Jung’s “first love” among esoteric systems was Gnosticism

“Jung’s “first love” among esoteric systems was Gnosticism. From the earliest days of his scientific career until the time of his death, his dedication to the subject of Gnosticism was relentless.

As early as August, 1912, Jung intimated in a letter to Freud that he had an intuition that the essentially feminine-toned archaic wisdom of the Gnostics, symbolically called Sophia, was destined to re-enter modern Western culture by way of depth-psychology.

Subsequently, he stated to Barbara Hannah that when he discovered the writings of the ancient Gnostics, “I felt as if I had at last found a circle of friends who understood me.”

By Stephan A. Hoeller – Gnosis: A Journal of Western Inner Traditions (Vol. 8, Summer 1988)

Culture comes from the word cult

“The world we see is manmade. Culture comes from the word cult. We live in a manmade cult of materiality and superficial nonsense. When you wake up and or become knowledgeable to the truth of the world, you can then separate yourself from the illusion and mass hysteria to see the world for what it truly is.” – Moe the Gnostic Warrior

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The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul

“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.” ~ Carl G. Jung

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The essential reason for knowledge

“Now knowledge, as we know it today, claims all kinds of purposes and motivations. But the essential reason for knowledge, the real basis of our desire to know, is that we must learn to know what is right and wrong for ourselves. We must discover the truth, the life, the pattern which is possible for us to fulfill without danger or pain or suffering. We may have certain limitations, but the limitations in turn may also be liberations, depending on how we look at them.” – Manly P. Hall

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Excerpted from, “Second Look at the Law of Karma” ©1986 The Philosophical Research Society

Ultimate motive is the service of truth itself

“The esoteric system is all based upon the ultimate motive. Ultimate motive is the service of truth itself, a complete dedication to the service of the realities of existence.” – Manly P. Hall, Esoteric Wisdom for Modern Living

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Choose now your path

“Where your treasure is there will your heart be also.” “The White Grail: Service, self-sacrifice, purification, love, study. The Black Grail: Prosperity at other’s expense, selfishness, shortcuts, mastered by appetite, comfort. Choose now your path.” – Manly P Hall, The Initiates of the Flame

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