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In attempting, as I have in this study, to present the anima as an elemental being, I have left out the higher forms of its manifestation as, for example, Sophia.
This is because it seemed important to me to emphasize the natural aspect which so markedly belongs to the essence of feminine being.
When the anima is recognized and integrated a change of attitude occurs toward the feminine generally.
This new evaluation of the feminine principle brings with it a due reverence for nature, too; whereas the intellectual viewpoint dominant in an era of science and technology leads to utilizing and even exploiting nature, rather than honoring her.
Fortunately, signs can be observed today pointing in the latter direction.
Most important and significant of these is probably the new dogma of the Assumptio Mariae and. her proclamation as mistress of creation.
In our time. when such threatening forces of cleavage are at work, splitting peoples, individuals, and atoms, it is doubly necessary that those which unite and hold together should become effective; for life is founded on the harmonious interplay of masculine and feminine forces, within the individual human being as well as without.
Bringing these opposites into union is one of the most important tasks of present day psychotherapy. ~Emma Jung, Animus and Anima, Page 87