good morning 🙏🏻✌🏽🖖

exploring Jung on Alchemy, once again from the IA:

"those who dreamed of flying and whose successors made the dream come true after all.

Nor should we underestimate the sense of satisfaction born of the enterprise, the adventure, the quaerere (seeking), and the invenire (finding).

This always lasts as long as the methods employed seem sensible. There was nothing at that time to convince the alchemist of the senselessness of his chemical operations;

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"what is more, he could look back on a long tradition which contained not a few testimonies of such as had achieved the marvellous result.?

Finally the matter was not entirely without promise, since a number of useful discoveries did occasionally emerge as by-products of his labours in the lab-oratory.

As the forerunner of chemistry alchemy had a sufficient raison d'être."

here's an image of the then current notion of the way things are meant to be.

"The demand made by the imitatio Christi

that we should follow the ideal and seek to become like it

ought logically to have the result of developing and exalting the inner man.

In actual fact, however, the ideal has been turned by superficial and formalistically-minded believers into an external object of worship

it is precisely this veneration for the object that prevents it from reaching down into the depths of the soul and transforming it into a wholeness in keeping with the ideal."

good grief, CB, JUNG has diagnosed MAGA cultism‼️

"In an outward form of religion where all the emphasis is on the outward figure

(hence where we are dealing with a more or less complete projection),

the archetype is identical with externalized ideas but remains unconscious as a psychic factor.

When an unconscious content is replaced by a projected image to that extent,

it is cut off from all participation in and influence on the conscious mind."
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and, yes, this is the prognosis☠️

"At a certain point it even develops a tendency to regress to lower and more archaic levels.

a Christian who believes in all the sacred figures is still undeveloped—unchanged in his inmost soul because he has "all God outside" and does not experience Him in the soul.

His deciding motives, his ruling interests and impulses, do not spring from the sphere of Christianity, but from the unconscious and undeveloped psyche, which is as pagan and archaic as ever."

more 😢

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"

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