“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. As he crosses threshold after threshold, conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that he summons to his highest wish increases, until it subsumes the cosmos. Finally, the mind breaks the bounding sphere of the cosmos to a realization transcending all experiences of form - all symbolizations, all divinities: a realization of the ineluctable void.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
“Seek, all of you, after the Light, so that the power of your soul that is in you may live. Do not cease seeking day or night until you find the mysteries of the Kingdom of Light, which will purify you, make you into pure Light and lead you into the Kingdom of the Light.”
(Pistis Sophia, the Gnostic Gospel of Faith Wisdom)
"And thereafter came a Light-stream unto me through Thee which saved me; it shone on my left and on my right and surrounded me on all sides of me, so that no part of me was without Light.
"And Thou hast covered me with the Light of thy Stream and purged from me all my evil matters; and I shall be relieved of all my matters because of Thy Light.
"And it is Thy Light-stream which hath raised me up and taken from me the emanations of the Self-willed which constrained me. "And I have become sure-trusting in Thy Light and purified Light in thy Stream."
(Pistis Sophia, the Gnostic Gospel of Faith Wisdom)
(Pistis Sophia, the Gnostic Gospel of Faith Wisdom)
"And thereafter came a Light-stream unto me through Thee which saved me; it shone on my left and on my right and surrounded me on all sides of me, so that no part of me was without Light.
"And Thou hast covered me with the Light of thy Stream and purged from me all my evil matters; and I shall be relieved of all my matters because of Thy Light.
"And it is Thy Light-stream which hath raised me up and taken from me the emanations of the Self-willed which constrained me. "And I have become sure-trusting in Thy Light and purified Light in thy Stream."
(Pistis Sophia, the Gnostic Gospel of Faith Wisdom)
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“There are, therefore, two kinds of knowledge in this world: an eternal and a temporal. The eternal springs directly from the light of the Holy Spirit, but the other directly from the Light of Nature.”
--Theophrastus Paracelsus, Bücher und Schriften, Edited by Johannes Huser, Basel, 1589-91, (reprinted by Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, New York, 1971). This quote is from Huser vol. X (Olms, vol. 4): Vored zu Philosophiam Sagacium, p. 5.
“This light [scintilla = sparks] is the lumen naturae which illuminates consciousness.”
--C. G. Jung, On the nature of the psyche, Collected Works vol. 8
(Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1967), p. 192.
“… lumen naturae is the light of the darkness itself…”
--C. G. Jung, Paracelsus as a spiritual phenomena, Collected Works vol. 13 (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1967), p. 160.
--Theophrastus Paracelsus, Bücher und Schriften, Edited by Johannes Huser, Basel, 1589-91, (reprinted by Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, New York, 1971). This quote is from Huser vol. X (Olms, vol. 4): Vored zu Philosophiam Sagacium, p. 5.
“This light [scintilla = sparks] is the lumen naturae which illuminates consciousness.”
--C. G. Jung, On the nature of the psyche, Collected Works vol. 8
(Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1967), p. 192.
“… lumen naturae is the light of the darkness itself…”
--C. G. Jung, Paracelsus as a spiritual phenomena, Collected Works vol. 13 (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1967), p. 160.