Guest guest Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 >The ego is a dictator that enslaves psychic content. Yet if the ego does not become conscious of these contents then they are as useless as nothing. This is again Ego Bashing. Live without an ego and we dwell in the darkness. The ego is the lesser light by which we realise to the Greater Light. >Characters in fairytales are captured by the mountain, swallowed by it wholly or party. The Mont Philosophorum is where the treasures are found in. It is the inward way. Carl G. Jung in his "Man and his Symbols" page 162 states the following regarding the ego in a psychological aspect, "It seems as if the ego has not been produced by nature to follow its own arbitrary impulses to an unlimited extent, but to help to make real the totality -the whole psyche. It is the ego that serves to light up the entire system, allowing it to become conscious and thus to be realized. If for example, I have an artistic talent of which my ego is not conscious, nothing will happen to it. The gift may as well be none existent. Only if my ego notices it can I bring it into reality. The inborn but hidden totality of the psyche is not the same thing as a wholeness that is fully realized and lived." Julius Evola in his "Hermetic Tradition" states the following on the ego in an alchemystical aspect. "It is in the richness of the scum, ashes, dregs, and other residue of the earth, where in reality the "titan" hides. It is there in that the "Diadem of the King" and the true gold of the philosophers is found." " Here again, by act of awakening and being awakened at the same time(the deep powers produce a transfiguration of the principle that has awakened them, in which, in the final analysis, they will participate), the mineral body, so to speak, returns the ego to the consciousness of its primordial and absolute act, of which the body expresses petrification, the neutralized state, sleep, and the mute state of slavery. The silver then is transmuted to Gold, not only as life and "light" (since spirit and body now form a single thing), but also as pure ego . Regards, Steve Kalec From Adam McLean's Colored Emblems http://www.levity.com/alchemy/home.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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