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Jung, Buddhism, and the Incarnation of Sophia: Unpublished Writings from the Philosopher of the Soul QUOTES

Jung, Buddhism, and the Incarnation of Sophia: Unpublished Writings from the Philosopher of the Soul QUOTES

1 " It is up to each individual consciousness to develop its own symbol or symbols, its
own symbolic universe. "

― Henry Corbin , Jung, Buddhism, and the Incarnation of Sophia: Unpublished Writings from the Philosopher of the Soul

2 " It is through ignorance of the Unconscious psyche and through the pursuit of an exclusive cult of Consciousness that our era has become so completely atheist and profane. "

― Henry Corbin , Jung, Buddhism, and the Incarnation of Sophia: Unpublished Writings from the Philosopher of the Soul

3 " The “solar wheel is activated” means that everything that is peripheral is submitted to being directed by the center. This is why in this case movement is just another word for master. It is to tour oneself, to delimit oneself so that, under the direction of the center, entry is gained into all aspects of the personality. This amounts to designating self-knowledge as self-incubation. And in the end the sequence of images takes us to this archetype of the complete man that Plato drew as a perfectly spherical being—that is, total and complete, reuniting in himself both masculine and feminine (the essential elemental body awaiting resurrection in the land of Hurqalya). "

― Henry Corbin , Jung, Buddhism, and the Incarnation of Sophia: Unpublished Writings from the Philosopher of the Soul