Red Book Out of Context

From C.G. Jung's Red Book, "Liber Novus".
LP = Liber Primus; LS = Liber Secundus; S = Scrutinies.
RE = Reader's Edition

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I bring you the beauty of suffering. - S/RE, p. 553

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Are you in my garden or am I in yours? - S/RE, p. 552

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Dearth makes contentment, not abundance. - S/RE, p. 550

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They allowed man to become so blinded that he believed that there were no Gods, and that there was only one God who was a loving father, so that today someone who struggles with the Gods is even thought to be crazy. - S/RE, p. 550

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There is no longer any unconditional obedience, since man has stopped being a slave to the Gods. He has dignity before the Gods. He is a limb that even the Gods cannot do without. - S/RE, p. 549

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Alleviate the burning torment of the Gods. - S/RE, p. 548

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That is your old and ingrained mistake, that the one excludes the many. - S/RE, p. 547

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One need not think about it. - S/RE, p. 547

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Take part in that which is. - S/RE, p. 547

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What shall I tell you about the soul? Haven't you noticed that she has become multiple? - S/RE, p. 546

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Old Gods have become new. - S/RE, p. 546

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Do you not know what happened? Do you not know that the world has put on a new garb? That the one God has gone away, and that in turn many Gods and many daimons have come to man? - S/RE, p. 545

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I spent a long time pondering his words, which evidently he had spoken to the dead, and I was horrified by the atrocities that attend the rebirth of a God. - S/RE, p. 544

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Whoever lives invents his life for himself. - S/RE, p. 544

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Why do men not see their stupidity? Stupidity is a daughter of the God. - S/RE, p. 544

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Stop, you are out of your minds, said the sage. Stop, for heaven's sake, and take stock of what damage you have done, said the canny one. - S/RE, p. 544

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But because they were accustomed to doing nothing for which they could not account, they devised reasons that compelled them to go on killing. - S/RE, p. 544

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I accepted all the joy and every torment of my nature and remained true to my love, to suffer what comes to everyone in their own way. And I stood alone and was afraid. - S/RE, p. 543

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The time has come when each must do his own work of redemption. - S/RE, p. 543

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Blessed is the dead one, who rests from the completion of his work. - S/RE, p. 543