Meet the Stones
[soliloquy id=”7486″] C. G. Jung talks about Stones Many people cannot refrain from picking up stones of a slightly unusual color or shape and keeping them, …. without knowing why they do. It is as if the stone held a mystery in it…
Rumi: “The wound is where the light enters.”
“There is a crack in everything God has made.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “The crack is where the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen “Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.” Groucho Marx “Only the wounded physician heals.” C.G. Jung ———————————————————————————————- A plain confession of the in-working of the All, and of its…
Carl Jung: Eggs in Alchemy
Figure 98, in Psychology and Alchemy C.G. Jung: Eggs in Alchemy “In alchemy the egg stands for the chaos apprehended by the artifex, the prima materia containing the captive world-soul. Out of the egg — symbolized by the round cooking vessel — will rise the eagle or phoenix, the liberated soul, which is ultimately…
Jung, Eggs, and the Red Book
[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….
C.G. Jung: “Set the Egg before you…”
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…
C.G. Jung: “I had painted the first mandala in 1916…”
Carl Jung, on Drawing his First Mandala It was only towards the end of the First World War that I gradually began to emerge from the darkness. Two events contributed to this. The first was that I broke with the woman who was determined to convince me that my fantasies had artistic value; the second…
C.G. Jung/Philemon: “Phanes is the God who rises agleam from the waters…”
PHANES [Phanes was the Protogenos — the primeval god– of procreation in the Orphic cosmogony. He was the primal generator of life, the driving force behind reproduction in the early cosmos. Phanes was hatched from the world egg (the primordial mixture of elements) when it was split into its constituent parts by the ancient gods…
C.G. Jung: “The egg is a germ of life with a lofty symbolical significance…”
Ophic Egg (Jacob Bryant, 1774) The Philosophical Egg “The egg is a germ of life with a lofty symbolical significance. It is not just a cosmogonic symbol — it is also a “philosophical one”. As the former it is the Orphic Egg, the world’s beginning; as the latter, the philosophical egg of the medieval…
C.G. Jung: “Man is in need of a symbolic life — badly in need.”
C.G. Jung on The Symbolic Life You see, man is in need of a symbolic life – badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational, or irrational things . . . but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual…