Many / One

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1		"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."

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

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

4		"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.'"

5		"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."

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

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

8		"Man (Anthropos) is the visible manifestation of the original One, i.e., God."

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

10		"The solidarity and communal life of mankind go to the roots of existence."

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

12		"Christ is in us and we in him! Why shouldn't the workings of God and the presence of the Son of Man in us be real and experienceable? I thank God every day that I have been permitted to experience the reality of the imago Dei in me."

13		"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."

14		"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."

15		"There is no energy without opposites."

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

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

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

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

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

21		"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."

22		"God is the One, the All."

23		"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."

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

25		"Looking at it in one way, we do indeed partake of divinity, as Christ himself pointed out when he said: 'Ye are gods.' (1 John 10:34)."