Why has India lost her greatest light, Buddha’s path of redemption 1002 India lies between the Asiatic north and the Pacific south, between Tibet and Ceylon. India ends abruptly at the foothills of the Himalaya, and at Adam’s Bridge. At one end, a Mongolian world begins, at the other, the “paradise” of a South Sea…
The Mass is a still-living mystery, the origins of which go back to early Christian times INTRODUCTION! 296 The Mass is a still-living mystery, the origins of which go back to early Christian times. It is hardly necessary to point out that it owes its vitality partly to its undoubted psychological efficacy, and that it…
The Meaning of Myth Myth comes via mythos from the Greek root V (mu) meaning to make a sound with the mouth and is thus basic to human existence as we know it: “In the beginning was the Word.” To the orthodox believer what we call myth is the word of God—the metaphorical, symbolical, or…
I first got the idea of writing it from C. Kerenyi’s essay on the Aegean Festival in Goethe’s Faust. FOREWORD This book—my last—was begun more than ten years ago. I first got the idea of writing it from C. Kerenyi’s essay on the Aegean Festival in Goethe’s Faust.1 The literary prototype of this festival is The Chymical Wedding…
Altough I originally agreed with Freud Foreword Everyone who has had practical experience of psychotherapy knows that theprocess which Freud called “transference” often presents a difficult problem. It is probably no exaggeration to say that almost all cases requiring lengthy treatment gravitate round the phenomenon of transference, and that the success or failure of the treatment…