Carl Jung: I want to assure you of my loyal friendship
Carl Jung: It is my fate however, not my choice, and I had to fulfill this unbecoming role.
To Father Victor White
My dear Victor, 30 April 1960
I have heard of your illness and I should have liked to come to England to see you, but I have to be careful with my own health and I must avoid all exertions.
As I am completing my 85th year, I am really old and my forces are definitely limited.
In February I had a bit of a heart embolism and my doctor is strict.
I have to thank you for the kind gift of your book Soul and Psyche.
It is certainly a theme worthy of a lengthy discussion in the “Auseinandersetzung” between theology and psychology.
I just began to read it. I had to finish first the book Psychotherapie und Religion by Dr. Josef Rudin, S.J.
The bit I have read in your book is most interesting and promising and I certainly shall go on studying it carefully.
In the meantime I hope you don’t worry about my letter.
I want to assure you of my loyal friendship.
I shall not forget all the useful things I have learned through our many talks and through your forbearance with me.
I was often sorry to be a petra scandali.
It is my fate however, not my choice, and I had to fulfill this unbecoming role.
Things had to be moved in the great crisis of our time.
New wine needs new skins.
We need no further outbursts on a grand scale or so it seems to me.
The “iron curtain” is quite sufficient to me to demonstrate the enormous split in the “soul” of modern man,
but we are mostly asleep . It needs some noise to wake the sleepers.
Many greetings and cordial wishes!
Yours ever,
C.G . Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 554-555
Carl Jung: It is lovely to hear the word friend from you.
Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume I, 1906-1950 (Vol 1)
To Richard Wilhelm
Dear friend, 25 May 1929
It is lovely to hear the word “friend” from you.
Fate seems to have apportioned to us the role of two piers which support the bridge between East and West.
I thank you with all my heart that you are willing to give the lecture.
For the time being, however, you must get thoroughly well again.
Please let me know how things are with you (indirectly through your secretary or wife). All of us here are concerned about your health and would be glad to have news of • you now and then.
I hope Baden-Baden is doing you good.
At present I am overworked, so my MS1 must wait a bit. I am taking a holiday at the end of June and then I shall have leisure to finish the work.
No harm has been done by my putting it off, because I have had a number of experiences that have given me some very valuable insights.
With heartfelt wishes for your speedy and thorough recovery,
Your devoted Jung.
[Note MS1 refers to: Jung’s commentary on the Golden Flower.] ~Carl Jung, Collected Letters Volume 1, Page 66
Dhulqarnein brought his “friend” Khidr to the source of life, that he might drink of immortality. Alexander himself bathed in the stream of life and performed the ritual ablutions ~Carl Jung, CW 5, Para 288
