Archetypes and the Unknown – For Now
“That there is something beyond the borderline, beyond the frontiers of knowledge, is shown by the archetypes and most clearly of all, by numbers, which this side of the border are quantities but on the other side are autonomous psychic entities, capable of making qualitative statements which manifest themselves in a priori patterns of order.”
–Carl G. Jung (Swiss Psychologist and Psychiatrist, 1875-1961″
‘Flying Saucers: a Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies’ In: Civilization in Transition, Collected Works Volume 10
“Civilization in Transition (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 10)” (C. G. Jung)
Myths and the Mind
“So far mythologists have always helped themselves out with solar, lunar, meteorological, vegetal, and other ideas of the kind. The fact that myths are first and foremost psychic phenomena that reveal the nature of the soul is something they have absolutely refused to see until now.
Primitive man is not much interested in objective explanations of the obvious, but he has an imperative need or rather, his unconscious psyche has an irresistible urge to assimilate all outer sense experiences to inner, psychic events. It is not enough for the primitive to see the sun rise and set; this external observation must at the same time be a psychic happening: the sun in its course must represent the fate of a god or hero who, in the last analysis, dwells nowhere except in the soul of man.
All the mythologized processes of nature, such as summer and winter, the phases of the moon, the rainy seasons, and so forth, are in no sense allegories of these objective occurrences; rather they are symbolic expressions of the inner, unconscious drama of the psyche which becomes accessible to man’s consciousness by way of projection-that is, mirrored in the events of nature.”
–Carl G. Jung (Swiss Psychologist and Psychiatrist, 1875-1961)
From: “Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious” (1935). In Collected Works 9, Part I: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. P.7
The Law of Correspondences
“The law of correspondences is the foundation of all symbolism and by virtue of it every thing proceeding essentially from a metaphysical principle, which is the source of its reality, translates and expresses this principle in its own way and according to its own level of existence, so that all things are related and joined together in total, universal harmony which is, in its many guises, a reflection of its own fundamental unity.”
–René Guénon (a.k.a. Shaykh `Abd al-Wahid Yahya, French Intellectual, Metaphysician and Writer on the Perennial Philosophy, 1886-1951)
