When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.

I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished.

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands.

I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at its disposal the greatest of all his energies for transformation and transfiguration of his natural being. Not only the meaning of his life but his renewal and his institutions depend on his conscious relationship with this pattern of his collective unconscious.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.