Philemon inspires Jung's own mythology, which integrates christian themes with those of other traditions, on the basis of universal archetypes.

"in early 1916, Jung (1963) and his family experienced a sequence of uncanny events (i.e., his eldest daughter espied a ghostly visage, his second daughter had her blankets snatched away in the night, and his son was beset by an anxious dream and fitful ravings that left him oblivious of his parasomnia and completely exhausted.

followed the next evening by the frantic ringing of his doorbell with no physically discernible cause.
Jung exclaimed, “The atmosphere was thick, believe me!”
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of WHOM does this remind you?

"he

sets up evil outside himself in the form of –----, so that through the dual spells of his denial and projection,

he can preserve the veneer of his false piety

pasted over the rot of his

slavering self-aggrandizement

and lethal envy

of their humble and initially unobtainable cottage."

example of slavering attempt at self aggrandizement 🔽

the Inner Guide in Jung.

"Philemon is communicative, knowledgeable, and wise. He gave voice to Jung's mythopoetic cosmology.

Whereas research participants pursued imaginal beings

Imaginal beings and overwhelming imagery pursued Jung relentlessly, as if the objective psyche sought to enlist him to give voice to its radical cultural imperative

to restore a symbolic sensibility lost in the shift from a religious to a scientific world view,
and reinstate humanity's place in the natural order."

"The fish of Manu seems to have been unicorned, this is not specifically stated: but always its horn is mentioned, never its horns.

The fish is an incarnation of Vishnu

and Manu means “man.”

In many respects he corresponds to the Greek Anthropos:

he is the father of humanity and is descended directly from God, here called Svayambhu,

the “Self-So,” i.e., Brahma.

He is a God-man, identified with Prajapati, Lord of created things, and even with

Brahman itself, the highest soul."

"the prima materia comes from the mountain in which there are no differences,

or, it is “derived from one thing, and not from separate things, nor from things distinguishing or distinguished.”

And in the mysterium magnum of Paracelsus, the prima materia, “there is no kind of gender.”

Such statements are intuitions about the paradoxical nature of the unconscious,

and the only place where intuitions of this kind could be lodged was in the unknown aspect of things, be it of matter or of man."

"Consciousness grasps only a fraction of its own nature,

because it is the product of a preconscious psychic life which made the development of consciousness possible in the first place.

Consciousness always succumbs to the delusion that it developed out of itself,

but all consciousness rests on unconscious premises,

in other words on a sort of unknown prima materia;

and of this the alchemists said everything that we could possibly say about the unconscious."

"A symbolism as rich as that of alchemy invariably owes its existence to some adequate cause,

never to mere whim or play of fancy.

At the very least it is the expression of an essential part of the psyche.

which however, was unknown, for it is rightly called the unconscious.

Although there is, materialistically speaking, no prima materia at the root of everything that exists,

yet nothing that exists could be discerned were there no discerning psyche."

cont🔽

McConnell and Graham, both admitting that killed the border legislation.

why?

they know that is burnt toast, and are trying to save their own seats, or putting their s in the holes in the dike that is soon to be destroyed by a democratic 🌊

the blue 🌊is coming for their comfortable seats.

seeing Christian imagery as alchemical symbolism.

life/death/resurrection-rebirth as alchemical process of uniting spirit and matter into a 3rd, transformed way of being.

self-sacrifice of ego, ego death/underworld/rebirth transformed by encounter with the depths.

the ego's night journey,
across a great water
to a renewal of mind/body.

the seventeenth century saw the full flowering of alchemy but also inaugurated its downfall

by separating the mystica more and more clearly from the physica.

chemistry proper began to mark itself off more distinctly. The age of science and technology was dawning

metaphysical values were less able to give expression to psychic experiences.

Only after the lapse of several centuries did it fall to empirical psychology to throw new light on the obscure psychic content of Hermetic experiences.

#politics

here's something 💣💣💣
coming soon on Meidas Touch. an exposé of the military and MAGA.

https://youtu.be/D2uwOZhqGS0

in alchemy

the orouboros represents life,

the life force, which feeds upon itself.

life eats life, that's life.

so, life requires death, change, transformation.

the Tao.
hence the dual colours.

"Basilius Valentinus

the earth (as prima materia) is not a dead body, but is inhabited by a spirit that is its life and soul.

All created things, minerals included, draw their strength from the earth. This spirit is life, it is nourished by the stars, and it gives nourishment to all the living things it shelters in its womb.

This invisible spirit is like the reflection in a mirror, intangible, yet it is at the same time the root of all the substances necessary to the alchemical process."

hey, didn't someone in the 60s say this?

unfortunately, paywall, so i can't see it either, but i can conjure the argument 🍄‍🟫

can we now say:

it's the END OF THE ROAD for the FOOL's GOLD CHODE‼️

hmmmm?

This image said:

"I am the supreme and scorching energy, I am the one who has ignited the spark of all living beings, nothing mortal from Me, I judge all things.

Also the scorching life of the divine substance, burns on the beauty of the fields, shines in the waters and burns in the sun, on the moon and in the stars, and with the celestial breath I raise life in all beings, invigorating them with the invisible life that sustains everything."

Hildegard of Bingen: her alchemical process.

"Insofar as spiritual being is life and change, it cannot be captured in static definitions,

but must rather be a continual movement seeking fluid expression.

This is also true of faith.

After all, it is of itself a spiritual being, and therefore movement: an ascent to ever less conceivable heights

and a decent into evermore immeasurable depths.

Therefore, the understanding must seek to hold it by means of manifold expressions in so far as this is at all achievable."

the evolutionary process of expanding human consciousness and integrating opposing energies from the unconscious is a longstanding struggle.

and, of course, Alchemy. these threads are interwoven.

"Not much effort is needed at the beginning of the work; it is sufficient to approach it with “a free and empty mind,” as one text says.

But one important rule must be observed: “the mind must be in harmony with the work”

and the work must be above all else.

one must keep the eyes of the mind and soul well open, observing and contemplating by means of that inner light which God has lit in nature and in our hearts from the beginning."