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Edward Edinger: “To take up one’s own cross would mean to accept and consciously realize one’s own particular pattern of wholeness.”

Theophanes the Cretan: Jesus in Golgotha The Symbolism of the Cross     Edward Edinger suggests: “To take up one’s own cross would mean to accept and consciously realize one’s own particular pattern of wholeness.” This invariably involves being suspended between successive pairs of opposites (like a veritable crucifixion), with its attendant suffering, and repeated…

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C.G. Jung: “This process of becoming human is represented in dreams and inner images as the putting together of many scattered units…”

    Becoming Human   “This process of becoming human is represented in dreams and inner images as the putting together of many scattered units, and sometimes as the gradual emergence and clarification of something that was always there. The speculations of alchemy, and also of some Gnostics, revolve around this process. It is likewise…