Nothing is more valuable to the evil one than his eye.
Nothing is more valuable to the evil one than his eye, since only through his eye can emptiness seize gleaming fullness.
Because the emptiness lacks fullness, it craves fullness and its shining power. And it drinks it in by means of its eye, which is able to grasp the beauty and unsullied radiance of fullness.
The emptiness is poor, and if it lacked its eye it would be hopeless.
It sees the most beautiful and wants to devour it in order to spoil it.
The devil knows what is beautiful, and hence he is the shadow of beauty and follows it everywhere, awaiting the moment when the beautiful, writhing great with child, seeks to give life to the God.
If your beauty grows, the dreadful worm will also creep up you, waiting for its prey.
Nothing is sacred to him except his eye, with which he sees the most beautiful.
He will never give up his eye. He is invulnerable, but nothing protects his eye; it is delicate and clear, adept at drinking in the eternal light. It wants you, the bright red light of your life. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Hell, Page 289.
Image: Roman-era mosaic from Antioch depicting a plethora of devices against the evil eye.
A Ruby Eye Pendant from an ancient civilization in Mesopotamia was possibly used as amulet to protect against evil eyes. Adilnor Collection.
Carl Jung Evil – Anthology
“The Bhagavad gita says: whenever there is a decline of the law and ’an increase in iniquity; then I put forth myself for the rescue of the pious and for the destruction of the evildoers, for the establishment of the law I am born in every age.” Jung’s marginal note, The Red Book, Footnote 281, Page 317.
Good and evil unite in the growth of the tree. In their divinity life and love stand opposed. Philemon, Liber Novus, Page 351.
Salome’s approach and her worshiping of me is obviously that side of the inferior function which is surrounded by an aura of evil. Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 253. Footnote 211.
Ev1l is one-half of the world, one of the two pans of the scale. Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 274, Footnote 72.
When my soul fell into the hands of ev1l, it was defenseless except for the weak fishing rod which it could use, again with its power, to pull the fish from the sea of emptiness. Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 289.
It [Stupidity] is what separates and isolates the mixed seeds of life, affording us thus with a clear view of good and ev1l, and of what is reasonable and what not. Liber Novus, Page 316, Footnote 277.
Take pains to waken the dead. Dig deep mines and throw in sacrificial gifts, so that they reach the dead. Reflect in good heart upon ev1l, this is the way to the ascent. But before the ascent, everything is night and Hell. Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 244.
No one saves us from the ev1l of becoming, unless we choose to go through Hell. Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 318.
It is of no importance whether ev1l is here or there, but one can deal only with the evil in oneself, because it is within one’s reach, elsewhere one trespasses. C. G. Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolff – A Collection of Remem- brances; Pages 51-70.
… it would be an arbitrary limitation of the concept of God to assume that He is only good and so deprive evilof real being. If God is only good, everything is good…. Carl Jung, Letters II, 519
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