PART I
SOULFUL TREE
When Two Trees Kiss
THE TREE OF LIFE IS THE CENTRAL SYMBOL OF MANKIND,
AND THE CENTRAL SYMBOL OF GENEALOGY
SOULFUL TREE
When Two Trees Kiss
THE TREE OF LIFE IS THE CENTRAL SYMBOL OF MANKIND,
AND THE CENTRAL SYMBOL OF GENEALOGY
Trees, for example, qualify as symbols for life because in our experience they really are life: After the symbolic death in winter, they burst into green again. They grow, bloom, and bear fruit without any involvement whatsoever from us. Productivity, adaptation, innovation, and harmony, but also decay and failure happen not only to us and our projects but to all of nature. The power of the elements, the birth, growth, and vanishing of other beings, the alternation of light and dark that enframe our own inner landscape—the inner and outer dimensions of ‘nature’ are one.
We Are the Fruit of the Tree of Life
& The Immortal Mind
"This plant is an inner, spiritual growth, the development of a tree of life and knowledge which played a great role in alchemy....
"In general it is advisable to watch these inner developments and not let them slip back into the unconscious, lest they get stuck in the physiological sphere, or rather in the realm of the [psychoid] unconscious which merges with the body, where they give rise to pathological formations which a wise man carefully avoids." (Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 607-608)
SOUL
Above all, we know desperately little about the possibilities of continued existence of the individual soul after death, so little that we cannot even conceive how anyone could prove anything at all in this respect.
Moreover, we know only too well, on epistemological grounds, that such a proof would be just as impossible as the proof of God.
Hence we may cautiously accept the idea of karma only if we understand it as psychic heredity in the very widest sense of the word.
Psychic heredity does exist —that is to say, there is inheritance of psychic characteristics such as predisposition to disease, traits of character, special gifts, and so forth. ~Carl Jung, CW 11, Para 845
For when the soul vanished at death, it was not lost; in that other world it formed the living counterpole to the state of death in this world. ~Carl Jung, CW 16, Para 493
The souls or spirits of the dead are identical with the psychic activity of the living; they merely continue it.
The view that the psyche is a spirit is implicit in this.
When therefore something psychic happens in the individual which he feels as belonging to himself, that something is his own spirit.
But if anything psychic happens which seems to him strange, then it is somebody else’s spirit, and it may be causing a
possession.
The spirit in the first case corresponds to the subjective attitude, in the latter case to public opinion, to the time-spirit,
or to the original, not yet human, anthropoid disposition which we also call the unconscious. ~Carl Jung, CW 9i, Para 38
The synchronicity principle possesses properties that may help to clear up the body-soul problem.
Above all it is a fact of causeless order, or rather, of meaningful orderedness, that may throw light on psychophysical parallelism.
The “absolute knowledge” which is characteristic of synchronistic phenomena, a knowledge not mediated by the sense organs, supports the hypothesis of a self-subsistent meaning, or even expresses its existence.
Such a form of existence can only be transcendental, since, as the knowledge of future or spatially distant events shows, it is contained in a psychically relative space and time, that is to say in an irrepresentable space-time continuum. ~Carl Jung, CW, Para 948.
The shadow is a tight passage, a narrow door, whose painful constriction no one is spared who goes down to the deep well.
But one must learn to know oneself in order to know who one is.
For what comes after the door is, surprisingly enough, a boundless expanse full of unprecedented uncertainty, with apparently no inside and no outside, no above and no below, no here and no there, no mine and no thine, no good and no bad.
It is the world of water, where all life floats in suspension; where the realm of the sympathetic system, the soul of everything living, begins; where I am indivisibly this and that; where I experience the other in myself and the other-than myself experiences me. ~Carl Jung, CW 9i, Para 45.
Neurosis—let there be no doubt about this—may be any number of things, but never a “nothing but.”
It is the agony of a human soul in all its vast complexity—so vast, indeed, that any and every theory of neurosis is little better than a worthless sketch, unless it be a gigantic picture of the psyche which not even a hundred Fausts could conceive. ~Carl Jung, CW 10, Para 357
A neurosis is by no means merely a negative thing, it is also something positive.
Only a soulless rationalism reinforced by a narrow materialistic outlook could possibly have overlooked this fact.
In reality the neurosis contains the patient’s psyche, or at least an essential part of it; and if, as the rationalist pretends, the neurosis could be plucked from him like a bad tooth, he would have gained nothing but would have lost something very essential to him.
That is to say, he would have lost as much as the thinker deprived of his doubt, or the moralist deprived of his temptation, or the brave man deprived of his fear.
To lose a neurosis is to find oneself without an object; life loses its point and hence its meaning.
This would not be a cure, it would be a regular amputation.
~Carl Jung, CW 10, Para 355
& The Immortal Mind
"This plant is an inner, spiritual growth, the development of a tree of life and knowledge which played a great role in alchemy....
"In general it is advisable to watch these inner developments and not let them slip back into the unconscious, lest they get stuck in the physiological sphere, or rather in the realm of the [psychoid] unconscious which merges with the body, where they give rise to pathological formations which a wise man carefully avoids." (Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 607-608)
SOUL
Above all, we know desperately little about the possibilities of continued existence of the individual soul after death, so little that we cannot even conceive how anyone could prove anything at all in this respect.
Moreover, we know only too well, on epistemological grounds, that such a proof would be just as impossible as the proof of God.
Hence we may cautiously accept the idea of karma only if we understand it as psychic heredity in the very widest sense of the word.
Psychic heredity does exist —that is to say, there is inheritance of psychic characteristics such as predisposition to disease, traits of character, special gifts, and so forth. ~Carl Jung, CW 11, Para 845
For when the soul vanished at death, it was not lost; in that other world it formed the living counterpole to the state of death in this world. ~Carl Jung, CW 16, Para 493
The souls or spirits of the dead are identical with the psychic activity of the living; they merely continue it.
The view that the psyche is a spirit is implicit in this.
When therefore something psychic happens in the individual which he feels as belonging to himself, that something is his own spirit.
But if anything psychic happens which seems to him strange, then it is somebody else’s spirit, and it may be causing a
possession.
The spirit in the first case corresponds to the subjective attitude, in the latter case to public opinion, to the time-spirit,
or to the original, not yet human, anthropoid disposition which we also call the unconscious. ~Carl Jung, CW 9i, Para 38
The synchronicity principle possesses properties that may help to clear up the body-soul problem.
Above all it is a fact of causeless order, or rather, of meaningful orderedness, that may throw light on psychophysical parallelism.
The “absolute knowledge” which is characteristic of synchronistic phenomena, a knowledge not mediated by the sense organs, supports the hypothesis of a self-subsistent meaning, or even expresses its existence.
Such a form of existence can only be transcendental, since, as the knowledge of future or spatially distant events shows, it is contained in a psychically relative space and time, that is to say in an irrepresentable space-time continuum. ~Carl Jung, CW, Para 948.
The shadow is a tight passage, a narrow door, whose painful constriction no one is spared who goes down to the deep well.
But one must learn to know oneself in order to know who one is.
For what comes after the door is, surprisingly enough, a boundless expanse full of unprecedented uncertainty, with apparently no inside and no outside, no above and no below, no here and no there, no mine and no thine, no good and no bad.
It is the world of water, where all life floats in suspension; where the realm of the sympathetic system, the soul of everything living, begins; where I am indivisibly this and that; where I experience the other in myself and the other-than myself experiences me. ~Carl Jung, CW 9i, Para 45.
Neurosis—let there be no doubt about this—may be any number of things, but never a “nothing but.”
It is the agony of a human soul in all its vast complexity—so vast, indeed, that any and every theory of neurosis is little better than a worthless sketch, unless it be a gigantic picture of the psyche which not even a hundred Fausts could conceive. ~Carl Jung, CW 10, Para 357
A neurosis is by no means merely a negative thing, it is also something positive.
Only a soulless rationalism reinforced by a narrow materialistic outlook could possibly have overlooked this fact.
In reality the neurosis contains the patient’s psyche, or at least an essential part of it; and if, as the rationalist pretends, the neurosis could be plucked from him like a bad tooth, he would have gained nothing but would have lost something very essential to him.
That is to say, he would have lost as much as the thinker deprived of his doubt, or the moralist deprived of his temptation, or the brave man deprived of his fear.
To lose a neurosis is to find oneself without an object; life loses its point and hence its meaning.
This would not be a cure, it would be a regular amputation.
~Carl Jung, CW 10, Para 355
You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things. Why not go into the forest for a time, literally?
Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books… ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Page 479.
The Tree As An Archetypal Image
"...the outward form of the tree may change in the course of time
but the richness and vitality of a symbol is expressed more
in it's change of meaning.
Taken on the average, the commonest associations
to its meaning are growth, life, unfolding of form
in a physical and spiritual sense, development,
growth from below upwards
and from above downwards
the maternal aspect (protection, shade, shelter, nourishing fruits,
source of life , solidity, permanence, firm-rootedness,
old age, personality, and finally death and rebirth..."
On The History And Interpretation Of The Tree Symbol
From Alchemical Studies
Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books… ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Page 479.
The Tree As An Archetypal Image
"...the outward form of the tree may change in the course of time
but the richness and vitality of a symbol is expressed more
in it's change of meaning.
Taken on the average, the commonest associations
to its meaning are growth, life, unfolding of form
in a physical and spiritual sense, development,
growth from below upwards
and from above downwards
the maternal aspect (protection, shade, shelter, nourishing fruits,
source of life , solidity, permanence, firm-rootedness,
old age, personality, and finally death and rebirth..."
On The History And Interpretation Of The Tree Symbol
From Alchemical Studies
ASHERA TREE
contains both Male and Female aspects mated together in the Dance of Life and Death here in our material world, our universe. "God" cannot be fully understood or It's spiritual instructions for attaining reunion with It (Salvation) until we humans recognize Both Aspects of the Holy One as Equal and necessary to good life on earth and eternal life in heaven. Therefore, The Great Mother must be restored right along with El, the Compassion One, Jesus' Good Father, the model for the Good earthly King, and the Good earthly father.
This is the Canaanite Great Goddess Asherah as the Great Mother: She is a Triple Goddess with Her 2 daughters, Astarte (Ishtar) and Anath: She is Virgin and pure (New Moon). She is Mother (Full Moon) and consort of El and is called "Mother of the 70 Gods" (i.e., all of them), and his bitterest enemy in Her third aspect as Destroyer and Death. Without death there is no life in our physical/material world. She is then a goddess of exhibiting Yahweh's split into love and hateful aspects.
In Canaanite imagery She is first shown as standing between two goats up on their hind legs. She holds a sheaf of grain in each hand, feeding them (they are sometimes gazelles). She is eventually shown as the Tree of Life, that tree always bearing Goddess worship sacred numbers relating to the 7 planetary rulers, 9 months of pregnancy, or 28 days of the lunar month. She is referred to in the Old Testament as "the Grove".
Asherah as the Tree of Life is the same Tree of Life that Yahweh drove Adam away from eating its fruit, away from the Garden of Eden, Yahweh who set, in his spiritual ignorance, guardian spiritual beings, the winged lions, the Cherubim, the very emblems of the Great Goddess who was often pictured riding Her Lion of God and flanked by cherubim.
Here is the Holy One's mystical instruction hidden in John's Revelation passages about the Tree of Life which contain the same love/hate dichotomy as Yahweh:
"To him that overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the Tree of Life, which is in the paradise of God."
-Rev 2:7
"Blessed are those who wash their robes that they may have the right to the Tree of Life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who practices falsehood."
-Rev 22:14,15
John shows the schizophrenia of Yahweh's Spirit which condemns the Feminine that it desperately needs. Even John's Tree of Life is Patriarchalized with the number of its branches changed from Goddess numbers of 7 (Planetary Rulers), 13, and 28 (Lunar numbers), to 12 (Solar number-God as a male solar deity-12 Disciples, 12 Patriarchs, etc., although even 12's are throwbacks to the pagan Chaldean Zodiac, the Circle of Animals.
John ends Revelation with the warning that anyone who changes the words of his prophesies God will take away his share in the Tree of Life and in the Holy City."
Asherah
Asherah, the mother goddess, together with Astarte and Anath represent the three forms of women (and in the mythology they play confused roles). Asherah the mother, Astarte the wife/lover and Anath the sister/virgin all play important roles in the mythology. They correspond to Hera, Aphrodite and Artemis in Greek mythology.
Ishtar
The Holy City symbolizes the Great Goddess' daughter, Ishtar, who was once known as the Queen of Jerusalem. She is then spiritually worthy to be the Bride of El-Immanuel or Jesus, the rightful Son of the Compassionate One, and the two together represent the true Holy One of Heaven and Earth.
The Great Mother is also compassionate, matching the compassion of EL
"Mine is the secret that opens upon the door of youth and mine is the Cup of the Wine of Life and the Cauldron of Cerridwen, which is the Holy Grail of Immortality. I am the Gracious Goddess who gives the gift of joy unto the heart of man upon the earth, I give the knowledge of the Spirit Eternal, and beyond death I give peace and freedom and reunion with those that have gone before....I who am the beauty of the Green Earth, and the White Moon amongst the stars and the mystery of the Waters, and the desire of the heart of man, I call unto thy soul to arise and come unto me. For I am the Soul of Nature who giveth life to the universe, from me all things proceed and unto me all things must return... I have been with thee from the beginning, and I am that which us attained at the end of desire."
--From Barbara Walker's "Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets"
The Holy Wedding was originally always portrayed as Hiero Gamos, the Union of God and Goddess.
Augustine states, "The bible informs us that 'God is love.' Love involves a lover, a beloved, and a spirit of love between lover and loved."
The Lover is El, the Compassionate One, the Beloved is Asherah as the Great Mother who is also Unconditionally Compassionate to all Her Children as only a mother can be. And God is the Spirit of Love binding the two together.
If you believe God is Love, you must believe God has masculine and feminine aspects because the most complete expression of Love in all its forms is found between man and woman the union of Love produces children, the Family, the Foundation of Society.
God the Father arises with city states replacing rural villages as centers of human society. God the Father worship culminates in denial of Nature and the Divine Feminine.
Cow gods: EL could take the form of a white bull (Moon) to impregnate the cow goddess.
http://www.heavenlyascents.com/2009/07/12/the-tree-of-life-as-nurturing-mother/
http://tokinwoman.blogspot.com/2015/06/asherah-tree-of-life.html
contains both Male and Female aspects mated together in the Dance of Life and Death here in our material world, our universe. "God" cannot be fully understood or It's spiritual instructions for attaining reunion with It (Salvation) until we humans recognize Both Aspects of the Holy One as Equal and necessary to good life on earth and eternal life in heaven. Therefore, The Great Mother must be restored right along with El, the Compassion One, Jesus' Good Father, the model for the Good earthly King, and the Good earthly father.
This is the Canaanite Great Goddess Asherah as the Great Mother: She is a Triple Goddess with Her 2 daughters, Astarte (Ishtar) and Anath: She is Virgin and pure (New Moon). She is Mother (Full Moon) and consort of El and is called "Mother of the 70 Gods" (i.e., all of them), and his bitterest enemy in Her third aspect as Destroyer and Death. Without death there is no life in our physical/material world. She is then a goddess of exhibiting Yahweh's split into love and hateful aspects.
In Canaanite imagery She is first shown as standing between two goats up on their hind legs. She holds a sheaf of grain in each hand, feeding them (they are sometimes gazelles). She is eventually shown as the Tree of Life, that tree always bearing Goddess worship sacred numbers relating to the 7 planetary rulers, 9 months of pregnancy, or 28 days of the lunar month. She is referred to in the Old Testament as "the Grove".
Asherah as the Tree of Life is the same Tree of Life that Yahweh drove Adam away from eating its fruit, away from the Garden of Eden, Yahweh who set, in his spiritual ignorance, guardian spiritual beings, the winged lions, the Cherubim, the very emblems of the Great Goddess who was often pictured riding Her Lion of God and flanked by cherubim.
Here is the Holy One's mystical instruction hidden in John's Revelation passages about the Tree of Life which contain the same love/hate dichotomy as Yahweh:
"To him that overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the Tree of Life, which is in the paradise of God."
-Rev 2:7
"Blessed are those who wash their robes that they may have the right to the Tree of Life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who practices falsehood."
-Rev 22:14,15
John shows the schizophrenia of Yahweh's Spirit which condemns the Feminine that it desperately needs. Even John's Tree of Life is Patriarchalized with the number of its branches changed from Goddess numbers of 7 (Planetary Rulers), 13, and 28 (Lunar numbers), to 12 (Solar number-God as a male solar deity-12 Disciples, 12 Patriarchs, etc., although even 12's are throwbacks to the pagan Chaldean Zodiac, the Circle of Animals.
John ends Revelation with the warning that anyone who changes the words of his prophesies God will take away his share in the Tree of Life and in the Holy City."
Asherah
Asherah, the mother goddess, together with Astarte and Anath represent the three forms of women (and in the mythology they play confused roles). Asherah the mother, Astarte the wife/lover and Anath the sister/virgin all play important roles in the mythology. They correspond to Hera, Aphrodite and Artemis in Greek mythology.
Ishtar
The Holy City symbolizes the Great Goddess' daughter, Ishtar, who was once known as the Queen of Jerusalem. She is then spiritually worthy to be the Bride of El-Immanuel or Jesus, the rightful Son of the Compassionate One, and the two together represent the true Holy One of Heaven and Earth.
The Great Mother is also compassionate, matching the compassion of EL
"Mine is the secret that opens upon the door of youth and mine is the Cup of the Wine of Life and the Cauldron of Cerridwen, which is the Holy Grail of Immortality. I am the Gracious Goddess who gives the gift of joy unto the heart of man upon the earth, I give the knowledge of the Spirit Eternal, and beyond death I give peace and freedom and reunion with those that have gone before....I who am the beauty of the Green Earth, and the White Moon amongst the stars and the mystery of the Waters, and the desire of the heart of man, I call unto thy soul to arise and come unto me. For I am the Soul of Nature who giveth life to the universe, from me all things proceed and unto me all things must return... I have been with thee from the beginning, and I am that which us attained at the end of desire."
--From Barbara Walker's "Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets"
The Holy Wedding was originally always portrayed as Hiero Gamos, the Union of God and Goddess.
Augustine states, "The bible informs us that 'God is love.' Love involves a lover, a beloved, and a spirit of love between lover and loved."
The Lover is El, the Compassionate One, the Beloved is Asherah as the Great Mother who is also Unconditionally Compassionate to all Her Children as only a mother can be. And God is the Spirit of Love binding the two together.
If you believe God is Love, you must believe God has masculine and feminine aspects because the most complete expression of Love in all its forms is found between man and woman the union of Love produces children, the Family, the Foundation of Society.
God the Father arises with city states replacing rural villages as centers of human society. God the Father worship culminates in denial of Nature and the Divine Feminine.
Cow gods: EL could take the form of a white bull (Moon) to impregnate the cow goddess.
http://www.heavenlyascents.com/2009/07/12/the-tree-of-life-as-nurturing-mother/
http://tokinwoman.blogspot.com/2015/06/asherah-tree-of-life.html
Metabolism, Munch
https://books.google.com/books?id=rC95EEDPPYgC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=Archons+tree&source=bl&ots=ZCl4UKLalV&sig=zBDLxZEzxGIH-nMbiMC2NhKAknU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDvvz35YbKAhUE-mMKHSDJAt4Q6AEITDAK#v=onepage&q&f=false
Good and evil unite in the growth of the tree. In their divinity life and love stand opposed. ~Philemon, Liber Novus, Page 351.
"One is the beginning, the Sun God.
"Two is Eros, for he binds two together and spreads himself out in brightness.
"Three is the Tree of Life, for it fills space with bodies.
"Four is the devil, for he opens all that is closed. He dissolves everything formed and physical; he is the destroyer in whom everything becomes nothing. ~Philemon, Liber Novus, 351.
I. Soulful Genealogy:
Approaches to Genealogy; What Psyche Knows; Worldview; The Living Past; The Naked Tree; Uprooted; Buried Secrets; Bridge of Spirits; The Call of Our Ancestors; Jungian Genealogy; Re-member Who You Are; Passed Lives; Shades of Our Past; Climbing Your Family Tree; Songs of Our Ancestors; GenIsis; First Family; Through Ancient Eyes; Kindred Experience; Bone Collecting; Blessings & Curses; Touching the Past; We Never Forgot Who We Are; Family Reunion
"One is the beginning, the Sun God.
"Two is Eros, for he binds two together and spreads himself out in brightness.
"Three is the Tree of Life, for it fills space with bodies.
"Four is the devil, for he opens all that is closed. He dissolves everything formed and physical; he is the destroyer in whom everything becomes nothing. ~Philemon, Liber Novus, 351.
I. Soulful Genealogy:
Approaches to Genealogy; What Psyche Knows; Worldview; The Living Past; The Naked Tree; Uprooted; Buried Secrets; Bridge of Spirits; The Call of Our Ancestors; Jungian Genealogy; Re-member Who You Are; Passed Lives; Shades of Our Past; Climbing Your Family Tree; Songs of Our Ancestors; GenIsis; First Family; Through Ancient Eyes; Kindred Experience; Bone Collecting; Blessings & Curses; Touching the Past; We Never Forgot Who We Are; Family Reunion
‘Hide-and-Seek” by Tchelitchew (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty)
Curiously enough, there was an antique mystery cult in which this idea was carried out concretely.
A pine tree was felled during the yearly festival of the cult of Attis and was carried into the cave of Cybele.
A picture of the God was fixed to the tree : the tree represented the God.
The tree was thus made the child of Cybele who is nature.
If we think in the Indian way, Attis is the pine tree and stands in the womb of nature and is nature, he is a pure expression or image of nature.
But when the image of Attis is fixed to the tree, then it is an expression of the "suspensio", of the painful death of Attis who was, so to speak, given back to the mother as a corpse for re-birth, resurrection.
The symbol of the cave is naturally the symbol of the grave and life is buried like a grain of wheat in the womb of the earth and grows up again.
This is the mystical idea behind the mysteries of Eleusis, Attis, etc.
~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture, 26 Jan 1940
A pine tree was felled during the yearly festival of the cult of Attis and was carried into the cave of Cybele.
A picture of the God was fixed to the tree : the tree represented the God.
The tree was thus made the child of Cybele who is nature.
If we think in the Indian way, Attis is the pine tree and stands in the womb of nature and is nature, he is a pure expression or image of nature.
But when the image of Attis is fixed to the tree, then it is an expression of the "suspensio", of the painful death of Attis who was, so to speak, given back to the mother as a corpse for re-birth, resurrection.
The symbol of the cave is naturally the symbol of the grave and life is buried like a grain of wheat in the womb of the earth and grows up again.
This is the mystical idea behind the mysteries of Eleusis, Attis, etc.
~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture, 26 Jan 1940
Description. This figure depicts a human, hybrid representation perhaps of life and death. The front portrays the typical robust female with large breasts and stomach (provocatively, the navel appears to protrude (umbilical hernia) which sometimes occurs in pregnancy); very thin arms with delineated fingers (see Ankara 79-251-65) fold up to rest on the breasts (see Ankara 79-803-65 and 10475.X2). The front base of the figure is missing but it appears to be seated with legs crossed in front (Ankara 79-20-65; 79-656-65). Red paint is present around neck and between breasts in four concentric chains (Ankara 79-20-65), and on the wrists and possibly the ankles. The trace of red paint in lower area suggests painted decoration seen on the ankles of other figures. The back portrays an articulated skeleton with a modeled spinal column, a pelvis and scapulas that project above shoulders. Individual ribs and vertebrae are depicted through horizontal and diagonal scoring. A prominent dowel hole indicates that originally the piece had a separate, detachable head. A circular ‘footprint’ around the dowel hole suggests that the head fit snugly into this curved space. The figurine was plastered and shows evidence of undergoing secondary burning (darkened clay/yellowish plaster), which is especially visible on the front from arms/breasts down and diagonally down sides where plaster is missing.
Artist: Ernst Steiner - "Lebensbaum" i.e. Tree of Life
The Albatross
(Rickie Lee Jones/
Leo Kottke/John Leftwich)
There, there is my ship
Finally come in
I see the mast rolling on the steps
Over the garden wall
I hear the sailor's call
I see the albatross
Over and down now I'll go home
Home to my children I left behind
Long ago with my mother the moon
That's where my father is
This broken heart is his
Archipelago is turning, turning to strangers
Here in the world, turning to strangers
Oh, they hold on
Here, here's where we live
Here is a sea, my family
We'll always be young as we've ever been
Death will not part us again nearer to heaven than
10,000 ancestors who dream of me
Well I hear you dreaming of me
Yeah sometimes, dream of me!
(Rickie Lee Jones/
Leo Kottke/John Leftwich)
There, there is my ship
Finally come in
I see the mast rolling on the steps
Over the garden wall
I hear the sailor's call
I see the albatross
Over and down now I'll go home
Home to my children I left behind
Long ago with my mother the moon
That's where my father is
This broken heart is his
Archipelago is turning, turning to strangers
Here in the world, turning to strangers
Oh, they hold on
Here, here's where we live
Here is a sea, my family
We'll always be young as we've ever been
Death will not part us again nearer to heaven than
10,000 ancestors who dream of me
Well I hear you dreaming of me
Yeah sometimes, dream of me!
SOUL
The meaning of events is the way of salvation that you create. The meaning of events comes from the possibility of life in this world that you create. It is the mastery of this world and the assertion of your soul in this world. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 239.
Keep it far from me, science that clever knower, that bad prison master who binds the soul and imprisons it in a lightless cell. But above all protect me from the serpent of judgment, which only appears to be a healing serpent, yet in your depths is infernal poison and agonizing death. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 238
Cleverness couples itself with intention. Simplemindedness knows no intention. Cleverness conquers the world, but simplemindedness, the soul. So take on the vow of poverty of spirit in order to partake of the soul. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 237.
When you say that the place of the soul is not, then it is not. But if you say that it is, then it is. Notice what the ancients said in images: the word is a creative act. The ancients said: in the beginning was the Word. Consider this and think upon it. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 236.
Did you not see that when your creative force turned to the world, how the dead things moved under it and through it, how they grew and prospered, and how your thoughts flowed in rich rivers? If your creative force now turns to the place of the soul, you will see how your soul becomes green and how its field bears wonderful fruit. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 236.
I must learn that the dregs of my thought, my dreams, are the speech of my soul. I must carry them in my heart, and go back and forth over them in my mind, like the words of the person dearest to me. Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 232.
From this we learn how the spirit of the depths considers the soul: he sees her as a living and self-existing being, and with this he contradicts the spirit of this time for whom the soul is a thing dependent on man… ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 232.
Therefore the spirit of the depths forced me to speak to my soul, to call upon her as a living and self-existing being. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 232.
Who knows the way to the eternally fruitful climes of the soul? You seek the way through mere appearances; you study books and give ear to all kinds of opinion. What good is all that? There is only one way and that is your way. You seek the path. I warn you away from my own. It can also be the wrong way for you. May each go his own way. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 231
Just as you become a part of the manifold essence of the world through your bodies, so you become a part of the manifold essence of the inner world through your soul. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 264.
I had to recognize that I am only the expression and symbol of the soul. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 234.
The spirit of this time of course allowed me to believe in my reason. He let me see myself in the image of a leader with ripe thoughts. But the spirit of the depths teaches me that I am a servant, in fact the servant of a child: This dictum was repugnant to me and I hated it. But I had to recognize and accept that my soul is a child and that my God in my soul is a child. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 234.
The moon is dead. Your soul went to the moon, to the preserver of souls. Thus the soul moved toward death. I went into the inner death and saw that outer dying is better than inner death. And I decided to die outside and to live within. For that reason I turned away and sought the place of the inner life. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 267.
Every man has a quiet place in his soul, where everything is self-evident and easily explainable, a place to which he likes to retire from the confusing possibilities of life, because there everything is simple and clear, with a manifest and limited purpose. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 295.
My soul: "Who gives you thoughts and words? Do you make them? Are you not my serf a recipient who lies at my door and picks up my alms? And you dare think that what you devise and speak could be nonsense? Don't you know yet that it comes from me and belongs to me?" ~Carl Jung, Red Book, Page 241.
The soul has its own peculiar world. Only the self enters in there, or the man who has completely become his self, he who is neither in events, nor in men, nor in his thoughts. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, 240.
He whose desire turns away from outer things, reaches the place of the soul. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 233.
My friends, it is wise to nourish the soul, otherwise you will breed dragons and devils in your heart. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 232.
The dead who besiege us are souls who have not fulfilled the principium individuationis, or else they would have become distant stars. Insofar as we do not fulfill it, the dead have a claim on us and besiege us and we cannot escape them. ~Carl Jung; The Red Book; Appendix C; Page 370
Man is a gateway, through which you pass from the outer world of Gods, daimons, and souls into the inner world, out of the greater into the smaller world. Small and inane is man, already he is behind you, and once again you find yourselves in endless space, in the smaller or inner infinity. ~Carl Jung; The Red Book; Page 354.
But the spirit of the depths had gained this power, because I had spoken to my soul during 25 nights in the desert and I had given her all my love and submission. But during the 25 days, I gave all my love and submission to things, to men, and to the thoughts of this time. I went into the desert only at night. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 238.
The world of the inner is as infinite as the world of the outer. Just as you become a part of the manifold essence of the world through your bodies, so you become a part of the manifold essence of the inner world through your soul. This inner world is truly infinite, in no way poorer than the outer one. Man lives in two worlds. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 264.
My Soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you—are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you, I am with you. After long years of long wandering, I have come to you again.... ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 232.
And you, my soul, I found again, first in images within men and then you yourself I found you where I least expected you. You climbed out of a dark shaft. You announced yourself to me in advance in dreams. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 233.
I had to accept that what I had previously called my soul was not at all my soul, but a dead system that I had contrived. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book Page 232.
Meine Seele, meine Seele, wo bist Du? (My Soul, my Soul, where are You?) …~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Pages 232.
Hence I had to speak to my soul as to something far off and unknown, which did not exist through me, but through whom I existed. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 232.
I am weary, my soul, my wandering has lasted too long, my search for myself outside of myself. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 233.
I am ignorant of your mystery. Forgive me if I speak as in a dream, like a drunkard—are you God?” ~Carl Jung to his Soul, The Red Book, Page 233.
The soul demands your folly; not your wisdom. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 264.
Thus your soul is your own self in the spiritual world. As the abode of the spirits, however, the spiritual world is also an outer world. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 288.
You have the one God, and you become your one God in the innumerable number of Gods. ~Carl Jung’s Soul, The Red Book, Page 371.
You are the suffering heart of your one star God, who is Abraxas to his world. ~Carl Jung’s Soul, The Red Book, Page 371.
Who exhausts the mystery of love? … There are those who love men, and those who love the souls of men, and those who love their own soul. Such a one is Philemon, the host of the Gods. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 315.
You should call me if you want to live with men, but the one God if you want to rise above the human world to the divine and eternal solitude of the star. ~Carl Jung’s Soul, The Red Book, Page 371.
Here the soul drew near to my ear and whispered, "The Gods are even happy to turn a blind eye from time to time, since basically they know very well that it would be bad for life if there were no exception to eternal law. Hence their tolerance of the devil. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 359.
Everything to come was already in images: to find their soul, the ancients went into the desert. This is an image. The ancients lived their symbols, since the world had not yet become real for them. Thus they went into the solitude of the desert to teach us that the place of the soul is a lonely desert. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 236.
Now that white shape of a girl with black hair-my own soul-and now that white shape of a man, which also appeared to me at the time it resembles Michelangelo's sitting Moses-it is Elijah. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Pages 248-9, Footnote 187.
When my soul fell into the hands of evil, it was defenseless except for the weak fishing rod which it could use, again with its power, to pull the fish from the sea of emptiness. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 289.
But who can withstand fear when the divine intoxication and madness comes to him? Love, soul, and God are beautiful and terrible. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 238.
My soul is my supreme meaning, my image of God, neither God himself nor the supreme meaning. God becomes apparent in the supreme meaning of the human community. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Footnote 92, Page 240.
The self, I thought, was like the monad which I am, and which is my world. The mandala represents this monad, and corresponds to the microcosmic nature of the soul. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 206 and MDR, Page 221.
But I had to recognize and accept that my soul is a child and that my God in my soul is a child. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 234.
This meaning of events is the supreme meaning, that is not in events, and not in the soul, but is the God standing between events and the soul, the mediator of life, the way, the bridge and the going across. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 239.
This new world appears weak and artificial to me. Artificial is a bad word, but the mustard seed that grew into a tree, the word that was conceived in the womb of a virgin, became a God to whom the earth was subject. ~Carl Jung to his Soul, Liber Novus, Pages 242-243.
But when the mother, my soul, was pregnant with the God, I did not know it. It even seemed to me as if my soul herself was the God, although he lived only in her body. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 244.
And thus the image of the ancients is fulfilled: I pursued my soul to kill the child in it. For I am also the worst enemy of my God. But I also recognized that my enmity is decided upon in the God. He is mockery and hate and anger, since this is also a way of life. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 244.
I see in splendor the mother of God with the child. Peter stands in front of her in admiration-then Peter alone with the key-the Pope with a triple crown-a Buddha sitting rigidly in a circle of fire-a many-armed bloody Goddess-it is Salome desperately wringing her hands-it takes hold of me, she is my own soul, and now I see Elijah in the image of the stone. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 248.
The word becomes your God, since it protects you from the countless possibilities of interpretation. The word is protective magic against the daimons of the unending, which tear at your soul and want to scatter you to the winds. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 270.
The daimon of sexuality approaches our soul as a serpent. She is half human soul and is called thought-desire. The daimon of spirituality descends into our soul as the white bird. He is half human soul and is called desire-thought. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 354.
If I am not conjoined through the uniting of the Below and the Above, I break down into three parts: the serpent, and in that or some other animal form I roam, living nature daimonically, arousing fear and longing. The human soul, living forever within you. The celestial soul, as such dwelling with the Gods, far from you and unknown to you, appearing in the form of a bird. ~Carl Jung’s Soul to him, Black Books, Appendix C., Page 370.
The God appears to us in a certain state of the soul. Therefore we reach the God through the self. Not the self is God, although we reach the God through the self. The God is behind the self above the self the self itself when he appears. But he appears as our sickness, from which we must heal ourselves. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 338.
Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 233.
Scholarliness belongs to the spirit of this time, but this spirit in no way grasps the dream, since the soul is everywhere that scholarly knowledge is not. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 233.
May man rule in the human world. May his laws be valid. But treat the souls, daimons, and Gods in their way; offering what is demanded. But burden no man, demand and expect nothing from him, with what your devil-souls and God-souls lead you to believe, but endure and remain silent and do piously what befits your kind. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 343.
You are blessed, virgin soul, praised be your name. You are the chosen one among women. You are the God-bearer. Praise be to you! Honor and fame be yours in eternity. ~Philemon to Carl Jung’s Soul, Liber Novus, Page 344.
I bow, my soul, before unknown forces- I'd like to consecrate an altar to each unknown God. I must submit. The black iron in my heart gives me secret power. It's like defiance and like contempt for men. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 308.
My soul leads me into the desert, into the desert of my own self. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 235.
But man must recognize his complicity in the act of evil. He must bear witness to this recognition by eating from the bloody sacrificial flesh. Through this act he testifies that he is a man, that he recognizes good as well as evil, and that he destroys the image of the God's formation through withdrawing his life force, with which he also dissociates himself from the God. This occurs for the salvation of the soul, which is the true mother of the divine child. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 291.
When it bore and gave birth to the God, my soul was of human nature throughout; it possessed the primordial powers since time immemorial, but only in a dormant condition. They flowed into forming the God without my help. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 291.
True, what the soul imagines happens only in the mind, but what God imagines happens in reality. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 280.
If we now recall to what a degree the soul has humanized and realized itself, we can judge how very much it today expresses the body also, with which it is coexistent. ~Carl Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis, Page 544.
Since the soul animates the body, just as the soul is animated by the spirit, she tends to favour the body and everything bodily, sensuous, and emotional. She lies caught in "the chains" of Physis, and she desires "beyond physical necessity." She must be called back by the "counsel of the spirit" from her lostness in matter and the world. ~Carl Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis, Page 472.
You live inasmuch as these Mendelian units are living. They have souls, are endowed with psychic life, the psychic life of that ancestor; or you can call it part of an ancestral soul. ~Carl Jung, Zarathustra Seminar, Page 1401.
We are immortalized in memory. Oh, yes, it is so. The soul has become immortal if we leave something behind for others. Psychology can affirm no other immortality. ~Carl Jung, C.G. Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolff-A collections of Remembrances, Page 7.
The angels are a strange genus: they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are in themselves soulless beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord. ~Carl Jung, Memories Dreams and Reflections, Pages 327-328.
Only those remain living who are willing to die with life. Since what happens in the secret hour of the midday of life is the reversal of the parabola, the birth of death. ~Carl Jung, The soul and death, CW 8, § 800.
The soul possesses in some degree a historical stratification, whereby the oldest stratum of which would correspond to the unconscious. ~Carl Jung. CW8, § 51.
It would also be the task of the confessor zealous in the cure of souls, were it not that his office inevitably obliges him to apply the yardstick of his denominational bias at the critical moment. ~Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self, Page 37.
However we may picture the relationship between God and soul, one thing is certain: The soul cannot be "nothing but. " On the contrary it has the dignity of an entity endowed with consciousness of a relationship to Deity. Even if it were only the relationship of a drop of water to the sea ... ~Carl Jung, CW 12, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 10.
So long as religion is only faith and outward form, the religion's function is not experienced in our souls, nothing of any importance has happened. ~Carl Jung, CW 12, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 12.
Dogma represents the soul more completely than a scientific theory, for the latter gives expression to and formulates the conscious mind alone. ~Carl Jung, CW8, Psychology and Religion, Page 46.
A saying of the alchemist is, "God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." The saying holds for God, for the anima mundi and for the soul of man. ~Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 35.
The animus which is not realized by the mother is like a part of a soul with a relative existence of its own. . ~Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 29.
Archetypes are images in the soul that represent the course of one’s life. ~Carl Jung; Conversations with C.G. Jung; Archetypes; Page 21.
Certain souls, I imagine, feel the state of three-dimensional existence to be more blissful than that of Eternity. But perhaps that depends upon how much of completeness or incompleteness they have taken across with them from their human existence. ~Carl Jung; Memories Dreams and Reflections; Page 321.
Others restrict spirit to certain psychic capacities or functions or qualities, such as the capacity to think and reason in contradistinction to the more “soulful” sentiments. Here spirit means the sum-total of all the phenomena of rational thought, or of the intellect, including the will, memory, imagination, creative power, and aspirations motivated by ideals. ~ Carl Jung, CW 9i, para. 386.
The spiritual man says to the worldly man, "Are you capable of knowing your soul in a complete manner? If you knew it, as is fitting, and if you knew what makes it better, you would be able to recognize that the names the philosophers formerly gave it are not its true names. . . . O dubious names that resemble the true names, what errors and agonies you have provoked among men!" The names refer in turn to the philosopher's stone. . . . ~Carl Jung; "Psychology and Religion"; CW 11, par. 153.
The sun… is the only truly ‘rational’ image of God, whether we adopt the standpoint of the primitive savage or of modern science. In either case the sun is the father-god from whom all living things draw life; he is the fructifier and creator, the source of energy for our world. The discord into which the human soul has fallen can be harmoniously resolved through the sun as a natural object which knows no inner conflict. ~Carl Jung; CW 5; Symbols of Transformation; Para 176.
All religions are therapies for the sorrows and disorders of the soul." ~Carl Jung; "Commentary to The Secret of the Golden Flower", 1929.
Christian civilization has proved hollow to a terrifying degree: it is all veneer, but the inner man has remained untouched, and therefore unchanged. His soul is out of key with his external beliefs; in his soul the Christian has not kept pace with external developments. Yes, everything is to be found outside-in image and in word, in Church and Bible-but never inside. Inside reign the archaic gods, supreme as of old. ~Carl Jung; Psychology and Alchemy, Page 11.
An understanding heart is everything, in a teacher. ... One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. ~Carl Jung; "The Gifted Child,"1942.
Therefore the sun is perfectly suited to represent the visible God of this world, i.e., the creative power of our own soul, which we call libido, and whose nature it is to bring forth the useful and to bring forth the useful and the harmful, the good and the bad. ~Carl Jung; CW 5; Symbols of Transformation; para 176.
[The incorporeal spirits lie] beyond our empirical present. [He continues] There is a spiritual world from which the soul receives knowledge of spiritual things whose origins cannot be discovered in this visible world. ~Carl Jung; CW 8.
There are incorporeal spirits with which the soul associates. ~Carl Jung; CW 8.
It was universally believed in the Middle Ages as well as in the Greco-Roman world that the soul is a substance. Indeed, mankind as a whole has held this belief from its earliest beginnings, and it was left for the second half of the nineteenth century to develop a “psychology without the soul.” ~Carl Jung; CW 8.
[The soul] is of divine nature and therefore immortal; that there is a power inherent within it which builds up the body, sustains its life, heals its ills. ~Carl Jung; CW 8.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves. Thinking is an act of the soul whereby it becomes conscious of itself and of other things outside itself. ~Carl Jung; Symbols of Transformation; Footnote 2.
Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul. Carl Jung; Symbols of Transformation; para. 13.
In alchemy the egg stands for the chaos apprehended by the artifex, the prima materia containing the captive world-soul. Out of the egg — symbolized by the round cooking vessel — will rise the eagle or phoenix, the liberated soul, which is ultimately identical with the Anthropos who was imprisoned in the embrace of Physis. ~Carl Jung; Psychology and Alchemy; Page 202.
The reality of evil and its incompatibility with good cleave the opposites asunder and lead inexorably to the crucifixion and suspension of everything that lives. Since ‘the soul is by nature Christian’ this result is bound to come as infallibly as it did in the life of Jesus: we all have to be ‘crucified with Christ,’ i.e., suspended in a moral suffering equivalent to veritable crucifixion. ~Carl Jung; Psychology and Alchemy; Paragraph 470.
. . . every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul. ~Carl Jung; Psychotherapists or the Clergy; CW 11: 497
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul. ~Carl Jung; The Development of Personality.
Whoever carries over into the afternoon the law of the morning, or the natural aim, must pay for it with damage to his soul, just as surely as a growing youth who tries to carry over his childish egoism into adult life must pay for this mistake with social failure. ~Carl Jung; In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche; The Stages of Life; Page 787.
There is nothing without spirit, for spirit seems to be the inside of things … inside is spirit, which is the soul of objects. Whether this is our psyche or the psyche of the universe we don't know, but if one touches the earth one cannot avoid the spirit. ~Carl Jung; The Vision Seminars; Pages 164-165.
For what is the body? The body is merely the visibility of the soul, the psyche; and the soul is the psychological experience of the body. So it is really one and the same thing. ~Carl Jung, Zarathustra Seminar, Page 355.
This spirit is an autonomous psychic happening, a hush that follows the storm, a reconciling light in the darkness of man’s mind, secretly bringing order into the chaos of his soul. ~Carl Jung; CW 11; Paragraph 260.
The great problem of our time is that we do not understand what is happening to the world. We are confronted with the darkness of our soul, the unconscious. Carl Jung; Letters, Volume 2; Page 590 .
I have been compelled, in my investigations into the structure of the unconscious, to make a conceptual distinction between soul and psyche. By psyche I understand the totality of all psychic processes, conscious as well as unconscious. By soul, on the other hand, I understand a clearly demarcated functional complex that can best be described as a "personality." ~Carl Jung; [Definitions," CW 6, par. 797]
It would be blasphemy to assert that God can manifest Himself everywhere save only in the human soul. Indeed the very intimacy of the relationship between Cod and the soul automatically precludes any devaluation of the latter. It would be going perhaps too far to speak of an affinity; but at all events the soul must contain in itself the faculty of relation to God, i.e. a correspondence, otherwise a connection could never come about This correspondence is, in psychological terms, the archetype of the God-image [q.v.]" ~Carl Jung; Memories Dreams and Reflections; Pages 399-400 and Psychology and Alchemy, CW 12, par. 11.
We still attribute to the other fellow all the evil and inferior qualities that we do not like to recognize in ourselves, and therefore have to criticize and attack him, when all that has happened is that an inferior “soul” has emigrated from one person to another. The world is still full of betes noires and scapegoats, just as it formerly teemed with witches and werewolves. ~Carl Jung; Civilization in Transition Page 130.
Whatever explanation or interpretation does to it, we do to our own souls as well, with corresponding results for our own well-being. ~Carl Jung; CW 9; Page 160
The sea is like music, it has all the dreams of the soul within itself and sounds them over. ~Carl Jung; Memories Dreams and Reflections; Page 369.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn theosophy by heart, or mechanically repeat mystic text from the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls. Thus the soul has been turned into a Nazareth Gradually from which nothing good can come. Therefore let us fetch it from the four corners of the earth - the more far-fetched and bizarre it is the better. ~ Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 99 .
The mystery of the Eucharist transforms the soul of the empirical man, who is only a part of himself, into his totality, symbolically expressed by Christ. In this sense, therefore, we can speak of the Mass as the rite of the individuation process. ~Carl Jung; Psychology and Religion
The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted (‘deformed’), and can be restored through God’s grace. The scope of the integration is suggested by the descent of Christ’s soul to hell, its work of redemption embracing even the dead. The psychological equivalent of this is the integration of the collective unconscious which forms an essential part of the individuation process. ~Carl Jung; Aion; Page 39; Para 72.
The dream gives a true picture of the subjective state, while the conscious mind denies that this state exists, or recognizes it only grudgingly ~Carl Jung; Modern Man in Search of a Soul; Page 5.
Nobody should play with analysis as with an easy tool. Those who write superficial and cheap books about the subject are either unconscious of the far-reaching effects of analytical treatment or else ignorant of the real nature of the human soul. ~Carl Jung; Contributions to Analytical Psychology.
Through reflection, "life" and its "soul" are abstracted from Nature and endowed with a separate existence. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Religion, Page 158.
I did not attribute a religious function to the soul, I merely produced the facts which prove that the soul is naturaliter religiosa, i.e., possesses a religious function. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 14.
This primary substance [the chaos] is round (massa globosa, rotundum), like the world and the world-soul; it is in fact the world-soul and the world-substance in one. ~Carl Jung, Aion CW 9 II: §376
Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. ~Carl Jung, Memories Dreams and Reflections, Page 235.
He [the psychotherapist] is not just working for this particular patient, who may be quite insignificant, but for himself as well and his own soul, and in so doing he is perhaps laying an infinitesimal grain in the scales of humanity’s soul. Small and invisible as this contribution may be, it is yet an opus magnum. ~Carl Jung, CW 16, par. 449.
It was universally believed in the Middle Ages as well as in the Greco-Roman world that the soul is a substance. Indeed, mankind as a whole has held this belief from its earliest beginnings, and it was left for the second half of the nineteenth century to develop a “psychology without the soul.” ~Carl Jung; CW 8; Page 338
Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul. ~Carl Jung, CW 11, par. 497.
I had to understand that I was unable to make the people see what I am after. I am practically alone. There are a few who understand this and that, but almost nobody sees the whole....I have failed in my foremost task: to open people’s eyes to the fact that man has a soul and there is a buried treasure in the field and that our religion and philosophy are in a lamentable state. Quoted by Gerhard Adler in “Aspects of Jung’s Personality,” in Psychological Perspectives 6/1 (Spring 1975), p. 14.
Because they are so closely akin to us and share our unknowingness, I loved all warm-blooded animals who have souls like ourselves and with whom, so I thought, we have an instinctive understanding. ~Carl Jung, Memories Dreams and Reflections, Page 67.
It is a fact that the body very often apparently survives the soul, often even without a disease. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 437-438.
As far as we know at all there seems to be no immediate decomposition of the soul. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 437-438.
The infantile soul is no tabula rasa at all, as presumed by modern psychology, but the ancient images are always already there a priori. ~Carl Jung, Children’s Dreams Seminar, Page 369.
Carl Jung never said: “There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
What Dr. Jung said in two separate and unrelated statements was:
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 99.
If the supreme value (Christ) and the supreme negation (sin) are outside, then the soul is void: its highest and lowest are missing. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 8.
On the contrary it [The Soul] has the dignity of an entity endowed with consciousness of a relationship to Deity. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 10.
On the contrary it [The Soul] has the dignity of an entity endowed with consciousness of a relationship to Deity. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 10.
As the eye to the sun, so the soul corresponds to God. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 10.
So long as religion is only faith and outward form, and the religious function is not experienced in our own souls, nothing of any importance has happened. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 12.
If the theologian really believes in the almighty power of God on the one hand and in the validity of dogma on the other, why then does he not trust God to speak in the soul? ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 17.
You see, in spite of being a man in advanced age, you still have a young soul, a lovely anima, and she is confronted with the dangerous lizard. In other words, your soul is threatened by' chthonic poison. Now this is exactly the situation of our Western mind. We think we can deal with such problems in an almost rationalistic way, by conscious attempts and efforts, imitating Yoga methods and such dangerous stuff, but we forget entirely that first of all we should establish a connection between the higher and the lower regions of our psyche ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 95-97.
Such a thing is possible only when there is a detachment of the soul from the body. When that takes place and the patient lives on, one can almost with certainty expect a certain deterioration of the character inasmuch as the superior and most essential part of the soul has already left. Such an experience denotes a partial death. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 435-437.
Do not forget that the original meaning of all letters and numbers was a magical one! Hence the "perils of the soul." ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 528-529.
The ethical problem of sexual freedom really is enormous and worth the sweat of all noble souls. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 17-19.
There is another possibility, that of the subtle body, a fine material veil of the soul, which cannot exist so to speak without a body. This is the "corpus glorificationis" (glorified body), the transfigured body, which is our future portion. ~Carl Jung, ETH, Lecture XIV, Page 115.
Mercury is the anima mundi, the soul of the world, and entered matter as an emanation of God, and since then it is concealed in it. ~Carl Jung, ETH, Page 180.
Therefore the trans-substantiated wine, which becomes the blood of Christ in the Mass, is the anima, that is the soul, of Christ. ~Carl Jung, ETH, Page 189.
He says directly that man has two lights: the one is the spirit and the other the light of nature. Man has a spirit in order to be able to understand the divine revelation, and a soul in order to recognise the world in the light of nature. ~Carl Jung, ETH, Page 193.
Intellect does, in fact, harm the soul when it dares to possess itself of the heritage of the spirit. ~Carl Jung, Secret of the Golden Flower, Page 81.
Apparently God the Father is thought of here as the soul, the anima mundi, which is the centre of the world, and which at the same time enfolds the whole world, or rather the universe including the starry heavens. ~Carl Jung, ETH, Page 198.
"Go to the streams of the river Nile and there thou wilt find a stone which has a spirit. Take this stone, divide it and put thy hand inside it and draw out its heart: for its soul is in its heart." ~Ostanes cited by Carl Jung, ETH, Page 205.
And this being has body, soul and spirit, and is, therefore, the principle of life itself, as well as the principle of individuation. Its nature is spiritual, it cannot be seen, and it contains an invisible image. ~Carl Jung, ETH, Alchemy, Page 221.
Psychologically this means that the souls of the ancestors (potential factors, qualities, talents, possibilities, and so on, which we have inherited from all the lines of our ancestry) are waiting in the unconscious, and are ready at any time to begin a new growth. ~Carl Jung, ETH, Alchemy, Page 230.
These are, so to speak, the re-animated souls of the ancestors which have been lying dormant in the unconscious, and the alchemists call these units or souls the sleepers or the dead in Hades who are resurrected by the "holy waters" (that is the miraculous water of alchemy, the fertilising Mercury). ~Carl Jung, ETH, Alchemy, Page 230.
Thus hun [Animus] means 'cloud-demon,' a higher 'breath-soul' belonging to the yang principle and therefore masculine. After death, hun rises upward and becomes shen, the 'expanding and self-revealing' spirit or god. ~Carl Jung, Secret of the Golden Flower, Page 114.
'Anima', called p'o, and written with the characters for 'white' and for 'demon', that is, 'white ghost', belongs to the lower, earth-bound, bodily soul, the yin principle, and is therefore feminine. After death, it sinks downward and becomes kuei (demon), often explained as the 'one who returns' (i.e. to earth), a revenant, a ghost. ~Carl Jung, Secret of the Golden Flower, Page 114.
In any case, animus (hun) is the light, yang-soul, while anima (p'o) is the dark, yin-soul. ~Secret of the Golden Flower, Page 16.
If man does not reverence and submit to the unconscious, which created his consciousness, he loses his soul, that is, he loses his connection with soul and unconscious. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lectures, Page 214.
He has a secret purpose: to free the world soul (the Deus absconditus) bound in matter. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture V. Page 166.
It is a great blessing for mankind when the soul is contained in the dogma and there is always a great deal of misery when this is not the case. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture 27Jan1939, Pages 69.
Where there are no forms and ceremonies , rites in which they can express their souls, people become moody and caught in conflicts. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture 27Jan1939, Pages 69.
I do not know why India was not able to keep Buddhism, but I think probably its present polytheistic religion is a better expression of the Indian soul today than the one perfect Buddha. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture 27Jan1939, Pages 69.
If we seek our connection with the snake we come to the spinal cord and that points to the animal soul of man which leads him down into the darkness of the body, into the instinct which one meets in animal form in the outer world. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture 8March1935, Pages 199-200.
Complexes can also be called fragmentary souls. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture 1May1935, Pages 201.
They [Intuitives] draw the souls out of things and act according to what they discover by this process, just as if what they discovered were ordinary every day facts. ~Carl Jung, Lecture IV, 18May1934, Page 102.
I am personally of the opinion that not only people, but even animals have souls. I am also deeply convinced of the truth of all creeds. No logical standard of comparison exists, they all contain genuine and real psychological experience and it is merely stupid to criticize them with the aim of establishing one truth. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture III, Page 18.
[Soul:] "Tame your impatience. Only waiting will help you here." [I:] "Waiting-I know this word. Hercules also found waiting troublesome when he carried the weight of the world on his shoulders." [Soul:] "He had to await Atlas's return and carried the weight of the world for the sake of the apples" ~The Black Books, Page 60.
By psyche I understand the totality of all psychic processes, conscious as well as unconscious. By soul, on the other hand, I understand a clearly demarcated functional complex that can best be described as a "personality." ~Carl Jung; [Definitions," CW 6, par. 797]
If the supreme value (Christ) and the supreme negation (sin) are outside, then the soul is void: its highest and lowest are missing. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 8.
As the eye to the sun, so the soul corresponds to God. Since our conscious mind does not comprehend the soul it is ridiculous to speak of the things of the soul in a patronizing or depreciatory manner. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 11.
Too few people have experienced the divine image as the innermost possession of their own souls. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 12.
My whole life I have worked to know the soul and these people [Valentinian Gnostics] already knew it. ~Carl Jung to Gilles Quispel, Meeting with Jung, Page 150.
Being that has soul is living being. Soul is the living thing in [us], which lives of itself. ~Carl Jung, CW 9i, Par. 56.
When we suffer from lack of psychic energy, we say we have a depression or an inhibition, not realising that part of our mental hierarchy has one away beyond our control, that we have, in fact, lost our soul. ~Carl Jung, Cornwall Seminar, Page 13.
She is legendary, that is to say, the anima-fact is unknown, the anima is that part of the soul which is unknown to our age. ~Carl Jung, Cornwall Seminar, Page 25.
But the real anima of a man is shown by psychological experience to be like the primitive idea of soul; something between earth and heaven, as black as it is white; ghostlike; ill defined. ~Carl Jung, Cornwall Lecture, Page 25.
The “Soul” which accrues to ego-consciousness during the Opus has a feminine character in the man and a masculine character in a woman. His anima wants to reconcile and unite; her animus tries to discern and discriminate. ~Carl Jung, CW 16, Par. 522.
Actually the word adhista in Elgonyi means sun as well as God, although they deny that the sun is God. Only the moment when it rises is mungu or adhista. Spittle and breath mean soul-substance. ~Carl Jung, CW 8, Para 411.
The first beginnings of all analytical treatment of the soul are to be found in its prototype, the confessional. ~Carl Jung, CW 16, Par 123.
Archetypes are images in the soul that represent the course of one's life. One part of the archetypal content is of material and the other of spiritual origin. ~Carl Jung, Jung-Ostrowski, Page 21.
God the Father became the Son and His own soul, the Word that became flesh. Each son of God must awaken this new reality in himself. ~Carl Jung, Jung-Ostrowski, Page 42.
On the contrary it [The Soul] has the dignity of an entity endowed with consciousness of a relationship to Deity. Even if it were only the relationship of a drop of water to the sea ... ~Carl Jung, CW 12, Page 10.
Language is originally and essentially nothing but a system of signs or symbols, which denote real occurrences, or their echo in the human soul. ~Carl Jung, CW 5, Page 15.
I am an orphan, alone; nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a fish, or fell like a white stone from heaven. In woods and mountains I roam, but I am hidden in the innermost soul of man. I am mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of eons. ~Carl Jung, Quoting an Alchemical Text, MDR 227.
If you prove receptive to this "call of the wild," the longing for fulfilment will quicken the sterile wilderness of your soul as rain quickens the dry earth. ~Carl Jung, CW 14, Para 190.
Although there is no way to marshal valid proof of continuance of the soul after death, there are nevertheless experiences which make us thoughtful. I take them as hints, and do not presume to ascribe to them the significance of insights. ~Carl Jung, MDR, Page 312.
Considering that the light of Christ is accompanied by the "dark night of the soul" that St. John of the Cross spoke about, and by what the Gnostics of lrenaeus called the umbra Christi, which is identical with the chthonic aspect mentioned above, the life of Christ is identical in us, from the psychological point of view, with the unconscious tendency toward individuation. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 268.
I quite agree with you that those people in our world who have insight and good will enough should concern themselves with their own "souls" more than with preaching to the masses or trying to find out the best way for them. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 549-550
I'm inclined to believe that something of the human soul remains after death, since already in this conscious life we have evidence that the psyche exists in a relative space and in a relative time, that is in a relatively non-extended and eternal state. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 29-30.
I am not engaged in philosophy, but merely in thinking within the framework of the special task that is laid upon me: to be a proper psychiatrist, a healer of the soul. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 69-71
God is something unknowable. An old German mystic has said: "God is a sigh in our souls." ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 86-87.
Every country or people has its own angel, just as the earth has a soul. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 432.
The dream of the horse represents the union with the animal soul, which you have missed for a long time. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 145-146
People hate the human soul, it is nothing but "psychological.” They don't understand that it has needs, and they throw its treasures into the street without understanding them. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 208-210.
Transitions between the aeons always seem to have been melancholy and despairing times, as for instance the collapse of the Old Kingdom in Egypt ("The Dialogue of a World; Weary Man with His Soul") between Taurus and Aries, or the melancholy of the Augustinian age between Aries and Pisces. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 229-230
Knowing more about the soul and its mysteries you could free yourself from the fascination which makes you suffer. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 402.
The soul is father and mother of all the apparently unanswerable difficulties that are building themselves up into the heavens before our eyes. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 497-498
I own the first English edition of Bohme's 40 Questions Concerning the Soul, 1647. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 465-466
"My dear Dr. Jung, Father Victor's beloved soul has returned to God. He died this morning between 11- 12 a .m . from a sudden thrombosis . He was fully awake, and praying before he became unconscious, and they say he had no great pain . . ." ~The Mother Prioress, 8 May 1960.
The outer opposition is an image of my inner opposition. Once I realize this, I remain silent and think of the chasm of antagonism in my soul. Outer oppositions are easy to overcome. They indeed exist, but nevertheless you can be united with yourself. They will indeed burn and freeze your soles, but only your soles. It hurts, but you continue and look toward distant goals. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 279.
As you know, Plato laid down the principle that it is impossible to look at something ugly without taking something of it into the soul, and it is equally impossible to be in contact with what is beautiful without reacting to it. ~Carl Jung, 1925 Seminar, Page 10
The author shows an amazingly sympathetic knowledge of the introvert of the thinking type, and hardly less for the other types. . . . Jung has revealed the inner kingdom of the soul marvelously well and has made the signal discovery of the value of phantasy. His book has a manifold reach and grasp, and many reviews with quite different subject matter could be written about it.” ~Sonu Shamdasani, Introduction 1925 Seminar, Page xi
On August 22, 1922, Jaime de Angulo wrote to Chauncey Goodrich issuing “a challenge to all brother-neurotics—go, my brethren, go to the Mecca, I mean to Zürich, and drink from the fountain of life, all ye who are dead in your souls, go and seek new life.” ~Sonu Shamdasani, Introduction 1925 Seminar, Page xv
I was especially interested in palaeontology; you see, my life work in historical comparative psychology is like palaeontology. That is the study of the archetypes of the animals, and this is the study of the archetypes in the soul. The Eohippus is the archetype of the modern horse, the archetypes are like the fossil animals. ~Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking; Interviews and Encounters, Pages 205-218
The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends. ~Carl Jung, CW 10, Pages 144-145
One might almost say that man himself, or his innermost soul, is the prisoner or the protected inhabitant of the mandala ~Carl Jung, CW 11, par. 157).
Thinking is an act of the soul whereby it becomes conscious of itself and of other things outside itself. ~Carl Jung; Symbols of Transformation; Page 11, Footnote 2.
But the soul suffers great need, since outer freedom is of no use to it. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 311.
But humankind is masculine and feminine, not just man or woman. You can hardly say of your soul what sex it is. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 263.
But if you pay close attention, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul, and the most feminine woman has a masculine soul. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 263.
The outer opposition is an image of my inner opposition. Once I realize this, I remain silent and think of the chasm of antagonism in my soul. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 279.
Soul and body are not two things. They are one. ~Carl Jung, Zarathustra Seminar, Page 355
Natural life is the nourishing of the Soul ~Carl Jung, CW 8, Para 800.
The animus when on his way, on his quest, is really a psychopompos, leading the soul back to the stars whence it came. ~Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, Page 1229
On the way back out of the existence in the flesh, the psychopompos [Animus] develops such a cosmic aspect, he wanders among the constellations, he leads the soul over the rainbow bridge into the blossoming fields of the stars. ~Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, Page 1229
In the redemption of the individual, the whole past will be redeemed, and that includes all the inferior things as well, the animals, and all the ancestral souls, everything that has not been completed; all creation will be redeemed in the apokatastasis [at the time of the Last Judgement], there will be a complete restoration of things as they have been. ~Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, Page 1280
When someone is able to perform the art of touching on the archetypal, he can play on the souls of people like on the strings of a piano. ~Carl Jung, Children’s Dream Seminar, Page 150
But my eyes were opened, and I saw that you are a lover of your soul, who anxiously and jealously guards its treasure. Carl Jung to Philemon, The Red Book, Page 315
All knowledge of the psyche is itself psychic; in spite of all this the soul is the only experient of life and existence. ~Carl Jung, CW 5, Para 344.
People accuse psychology of dealing in squalid fantasies, and yet even a cursory glance at ancient religions and the history of morals should be sufficient to convince them of the demons hidden in the human soul. ~Carl Jung, CW 5, Para 106
The soul gives birth to images that from the rational standpoint of consciousness are assumed to be worthless. And so they are, in the sense that they cannot immediately be turned to account in the objective world. ~Carl Jung, CW 6, Para 426
Just as the unconscious world of mythological images speaks indirectly, through the experience of external things, to the man who surrenders wholly to the outside world, so the real world and its demands find their way indirectly to the man who has surrendered wholly to the soul; for no man can escape both realities. ~Carl Jung, CW 6, Para 280
It should never be forgotten—and of this the Freudian school must be reminded—that morality was not brought down on tables of stone from Sinai and imposed on the people, but is a function of the human soul, as old as humanity itself. ~Carl Jung, CW 7, Para 30.
It [Dreams] leads straight to the deepest personal secrets, and is, therefore, an invaluable instrument in the hand of the physician and educator of the soul. ~Carl Jung, CW 7, Para 25
The deposit of man’s whole ancestral experience—so rich in emotional imagery—of father, mother, child, husband and wife, of the magic personality, of dangers to body and soul, has exalted this group of archetypes into the supreme regulating principles of religious and even of political life, in unconscious recognition of their tremendous psychic power. ~Carl Jung, CW 8, Para 337
Childhood is important not only because various warpings of instinct have their origin there, but because this is the time when, terrifying or encouraging, those far-seeing dreams and images appear before the soul of the child, shaping his whole destiny, as well as those retrospective intuitions which reach back far beyond the range of childhood experience into the life of our ancestors. ~Carl Jung, CW 8, Para 98
It is the world of water, where all life floats in suspension; where the realm of the sympathetic system, the soul of everything living, begins; where I am indivisibly this and that; where I experience the other in myself and the other-than myself experiences me. ~Carl Jung, CW 9i, Para 45.
The souls or spirits of the dead are identical with the psychic activity of the living; they merely continue it. ~Carl Jung, CW 9i, Para 38
They [Religions] express the whole range of the psychic problem in mighty images; they are the avowal and recognition of the soul, and at the same time the revelation of the soul’s nature. ~Carl Jung, CW 10, Para 367
For when the soul vanished at death, it was not lost; in that other world it formed the living counterpole to the state of death in this world. ~Carl Jung, CW 16, Para 493
For when the soul vanished at death, it was not lost; in that other world it formed the living counterpole to the state of death in this world. ~Carl Jung, CW 16, Para 493
Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul. ~Carl Jung, CW 17, Para 302
Therefore our Lord himself is a healer; he is a doctor; he heals the sick and he deals with the troubles of the soul; and that is exactly what we call psychotherapy. ~Carl Jung, CW 18, Para 370
It seems to me to be the Holy Spirit’s task and charge to reconcile and unite the opposites in the human individual through a special development of the human soul. ~Carl Jung, CW 18, Para 1553
But when we penetrate the depths of the soul and when we try to understand its mysterious life, we shall discern that death is not a meaningless end, the mere vanishing into nothingness—it is an accomplishment, a ripe fruit on the tree of life. ~Carl Jung, CW 18, Para 1705-7
But if we listen to the quieter voices of our deeper nature we become aware of the fact that soon after the middle of our life the soul begins its secret work, getting ready for the departure. ~Carl Jung, CW 18, Para 1705-7
Alchemy represents the projection of a drama both cosmic and spiritual in laboratory terms. The opus magnum [the great work] had two aims: the rescue of the human soul and the salvation of the cosmos. ~Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking, Page 228
With her cunning play of illusions the soul lures into life the inertness of matter that does not want to live. She makes us believe incredible things, that life may be lived. ~Carl Jung, CW 9ii, Pages 26-27
Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness. ~Carl Jung, CW 9ii, Pages 26-27
But to have soul is the whole venture of life, for soul is a life-giving daemon who plays his elfin game above and below human existence, for which reason-in the realm of dogma he is threatened and propitiated with superhuman unishments and blessings that go far beyond the possible deserts of human beings. ~Carl Jung, CW 9ii, Pages 26-27
Heaven and hell are the fates meted out to the soul and not to civilized man, who in his nakedness and timidity would have no idea of what to do with himself in a heavenly Jerusalem. ~Carl Jung, CW 9ii, Pages 26-27
If you have committed a mistake at all, it consisted in your having striven too hard to understand your wife completely and not reckoning with the fact that in the end people don’t want to know what secrets are slumbering in their souls. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 27.
Have your congregation understood that they must close their ears to the traditional teachings and go through the darknesses of their own souls and set aside everything in order to become that which every individual bears in himself as his individual task, and that no one can take this burden from him? ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 76.
These constituents of the personality—which one may call functions, or Mendelian units, or the primitives would call them remnants of ancestral —these constituents don’t always fit. ~Carl Jung, Dream Analysis, Page 453
Probably in absolute reality there is no such thing as body and mind, but body and mind or soul are the same, the same life, subject to the same laws, and what the body does is happening in the mind. ~Carl Jung, Dream Analysis, Page 20
It is death to the soul to become unconscious. People die before there is death of the body, because there is death in the soul. ~Carl Jung, Dream Analysis, Page 90.
You can succeed in going away from your problems, you need only to look away
from them long enough. You may escape, but it is the death of the soul. ~Carl Jung, Dream Analysis, Page 90.
I loved the old man who touched my life with outstretched hand and left his
mark upon my soul. [Gilda Franz, C. G. Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolff: A Collection of Remembrances]
A man likes to believe that he is master of his soul. ~Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols, Page 83.
Your dream unquestionably refers to the archetypal problem of the extrusion of the soul from the body. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. I, Pages 306-307
One is forced to conclude 'that in your case the soul is only loosely seated in your body. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. I, Pages 306-307
However, the friendly lion in the dream seems to indicate that the looseness of the soul is not exactly desirable, since the lion compensates your condition in a very obvious way: the Zurich lion represents your localized instinct, firmly rooted in your earth, just as the lion's soul-as with all animals -is securely fixed in its body. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. I, Pages 306-307
We find the idea of the soul as the form giving principle already in the Middle Ages, it is the soul which forms the body and the outer life. So in meditating on the Anima Christi you are meditating on Christ's form. The same idea is to be found in the East. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture17th Nov 1939
Rama Krishna is not worshipped, his photograph is there to remind the worshippers of his form. This is, therefore, totally different to the worship of Christ but the basic ide a of soul as form is common to both. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture ETH Lecture17th Nov 1939
It is a great blessing for mankind when the soul is contained in the dogma and there is always a great deal of misery when this is not the case. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture 27 Jan 1939
Where there are no forms and ceremonies, rites in which they can express their souls, people become moody and caught in conflicts. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture 27 January 1939
No, the Virgin was the archetypal figure of the soul of man, the anima, and it is only in the soul of man that God can be born, where else could it be? ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 32
Apollo Vanquishing the Serpent Python by Gustave Moreau (1885)
Mother Tree
A common mother-symbol is the tree of life or wood of life:
(a)The tree of life may have been, in the first instance, a fruit-bearing genealogical tree, and hence a kind of tribal mother
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(b)Numerous myths say that human beings came from trees, and many of them tell how the hero was enclosed in the maternal tree-trunk, like the dead Osiris in the cedar-tree, Adonis in the myrtle, etc. (fig. 023)
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(b)178 CW5 Ser: 3 Par 321 (b) FigNo 023
(c)Numerous female deities were worshipped in tree form, and this led to the cult of sacred groves and trees:
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(c)Juno of Thespiae was a bough
(c)Juno of Samos a plank
(c)Juno of Argos a pillar
(c)The Carian Diana was an unhewn block of wood
(c)Athene of Lindus a polished column
(c)Ceres of Pharos was `a rough and shapeless wooden stake with no face'
(c)Latona at Delos was `an amorphous bit of wood'
(c)Attic Pallas as a `cross-post'
(d)Hence when Attis castrates himself under a pine-tree, he did so because the tree has a maternal significance
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A common mother-symbol is the tree of life or wood of life:
(a)The tree of life may have been, in the first instance, a fruit-bearing genealogical tree, and hence a kind of tribal mother
CW5 ¶ 321
(b)Numerous myths say that human beings came from trees, and many of them tell how the hero was enclosed in the maternal tree-trunk, like the dead Osiris in the cedar-tree, Adonis in the myrtle, etc. (fig. 023)
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(b)178 CW5 Ser: 3 Par 321 (b) FigNo 023
(c)Numerous female deities were worshipped in tree form, and this led to the cult of sacred groves and trees:
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(c)Juno of Thespiae was a bough
(c)Juno of Samos a plank
(c)Juno of Argos a pillar
(c)The Carian Diana was an unhewn block of wood
(c)Athene of Lindus a polished column
(c)Ceres of Pharos was `a rough and shapeless wooden stake with no face'
(c)Latona at Delos was `an amorphous bit of wood'
(c)Attic Pallas as a `cross-post'
(d)Hence when Attis castrates himself under a pine-tree, he did so because the tree has a maternal significance
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What the tree meant to the alchemists cannot be ascertained either from a single interpretation or from a single text:
(a)In order to discover this, a great many sources must be compared. We shall therefore turn to further statements about the tree. Pictures of the tree are often given in the medieval texts. Some of them are reproduced in Psychology and Alchemy. Sometimes the prototype is the tree of paradise, hung not with apples but with sun-and-moon fruit, like the trees in the treatise of Michael Maier in the Musaeum hermeticum, or else it is a sort of Christmas tree, adorned with the seven planets and surrounded by allegories of the seven phases of the alchemical process
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STANDING BENEATH THE TREE
(b)Standing beneath the tree are not Adam and Eve but Hermes Trismegistus as an old man and the adept as a youth. Behind Hermes Trismegistus is King Sol sitting on a lion accompanied by a fire-spitting dragon, and behind the adept is the moon goddess Diana sitting on a whale accompanied by an eagle. The tree is generally in leaf and living, but sometimes it is quite abstract and expressly stands for the phases of the process
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THE SERPENT DWELLS IN THE TOP OF THE TREE IN THE SHAPE OF MELUSINA
(c)In the Ripley Scrowle the serpent of paradise dwells in the top of the tree in the shape of Melusina-“desinit in [anguem] mulier formosa superne.” This is combined with a motif that is not in the least Biblical but is primitive and shamanistic: a man, presumably the adept, is halfway up the tree and meets Melusina, or Lilith, coming down from above. The climbing of the magical tree is the heavenly journey of the shaman, during which he encounters his heavenly spouse
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SHAMANISTIC ANIMA WAS TRANSFORMED INTO LILITH
(d)In medieval Christianity the shamanistic anima was transformed into Lilith, who according to tradition was the serpent of paradise and Adam's first wife, with whom he begot a horde of demons. In this picture primitive traditions cross with Judaeo-Christian ones. I have never come across the climbing of the tree in the pictures done by my patients, and have met it only as a dream motif. The motif of ascent and descent occurs in modern dreams chiefly in connection with a mountain or a building, or sometimes a machine (lift, aeroplane, etc.)
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MOTIF OF THE LEAFLESS OR DEAD TREE
(e)The motif of the leafless or dead tree is not common in alchemy, but is found in Judaeo-Christian tradition as the tree of paradise that died after the Fall. An old English legend reports what Seth saw in the Garden of Eden. In the midst of paradise there rose a shining fountain, from which four streams flowed, watering the whole world. Over the fountain stood a great tree with many branches and twigs, but it looked like an old tree, for it had no bark and no leaves. Seth knew that this was the tree of whose fruit his parents had eaten, for which reason it now stood bare. Looking more closely, Seth saw that a naked snake without a skin had coiled itself round the tree. It was the serpent by whom Eve had been persuaded to eat of the forbidden fruit. When Seth took a second look at paradise he saw that the tree had undergone a great change. It was now covered with bark and leaves, and in its crown lay a little new-born babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, that wailed because of Adam's sin. This was Christ, the second Adam. He is found in the top of the tree that grows out of Adam's body in representations of Christ's genealogy
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MOTIF OF THE TRUNCATED TREE
(f)Another alchemical motif is the truncated tree. In the frontispiece to the French edition (1600) of Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Venice, 1499), it forms the counterpart to the lion with cut-off paws, which appears as an alchemical motif in Reusner's Pandora (1588). Blaise de Vigenère (1523-?1569), who was influenced by the Cabala, speaks of the “caudex arboris mortis” (trunk of the tree of death) that sent out a red death-ray. “Tree of death” is synonymous with “coffin.” The strange recipe, “Take the tree and place in it a man of great age,” should probably be understood in this sense
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THE MOTIF OF MUTILATION
(g)The motif of mutilation occurs in “Allegoriae super librum Turbae,” Art aurif., I, pp. 140, 151. These amputations have nothing to do with a so-called castration complex, but refer to the motif of dismemberment
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THE HERO PLACED HIS SOUL ON THE TOPMOST BLOSSOM OF AN ACACIA-TREE
(h)This motif is a very ancient one, and occurs in the ancient Egyptian tale of Bata, preserved in a papyrus of the nineteenth dynasty. There the hero placed his soul on the topmost blossom of an acacia-tree. When the tree was cut down with treacherous intent, his soul was found again in the form of a seed. With this the dead Bata was restored to life. When he was killed a second time in the form of a bull, two persea trees grew out of the blood. But when these were cut down, a chip of the wood fertilized the queen, who bore a son: he was the reborn Bata, who then became Pharaoh, a divine being. It is evident that the tree here is an instrument of transformation. Vigenère's “caudex” is similar to the truncated tree in Poliphilo. This image probably goes back to Cassiodorus, who allegorizes Christ as a “tree cut down in his passion”
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THE TREE APPEARS BEARING FLOWERS AND FRUIT
(i)More frequently the tree appears bearing flowers and fruit. The Arabian alchemist Abu'l Qasim (13th cent.) describes its four kinds of blossoms as red, midway between white and black, black, and midway between white and yellow. The four colours refer to the four elements that are combined in the opus. The quaternity as a symbol of wholeness means that the goal of the opus is the production of an all-embracing unity. The motif of the double quaternity, the ogdoad, is associated in shamanism with the world-tree: the cosmic tree with eight branches was planted simultaneously with the creation of the first shaman. The eight branches correspond to the eight great gods
CW13 ¶ 402
THE FRUITS OF THE TREE OF WISDOM ARE LIKENED TO GRAPES
(j)In the Book of Enoch the fruits of the tree of wisdom are likened to grapes, and this is of interest inasmuch as in the Middle Ages the philosophical tree was sometimes called a vine, with reference to John 15 : 1, “I am the true vine.” The fruits and seeds of the tree were also called sun and moon, to which the two trees of paradise corresponded. The sun-and-moon fruits presumably go back to Deuteronomy 33 : 13f. (DV): “[Blessed] of the Lord be his land[for] the fruits brought forth by the sun and by the moonand [for] the fruits of the everlasting hills”
CW13 ¶ 403
GOD HIMSELF APPEARS AS THE FRUIT OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL TREE
(k)God himself dwells in the fiery glow of the sun and appears as the fruit of the philosophical tree and thus as the product of the opus, whose course is symbolized by the growth of the tree. This remarkable saying loses its strangeness if we remember that the goal of the opus was to deliver the anima mundi, the world-creating spirit of God, from the chains of Physis. Here this idea has activated the archetype of the tree-birth, which is known to us chiefly from the Egyptian and Mithraic spheres of culture
CW13 ¶ 404
THE RULER OF THE WORLD LIVES IN THE TOP OF THE WORLD-TREE
(l)A conception prevalent in shamanism is that the ruler of the world lives in the top of the world-tree, and the Christian representation of the Redeemer at the top of his genealogical tree might be taken as a parallel
CW13 ¶ 404
(m)Sometimes the tree is small and young, something like the “grani tritici arbuscula” (little trees of wheat grains), sometimes large and old, taking the form of an oak or the world-tree, in so far as it bears the sun and moon as its fruits
CW13 ¶ 405
(a)In order to discover this, a great many sources must be compared. We shall therefore turn to further statements about the tree. Pictures of the tree are often given in the medieval texts. Some of them are reproduced in Psychology and Alchemy. Sometimes the prototype is the tree of paradise, hung not with apples but with sun-and-moon fruit, like the trees in the treatise of Michael Maier in the Musaeum hermeticum, or else it is a sort of Christmas tree, adorned with the seven planets and surrounded by allegories of the seven phases of the alchemical process
CW13 ¶ 398
STANDING BENEATH THE TREE
(b)Standing beneath the tree are not Adam and Eve but Hermes Trismegistus as an old man and the adept as a youth. Behind Hermes Trismegistus is King Sol sitting on a lion accompanied by a fire-spitting dragon, and behind the adept is the moon goddess Diana sitting on a whale accompanied by an eagle. The tree is generally in leaf and living, but sometimes it is quite abstract and expressly stands for the phases of the process
CW13 ¶ 398
THE SERPENT DWELLS IN THE TOP OF THE TREE IN THE SHAPE OF MELUSINA
(c)In the Ripley Scrowle the serpent of paradise dwells in the top of the tree in the shape of Melusina-“desinit in [anguem] mulier formosa superne.” This is combined with a motif that is not in the least Biblical but is primitive and shamanistic: a man, presumably the adept, is halfway up the tree and meets Melusina, or Lilith, coming down from above. The climbing of the magical tree is the heavenly journey of the shaman, during which he encounters his heavenly spouse
CW13 ¶ 399
SHAMANISTIC ANIMA WAS TRANSFORMED INTO LILITH
(d)In medieval Christianity the shamanistic anima was transformed into Lilith, who according to tradition was the serpent of paradise and Adam's first wife, with whom he begot a horde of demons. In this picture primitive traditions cross with Judaeo-Christian ones. I have never come across the climbing of the tree in the pictures done by my patients, and have met it only as a dream motif. The motif of ascent and descent occurs in modern dreams chiefly in connection with a mountain or a building, or sometimes a machine (lift, aeroplane, etc.)
CW13 ¶ 399
MOTIF OF THE LEAFLESS OR DEAD TREE
(e)The motif of the leafless or dead tree is not common in alchemy, but is found in Judaeo-Christian tradition as the tree of paradise that died after the Fall. An old English legend reports what Seth saw in the Garden of Eden. In the midst of paradise there rose a shining fountain, from which four streams flowed, watering the whole world. Over the fountain stood a great tree with many branches and twigs, but it looked like an old tree, for it had no bark and no leaves. Seth knew that this was the tree of whose fruit his parents had eaten, for which reason it now stood bare. Looking more closely, Seth saw that a naked snake without a skin had coiled itself round the tree. It was the serpent by whom Eve had been persuaded to eat of the forbidden fruit. When Seth took a second look at paradise he saw that the tree had undergone a great change. It was now covered with bark and leaves, and in its crown lay a little new-born babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, that wailed because of Adam's sin. This was Christ, the second Adam. He is found in the top of the tree that grows out of Adam's body in representations of Christ's genealogy
CW13 ¶ 400
MOTIF OF THE TRUNCATED TREE
(f)Another alchemical motif is the truncated tree. In the frontispiece to the French edition (1600) of Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Venice, 1499), it forms the counterpart to the lion with cut-off paws, which appears as an alchemical motif in Reusner's Pandora (1588). Blaise de Vigenère (1523-?1569), who was influenced by the Cabala, speaks of the “caudex arboris mortis” (trunk of the tree of death) that sent out a red death-ray. “Tree of death” is synonymous with “coffin.” The strange recipe, “Take the tree and place in it a man of great age,” should probably be understood in this sense
CW13 ¶ 401
THE MOTIF OF MUTILATION
(g)The motif of mutilation occurs in “Allegoriae super librum Turbae,” Art aurif., I, pp. 140, 151. These amputations have nothing to do with a so-called castration complex, but refer to the motif of dismemberment
CW13 ¶ 401
THE HERO PLACED HIS SOUL ON THE TOPMOST BLOSSOM OF AN ACACIA-TREE
(h)This motif is a very ancient one, and occurs in the ancient Egyptian tale of Bata, preserved in a papyrus of the nineteenth dynasty. There the hero placed his soul on the topmost blossom of an acacia-tree. When the tree was cut down with treacherous intent, his soul was found again in the form of a seed. With this the dead Bata was restored to life. When he was killed a second time in the form of a bull, two persea trees grew out of the blood. But when these were cut down, a chip of the wood fertilized the queen, who bore a son: he was the reborn Bata, who then became Pharaoh, a divine being. It is evident that the tree here is an instrument of transformation. Vigenère's “caudex” is similar to the truncated tree in Poliphilo. This image probably goes back to Cassiodorus, who allegorizes Christ as a “tree cut down in his passion”
CW13 ¶ 401
THE TREE APPEARS BEARING FLOWERS AND FRUIT
(i)More frequently the tree appears bearing flowers and fruit. The Arabian alchemist Abu'l Qasim (13th cent.) describes its four kinds of blossoms as red, midway between white and black, black, and midway between white and yellow. The four colours refer to the four elements that are combined in the opus. The quaternity as a symbol of wholeness means that the goal of the opus is the production of an all-embracing unity. The motif of the double quaternity, the ogdoad, is associated in shamanism with the world-tree: the cosmic tree with eight branches was planted simultaneously with the creation of the first shaman. The eight branches correspond to the eight great gods
CW13 ¶ 402
THE FRUITS OF THE TREE OF WISDOM ARE LIKENED TO GRAPES
(j)In the Book of Enoch the fruits of the tree of wisdom are likened to grapes, and this is of interest inasmuch as in the Middle Ages the philosophical tree was sometimes called a vine, with reference to John 15 : 1, “I am the true vine.” The fruits and seeds of the tree were also called sun and moon, to which the two trees of paradise corresponded. The sun-and-moon fruits presumably go back to Deuteronomy 33 : 13f. (DV): “[Blessed] of the Lord be his land[for] the fruits brought forth by the sun and by the moonand [for] the fruits of the everlasting hills”
CW13 ¶ 403
GOD HIMSELF APPEARS AS THE FRUIT OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL TREE
(k)God himself dwells in the fiery glow of the sun and appears as the fruit of the philosophical tree and thus as the product of the opus, whose course is symbolized by the growth of the tree. This remarkable saying loses its strangeness if we remember that the goal of the opus was to deliver the anima mundi, the world-creating spirit of God, from the chains of Physis. Here this idea has activated the archetype of the tree-birth, which is known to us chiefly from the Egyptian and Mithraic spheres of culture
CW13 ¶ 404
THE RULER OF THE WORLD LIVES IN THE TOP OF THE WORLD-TREE
(l)A conception prevalent in shamanism is that the ruler of the world lives in the top of the world-tree, and the Christian representation of the Redeemer at the top of his genealogical tree might be taken as a parallel
CW13 ¶ 404
(m)Sometimes the tree is small and young, something like the “grani tritici arbuscula” (little trees of wheat grains), sometimes large and old, taking the form of an oak or the world-tree, in so far as it bears the sun and moon as its fruits
CW13 ¶ 405
The Gudea Vase"On exhibit in the Louvre is a green libation vase, which was excavated from the ancient Mesopotamian city of Lagash. The inscription on it, from King Gudea of Lagash circa 2025 BC, is a dedication to Ningizzida. Also on the vase is an image of two entwined snakes on a rod. Some have dated the vase as far back as 4000 B.C. The rod is most likely to be Axis Mundi, the world tree, Yggdrasil, the tree of life. Ningizzida, a fertility god, was also known as 'Lord of the Tree of Life'. He was often depicted as a serpent with a human head, and later became a god of healing and magic. His companion was Tammuz/Dumuzi, who personified the creative powers of spring [19] (like the Greek Maia)."
(http://survive2012.com/dragon_myths_5.php)
"The Tree of Life had also been linked with the serpent or dragon (winged serpent) for over 1,000 years before Genesis was written. In 2025 BC the cup of the Sumerian King Gudea of Lagash (see Chapter 5, Fig. 22) showed two winged dragons holding back a pair of opening doors to reveal a caduceus of uniting snakes, the incarnation of the god Ningizzida, one of the names given to the consort of the mother goddess, to whom the cup is inscribed: ‘Lord of the Tree of Truth’." (No URL)
The above quote is interesting in that the same inscription on the Gudea vase has been translated in two different ways - Tree of Life/Tree of Truth. This may shed light on the problems of translation today .
"In northern Babylonia the goddess of the Tree of Life was called the ‘divine Lady of Eden’ or Edin, and in the south she was called the ‘Lady of the Vine’, an understandable change of name given that the Sumerian sign for ‘life’ was originally a vine leaf.(10) However, in the myth of Eden, where there is no unifying image of a goddess, there is significantly also not one tree but two trees, or, it could be said, the one tree has become two, and now the fruit of both of them is forbidden. In earlier mythologies the one tree offered both ‘knowledge’ and ‘life’, or ‘wisdom’ and ‘immortality’ (as in Fig.1). Here, knowledge of good and evil is split apart from eternal life, so that a perception of duality is rendered absolutely antithetical to a perception of life’s unity.(11) Campbell comments that: ‘The principle of mythic dissociation, by which God and his world, immortality and mortality, are set apart in the Bible is expressed in a dissociation of the Tree of Knowledge from the Tree of Immortal Life.’(12)"
(No URL)
What the above statement is saying is that both the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge were one in the same. This is derived from the Genesis 2:9 account: "And out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil". This statement is interpreted as both trees growing in the center of the garden. Since only one tree can actually occupy the center the second tree must be an additional attribute to the Tree of Life.
The Mes and Huluppu Tree
As the above text demonstrates there is a question of was there one or two trees in the garden. The question of the Tree of Knowledge can be answered in my opinion by revisiting what the Sumerians wrote. The Sumerian sacred tree must have had two names the mes and Huluppu. This dichotomy of having two names for the same tree has resulted in confusion regarding the Tree of Knowledge as a second tree.
The Huluppu tree is mentioned in the Sumerian epic Inanna and the Huluppu Tree which begins with a creation story and continues quickly on to Enki planting the tree by the Euphrates River. Inanna finds the tree after it was uprooted and plants it in her "holy garden." Later a bed and a throne were fashioned for Inanna from the tree. The throne and the (marriage) bed are symbols of Inanna's domain of kingship. It could be that the term Huluppu was gender (goddess) specific.
In the Sumerian epic Enki and the World Order the word usumgal is used to describe Enki which means "great serpent" or "dragon." He plants the mes-tree in Eridu. In ancient traditions the serpent was considered wise and knowledgeable. "Be ye therefore as wise as serpents..." (Matt 10:16) Enki's domain is in part related to knowledge as in his being the keeper of the mes - the decrees of civilization. His association with the sacred tree is mainly that of the mes-tree. I do not find it a coincidence that he is associated with the mes and the mes-tree. It is the concept of the mes-tree that has become the Tree of Knowledge. Therefore the Huluppu and the mes-tree represent the Tree of Life in the Sumerian epics and both Enki and Inanna have legitimate claims on in through two different cultures and time frames.
(http://survive2012.com/dragon_myths_5.php)
"The Tree of Life had also been linked with the serpent or dragon (winged serpent) for over 1,000 years before Genesis was written. In 2025 BC the cup of the Sumerian King Gudea of Lagash (see Chapter 5, Fig. 22) showed two winged dragons holding back a pair of opening doors to reveal a caduceus of uniting snakes, the incarnation of the god Ningizzida, one of the names given to the consort of the mother goddess, to whom the cup is inscribed: ‘Lord of the Tree of Truth’." (No URL)
The above quote is interesting in that the same inscription on the Gudea vase has been translated in two different ways - Tree of Life/Tree of Truth. This may shed light on the problems of translation today .
"In northern Babylonia the goddess of the Tree of Life was called the ‘divine Lady of Eden’ or Edin, and in the south she was called the ‘Lady of the Vine’, an understandable change of name given that the Sumerian sign for ‘life’ was originally a vine leaf.(10) However, in the myth of Eden, where there is no unifying image of a goddess, there is significantly also not one tree but two trees, or, it could be said, the one tree has become two, and now the fruit of both of them is forbidden. In earlier mythologies the one tree offered both ‘knowledge’ and ‘life’, or ‘wisdom’ and ‘immortality’ (as in Fig.1). Here, knowledge of good and evil is split apart from eternal life, so that a perception of duality is rendered absolutely antithetical to a perception of life’s unity.(11) Campbell comments that: ‘The principle of mythic dissociation, by which God and his world, immortality and mortality, are set apart in the Bible is expressed in a dissociation of the Tree of Knowledge from the Tree of Immortal Life.’(12)"
(No URL)
What the above statement is saying is that both the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge were one in the same. This is derived from the Genesis 2:9 account: "And out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil". This statement is interpreted as both trees growing in the center of the garden. Since only one tree can actually occupy the center the second tree must be an additional attribute to the Tree of Life.
The Mes and Huluppu Tree
As the above text demonstrates there is a question of was there one or two trees in the garden. The question of the Tree of Knowledge can be answered in my opinion by revisiting what the Sumerians wrote. The Sumerian sacred tree must have had two names the mes and Huluppu. This dichotomy of having two names for the same tree has resulted in confusion regarding the Tree of Knowledge as a second tree.
The Huluppu tree is mentioned in the Sumerian epic Inanna and the Huluppu Tree which begins with a creation story and continues quickly on to Enki planting the tree by the Euphrates River. Inanna finds the tree after it was uprooted and plants it in her "holy garden." Later a bed and a throne were fashioned for Inanna from the tree. The throne and the (marriage) bed are symbols of Inanna's domain of kingship. It could be that the term Huluppu was gender (goddess) specific.
In the Sumerian epic Enki and the World Order the word usumgal is used to describe Enki which means "great serpent" or "dragon." He plants the mes-tree in Eridu. In ancient traditions the serpent was considered wise and knowledgeable. "Be ye therefore as wise as serpents..." (Matt 10:16) Enki's domain is in part related to knowledge as in his being the keeper of the mes - the decrees of civilization. His association with the sacred tree is mainly that of the mes-tree. I do not find it a coincidence that he is associated with the mes and the mes-tree. It is the concept of the mes-tree that has become the Tree of Knowledge. Therefore the Huluppu and the mes-tree represent the Tree of Life in the Sumerian epics and both Enki and Inanna have legitimate claims on in through two different cultures and time frames.
" you see what body Adam and eve have had before the fall, which has been the snake, the tree and the forbidden fruit; what is paradise on earth, where is located; you can see in what body the righteous shall rise, and what we have Received from Adam; what are this meat and this blood born and bred in us by water, and by the Holy Spirit, because we do not resusciteremo in the body that Adam has left us in legacy, but in flesh and in blood regenerated by the Holy Spirit and by water ; and it is in a similar body that Jesus Christ our saviour has risen in the sky." - (Sancelrien Tourangeau, key of that great opera / Book of the Holy Trinity)
It has taken me too long to discover the greatest thing, i.e., Man and what he means and why. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 404-405
To discover Man is a great adventure. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 404-405
It has taken me too long to discover the greatest thing, i.e., Man and what he means and why. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 404-405
To discover Man is a great adventure. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 404-405
Approaches to Genealogy;
What Psyche Knows;
Worldview;
The Living Past;
The Naked Tree;
Uprooted;
Buried Secrets;
Bridge of Spirits;
The Call of Our Ancestors;
Jungian Genealogy;
Re-member Who You Are; Passed Lives;
Shades of Our Past;
Climbing Your Family Tree;
Songs of Our Ancestors;
GenIsis; First Family;
Through Ancient Eyes;
Kindred Experience;
Bone Collecting;
Blessings & Curses;
Touching the Past;
We Never Forgot Who We Are;
Family Reunion
What Psyche Knows;
Worldview;
The Living Past;
The Naked Tree;
Uprooted;
Buried Secrets;
Bridge of Spirits;
The Call of Our Ancestors;
Jungian Genealogy;
Re-member Who You Are; Passed Lives;
Shades of Our Past;
Climbing Your Family Tree;
Songs of Our Ancestors;
GenIsis; First Family;
Through Ancient Eyes;
Kindred Experience;
Bone Collecting;
Blessings & Curses;
Touching the Past;
We Never Forgot Who We Are;
Family Reunion