Kingdom of Heaven Anthology
He who wishes to take the Kingdom of Heaven by storm, to conquer and eradicate evil by force, is already in the hands of evil. Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 47.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a primordial condition like Paradise, but it is later in time and cannot be reached by regressing, only be going forward. We do not know whether our present order is final. At another level a new creative solution may be required. Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 39.
He said “My kingdom is not of this world.” But “kingdom” it was, all the same. Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking, p. 97.
Social welfare has replaced the kingdom of God. Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 534-537.
“Therefore strive first to know yourselves, because ye are the city and the city is the kingdom.” Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 654; Cited by Carl Jung; Letters Vol. 1, Pages 523-524.
To reach the Kingdom of God is the last stage in a Christian meditation, but our Buddhist text, unlike Christian- ity, goes a step beyond the saintly multitude. Carl Jung, Modern Psychology, Page 22.
Transitions between the aeons always seem to have been melancholy and despairing times, as for instance the collapse of the Old Kingdom in Egypt (“The Dialogue of a World; Weary Man with His Soul”) between Taurus and Aries, or the melancholy of the Augustinian age between Aries and Pisces. Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 229-230
These [UFO] symbolisms, which are cropping up everywhere nowadays, paint a picture of the end of time with its eschatological conceptions: destruction of the world, coming of the Kingdom of Heaven or of the world redeemer. Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 476-477
The author shows an amazingly sympathetic knowledge of the introvert of the thinking type, and hardly less for the other types. . . . Jung has revealed the inner kingdom of the soul marvelously well and has made the signal discovery of the value of phantasy. His book has a manifold reach and grasp, and many reviews with quite different subject matter could be written about it.” Sonu Shamdasani, Introduction 1925 Seminar, Page xi
The Kingdom of Heaven is within ourselves. It is our innermost nature and something between ourselves. The Kingdom of Heaven is between people like cement. Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, Page 444.
To reach the Kingdom of God is the last stage in a Christian meditation, but our Buddhist text, unlike Christian- ity, goes a step beyond the saintly multitude. Carl Jung, Modern Psychology, Page 22.
