He took my life with him. All my force was now in him. - LS, p. 66 #CGJung
Are we not sons of the Gods? Why should Gods not be our children? - LS, p. 62 #CGJung
That is the end of the story of the Gods. Nothing remains of the Gods other than an egg. And I possess this egg. - LS, p. 62 #CGJung
That is the demise of the Gods: man puts them in his pocket. - LS, p. 62 #CGJung
You notice: you are not true, it is not true above, it is not true below, left and right are deceptions. Wherever you grasp is air, air, air. - LS, p. 62 #CGJung
You storm Heaven: stage scenery totters and the prompter in the box falls into a swoon. - LS, p. 62 #CGJung
These are the powers that make you afraid and conquer you; these have been your Gods and your rulers since time immemorial: yet you can put them in your pocket. What is blasphemy compared to this? - LS, p. 62 #CGJung
I exchanged my furthest goal for the nearest, and so I am ready. - LS, p. 61 #CGJung
I planted my field and let the fruit decay. - LS, p. 61 #CGJung
I saw warriors form into line of battle and I destroyed my suit of armor with a hammer. - LS, p. 61 #CGJung
I shattered my firm castle and played like a child in the sand. - LS, p. 61 #CGJung
I have overthrown all the Gods, broken the laws, eaten the impure.
I have thrown down my sword and dressed in women's clothing.
- LS, p. 61 #CGJung
Whence do you delight me, Oh God?
He is the eternal emptiness and the eternal fullness.
Nothing resembles him and he resembles everything.
Eternal darkness and eternal brightness.
Eternal below and eternal above.
Double nature in one.
Simple in the manifold.
Meaning in absurdity.
Freedom in bondage.
Subjugated when victorious.
Old in youth.
Yes in no.
- LS, p. 52 #CGJung
Conceal the God that you have taken with you. - LS, p. 49 #CGJung
The nearness of God makes people rave. - LS, p. 49 #CGJung
Consider that your fellow men are animals without knowing it. - LS, p. 49 #CGJung
Do not wait until rawly bungling hands of men hack your God to pieces, but embrace him again, lovingly, until he has taken on the form of his first beginning. Let no human eye see the much loved, terribly splendid one in the state of his illness and lack of power. - LS, p. 49 #CGJung
You will not conquer anything for any length of time. - LS, p. 49 #CGJung
The God outside us increases the weight of everything heavy, while the God within us lightens everything heavy. - LS, p. 48 #CGJung
From C.G. Jung's Red Book, "Liber Novus".
LP = Liber Primus; LS = Liber Secundus; S = Scrutinies.
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