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If one opens up chaos, magic also arises. - LS, p. 144 #CGJung

The magical way arises by itself. - LS, p. 144 #CGJung

The practice of magic consists in making what is not understood understandable in an incomprehensible manner. - LS, p. 144 #CGJung

The greater part of the world eludes our understanding. - LS, p. 143 #CGJung

Our way needs not only reason but also unreason. - LS, p. 143 #CGJung

We need magic to be able to receive or invoke the messenger and the communication of the incomprehensible. - LS, p. 143 #CGJung

Magic is dangerous since what accords with unreason confuses, allures and provokes; and I am always its first victim. - LS, p. 143 #CGJung

The magical is good and evil and neither good nor evil. - LS, p. 143 #CGJung

It opens spaces that have no doors and leads out into the open where there is no exit. - LS, p. 143 #CGJung

The magical always surrounds me, always involves me. - LS, p. 143 #CGJung

Everything that works magically is incomprehensible, and the incomprehensible often works magically. One calls incomprehensible workings magical. - LS, p. 143 #CGJung

Magical understanding is what one calls noncomprehension. - LS, p. 143 #CGJung

The world accords not only with reason but also with unreason. - LS, p. 142 #CGJung

One cannot understand magic. - LS, p. 142 #CGJung

It is an error to believe that there are magical practices that one can learn. - LS, p. 142 #CGJung

It's difficult to exist without reason. And that is exactly how difficult magic is. - LS, p. 141 #CGJung

I do not know whether I have actually learned anything. - LS, p. 142 #CGJung

Magic is neither to be taught nor learned. - LS, p. 141 #CGJung

Magic happens to be precisely everything that eludes comprehension. - LS, p. 141 #CGJung

Whenever I want to learn and understand something, I leave my so-called reason at home and give whatever it is that I am trying to understand the benefit of the doubt. I have learned this gradually, because nowadays the world of science is full of scary examples of the opposite. - LS, p. 140 #CGJung