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1		"The 'Holy Ghost' is an impelling force, creating wider consciousness and responsibility and thus enriched cognition. The real history of the world seems to be the progressive incarnation of the deity."

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

3		"The archetypal world is 'eternal', i.e., outside time, and it is everywhere."

4		"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."

5		"The self is a unit, consisting however of two, i.e., of opposites, otherwise it would not be a totality."

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

7		"As animals of the same kind show the same instinctual phenomena all over the world, man also shows the same archetypal forms no matter where he lives. As animals have no need to be taught their instinctive activities, so man also possesses his primordial psychic patterns and repeats them spontaneously, independently of any kind of teaching."

8		"The 'imago Dei' [God-image], is the archetype of the self in us."

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

10		"The centre is the indivisible monad of the self, the unity and wholeness of the experiencing subject."

11		"I'm inclined to believe that something of the human soul remains after death, since already in this conscious life we have evidence that the psyche exists in a relative space and in a relative time, that is in a relatively non-extended and eternal state."

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

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

14		"The Oneness of the Holy Spirit…is the pneumatic state the creator attains to through the phase of incarnation."

15		"Man and his soul, the individual, doesn't just work, eat, sleep, reproduce, and die but also has a meaningful destiny reaching far beyond him."

16		"Becoming conscious reconciles the opposites."

17		"Myth is pre-eminently a social phenomenon: it is told by the many and heard by the many. It gives the ultimately unimaginable religious experience an image, a form in which to express itself, and thus makes community life possible."

18		"The realm of the psyche is immeasurably great and filled with living reality. At its brink lies the secret of matter and of spirit."

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

20		"Everything living dreams of individuation, for everything strives towards its own wholeness."

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

23		"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."

24		"Many paths lead to the central experience. But the nearer one gets to the centre the easier it is to understand the other paths that lead there."

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."