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Understand and love mankind, the fallible mankind that we ourselves are.

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

Edward F. Edinger: Hence the Christian myth has little place in the psychology of the young.

We must first create it by learning to live with our incapacity. We must give it life.

Yet another new adventure occurred

In psychotherapy, Jung sought to enable his patients to recover a sense of meaning in life

We must first create it by learning to live with our incapacity. We must give it life.

Jane Wheelwright on Carl Jung, Women and Social Evolution

Jane Wheelwright on Carl Jung, Women and Social Evolution

1. “I don’t believe. I know”

1. Depression is not necessarily pathological.

the spirit of the times corresponds to personality NO. 1, and the spirit of the depths corresponds to personality NO. 2.

“It is exactly as if a dialogue were taking place between two human beings . .. “

“Gnostic” in The Black Books and The Red Book

Instinct wants to be transformed into spirit

Poems from Joseph Campbell’s “Reflections on the Art of Living”

Marie-Louise von Franz – Quotations with Citations from Many Books

Marion Woodman – The Power of the Feminine

the Goddess speaks through dreams and creative imagination

Barbara Hannah “Encounters with the Soul” Quotations