soul
Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.-Lao-Tzu
Dr. Stanton Marlan • The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology Book 10)
For Jung, alchemy had a dual face. He saw it as both a quest to literally transform matter in the laboratory as well as a spiritual quest aimed at the transformation of the soul and thus as a religious philosophy.
Stanton Marlan • Jung’s Alchemical Philosophy: Psyche and the Mercurial Play of Image and Idea (ISSN)
As C. G. Jung once wrote, one of the perils of having a soul is the risk of losing it.14
John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, • Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus (2nd edition)
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But we do not believe that the dissolution of the family and the concomitant lack of moral order we see around us stem primarily from an absence of moral order imposed from the outside. Instead, we suggest that in many homes the family soul has been sacrificed to maintain the illusion of the family persona. As a result, the family shadow erupts, ri
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