C.G. Jung Speaking : Interviews and Encounters
In the spring, Dr. Harding again went to Kusnacht to work with Jung. Kiisnacht, 13 May
Dr. Jung talked about the various forms of relationship, about sexuality, about friendship (which is mitigated desire, with its obligations to write frequently and so on).
There is a third kind of relationship, the only lasting one, in which it is as though there were an invisible telegraph wire between two human beings.
He said, “I call it, to myself, the Golden Thread.”
This may be masked by other forms of relationship.
And other forms may be present without any such thread in them.
It is only when the veil of maya, of illusion, is rent for us that we can begin to recognize the Golden Thread.
He went on to speak of the three realities that make up the individuated state: God; the Self; and Relatedness.
Or in Christian terms: God, Father, and Son; the Spirit, or Self; and the Kingdom of Heaven.
And just as it is impossible to individuate without relatedness, so it is impossible to have real relationships without individuation.
For otherwise illusion comes in continually, and you don’t know where you are. ~Esther Harding, C.G. Jung Speaking, Page 31
I want to emboss you like a coin
Soon after this on an autumn night I heard the voice of an old man (and this time I knew that it was Diahmon). He said: I want to turn you around. I want to master you. I want to emboss you like a coin. I want to do business with you. One should buy and sell you. You should pass from hand to hand. Self-willing is not for you. You are the will of the whole. Gold is no master out of its own will and yet it rules the whole, despised and greedily demanded, an inexorable ruler: it lies and waits. He who sees it longs for it.
It does not follow one around, but lies silently, with a brightly gleaming countenance, self-sufficient, a king that needs no proof of its power. Everyone seeks after it, few find it, but even the smallest piece is highly esteemed. It neither gives nor squanders itself E
veryone takes it where he finds it, and anxiously ensures that he doesn’t lose the smallest part of it. Everyone denies that he depends on it, and yet he secretly stretches out his hand longingly toward it. Must gold prove its necessity? It is proven through the longing of men. Ask it: who takes me?
He who takes it, has it. Gold does not stir. It sleeps and shines. Its brilliance confuses the senses. Without a word, it promises everything that men deem desirable. It ruins those to be ruined and helps those on the rise to ascend.
A blazing hoard is piled up, it awaits the taker. What tribulations do men not take upon themselves for the sake of gold? It waits and does not shorten their tribulations-the greater the tribulations, the greater the trouble, the more esteemed it is. It grows from underground, from the molten lava. It slowly exudes, hidden in veins and rocks. Man exerts all cunning to dig it out, to raise it.” ~Carl Jung; Red Book.
Carl Jung on the & Golden Thread
Dr. Jung talked about the various forms of relationship, about sexuality, about friendship (which is mitigated desire, with its obligations to write frequently and so on.).
There is a third kind of relationship, the only lasting one in which it is as though there were an invisible telegraph wire between two humans.
He said, “I call it, to myself, the Golden Thread.”
This may be masked by other forms of relationship.
And other forms may be present without any such thread in them.
It is only when the veil of maya, of illusion, is rent for us that we can begin to recognize the Golden Thread.
He went on to speak of the three realities that make up the individuated state; God; the Self; and Relatedness.
Or in Christian terms: God, Father, and Son; the Spirit, or Self; and the Kingdom of Heaven.
And just as it is impossible to individuate without relatedness, so it is impossible to have real relationships without individuation.
For otherwise illusion comes in continually, and you don’t know where you are. ~E. Harding, Conversations with Jung, Pages 10-11.
Elijah: The image that I saw was crimson, fiery colored, a gleaming gold.
I have already uttered the words.
The image that I saw was crimson, fiery colored, a gleaming gold.
The voice that I heard was like distant thunder, like the wind roaring in the forest, like an earthquake.
It was not the voice of my old God.
It was a thunderous pagan roar, a call my ancestors knew but which I have never heard.
It sounded prehistoric, as if from a forest on a distant coast;
it rang with all the voices of the wilderness. It was full of horror yet harmonic. ~Elijah, The Black Books, Vol. VI, Page238
I want to emboss you like a coin
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