We discover ourselves through others.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

I do not believe...I know.

Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.

So far as the personality is still potential, it can be called transcendent, and so far as it is unconscious, it is indistinguishable from all those things that carry its projections...that is, symbols of the outside world and the cosmic symbols. These form the psychological basis for the conception of man as a macrocosm through the astrological components of his character.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.