So long as we leave the God outside us apparent and tangible, he is unbearable and hopeless. But if we turn the God into fantasy, he is in us and is easy to bear. - LS, p. 48 #CGJung
This tangible and apparent world is one reality, but fantasy is the other reality. - LS, p. 48 #CGJung
And hence I experienced the miracle of my body losing its heaviness when I burdened myself with the God. - LS, p. 48 #CGJung
I loved my God, and took him to the house of men, since I was convinced that he also really lived as a fantasy, and should therefore not be left behind wounded and sick. - LS, p. 48 #CGJung
I loved my God, and took him to the house of men, since I was convinced that he also really lived as a fantasy, and should therefore not be left behind wounded and sick. - LS, p. 48 #CGJung
He did not pass away, but became a living fantasy, whose workings I could feel on my own body. - LS, p. 48 #CGJung
Thus my God found salvation. He was saved precisely by what one would actually consider fatal, namely by declaring him a figment of the imagination. - LS, p. 48 #CGJung
Yet -- a fantasy takes up no space! Why did this excellent thought not occur to me earlier? - LS, p. 48 #CGJung
The enlightened live there. Can't you smell them? They're actually dangerous, since they cook the strongest poisons from which even I must protect myself. The people there are totally paralyzed, wrapped in a brown poisonous vapor and can only move with artificial means. - LS, p. 47 #CGJung
A fantasy cannot be simply negated and treated with resignation either. It calls for action. - LS, p. 47 #CGJung
The hand of the doctor does not seek to torment even if it causes grief. - LS, p. 47 #CGJung
Something always happens, but we do not happen, since our God is sick. We have seen him dead.... We must think of his healing. - LS, p. 44 #CGJung
We miss nothing more than divine force. - LS, p. 44 #CGJung
And then you see that the God also trembles, since he stands confronting his face, his observing gaze in you, and he feels unknown power. - LS, p. 44 #CGJung
Only your fearful cry can stop the God. - LS, p. 44 #CGJung
The ancients said: it is terrible to fall into the hands of the living God. - LS, p. 43 #CGJung
If the God comes near you, then plead for your life to be spared, since the God is loving horror. - LS, p. 43 #CGJung
The divine primordial power is blind, since its face has become human. - LS, p. 43 #CGJung
From C.G. Jung's Red Book, "Liber Novus".
LP = Liber Primus; LS = Liber Secundus; S = Scrutinies.
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