The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

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.

The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.

...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.