Donations help support this Blog Symbolic Life Mr. President, Mr. Minister, viri magnifici, Ladies and Gentlemen! it gives me much pleasure to accept this precious gift in the name of our Institute. For this I thank you, and also for the surprising and undeserved honour you have done me in baptising the Codex with my name. I would like to express my special thanks both to Mr. Page, who through generous financial assistance made the purchase of the papyrus possible, and to Dr. Meier, who through unflagging efforts has given it a home. Dr. Meier has asked me to say a few words to ..read more

Donations help support this Blog Psychological Types Tertullian sacrificed the intellect, because it was that which most strongly bound him to worldliness. He battled with the Gnosis because for him it represented the side-track into the intellectual, which at the same time involves also sensuality. Parallel with this fact we find that in reality Gnosticism was also divided into two schools: one school striving after a spirituality that exceeded all bounds, the other losing itself in an ethical anarchism, an absolute libertinism that shrank from no lechery however atrocious and ..read more

Donations help support this Blog The Red Book Philo Judeaus, also called Philo of Alexandria (20 BCE- 50 CE), was a Greek-speaking Jewish philosopher. His works presented a fusion of Greek philosophy and Judaism. For Philo, God, to whom he referred by the Platonic term “To On” (the One) was transcendent and unknowable. Certain powers reached down from God to the world. The facet of God knowable through reason is the divine logos. There has been much debate on the precise relation between Philo’s concept of the logos and John’s gospel. On June 23, 1954, Jung wrote to James Kirsc ..read more

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Donations help support this Blog The Red Book [Passages from a Gnostic Hymn and “The Red Book.] My soul, O most splendid one,…whither has thou gone? Return again. Awake, soul of splendor, form the slumber of drunkenness into which thou has fallen…follow me to the place of the exalted earth where thou dwellest from the beginning. ~Cited by Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion, Page 83. My soul 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 co ..read more

Donations help support this Blog                                 Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East Gnosis, as a special kind of knowledge, should not be confused with. “Gnosticism.” ~Footnote #13, Psychology and Religion, Page 45. For a certain type of intellectual mediocrity characterized by enlightened rationalism, a scientific theory that simplifies matters is a very good means of defense because of the tremendous faith modern man has in anything whic ..read more

Donations help support this Blog Symbolic Life The author of this essay has asked me to start off his book with a few introductory words. Although I am not a philologist, I gladly accede to this request because Dr. Quispel has devoted particular attention to a field of work which is familiar also to me from the psychological standpoint. Gnosticism is still an obscure affair and in need of explanation, despite the fact that sundry personages have already approached it from the most diverse angles and tried their hands at explanations with doubtful success. One even has the impre ..read more

Donations help support this Blog   Gnosis, as a special kind of knowledge, should not be confused with. “Gnosticism.” ~Carl Jung, Footnote #13, CW 11, Page 45. I have Gnosis so far as I have immediate experience, and my models are greatly helped by the representations collectives of all religions. ~Carl Jung, CW 18, Para 1643 It is your theological standpoint that is a gnosis, not my empiricism, of which you obviously haven’t the faintest inkling. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 245. I grant you that I am on the best way to delivering up the Christian concept of the spir ..read more

Donations help support this Blog Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume 2, 1951-1961 To H. Haberlandt Dear Colleague, 23 April 1952 Very many thanks for kindly sending me your review of Aion. It stands out from all the others because it is obvious that its author has really read the book, which is something I am grateful for. I therefore venture to ask you to let me know in what sense you use the term “Gnosis.” You can hardly mean knowledge in general, but more specifically the Christian or even that of Gnosticism. In both the latter cases it has to do with metaphysical assertions or p ..read more

Donations help support this Blog Visions Seminar It was exactly as it happened to the Demiurgos: When he had created the world he withdrew a bit to look down on what he had done. “That is damned good,” he said and was quite vain about it, “I am the creator of the world.” Then in his vanity he also looked up in order to say, “And this too, how fine it is,” when he suddenly beheld a little light far above his head and knew that that he had not created. Instantly he traveled up and up until he reached that light so far above him. And there he came to another world, there he discov ..read more