SECRETS OF OLD BONES OF CONTENTION
"Compassion is the deepest form of memory." --Eve Ensler
“Like a rose, I smile with all my body, not only with my mouth
For I am — without myself — alone with the King of the World.” (ref. #4)
http://www.clanoftubalcain.org.uk/rosamundi.html
St. Augustine (354-430) distinguishes between the God image which is Christ and the image which is implanted in man as a means or possibility of becoming like God. The God image is not in the corporeal man, but in the anima rationalis, the possession of which distinguishes man from animals. “The God-image is within, not in the body … Where the understanding is, where the mind is, where the power of investigating truth is, there God has his image.”
Therefore we should remind ourselves, says Augustine, that we are fashioned after the image of God nowhere save in the understanding: “ … but where man knows himself to be made after the image of God, there he knows there is something more in him than is given to the beasts.” From this it is clear that the God-image is, so to speak, identical with the anima rationalis. ~Carl Jung, Aion, 39.
Jung, Red Book, Tree of Life
The Quest for Buried Secrets: Jung on the Esoteric
In the course of our discussion we heard the word “esoteric.” It is said, for instance, that the psychology of the unconscious leads to an esoteric form of ethics. Be we have to be careful in using such a word. Esotericism means mystification. Yet we never know the real secrets, even the so-called esotericists do not know them. Esotericists -- at least earlier -- were supposed not to reveal their secrets. But the real secrets cannot be revealed. Nor is it possible to make an ‘esoteric” science out of them, for the simple reason that they are not known.
What are called esoteric secrets are mostly artificial secrets, not real ones. Man needs to have secrets, and since he has no notion of the real ones he fakes them. But the real ones come to him out of the depths of the unconscious, and then he may reveal things which he ought really to have kept secret. Here again we see the numinous character of the reality in the background. It is not we who have secrets, it is the real secrets that have us. ~Carl Jung; Civilization in Transition; Good and Evil in Analytical Psychology; Page 468; p. 886
Dr. Carl Jung argues that the future depends on our ability to resist society's mass movements. Only by understanding our unconscious inner nature -- "the undiscovered self" -- can we gain the self-knowledge that is antithetical to ideological fanaticism. But this requires facing the duality of the human psyche -- the existence of good and evil in us all. In this seminal book, Jung compellingly argues that only then can we cope and resist the dangers posed by those in power.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Undiscovered-Self-Carl-Jung/dp/0451217322 SOULFUL GENEALOGY
Jungians relate the concept of soul to the concept of the collective unconscious. Carl Jung himself described the collective unconscious as a “psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited.”
The Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith goes further and suggests that not only is our collective unconscious inherited, but it is in fact a genuinely altruistic instinctive orientation. This, he says, is the source of our moral guidance, the voice of which is our conscience, and which we have learnt to call our ‘soul’.
Here is the Book of thy Descent,
Here begins the Book of the Sangreal,
Here begin the terrors,
Here begin the miracles. Vierling
“The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another’s sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who’s found the Grail.” --Excerpt From: Campbell, Joseph. “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living.” Joseph Campbell Foundation, 2011-08-01.
Shades of the God-Kings
The goal of psychological, as of biological, development is self-realization, or individuation. But since man knows himself only as an ego, and the self, as a totality, is indescribable and indistinguishable from a God-image, self-realization -- to put it in religious or metaphysical terms -- amounts to God’s incarnation.
As a result of the integration of conscious and unconscious, his ego enters the “divine” realm, where it participates in “God’s suffering.” The cause of the suffering is in both cases the same, namely “incarnation,” which on the human level appears as “individuation.” ... The self is no mere concept or logical postulate; it is a psychic reality, only part of it is conscious, while for the rest it embraces the life of the unconscious and is therefore inconceivable except in the form of symbols. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Religion, A Psychological Approach to the Trinity, Paragraph 233.
"Compassion is the deepest form of memory." --Eve Ensler
“Like a rose, I smile with all my body, not only with my mouth
For I am — without myself — alone with the King of the World.” (ref. #4)
http://www.clanoftubalcain.org.uk/rosamundi.html
St. Augustine (354-430) distinguishes between the God image which is Christ and the image which is implanted in man as a means or possibility of becoming like God. The God image is not in the corporeal man, but in the anima rationalis, the possession of which distinguishes man from animals. “The God-image is within, not in the body … Where the understanding is, where the mind is, where the power of investigating truth is, there God has his image.”
Therefore we should remind ourselves, says Augustine, that we are fashioned after the image of God nowhere save in the understanding: “ … but where man knows himself to be made after the image of God, there he knows there is something more in him than is given to the beasts.” From this it is clear that the God-image is, so to speak, identical with the anima rationalis. ~Carl Jung, Aion, 39.
Jung, Red Book, Tree of Life
The Quest for Buried Secrets: Jung on the Esoteric
In the course of our discussion we heard the word “esoteric.” It is said, for instance, that the psychology of the unconscious leads to an esoteric form of ethics. Be we have to be careful in using such a word. Esotericism means mystification. Yet we never know the real secrets, even the so-called esotericists do not know them. Esotericists -- at least earlier -- were supposed not to reveal their secrets. But the real secrets cannot be revealed. Nor is it possible to make an ‘esoteric” science out of them, for the simple reason that they are not known.
What are called esoteric secrets are mostly artificial secrets, not real ones. Man needs to have secrets, and since he has no notion of the real ones he fakes them. But the real ones come to him out of the depths of the unconscious, and then he may reveal things which he ought really to have kept secret. Here again we see the numinous character of the reality in the background. It is not we who have secrets, it is the real secrets that have us. ~Carl Jung; Civilization in Transition; Good and Evil in Analytical Psychology; Page 468; p. 886
Dr. Carl Jung argues that the future depends on our ability to resist society's mass movements. Only by understanding our unconscious inner nature -- "the undiscovered self" -- can we gain the self-knowledge that is antithetical to ideological fanaticism. But this requires facing the duality of the human psyche -- the existence of good and evil in us all. In this seminal book, Jung compellingly argues that only then can we cope and resist the dangers posed by those in power.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Undiscovered-Self-Carl-Jung/dp/0451217322 SOULFUL GENEALOGY
Jungians relate the concept of soul to the concept of the collective unconscious. Carl Jung himself described the collective unconscious as a “psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited.”
The Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith goes further and suggests that not only is our collective unconscious inherited, but it is in fact a genuinely altruistic instinctive orientation. This, he says, is the source of our moral guidance, the voice of which is our conscience, and which we have learnt to call our ‘soul’.
Here is the Book of thy Descent,
Here begins the Book of the Sangreal,
Here begin the terrors,
Here begin the miracles. Vierling
“The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another’s sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who’s found the Grail.” --Excerpt From: Campbell, Joseph. “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living.” Joseph Campbell Foundation, 2011-08-01.
Shades of the God-Kings
The goal of psychological, as of biological, development is self-realization, or individuation. But since man knows himself only as an ego, and the self, as a totality, is indescribable and indistinguishable from a God-image, self-realization -- to put it in religious or metaphysical terms -- amounts to God’s incarnation.
As a result of the integration of conscious and unconscious, his ego enters the “divine” realm, where it participates in “God’s suffering.” The cause of the suffering is in both cases the same, namely “incarnation,” which on the human level appears as “individuation.” ... The self is no mere concept or logical postulate; it is a psychic reality, only part of it is conscious, while for the rest it embraces the life of the unconscious and is therefore inconceivable except in the form of symbols. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Religion, A Psychological Approach to the Trinity, Paragraph 233.