"What we may learn from the models of the past is above all this: that the psyche harbours contents, or is exposed to influences, the assimilation of which is attended by the greatest dangers." ~C.G. Jung, Psychology & Alchemy, CW 12, par. 564
"If the old alchemists ascribed their secret to matter, and if neither Faust nor Zarathustra is a very encouraging example of what happens when we embody this secret in ourselves…
"…then the only course left to us is to repudiate the arrogant claim of the conscious mind to be the whole of the psyche, and to admit that the psyche is a reality which we cannot grasp with our present means of understanding." ~C.G. Jung, Psychology & Alchemy, CW 12, par. 564
"I do not call the man who admits his ignorance an obscurantist; I think it is much rather the man whose #consciousness is not sufficiently developed for him to be aware of his ignorance." ~C.G. Jung, Psychology & Alchemy, CW 12, par. 564
"I hold the view that the alchemist's hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of #projection…
"…for the rest it corresponded to certain psychic facts that are of great importance in the psychology of the #unconscious." ~C.G. Jung, Psychology & Alchemy, CW 12, par. 564
"As is shown by the texts and their symbolism, the alchemist projected what I have called the process of #individuation into the phenomena of chemical change." ~C.G. Jung, Psychology & Alchemy, CW 12, par. 564
"A scientific term like '#individuation' does not mean that we are dealing with something known and finally cleared up, on which there is no more to be said." ~C.G. Jung, Psychology & Alchemy, CW 12, par. 564
"It merely indicates an as yet very obscure field of research much in need of exploration: the centralizing processes in the #unconscious that go to form the personality." ~C.G. Jung, Psychology & Alchemy, CW 12, par. 564
"We are dealing with life-processes which, on account of their numinous character, have from time immemorial provided the strongest incentive for the formation of #symbols." ~C.G. Jung, Psychology & Alchemy, CW 12, par. 564
"These processes are steeped in mystery; they pose #riddles with which the human mind will long wrestle for a solution, and perhaps in vain. For, in the last analysis, it is exceedingly doubtful whether human reason is a suitable instrument for this purpose." ~C.G. Jung, ibid
"Not for nothing did #alchemy style itself an 'art,' feeling—and rightly so—that it was concerned with creative processes that can be truly grasped only by experience, though intellect may give them a name." ~C.G. Jung, Psychology & Alchemy, CW 12, par. 564
"The alchemists themselves warned us: 'Rumpite libros, ne corda vestra rumpantur' (Rend the books, lest your hearts be rent asunder), & this despite their insistence on study. Experience, not books, is what leads to understanding." ~C.G. Jung, Psychology & Alchemy, CW 12 par. 564
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