In the center is the individual where the opposites are united, the one peaceful spot in man, the space where nothing moves embedded in a world of chaos.
The task is now to bring about order, the alchemistic process must begin, namely, the production of the valu- able substance, the transformation into the light.
You see this mandala does not represent a normal condition of the collective unconscious; this is a turmoil caused by the appearance of the disturbing element in the center.
For we may assume that the collective unconscious is in absolute peace until the individual appears.
Therefore individuation is a sin; it is an assertion of one particle against the gods, and when that happens even the world of the gods is upset, then there is turmoil.
But in that abstraction, or that union-the coming together of the pair of opposites-there is absolute peace.
Otherwise there is only the peace of God in a world in which there is no individual, in other words, no consciousness.
Yes, perhaps it exists to metaphysical consciousness, but not to any mortal consciousness because there is none.
You see, this chaos is due to the appearance of that center, but that is a center of peace because the pairs of opposites are united.
As it is said in the prophesies of lsaiah, the leopard shall lie down with the kid and the wolf shall dwell with the lamb.
Or that very impressive symbolism that the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, or put its hand into the cockatrice’s den.
Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, Page 263
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