Consciousness is the alchemical prima materia, our awareness, our true selves

Carl Jung had said, “Consciousness is the alchemical prima materia, our awareness, our true selves — the essence of the Great Work.As a microcosm, man is reconciler of the opposites

The mystical marriage is the unification and transcendence of male/female duality.

Conflicting drives originating on the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical levels create splits in the personality.

“We can conquer unconsciousness by regular work but never by a grand gesture.” (Jung, 1925 Seminar, Page 31)

Wisdom seeks the middle path

Man’s whole history consists from the very beginning in a conflict between his feeling of inferiority and his arrogance.path of love

Wisdom seeks the middle path and pays for this audacity by a dubious affinity with daemon and beast, and so is open to moral misinterpretation. ~Carl Jung, CW I, Pages 23-24

Adam is the gigantic Androgyne, even the Demiurgus

33rd Degree Freemason and author, Manly P. Hall has written, “The word ADM signifies a species or race and only for lack of proper William_Blake_-_Elohim_Creating_Adamunderstanding has Adam been considered as an individual.

As the Macrocosm, Adam is the gigantic Androgyne, even the Demiurgus; as the Microcosm, he is the chief production of the Demiurgus and within the nature of the Microcosm the Demiurgus established all the qualities and powers which He Himself possessed. (more…)

You excuse yourself with your disbelief in the immortality of the soul

Carl Jung had said, “You excuse yourself with your disbelief in the immortality of the soul.immortality

Do you think that the dead do not exist because you have’ devised the impossibility of immortality? You believe in your idols of words.

The dead produce effects, that is sufficient. In the inner world there is no explaining away, as little as you can explain away the sea in the outer world.

You must finally understand your purpose in explaining away, namely to seek protection.” –Jung, Red Book, Page 298.

The symbol of the cosmic tree rooted in this world and growing up to heaven

“The alchemist saw the union of opposites under the symbol of the tree… the symbol of the cosmic tree rooted in this world and cosmic tree mangrowing up to heaven — the tree that is also man.

In the history of symbols this tree is described as the way of life itself, a growing into that which eternally is and does not change; which springs from the union of opposites and, by its eternal presence, also makes that union possible.” (Jung, CW 9i, para. 198)

Follow in the footsteps of your ancestors

“Follow in the footsteps of your ancestors, for the mind is trained through knowledge. Behold, their words endure… follow their wise counsel.” – The Book of Kheti, The Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt

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