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| p78 "There is, perhaps, no doctrine which has done more mischief than the misconstrued teaching about affinities and soul-marriages; because such a doctrine is willingly accepted by the carnal mind. God did not create souls in halves, nor can Adam find his Eve again unless she grows within his heart. Man will never find his celestial bride unless he looks for her within his internal heaven, within "the Lord.""\\ <fc green>This aligns with the Upanishad Jung quotes (that I can't remember) where it says, \\ //He who loves the woman does not love the woman, he who loves himself loves the woman.// \\ //She who loves the man does not love the man, she who loves herself loves the man.// </fc> | p78 "There is, perhaps, no doctrine which has done more mischief than the misconstrued teaching about affinities and soul-marriages; because such a doctrine is willingly accepted by the carnal mind. God did not create souls in halves, nor can Adam find his Eve again unless she grows within his heart. Man will never find his celestial bride unless he looks for her within his internal heaven, within "the Lord.""\\ <fc green>This aligns with the Upanishad Jung quotes (that I can't remember) where it says, \\ //He who loves the woman does not love the woman, he who loves himself loves the woman.// \\ //She who loves the man does not love the man, she who loves herself loves the man.// </fc> |
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| p82 "But the divine, immortal, and invisible man cannot be a subject for the investigation of any science, such as deals merely with external and visible things. He can be known to no one except to his own self; for the low cannot comprehend the hight, and the finite mind cannot contain the infinite. The study of the divine man is the object of self-knowledge."\\ <fc green>This is so important as our conscious ego //cannot// comprehend the infinite without the symbol and elucidation of our unconscious.</fc> | p82 "But the divine, immortal, and invisible man cannot be a subject for the investigation of any science, such as deals merely with external and visible things. He can be known to no one except to his own self; for the low cannot comprehend the high, and the finite mind cannot contain the infinite. The study of the divine man is the object of self-knowledge."\\ <fc green>This is so important as our conscious ego //cannot// comprehend the infinite without the symbol and elucidation of our unconscious.</fc> |
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| p81 "According to Paracelsus, the constitution of man consists of seven principles, or, to express it more correctly, of seven modifications of one primordial essence, which are as follows, and to which we add their Eastern terms:\\ | p81 "According to Paracelsus, the constitution of man consists of seven principles, or, to express it more correctly, of seven modifications of one primordial essence, which are as follows, and to which we add their Eastern terms:\\ |