1935 6 February LECTURE III Zarathustra Seminar

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27 JANUARY 1939 Psychology and Yoga Meditation Lecture 10

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What God does not thirst after temples and altars?

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Jung’s Soul: Soul. How should I put the question?

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28 February 1934 Visions Seminar LECTURE VI

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With this I always get a cold head and hot feet, whereas when I read, it is the reverse.

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7 June 1933 Visions Seminar LECTURE VI

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16 DECEMBER 1938 Psychology of Meditation Yoga Lecture 7

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4 May 1932 Visions Seminar Lecture 1

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2 DECEMBER 1938 Psychology and Yoga Meditation Lecture 5

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Jung’s Soul: I wanted to come to you, but I had to go with Philemon. He is higher above than you…

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11 NOVEMBER 1938 Psychology of Yoga Meditation Lecture 3

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14 February 1934 Visions Seminar LECTURE IV

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at that age a psychosis is always a serious thing which transcends all human efforts.

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The soul of humanity is like the great wheel of the zodiac that rolls along the way.

The soul of humanity is like the great wheel of the zodiac that rolls along the way.: Red Book But what is the resolution? It is always something ancient and precisely because of this something new, for when something long since passed away comes back again in a changed world, it is…

All of this faded when the God arose and only Philemon kept that language

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31 January 1934 Visions Seminar LECTURE II

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Carl Jung: My soul, I heard of errors. You were my error.

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Jung’s Soul: Restriction is necessary, otherwise you will not finish what you must.

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1934 24January Visions Seminar LECTURE I

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In 1940, Jung analyzed Sura 18 of the Koran. Moses encounters Khidr, whom he looks to for instruction.

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Our text promises to ‘reveal the secret of the Golden Flower of the great One.

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Jung’s Soul: Open your ears, let my words in: you too are being devoured.

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Philemon: This man became earth. He was my error. I became fire, since I was his truth

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13 December 1933 Visions Seminar LECTURE X

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2 November 1932 Kundalini Yoga Seminar LECTURE 4

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11 May 1932 Visions Seminar LECTURE II

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That was something that I did not or could not accept, namely the figure of the magician, the shaman in myself.

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Don’t all times and all peoples live in you? Be one with yourself and you will cross over. Only the individual dies

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19 October 1932 Kundalini Seminar LECTURE 2

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Isn’t the white one extreme? Everything is exaggerated, and resists you.

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Carl Jung: What is up with you, my soul, what pain affects you?

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Ka is sensation, P is intuition, he is too supra-human

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Ha: And as you go in this way the serpent creeps toward you above all the stars.

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The angry icicle is deceived and rushes into the clothes.

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The irrational cannot be and must not be extirpated.

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Philemon: He is a star seed. From what infinities did he descend?

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The Godlikeness can be made intentionally or one can be seized by it [‘being chased by God’].

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Again libido, coined energy, a form of energy.

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1938 28 OCTOBER Lecture 1, Psychology and Yoga Meditation

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1934 2 May Zarathustra Seminar LECTURE I

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Philemon: I dipped my robe in blood, in the blood of this man.

Philemon: I dipped my robe in blood, in the blood of this man.: Black Books X. 17. 34 Jung: Things move somewhat forward again. What’ is it? Soul. I stand there and wait and announce myself. Jung. What do you want? S. I will tell you. I saw Phil. He stood…