“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…
My soul leads me into the desert, into the desert of my own self. I did not think that my soul is a desert, a barren, hot desert, dusty and without drink. The journey leads through hot sand, slowly wading without a visible goal to hope for? How eerie is this wasteland. It seems…
Washington Allston, Elijah in the Desert Everything to come was already in images: to find their soul, the ancients went into the desert. This is an image. The ancients lived their symbols, since the world had not yet become real for them. Thus they went into the solitude of the desert to teach us that…
“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
Aurora near Fairbanks, Alaska “Every country or people has its own angel, just as the earth has a soul.” Letters II Page 432 Meredith Sabini: The Earth has a Soul
Every man should have his own plot of land. To own land is important psychologically and there is no substitute for it. We need nourishment for our psyche. It is impossible to find nourishment in urban tenements without a patch of green or a blossoming tree. I derive a great deal of pleasure…
We are living in what the Greeks called the right time for a “metamorphosis of the gods,” i.e. of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing. Coming generations will have…
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)…
The reality of evil and its incompatibility with good cleave the opposites asunder and lead inexorably to the crucifixion and suspension of everything that lives. Since ‘the soul is by nature Christian’ this result is bound to come as infallibly as it did in the life of Jesus: we all have to be ‘crucified…