new meaning does not come ready-made out of the unconscious, like Pallas Athene springing fully armed from the head of Zeus; a living effect is achieved only when the products of the un…

Carl Jung’s letter written in 1938 about Abraham Lincoln

Carl Jung’s letter written in 1938 about Abraham Lincoln: Carl Jung’s letter written in 1938 about Abraham Lincoln

It has been assumed that Christ is nothing but a Myth but Myth is not Fiction…

It has been assumed that Christ is nothing but a Myth but Myth is not Fiction…: Psychology and Religion … [It has been assumed that Christ is nothing but a Myth but Myth is not Fiction. Men have Mythical Fates just as Greek Heroes do.] In view of these portentous impossi…

Light on the nature of Alchemy began to come to me…

Light on the nature of Alchemy began to come to me…: Memories Dreams Reflections Light on the nature of alchemy began to come to me only after I had read the text of the Golden Flower, the book of Chinese alchemy. I was stirred by the desire t…

Carl Jung Quotations

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Carl Jung references to the “Blue Star” in The Red Book.

Carl Jung references to the “Blue Star” in The Red Book.: The Red Book I saw you, Oh Philemon at the noonday hour when the sun stood highest; you stood speaking with a blue shade, blood stuck to its forehead and solemn torment darkened it. But life is dur…

Phanes is the God who rises agleam from the waters.

Phanes is the God who rises agleam from the waters.: The Black Books Phil: Did you hear what he said? Do you know that this is the truth—seen from behind? But this is the truth. So listen now to the teaching and the song of the front side of the tr…

Carl Jung: Is it not a nice time when food reigns supreme?

Carl Jung: Is it not a nice time when food reigns supreme?: Letters Volume I To: Alice Lewisohn Crowley My dear Mrs. Crowley, Bollingen, 9 December 1942 Thank you ever so much for all the good and-oh so useful things! Is it not a nice time when food reigns …

Carl Jung on “Rational-Irrational” and “Thinking-Feeling.”

Carl Jung on “Rational-Irrational” and “Thinking-Feeling.”: The Question of Psychological Types: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Hans Schmid-Guisan, 1915–1916 Dear Friend, As you know from our previous talks, for the past few years I have occupi…

Lucifer was perhaps the one who best understood the Divine Will…

Lucifer was perhaps the one who best understood the Divine Will…: Psychology and Religion   [Carl Jung on Lucifer and the Trinity.] “Creation” in the sense of “matter” is not included in the Trinity formula, at any rate not explicitly…

Some Carl Jung Quotations

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[Carl Jung on Saint Peter, Gnostics, Opposites]

[Carl Jung on Saint Peter, Gnostics, Opposites]: Psychology and Religion [[Carl Jung on Saint Peter, Gnostics, Opposites] In this connection mention should be made of Peter’s valedictory words, which he spoke during his martyrdom (he was cr…

Carl Jung Review of Waldstein: ” The Subconscious Self and Its Relation to Education and Health “

Carl Jung Review of Waldstein: ” The Subconscious Self and Its Relation to Education and Health “: Symbolic Life For a variety of reasons it is welcome news that Waldstein’s book The Subconscious Self has been rescued from oblivion and made accessible to a wider public in an excellent tran…

Carl Jung’s Father appears to him in a dream after his death…

Carl Jung’s Father appears to him in a dream after his death…: Memories Dreams Reflections Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream. Suddenly he stood before me and said that he was coming back from his holiday. He had made a good recovery…

Carl Jung on the "Mother Complex."

Carl Jung on the "Mother Complex.": Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious The Mother-Complex The mother archetype forms the foundation of the so-called mother-complex. It is an open question whether a mother-complex can develop wi…

Carl Jung on The Life of the Spirit

Carl Jung on The Life of the Spirit: Letters Volume II To Father Victor White Dear Victor, 25 November 1950 I thank you very much indeed for kindly sending me The Life of the Spirit. I have read your article with the greatest attentio…

Carl Jung: The Problem of Types in Dream Interpretation

Carl Jung:  The Problem of Types in Dream Interpretation: Symbolic Life In all other branches of science, it is a legitimate procedure to apply an hypothesis to an impersonal object. Psychology, however, inescapably confronts us with the living relationsh…

A stamp issued in the Grenada in 1973, were we can see the face from Carl Jung.

A stamp issued in the Grenada in 1973, were we can see the face from Carl Jung.: Visit the post for more.

Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell on "Projection."

Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell on "Projection.": [Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell] Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche “Those who know, not only that the Everlasting lives in them, but that what they, and all things, really are IS the…

Carl Jung on the need for Mythic Statements.

Carl Jung on the need for Mythic Statements.: Memories Dreams Reflections The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human existence in the cosmos, a view which spring…

Some Carl Jung Quotations

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Carl Jung: Review of Hellpach: “Basics of a Psychology of Hysteria”

Carl Jung: Review of Hellpach: “Basics of a Psychology of Hysteria”: Symbolic Life All those professional colleagues who are interested in the great problem of hysteria will surely welcome with joy and eager expectation a work that, judging by its bulk, promises a t…

Carl Jung: No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel….

Carl Jung: No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel….: Neither propaganda nor exhibitionist confessions are needed. If the archetype, which is universal, i.e., identical with itself always and anywhere, is properly dealt with in one place only, it is i…

Some Carl Jung Quotations [V]

Some Carl Jung Quotations [V]: Nobody seems to have noticed that without a reflecting psyche the world might as well not exist, and that, in consequence, consciousness is a second world-creator, and also that the c…

Carl Jung: The Language of Dreams

Carl Jung: The Language of Dreams: All contents of consciousness have been or can become subliminal, thus forming part of the psychic sphere which we call the unconscious. All urges, impulses, intentions, affects, all perceptions an…

Dr. Jung considered the Mass of the Church to be the equivalent of a "Rite of Individuation."

Dr. Jung considered the Mass of the Church to be the equivalent of a "Rite of Individuation.": [Dr. Jung considered the Mass of the Church to be the equivalent of a “Rite of Individuation.” In the passage below from “Psychology and Religion” I have capitalized the wor…

It was this archetype of the self that responded to the Christian message…

It was this archetype of the self that responded to the Christian message…: It was this archetype of the self in the soul of every man that responded to the Christian message, with the result that the concrete Rabbi Jesus was rapidly assimilated by the constellated archety…

Materialistic atheism with its utopian chimeras ….

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Carl Jung “Dies” The Red Book

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