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Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit.

— Marie-Louise von Franz Psyche and Matter (1992)

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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)

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)

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