Tag Archives: divinity

Reading The Red Book (22)

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Symbol Reader

We have reached chapter IX of Liber Secundus, entitled “Second Day.” God Izdubar (Gilgamesh) is resigned to dying; Jung, however, is determined not to let him perish. A thought occurs to him, as he watches Izdubar’s suffering: “And this speech … Continue reading →

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The Attraction to the Divine Unknown

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Symbol Reader

“I find it relevant to quote here a formulation devised by Dio of Prusa (‘Dio Chrysostom’), a Greek thinker who lived in a period straddling the first and the second centuries CE. In what I am about to quote, taken … Continue reading →

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The Symbolic World – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Symbol Reader

A short talk by a Sufi mystic about a symbolic world which mediates between our ordinary consciousness and the world of the soul.

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