It Shakes Off the Mortal Husk That I Am and Awakens to a Life of Its Own.
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Carl Jung: “It Shakes Off the Mortal Husk That I Am and Awakens to a Life of Its Own.”
The alchemists saw it in the transformation of the chemical substance.
So if one of them sought transformation, he discovered it outside in matter, whose transformation cried out to him, as it were, “I am the transformation!”
But some were clever enough to know, “It is my own transformation-not a personal transformation, but the transformation of what is mortal in me into what is immortal.
It shakes off the mortal husk that I am and awakens to a life of its own.” ~Carl Jung, Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious; Paragraph 238.
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Carl Jung: “It shakes off the mortal husk that I am and awakens to a life of its own.”