Symbols are spirit from above, and under those conditions the spirit is above too.
Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 1): Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Since the stars have fallen from heaven and our highest symbols have paled, a secret life holds sway in the unconscious.
That is why we have a psychology today, and why we speak of the unconscious.
All this would be quite superfluous in an age or culture that possessed symbols.
Symbols are spirit from above, and under those conditions the spirit is above too.
Therefore it would be a foolish and senseless undertaking for such people to wish to experience or investigate an unconscious that contains nothing but the silent, undisturbed sway of nature.
Our unconscious, on the other hand, hides living water, spirit that has become nature, and that is why it is disturbed.
Heaven has become or us the cosmic space of the physicists, and the divine empyrean a fair memory of things that once were.
But “the heart glows,” and a secret unrest gnaws at the roots of our being.
~Carl Jung, CW 9i, Para 50
