Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

Dawn is born at midnight.

I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

Colors express the main psychic functions of man.