Tag Archives: words

Reading The Red Book (29)

Posted on January 10, 2021 by Symbol Reader

I. “Your sun will rise from muddy swamps.” II. “The lowest in you is the source of mercy.” III. “But the lowest in you is also the eye of the evil that stares at you and looks at you coldly … Continue reading →

Posted in The Red Book by C.G. Jung | Tagged analytical psychology, archetypes, C.G. Jung, Chaos, crucifixion, depth psychology, evil, good, language, Liber Novus, life, madness, Neo-Platonism, Nous, Phanes, psyche, shadow, Soul, symbolism, symbols, system, The Red Book, unconscious, words | 5 Comments

On Removing Racially Charged Images

Posted on June 21, 2020 by Symbol Reader

The white domination – this tectonic plate that underlies the Western culture – is shifting radically, steering for a massive earthquake. I do not feel I possess the right to express my opinion on the subject; I would rather quote … Continue reading →

Posted in racism, Uncategorized | Tagged archetypes, blackamoor, George Floyd, history, language, Mohrenkopf, Moors, racism, silence, St James, Switzerland, symbolism, symbols, words | 2 Comments

Reading The Red Book (17)

Posted on February 28, 2020 by Symbol Reader

Chapter IV of Liber Secundus is called “The Anchorite. Dies 1” and relates the first day of Jung’s encounter with a hermit monk, who lives in the Libyan desert. While reading The Red Book I was particularly struck by all … Continue reading →

Posted in The Red Book by C.G. Jung, Uncategorized | Tagged Alexandria, analytical psychology, anchorite, archetypes, C.G. Jung, darkness, depth psychology, Heraclitus, hermit, Jesus, Jung, Liber Novus, logos, night, Philo of Alexandria, silence, symbols, The Red Book, words | 9 Comments

The World Is Like a Divine Language

Posted on June 14, 2014 by Symbol Reader

René Guénon “1. … symbolism seems to us to be quite specially adapted to the needs of human nature, which is not exclusively intellectual but which needs a sensory basis from which to rise to higher levels. 2. Fundamentally, every … Continue reading →

Posted in Language | Tagged archetypes, Rene Guenon, sacred science, symbolism, symbols, words | 11 Comments

The Mysticism of Language

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Symbol Reader

In the beginning was the word, the word That from the solid bases of the light Abstracted all the letters of the void; And from the cloudy bases of the breath The word flowed up, translating to the heart First … Continue reading →

Posted in Language | Tagged achetypes, C.G. Jung, depth psychology, Gemini, Gershom Scholem, Heidegger, Kabbalah, Lacan, language, logos, Nada Brahma, Sagittarius, symbolism, symbols, the name of God, The Red Book, William Blake, words | 53 Comments

Why We Write

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Symbol Reader

A Ballad That We Do Not Perish, by Zbigniew Herbert Those who sailed at dawn but will never return left their trace on a wave– a shell fell to the bottom of the sea beautiful as lips turned to stone … Continue reading →