Phanes: “My light streams from necessity. My star shines from your misery.” Black Books Jung: I invoke no one; you, Phanes, the one above, you, soul, the one below, messenger of the world-embracing Abraxas, do not be angry with me. I am a grain of sand in your starry heaven. The Above and Below are…
In 1940, Jung analyzed Sura 18 of the Koran. Moses encounters Khidr, whom he looks to for instruction. Black Books Khidr, “the verdant one,” is an important figure in Islamic mysticism. In 1940, Jung analyzed Sura 18 of the Koran. Moses encounters Khidr, whom he looks to for instruction. Jung commented: “Khidr may well represent the self.…
10 May 1933 Visions Seminar LECTURE II Visions Seminar Mrs. Baynes asks this question: “In the last seminar before the Easter holidays, in speaking of the primitive deity found beneath the golden hermaphroditic figure, you made a very striking allusion to the situation in the world today. You said you thought the great unrest was…
Our text promises to reveal the secret of the Golden Flower of the great One. Black Books In 1929, in his “Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower,” Jung noted: “Our text promises to ‘reveal the secret of the Golden Flower of the great One.’ The golden flower is the light, and the light of…
Jung’s Soul: Open your ears, let my words in: you too are being devoured. Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group Black Books Jung: What is it that fills me with anxiety and horror? What death rattle is in the air? What is falling down from high mountains? What load will crush and smother us? What…