Carl Jung on the Black Anima. Mysterium Coniunctionis (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.14) The Latin translation “serpent” for “witch” is connected with the widespread primitive idea that the spirits of the dead are snakes. This fits in with the offering of goat’s blood, since the sacrifice of black animals to the chthonic numina was… 

The Sacred Prostitute The Sacred Prostitute The Sacred Prostitute in the Ancient World By Catherine Auman It may be hard for the western mind to reconcile that the words sacred and prostitute may be linked, for the Judeo-Christian tradition holds sexuality to be profane, the antithesis of spirit. Yet in the times of the Great… 

Carl Jung: Liber Novus Image 153 The Red Book Are you laughing, Oh Philemon? Alas, I understand you: humanity has completely faded for you, but its shadow has arisen for you. How much greater and happier the shadow of humanity is than it is itself! The blue midday shadows of the dead! Alas, there is… 

Some Great Carl Jung Quotations   “True” alchemy was never a business or a career, but a genuine opus to be achieved by quiet, self-sacrificing work. ~Carl Jung, CW 12, Para 422. It seems as if all the personal entanglements and dramatic changes of fortune that make up the intensity of life were nothing but…