“He whose desire turns away from outer things, reaches the place of the soul. If he does not find the soul, the horror of emptiness will overcome him, and fear will drive him with a whip lashing time and again in a desperate endeavor and a blind desire for the hollow things in…
William Blake: plate from the First Book of Urizen “I live in my deepest hell, and from there I cannot fall any further.” (Jung’s response when asked how he could live with the knowledge he had recorded in the Book of Job. In Marie Loise Von Franz, Jung: His Myth in Our Time, Page 174)…
[soliloquy id=”7190″] Images: Eggs in the Red Book “THE EGG-BORN GOD” From The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky Vol. 1, Page 359 The Egg was incorporated as a sacred sign in the cosmogony of every people on the Earth, and was revered both on account of its form and its inner mystery….
William Blake: Book of Job Job: The Visions of the Night Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, Dread came upon me, and trembling, And made all my bones shake. Then a spirit passed by my face; The hair of my flesh bristled up. …
From the Red Book, Page 55 (translation of text above image:) One word that was never spoken. One light that was never lit up. An unparalleled confusion. And a road without end. Footnote 128, on Page 55: The solar barge is a common motif in ancient Egypt. The barge was seen as the…
BE WARNED AND UNDERSTAND TRULY THAT TWO FISHES ARE SWIMMING IN OUR SEA. The Sea as the Body, the two Fishes are Soul and Spirit. The Sages will tell you That two fishes are in our sea Without any flesh or bones. Let them be cooked in their own water; Then they also will become…
A). Jung didn’t chose Salome — she chose him. B). Dancing women are hard to resist. C). He had an unconscious projection on Lou Andreas-Salome (friend of Nietzche, Rilke and Freud.) D). His anima made him lose his head. Lou Andreas-Salome, 1914 Salome Presented with the Head of St John the Baptist Leonaert Bramer 1630s…
The Book of Changes is one of the most influential books in the history of civilization. Its importance is relatively unrecognized in the West. Personally, I think has a book of “divination”, as an oracle, it need to be considered very skeptically. Synchronicity is not so easy. However, as a book of wisdom, as a…
Image: From The Red Book (partial image) Jung, Collected Works 7, Page 6 Jung, Collected Works , 14, p. 778 C. G. Jungian Society of Vermont Jung and Numinosum Sue Mehrtens Numen is a Latin word, deriving from the verb nuere, meaning “to nod.” Its original meaning was “a nod.” You might well wonder how…