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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.

— Marie-Louise von Franz Creation Myths (1995)

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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)

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