Carl Jung: The Eye is the Prototype of the Mandala

Date: September 7, 2020Author: Mr. Purrington

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The eye is the prototype of the mandala, as is evident from Böhme, who calls his mandala “The Philosophique Globe, or Eye of ye Wonders of Eternity, or Looking-Glass of Wisdom.”

He says:

“The substance and Image of the Soul may be resembled to the Earth, having a fair Flower growing out of it, and also to the Fire and Light; as we see that

Earth is a Centre, but no life; yet it is essential, and a fair flower grows out of it, which is not like Earth … and yet the Earth is the Mother of the Flower.”

The soul is a “fiery Eye, and similitude of the First Principle,” a “Centre of Nature.” ~Carl Jung, CW 9i , Para 592

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