The Pope said: The world should be more conscious of the presence of angels.
C. G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters (Bollingen Series XCVII)
“Why, when Pope Pius XII in one of his last discourses deplored that the world was no longer conscious enough of the presence of angels, he was saying to his faithful Catholics in Christian terms exactly what I am trying to say in terms of psychology to those who stand more chance of understanding this language than any other.”
“But remember what the Pope said: “The world should be more conscious of the presence of angels.”
There was a man who was conscious of what the unconscious brings us, who was in contact with the living truth. Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, Pages 410-423
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Why, when Pope Pius XII in one of his last discourses deplored that the world was no longer conscious enough of the presence of angels, he was saying to his faithful Catholics in Christian terms exactly what I am trying to say in terms of psychology to those who stand more chance of understanding this language than any other. ~Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, Pages 410-423
But God, who also does not hear our prayers, wants to become man, and for that purpose he has chosen, through the Holy Ghost, the creaturely man filled with darkness—the natural man who is tainted with original sin and who learnt the divine arts and sciences from the fallen angels. ~Carl Jung, CW 11, Para 746.
Every country or people has its own angel, just as the earth has a soul. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 432.
The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in order to be equal to the superhuman powers which the fallen angels have played into his hands. ~Carl Jung, Answer to Job, Para 746.
A life without inner contradiction is either only half a life or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Page 375.
The word meditation is used, when someone holds an inner dialogue (colloquium) with someone else who is invisible, and also when God is invoked, or when someone speaks to himself or to his good angel. ~Dr. Rulandus, Cited ETH, Page 171.
In these terrible days when evil is once again inundating the world in every conceivable form, I want you to know that I am thinking of you and of your family in Hungary, and hope with you that the avenging angel will pass by their door. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 336.
Around the birth of Christ, there follows the Age of Pisces. Pisces is a water sign.
That is probably why we have to look for the spirit in the water, in life’s flow of images, and in the unconscious. And now we are on the threshold of the sign of Aquarius. The air element is assigned to it, and it is symbolized by an angel or a human being, instead of an animal. Here the spirit is meant to become something subtle again, and man to become who he is. ~Carl Jung, Children’s Dreams Seminar, Pages 354-355.
Every blade of grass has over it an angel saying “grow”
— Source: The Talmud
In fairy tales and sacred literature, angels with flaming swords guard the entrance to the golden treasureonly those who know the password may enter. In this illustrated seminar, we will take a fascinating look at how angils have been described in literature and portrayed in religious iconography since ancient times, across many cultures. Once we have developed a resume for what angels do and how they do it, we will use the key to symbolic understanding given us by the pioneering Swiss psychologist C.G. Jung.
Our goal will be to get past the flaming sword that stands in the way of a modern understanding of the meaning of the phenomenon of angels. After all, wed like to feel that our forefathers and ancestors were talking about something valid, and in fact, something real, when they spoke of angils.
Through the use of analytical psychology, we will explore the meaning of:
- Finding Ones Identity by Wrestling with (Dark) Angels
- Sexual Intercourse with Angels
- Children born of the union between Humans and Angels
- The Role of Angels in the Creation of Evil (i.e. Fallen Angels)
- Consciousness, Angels and Sin
- Befriending the Angel of Choice
Our day will be filled with discovery as well as controversy. Angels are a wonderful, and even thrilling, example of how an understanding of religious and mythological traditions can enrich our lives, if we bring to bear a knowledge of symbols through Jungs methods.