19 September, 2017

Light and dark...


"Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

CG Jung
“The Philosophical Tree” (1945). 
In CW 13: Alchemical Studies. P.335