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Minucius Felix: Our Thoughts are like unto a Second Darkness

Minucius Felix: Our Thoughts are like unto a Second Darkness Modern Psychology: C. G. Jung’s Lectures at the ETH Zürich, 1933-1941 Lecture IV 29th November, 1940 In the last lecture, I read you some texts, which date from the earliest days of the Christian Church, in order to give you some idea of the nature… 

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The conditions of which I am about to speak are of a somnambulistic nature.

The conditions of which I am about to speak are of a somnambulistic nature. Modern Psychology: C. G. Jung’s Lectures at the ETH Zürich, 1933-1941 Lecture VIII 1st December, 1933 Today we come to Frau Hauffe ‘s symptoms: peculiar mediumistic phenomena which really do not belong to the province of medicine, but rather to that… 

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Symbols of Transformation CW 5 Quotations

Symbols of Transformation (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.5) The father of the many-faced Hermes, Hephaestus, was a cunning technician and sculptor `Carl Jung, CW 5, Para 515 In fairy tales, the hero’s father is, more modestly, the traditional woodcutter ~Carl Jung, CW 5 ¶ 515 In the Rig-Veda the world is hewn from a… 

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Alchemy is founded on the conviction of the spontaneity of the spirit…

Alchemy is founded on the conviction of the spontaneity of the spirit… Modern Psychology: C. G. Jung’s Lectures at the ETH Zürich, 1933-1941 The development of science, which is so extraordinarily characteristic for the West, owes its origin in a great measure to the experimental attitude of mind in alchemy. Alchemy is founded on the… 

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In this moment, you need evil.

In this moment, you need evil.   The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition (Philemon) The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition (Philemon) Man stands between emptiness and fullness. If his strength combines with fullness, it becomes fully formative. There is always something good about such formation. If his strength combines with emptiness, it has a dissolving…