A Concordance by Thornton Ladd
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Jung draws our attention to the peculiar theory of world creation in the Clementine Homilies in CW9.2: par. 400 :
The city is a maternal symbol, a woman who harbours the inhabitants in herself like children:
Goddesses as libido-symbols may be understood as follows:
Osiris comes to rest in the branches of a tree, which grow up round him. The motif of embracing and entwining is often found in the sun myths and rebirth myths, as in the story of Sleeping Beauty, or the legend of the girl who was imprisoned between the bark and the wood of a tree:
Osiris comes to rest in the branches of a tree, which grow up round him. The motif of embracing and entwining is often found in the sun myths and rebirth myths, as in the story of Sleeping Beauty, or the legend of the girl who was imprisoned between the bark and the wood of a tree:
The threatening of new-born infants by snakes (Mithras, Apollo, Heracles) is explained by the legend of Lilith and the Lamia. Python, the dragon of Leto and Poine, who devastated the land of Crotopos, were sent by the father of the new-born:
The cross has various meanings in addition to that of the tree of life:
The woodpecker happened to be the “mama” of Romulus and Remus, for he put food into their mouths with his beak:
One account of the myth of Osiris relates a sequence of events which involve the following:
Dogma takes the place of the collective unconscious by formulating its contents on a grand scale. The Catholic way of life is completely unaware of psychological problems in this sense:
In my contribution to the symposium on Hermes I will try to show that this many-hued and wily god did not by any means die with the decline of the classical era, but on the contrary has gone on living in strange guises through the centuries, even into recent times, and has kept the mind of man busy with his deceptive arts and healing gifts. Children are still told Grimm's fairytale of “The Spirit in the Bottle,” which is ever-living like all fairytales, and moreover contains the quintessence and deepest meaning of the Hermetic mystery as it has come down to us today:
Mortificatio constitutes one of the seven major alchemical operations as distinguished by Edinger, each one a center of an elaborate symbol system making up the principle content of all culture-products. The author's cluster diagram (fig. 006.00) of mortificatio is shown below:
Mortificatio constitutes one of the seven major alchemical operations as distinguished by Edinger, each one a center of an elaborate symbol system making up the principle content of all culture-products. The author's cluster diagram (fig. 006.00) of mortificatio is shown below:
Ruchwick, near Worcester, England. E., describing himself as a schoolmaster, happily married, aged 43, reported a dream:
The ass and the tree are evidently related, because they both represent the power of life, procreation, and healing:
The ass and the tree are evidently related, because they both represent the power of life, procreation, and healing:
Like the vision of Zarathustra, the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, and the report of Bardesanes (A.D. 154-222) on the god of the Indians, the old Rabbinic idea that the tree of paradise was a man exemplifies man's relationship to the philosophical tree:
The philosophical tree usually grows alone and, according to Abu'l Qasim, “on the sea” in the Western Land, which presumably means on an island:
The philosophical tree usually grows alone and, according to Abu'l Qasim, “on the sea” in the Western Land, which presumably means on an island:
The philosophical tree usually grows alone and, according to Abu'l Qasim, “on the sea” in the Western Land, which presumably means on an island:
Like the vision of Zarathustra, the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, and the report of Bardesanes (A.D. 154-222) on the god of the Indians, the old Rabbinic idea that the tree of paradise was a man exemplifies man's relationship to the philosophical tree:
What the tree meant to the alchemists cannot be ascertained either from a single interpretation or from a single text:
Like the vision of Zarathustra, the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, and the report of Bardesanes (A.D. 154-222) on the god of the Indians, the old Rabbinic idea that the tree of paradise was a man exemplifies man's relationship to the philosophical tree: