His Gnostic assault on conventional theology in his Answer to Job. The time passed and the world changed, the Seven Sermons remained an object of wonder and interest to their one-time scribe. Thirteen years later, in distant California, the dead “came back” to their enthusiastic admirer once more. They did not come from Jerusalem but…
Another useful analogy to the modern psychological Gnostic process is the fourfold structure of the classical Greek drama This process of confrontation and experience has been characterized-once again by Jung himself-as a “Gnostic process”. Another useful analogy to the modern psychological Gnostic process is the fourfold structure of the classical Greek drama: agone or contest;…
[The Gnostic] cross had exactly the same function that the atman or Self has always had for the East It is interesting to note that in the Kabbalah, which has been aptly called Jewish Gnosticism, the unitary concept is amplified and modified by the image of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life with its ten vessels,…
The desire for self knowledge is just as much a desire as the desire for food or sex. The most enigmatic model for metaphysical fascinations of the mind in our age is undoubtedly the Eastern, particularly the Hindu, which consistently employs metaphysical and cosmological language to express what to Jung would appear to be psychological…
Jung’s present-day approach to the Gnosis was never content with anything short of a knowledge of the heart Contemplating the mysterious panorama of the Seven Sermons, one is reminded of a saying of the philosopher Bacon: “Animus ad amplitudinem Mysteriorurn pro modulo suo dilatetur; non Mysteria ad angustias animi constringantur.” (Let the mind, so far…