Archetypes:
When all the archetypal images are properly placed in a hierarchy, when that which must be below is below, and.
that which must be above is above, our final condition can recapture our original blissful state.
Archetypes are images in the soul that represent the course of one’s life.
One part of the archetypal content is of material and the other of spiritual origin.
The more an archetype is amplified the more understandable it becomes.
It is hard to explain because the spiritual cannot be expressed in a few words.
The archetype signifies that particular spiritual reality which cannot be attained unless life is lived in consciousness.
Archetypes are not maers of faith; we can know that they are there.
An archetype is composed of an instinctual factor and a spiritual image.
The approaches to it from the instinctual or the spiritual side are very different.
The libido cannot be freed, however, unless the archetypal images can be made conscious.
When fantasy pictures are brought into consciousness their intrinsic energy is liberated.
In this way the instincts become integrated and ordered.
When only the instinctual element of the archetypal content is active there is chaos (massa confusa).
Archetypes can change whilst the individual remains quite unconscious of their movements.
Conceivable they change spontaneously.
The archetypal content of dreams disappears and is replaced by a new one, even when the earlier form has not come into consciousness.
From the nature of a particular archetype it is possible to predict which will follow it.
It can be assumed that the flow of archetypes at a particular time characterize that historical period in a particular way.
The typical events of an era are determined by the succession and the quality of the corresponding archetypal images.
The succession of the archetypal motives is a collective development and has nothing to do with the individual.
We may imagine that the archetypes, being only the residual deposits of human experiences, would have represented animalistic life in an earlier period.
The archetypal primordial forms were already present, however, at the dawn of human consciousness; at its centre, everything was already there as an apriori possibility.
Even the first experiences of man were already fixed; we can only translate these patterns, these archetypes, into form we can understand.
Men have to realize the archetypes which are present at an unconscious level in creation.
All potentialities lie in the unconscious like ideas that have not yet been embodied nor experienced yet as reality.
The archetypes are present in the unconscious as potential abilities which, at a given moment, are realized and applied when brought into consciousness by a creative act.
As an analogy we can suppose that every inspiration produced out of the unconscious has a history.
A new situation occurs as a constellation produced by the archetype, a new inspiration emerges, and something else is discovered and becomes a part of reality.
A host of possibilities is still embedded in the archetypes, in the realm of the Mothers.
The abundance of possibilities eludes our comprehension.
The origin of the archetypes is a crucial queson.
Where space and time are relative it is not possible to speak of developments in me.
Everything is present, altogether and all at once, in the constant presence of the pleroma.
I remember standing on a mountain top in inner Africa, seeing around me an endless expanse of brush and herds of animals grazing, all in a deep silence as it had been for thousands of years without anyone being aware of it.
"They" were present but not consciously seen; they were as nameless as in Paradise before Adam named them.
Name-giving is an act of creation.
Where space and time do not exist there is only oneness (monotes).
There is no differentiation; there is only pleroma.
Pleroma is always with us, under our feet and above our heads.
Man is the point that has become visible, stepping out from the pleroma, knowing what he is doing, and able to name the things about him.
Although the earth existed before there were any human beings, it could not be seen or known by anyone.
In China they say that the ancestor of the family, the one who stood at the beginning, is the Cosmos.
Out of him was everything created: in the time before time.
There is nothing to explain or distinguish in the oneness because sequence and causality do not exist.
The archetypes are the material of the God- Creator.
The constute a primeval ocean charged with potentiality. Carl Jung, Jung-Ostrowski, Pages 21-22.
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