Part 3: Mephistopheles, Child of Christian Civilization – Symbols of Transformation – Published on HUNTER-GATHERER ISSUES, by George S. Svokos, August 14, 2015.
The Self or Anthropos quaternio symbolically represents what we cannot, in fact, see. Carl Jung’s Aion, Volume 9 of his Collected Works brilliantly describes the Self and shadow archetypes as quaternios. Archetypes only become visible through their symbols, not themselves as such. Anthropos is a reflection of the “higher Adam” (Self, or the center of the unconscious) and occupies the upper apex of the diamond-shaped quaternio which is joined at its base by a mirror image of itself. Thus, the diamond appears to be two pyramids attached at their bases with an apex point and a basal point. The basal apex symbolizes “lower Adam,” or the ego. The four vectors leading to the corners symbolize positive and negative axis of male and female energy beings. Continuer la lecture de « Ereshkigal, Dis, & Lucifer: Children of Western Civilization & Fundamentalist Christianity »