“It is required that the vessel be not only round but egg-shaped.” From Psychology and Alchemy: “For the alchemists the vessel is something truly marvellous: a vas mirabile. Maria Prophetissa says that the whole secret lies in knowing about the Hermetic vessel. “Unum est vas” (the vessel is one) is emphasized…
Carl Jung, on finding the images behind the emotions: To the extent that I managed to translate the emotions into images– that is to say, to find the images which were concealed in the emotions– I was inwardly calmed and reassured. Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn…
“My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak. I call you—are you there? I have returned. I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you again.” The Red Book p. 232
[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….
The Incantation in the Red Book Set the egg before you, the God in his beginning. And behold it. And incubate it with the magical warmth of your gaze. Christmas has come. The God is in the egg. I have prepared a rug for my God, an expensive red rug from the land of…
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…
Carl Jung: “Dreams are the guiding words of the soul” I must learn that the dregs of my thought, my dreams, are the speech of my soul. I must carry them in my heart, and go back and forth over them in my mind, like the words of the person dearest to me. Dreams are…
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…
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…