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The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth.
The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.
Psyche and Matter (1992)
As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.
Psyche and Matter (1992)
Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit.
Psyche and Matter (1992)
Nevertheless, this individual aspect [just-so-ness] of number appears to contain the mysterious factor that enables it to organize psyche and matter jointly.
Number and Time (1974)
Always at bottom there is a divine revelation, a divine act, and man has only had the bright idea of copying it.
Creation Myths (1972)
Our whole tradition has trained us to think always of God as being outside the world and shaping its dead material in some form.
Creation Myths (1972)
It [number] preconsciously orders both psychic thought processes and the manifestations of material reality.
Number and Time (1974)
In other words, the idea of the philosopher's stone of the alchemists is identical with the idea of the glorified body.
Creation Myths (1972)
Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness; from it you can best tap the unconscious constellation. This probably why it is used in most mantic methods.
Creation Myths (1995)
The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle.
Creation Myths (1972)
It is no accident that, in ancient times many peoples used priestesses (think, for example, of the Greek Sibyls) to enter into relationship with the will of the gods.
Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche (1994)
We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it. … I have myself observed that in states of extreme fatigue, when I am really dangerously physically exhausted, I suddenly get absolute knowledge; …
On Divination and Synchronicity (1992)
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle.
Creation Myths (1972)
To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It is “real” in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience.
Number and Time (1974)