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Quotes from Creation Myths — Marie-Louise von Franz

1915–1998 Germany

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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)

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)

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)

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