To give birth to the ancient in a new time is creation. This is the creation of the new, and that redeems me. Salvation is the resolution of the task. The task is to give birth to the old in a new time.

Carl Jung – Liber Novus, 311.

The world of the inner is as infinite as the world of the outer. Just as you become a part of the manifold essence of the world through your bodies, so you become a part of the manifold essence of the inner world through your soul. This inner world is truly infinite, in no way poorer than the outer one. Man lives in two worlds.

Liber Novus, 264.

“When I asked Dr. Ribi at what point during the course of his work he first perceived the importance of the Gnostic tradition to Jung, he responded without hesitation: “At the beginning.” I then questioned if others around him in the Jungian community over the years had shared FOREWORD 5 his interests or perceptions. His reply was, “No. Only Quispel understood; he was the only one I could talk with.”

Foreword by Lance S. Owens – I. Alfred Ribi and the Search for Roots

Foreword-Search-for-Roots.pdf

“In November of 1960, seven months before his death, C. G. Jung suffered what he called “the lowest ebb of feeling I ever experienced.” He explained the sentiment in a letter to Eugene Rolfe:

I had to understand that I was unable to make the people see what I am after. I am practically alone. There are a few who understand this and that, but almost nobody sees the whole… I have failed in my foremost task: to open people’s eyes to the fact that man has a soul and there is a buried treasure in the field and that our religion and philosophy are in a lamentable state.

… He has not been wholly understood.”

Lance S. Owens

 

http://www.gnosis.org/Foreword-Search-for-Roots.pdf

 

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only danger that exists is man himself — he is the great danger, and we are pitifully unaware of it. We know nothing of man — far too little.

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