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C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961
Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors

1 "Man is the mirror which God holds up to himself, or the sense organ with which he apprehends his being."

2 "If turmoil and torment become too great, there is still the oneness of the self, the divine spark within its inviolable precincts."

3 "The archetypes have a life of their own which extends through the centuries and gives the aeons their peculiar stamp."

4 "There is no energy without opposites."

5 "I know that the psyche is capable of functioning unhampered by the categories of time and space. Ergo, it is in itself an equally transcendental being and therefore relatively non-spatial and 'eternal.'"

6 "The archetypes are in us, and eternal." Charles Lamb, 'The Essays of Elia (1821)

7 "The Deity has taken its abode in man with the obvious intention of realizing Its Good in man."

8 "That which is eternally present appears in the temporal order as a succession."

9 "The depth of the psyche, the unconscious, is not made by man but is divinely created nature."

10 "Emotions have a typical 'pattern' (fear, anger, sorrow, hatred, etc.); that is, they follow an inborn archetype which is universally human and arouses the same ideas and feelings in everyone."

11 "An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: 'No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you."

12 "Christ is the first-born who is succeeded by an ever-increasing number of younger brothers and sisters."

13 "The way to the cognition of God begins with the cognition of oneself."

14 "Becoming conscious reconciles the opposites."

15 "The psychological 'merit' (or rather, significance) of Christ consists in the fact that, as the 'firstling', he is the prototype of the integral man. This image, as history testifies, is numinous and can therefore be answered only by another numinosity. It touches the imago Dei, the archetype of the self in us, and thereby awakens it. The self is then 'constellated' and by virtue of its numinosity compels man toward wholeness, i.e., towards the integration of the unconscious or the subordination of the ego to a holistic 'will', which is rightly conceived to be 'God's will."

16 "Be aware of the law of synchronicity. As the old Chinese saying goes: 'The right man sitting in his house and thinking the right thought will be heard 100 miles away.'"

17 "Every self has the quality of belonging to the 'self of all selves,' and the self of all selves consists of individual selves."

18 "Synchronicity…is an all-pervading factor or principle in the universe, i.e., in the Unus Mundus [One World]."

19 "Everything that is stated or manifested by the psyche is an expression of the nature of things, whereof man is a part."

20 "If you learn about yourself and if eventually you discover more or less who you are, you also learn about God, and who He is."

21 "The archetype is a structural element of the psyche that we find everywhere and at all times; and it is that in which all individual psyches are identical with each other, and where they function as if they were the one undivided Psyche the ancients called 'anima mundi' [world soul]."

22 "In every feature Christ's life is a prototype of individuation."

23 "That Christ is the self of man is implicit in the gospel, but the conclusion Christ = self has never been explicitly drawn. This is an assignment of new meaning, a further stage in the incarnation or actualization of Christ."

24 "God is certainly Being itself."

25 "I do KNOW of a power of a very personal nature and an irresistible influence. I call it 'God.' I use this term because it has been used for this kind of experience since time immemorial. From this point of view any gods, Zeus, Wotan, Allah, Yahweh, the Summum Bonum, etc., have their intrinsic truth. They are different and more or less differentiated expressions or aspects of one ineffable truth."

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