Given the intensity and sometimes violent nature of these initiation processes, it appears as if our ancestors understood that separating a young boy from his mother was a monumental task requiring deliberate measures.
We live in the epoch of the absent father, and many suffer greatly as a result. It might deintegrate into God-Shekinah and Jesus-Mary, his mother.
www.goalcast.com/2018/01/23/15-enlightening-carl-jung-quotes But he never called himself a Gnostic. Job does not so much see evil in Yahweh as he sees a mass of unbalanced forces (as in the Kabbalah and Taoism). Reflecting on this statistic, the psychotherapist James Hollis writes: “If this amazing statistic is even close to the truth, something large and tragic has happened to one of the critical balances of nature.”. We can argue then that there are three types of evil. But the question is: Was Jung really a Gnostic is answered with the late work. Quaternio series: Moses – Shadow – Paradise – Lapis Quaternio. But there is a significant translation of Stephan A. Hoeller in his book “The Gnostic Jung” in which Hoeller not only interprets “The Seven Sermons as a Gnostic document, but also claims that Jung himself was a modern Gnostic. Jung always insisted that his writings were based upon empirical evidence and personal experience – it seems he was be worried to be accused of mystical or metaphysical theories but he connected them very often explicit to (catholic) Christianity. It might be possible to construct a fifth quaternio above the Anthropos. The skull is mentioned as the vessel of transformation in the Sabaen treatise…the vas is often synonymous with the lapis, so that there is no difference between the vessel and its content; in other words, it is the same arcanum. because of the black(Ethiopian) woman whom he had married. The healthy desire to adapt himself to reality and to individuate, both of which entail fear, pain and conflict, will be replaced by his need to remain bounded to his mother, whether it be his personal mother or a symbolic substitute in the world. They occupied the bodies of adults, but their mental development failed to keep pace. Jung, C.G. the lowest node moves “upward” toward increasingly more comprehensive integrations.Can this upward movement continue indefinitely?
To him Christianity of the old Testament has not solved the problem of evil. Mental illness was considered to be a divided or incomplete condition and health as a state of spiritual wholeness – or near wholeness which could be reached through a process Jung called individuation. The purpose of this course is to provide an antidote to those who suffer from this problem. But since Moses is related to Jethro as the lower Adam, or ordinary man, is to Moses, the quaternio cannot be understood merely as the structure of Moses’ personality, but must be looked at from the standpoint of the lower Adam as well. Jung, Vol.9, Part I, The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious Zürich 1951, Rascher, CW9(ii) = Jung, C.G. My desire to travel and my professional life have given me the opportunity to experience many different cultures. He is particularly concerned in this volume with the rise of Christianity and with the figure of Christ. That Jesus was crucified by the order of the Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate is given great significance in the Quaternio series of his book Aion: The serpent is the central node and mediator between Jesus and Lucifer. This arcane substance was also called lapis by the alchemists.” Lapis–a unity, often stands for the prima materia in general, consists of four elements or has to be put together from them. Young men are expected to leave the comforts of home, to overcome their mother complex, and to sculpt a life worth living all without the psychological support of a father. He seeks, as it were, the protecting, nourishing, charmed circle of the mother, the condition of the infant released from every care…No wonder the real world vanishes from sight!”. In the next video we’ll provide an in-depth analysis of the psychology of the puer aeternus. Most mythologies found in Gnostic scriptures have psychological relevance and applicability.