The Magician and Magic The Red Book (Philemon) It is an error to believe that there are magical practices that one can learn. One cannot understand magic. One can only understand what accords with reason. Magic accords with unreason, which one cannot understand. The world accords not only with reason but also with unreason. But … Read more
I have tried my hand at interpreting Tao. C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To: Richard Wilhelm [Temporarily [till end of Sept.] Tower Bollingen, Ct. St. Gallen 10 September 1919 Dear Friend, My commentary is now more or less finished. It has turned out to be rather more extensive [than I expected], because it represents … Read more
Carl Jung Please don’t be horrified at my writing to you again. C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950 To Richard Wilhelm My dear Professor Wilhelm, 26 April 1929 Please don’t be horrified at my writing to you again. I rushed in vain to your house in Frankfurt-not to bother you but because I was somehow … Read more
We need the coldness of death to see clearly. The Red Book (Philemon) We need the coldness of death to see clearly. Life wants to live and to die, to begin and to end. You are not forced to live eternally; but you can also die, since there is a will in you for both. … Read more