Prachtig boek, geschreven in de 'Jung sfeer', verhalend doch zeer informatief ( )

“… it may be at least possible for us to state certain basic axioms which could serve as the principal indicators of the message of this Gnosis….
“1. …a pneumatic (spiritual, or more than personal) element is an organic part of the human psyche….
“2. …this spiritual element carries on an active dialogue with the personal element of our selfhood through the use of symbols….
“3. …the symbols proceeding from the pneumatic component of the soul reveal a path of spiritual or psychological development which can be traced, not only backward toward a cause in the past, but forward to a goal in the future….
“4. …prior to an arising of Gnosis (or individuation as Jung might call it) the human soul is dominated by many blind and foolish powers (projections and unconscious compulsions)….
“5. …the alienation of consciousness, along with its attendant feelings of forlornness, dread and homesickness, must be fully experienced before it can be overcome…
“6. …the goal of spiritual growth is expressed by images of completion in a whole, which the Gnostics often called the Pleroma (fullness) and/or the Anthropos, or Primal Man and which Jung called the Self. This Self, the representative of the fullness of being within an individual context, is unique for each individual and is formed by the integration of the little self, or ego, and the unconscious….
“7. …the wholeness, or Self, which is the end result of the process of spiritual growth, is characterized by all the qualities such as power, value, holiness which religious systems have always attributed to God….
“8. …the growth of the soul has as its goal a state of integrated wholeness rather than a condition of moral perfection….”
Kindle location 962-1057

“... there is an adversary or oppositional power, active in life, which seems bent on preventing or at least retarding the enlightenment of the soul, in order to hold it in some sort of captivity within a universe of darkness and illusion.” location 1009