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1 " Only man as an individual human being lives; the state is just a system, a mere machine for sorting and tabulating the masses. Anyone, therefore, who thinks in terms of men minus the individual, in huge numbers, atomizes himself and becomes a thief and a robber to himself. He is infected with the leprosy of collective thinking and has become an inmate of that insalubrious stud-farm called the totalitarian State. Our "
― C.G. Jung , Mysterium Coniunctionis (Collected Works 14)
2 " Everything psychic is pregnant with the future. "
3 " Seek the coldness of the moon and ye shall find the heat of the sun. "
4 " Luna is really the mother of the Sun, which means, psychologically, that the unconscious is pregnant with consciousness and gives birth to it. "
5 " But the unconscious is also feared by those whose conscious attitude is at odds with their true nature. Naturally their dreams will then assume an unpleasant and threatening form, for if nature is violated she takes her revenge. In itself the unconscious is neutral, and its normal function is to compensate the conscious position. In it the opposites slumber side by side; they are wrenched apart only by the activity of the conscious mind, and the more one-sided and cramped the conscious standpoint is, the more painful or dangerous will be the unconscious reaction. There "
6 " We cannot be resolved of any doubt save by experiment, "
7 " He who shall deliver me from the waters and bring me back to dry land, him will I bless with riches everlasting. "
8 " Let us therefore verify what we have said above concerning the truth, beginning with ourselves. "
9 " The whole work lies in the solution "
10 " The tomb in which our king is buried is called . . . Saturn”* "
11 " Making them conscious and giving form to what is unformed has a specific effect in cases where the conscious attitude offers an overcrowded unconscious no possible means of expressing itself. "
12 " A rapprochement between empirical science and religious experience would in my opinion be fruitful for both. "
13 " no man can know himself unless he know what and not who he is,51 on whom he depends and whose he is (for by the law of truth no one belongs to himself), and to what end he was made. "
14 " I am the true medicine [says Wisdom], correcting and transmuting that which is no longer into that which it was before its corruption, and that which is not into that which it ought to be.” * (Ibid., p. 459). "
15 " whereby the planetary spirits who are needed in order to unite the spirit or soul with the body, and to transform the latter, are compelled to descend "
16 " truth is the supreme virtue and an impregnable stronghold” * (p. 458). "
17 " labyrinths. The protection is so complete as to turn back all that is devilish and undesirable. "
18 " One of the greatest obstacles to such a synthesis is sectarianism, which is always right and displays no tolerance, picking and fomenting quarrels for the holiest of reasons in order to set itself up in the place of religion and brand anyone who thinks differently as a lost sheep, if nothing worse. But have any human beings the right to totalitarian claims? This claim, certainly, is so morally dangerous that we would do better to leave its fulfilment to Almighty God rather than presume to be little gods ourselves at the expense of our fellow-men. "
19 " As the water of ablution, the dew falls from heaven, purifies the body, and makes it ready to receive the soul;195 in other words, it brings about the albedo, the white state of innocence, "
20 " A rapprochement between empirical science and religious experience would in my opinion be fruitful for both. Harm can result only if one side or the other remains unconscious of the limitations of its claim to validity. "
