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“Therefore the individual who wishes to the image man has made of him. But no
have an answer to the problem of evil, as it one knows what he is like, or he would be

is posed today, has need, first and foremost a god himself.”
of self-knowledge, that is, the utmost — Carl Jung, The Letters, Volume 2,

possible knowledge of his own wholeness. paragraph 384
He must know relentlessly how much good
he can do, and what crimes he is capable Everyone has an archetypal desire to

of, and must beware of regarding the one connect with the God image inside of us.
as real and the other as illusion. Both are As best friends, we can help each other

elements within his nature, and both are see our own divinity and allow each
bound to come to light in him, should he other to be human. To be human means
wish — as he ought — to live without self- that we accept all of ourselves, including

deception or self-delusion.” our humanity. We come together to be
—Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, a mirror for each other, to lead each

Reflections, paragraph 330 other to our own soul. This is what soul
mates are to me. It’s about making soul
Even more important, the Self is together. You can’t be God for me. I

divinating through us so everyone of can’t be God for you. By utilizing our
us counts. Jung believed that each astrological birth charts as we do our

individual doing his or her inner work shadow work together, we can learn
is what would change the collective more about ourselves and each other.
unconscious. He said, “I would rather be

real than good.” King and Queen, Male and Female,
Sun and Moon, Libra and Aries are all

What the Alchemists discovered, Jung symbolic of the mystical marriage, the
elaborated on in his major works Hieros gamos. The Alchemists called the
especially AION, Researches into the end result of this process the Coniunctio

Phenomenology of the Self and three which means the union of opposites.
volumes on Alchemy. We are actually This is what shadow work will lead us

the ones evolving the God image (what to if we are sincere. The Alchemists
we each imagine God to be) through our taught us that when you undertake this
willingness to become conscious. journey and sacred task, you have to be

sincere and honest with yourself. You
”God is a mystery, and everything we say need to know what the left hand and the

about it is said and believed by human right hand is doing in every situation.
beings. We make images and concepts, Situations, relationships and events will
and when I speak of God I always mean repeat until you get an “AHA” experience.

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