I am not addressing myself to the happy possessors of faith
Psychology and Religion
“I am not, however, addressing myself to the happy possessors of faith, but to those many people for whom the light has gone out, the mystery has faded, and God is dead. For most of them there is no going back, and one does not know either whether going back is always the better way, To gain an understanding of religious matters, probably all that is left us today is the psychological approach.
That is why I take these thought-forms that have become historically fixed, try to melt them down again and pour them into molds of immediate experience. It is certainly a difficult undertaking to discover connecting links between dogma and immediate experience of psychological archetypes, but a study of the natural symbols of the unconscious gives us the necessary raw material. ” ~Carl Jung; CW 11:par 148
I had to give all my faith and trust to this woman [Toni Wolff].
Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group
I dreamed then (it was shortly after Christmas 1912), that I was sitting with my children in a marvelous and richly furnished tower chamber—an open columned hall—we were sitting at a round table, whose top was a marvelous dark green stone.
Suddenly a seagull or dove flew in and landed with light feathers on the table.
I admonished the children to be quiet, so that they would not scare away the beautiful white bird.
Suddenly this little bird turned into a child of eight years, a small blond girl, and ran around playing with my children in the marvelous columned colonnades.
Then the child suddenly turned into the gull or dove.
She said the following to me: “Only in the first hour of the night can I become human, while the male dove is busy with the twelve dead.” With these words the bird flew away and I awoke.
My decision was made. I had to give all my faith and trust to this woman [Toni Wolff].
You know, my soul, what blessing was bestowed through that upon me, my wife [Emma], and my house.
I cannot express it all in words, what flourishing and beauty sprang from that for me.
I do not want to talk about the torments that I rightfully had to endure—all these are more than offset by the abundance of beauty and elevation which I was allowed to experience. ~Carl Jung, The Black Books, Page 148
The special hand gesture has a magical significance.
Psychology of Yoga and Meditation
Then making the Mudra of the heavenly treasury, he should say:[SCST, p. 9] I do not know which mudra this is-there is an infinity of mudras.
Obeisance by the grace of the Dharma-Dhatu, … [SCST, p. 9] Dharma-Dhatu is the essence of the truth. … the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Mantras and the power of Mudra; …[SCST, p. 9]
The special hand gesture has a magical significance. What it points to is to be made reality.
A symbolic act, magical in character, in which it is always assumed that this is the beginning of a particular creation through which the object denoted by the mudra is formed .
. . . ; by the grace of my own faith … [SCST, p. 9]
An extremely interesting idea if you also think of Christian psychology. A Christian cannot speak of the “grace of my own faith.”
He hopes for grace through faith. For him, grace always comes from God, the Lord. ~Carl Jung, Psychology of Yoga and Meditation, Page 103-104
