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1		"I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story. It has been long before I was, and it will most probably continue after the conscious interval in a three-dimensional existence."

2		"The Oneness of the Holy Spirit…is the pneumatic state the creator attains to through the phase of incarnation."

3		"The archetype is a structural element of the psyche that we find everywhere and at all times; and it is that in which all individual psyches are identical with each other, and where they function as if they were the one undivided Psyche the ancients called 'anima mundi' [world soul]."

4		"I'm inclined to believe that something of the human soul remains after death, since already in this conscious life we have evidence that the psyche exists in a relative space and in a relative time, that is in a relatively non-extended and eternal state."

5		"Be aware of the law of synchronicity. As the old Chinese saying goes: 'The right man sitting in his house and thinking the right thought will be heard 100 miles away.'"

6		"The archetypes have a life of their own which extends through the centuries and gives the aeons their peculiar stamp."

7		"I do KNOW of a power of a very personal nature and an irresistible influence. I call it 'God.' I use this term because it has been used for this kind of experience since time immemorial. From this point of view any gods, Zeus, Wotan, Allah, Yahweh, the Summum Bonum, etc., have their intrinsic truth. They are different and more or less differentiated expressions or aspects of one ineffable truth."

8		"God is the One, the All."

9		"'Psyche' and 'matter' are not basically incommensurable, but may perhaps be qualities of one and the same existential being."

10		"Becoming conscious reconciles the opposites."

11		"The psychological 'merit' (or rather, significance) of Christ consists in the fact that, as the 'firstling', he is the prototype of the integral man. This image, as history testifies, is numinous and can therefore be answered only by another numinosity. It touches the imago Dei, the archetype of the self in us, and thereby awakens it. The self is then 'constellated' and by virtue of its numinosity compels man toward wholeness, i.e., towards the integration of the unconscious or the subordination of the ego to a holistic 'will', which is rightly conceived to be 'God's will."

12		"Everything that is stated or manifested by the psyche is an expression of the nature of things, whereof man is a part."

13		"Synchronicity…is an all-pervading factor or principle in the universe, i.e., in the Unus Mundus [One World]."

14		"There is no energy without opposites."

15		"The archetypes are in us, and eternal." Charles Lamb, 'The Essays of Elia (1821)

16		"The realm of the psyche is immeasurably great and filled with living reality. At its brink lies the secret of matter and of spirit."

17		"The solidarity and communal life of mankind go to the roots of existence."

18		"Man is the mirror which God holds up to himself, or the sense organ with which he apprehends his being."

19		"The centre is the indivisible monad of the self, the unity and wholeness of the experiencing subject."

20		"The 'imago Dei' [God-image], is the archetype of the self in us."

21		"The depth of the psyche, the unconscious, is not made by man but is divinely created nature."

22		"Archetypes are forms of different aspects expressing the creative psychic background. They are and always have been numinous and therefore 'divine.' In a very generalizing way we can therefore define them as attributes of the creator. That would explain the compelling character of such inner perceptions."

23		"Many paths lead to the central experience. But the nearer one gets to the centre the easier it is to understand the other paths that lead there."

24		"Myth is pre-eminently a social phenomenon: it is told by the many and heard by the many. It gives the ultimately unimaginable religious experience an image, a form in which to express itself, and thus makes community life possible."

25		"The secret passion which keeps spiritual techniques alive through the centuries is connected with an original experience of wholeness."