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The words say all…. nothing to add 🙂 ❤

“..not fidelity to the law but love and kindness are the antithesis of evil. The wings of the dove temper the malignity of the air..”
C.G. Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis

By Lewis Lafontaine With great Thanks ❤

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Life, Work and Legacy of Carl Jung

Let’s talk about Magician! I’m a Persian and born in Persia named Iran now, and I have been named Aladin, by my father. It’s surely enough to be a reason for my dreaming to have a “Magiclamp”. Oh yes, there’s the orient and with full of fairy tales; amongst Thousand and one night. Therefore, and also because of my complicated childhood, my soul has been very traumatized I have got used to escape in my dreams and illusions, with the help of the fairy tales. the wonderful books which I’ve got, thanks to my father’s profession; Writing, I had the opportunity to find a good book to read.

But when I’d grown up, I had got to be very seriously logical! every time, more and more to leave the magical and fairy world and being alone with facts.was it a rescue for me as I might be disappointed to find the magic? in any case, I’ve got; one might say; cold as ice! my dear late brother had been calling me Data, as the same one in the TV serial: “Enterprise, the next generation”. this was an amazing issue for me to find out that my brother, as he was an ingrained Artist and writer, living in his own world full of dreams and illusions, envied me because of my cold logical soul! to put it bluntly, it is a real might to have a cold soul, untouchable and tabu.

Anyway, here is a fascinating description of this issue as the master told us about the magic and to be magical. It gives me my stabilities to stay on solid ground. Thank you, Dr Jung, thank You My dear Brother of soul Al Fazel

#CARLJUNG, CARL JUNG, EVIL, GOD, MAGIC, MAGICIAN, SOUL

Date: January 5, 2019 Author: lewislafontaine

It is an error to believe that there are magical practices that one can learn. One cannot understand magic. One can only understand what accords with reason. Magic accords with unreason, which one cannot understand. The world accords not only with reason but also with unreason. But just as one employs reason to make sense of the world, in that what is reasonable about it approaches reason, a lack of understanding also accords with unreason. This meeting is magical and eludes comprehension. Magical understanding is what one calls noncomprehension.

Everything that works magically is incomprehensible, and the incomprehensible often works magically. One calls incomprehensible workings magical. The magical always surrounds me, always involves me. it opens spaces that have no doors and leads out into the open where there is no exit. The magical is good and evil and neither good nor evil. Magic is dangerous since what accords with unreason confuses, allures and provokes; and I am always its first victim. Where reason abides, one needs no magic. Hence our time no longer needs magic. Only those without reason needed it to replace their lack of reason. But it is thoroughly unreasonable to bring together what suits reason with magic since they have nothing to do with one another. Both become spoiled through being brought together. Therefore all those lacking reasons quite rightly fall into superfluity and disregard. A rational man of this time will therefore never use magic.

But it is another thing for whoever has opened the chaos in himself We need magic to be able to receive or invoke the messenger and the communication of the incomprehensible. We recognized that the world comprises reason and unreason, and we also understood that our way needs not the only reason but also unreason. This distinction is arbitrary and depends upon the level of comprehension. But one can be certain that the greater part of the world eludes our understanding. We must value the incomprehensible and unreasonable equally, although they are not necessarily equal in themselves; a part of the incomprehensible, however, is only presently incomprehensible and might already concur with reason tomorrow. But as long as one does not understand it, it remains unreasonable. Insofar as the incomprehensible accords with reason, one may try to think it with success; but insofar as it is unreasonable, one needs magical practices to open it up.

The practice of magic consists in malting what is not understood understandable in an incomprehensible manner. The magical way is not arbitrary since that would be understandable, but it arises from incomprehensible grounds. Besides, to speak of grounds is incorrect, since grounds concur with reason. Nor can one speak of the groundless, since hardly anything further can be said about this. The magical way arises by itself If one opens up chaos, magic also arises. One can teach the way that leads to chaos, but one cannot teach magic. One can only remain silent about this, which seems to be the best apprenticeship. This view is confusing, but this is what magic is like. Where reason establishes order and clarity, magic causes disarray and a lack of clarity. One indeed needs a reason for the magical translation of the not-understood into the understandable, since only by means of reason can the understandable be created. No one can say how to use reason, but it does arise if one tries to express only what an opening of chaos means.

Magic is a way of living. If one has done one’s best to steer the chariot, and one then notices that a greater other is actually steering it, then magical operation takes place. One cannot say what the effect of magic will be, since no one can know it in advance because the magic is lawless, which occurs without rules and by chance, so to speak But the condition is that one totally accepts it and does not reject it, in order to transfer everything to the growth of the tree. Stupidity too is part of this, which everyone has a great deal of, and also tastelessness, which is possibly the greatest nuisance. Thus a certain solitude and isolation are inescapable conditions of life for the well-being of oneself and of the other, otherwise one cannot sufficiently be oneself A certain slowness of life, which is like a standstill, will be unavoidable. The uncertainty of such a life will most probably be its greatest burden, but still, I must unite the two conflicting powers of my soul and keep them together in a true marriage until the end of my life since the magician is called Diahmon and his wife Bacchus.

I hold together what Christ has kept apart in himself and through his example in others, since the more the one half of my being strives toward the good, the more the other half journeys to Hell. When the month of the Twins had ended, the men said to their shadows: “You are I,” since they had previously had their spirit around them as a second person. Thus the two became one, and through this collision, the formidable broke out, precisely that spring of consciousness that one calls culture and which lasted until the time of Christ. But the fish indicated the moment when what was united split, according to the eternal law of contrasts, into an underworld and upper world. If the power of growth begins to cease, then the United falls into its opposites. Christ sent what is beneath to Hell since it strives toward the good. That had to be. But the separated cannot remain separated forever. It will be united again and the month of the fish will soon be over. We suspect and understand that growth needs both, and hence we keep good and evil close together. Because we know that too far into the good means the same as too far into evil, we keep them both together.

But we thus lose direction and things no longer flow from the mountain to the valley but grow quietly from the valley to the mountain. That which we can no longer prevent or hide is our fruit. The flowing stream becomes a lake and an ocean that has no outlet unless its water rises to the sky as steam and falls from the clouds as rain. While the sea is a death, it is also the place of rising. Such is Diahmon, who tends his garden. Our hands have been tied, and each must sit quietly in his place. He rises invisibly and falls as rain on distant lands. The water on the ground is no cloud, which should rain. Only pregnant women can give birth, not those who have yet to conceive. ~Carl Jung; Red Book

Buddha has always fascinated me how he looked, felt and observed the powers on the Earth, which for us, they might be considered mostly as normal elements. as I remember; when I watched the movie Little Buddha (1993) I was very impressed by the scene:  Tree of Life – “Little Buddha” movie scenes.

I wish You dear Friends a Happy & Peaceful New Year with full of Love and Freedom for all of us ❤ ❤

here is somthing like a pray; Amasing!

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All things, O priests, are on fire. And what … are these things which are on fire? The eye, O priests, is on fire; forms are on fire; eye-consciousness is on fire; impressions received by the eye are on fire; and whatever sensation, pleasant, unpleasant or indifferent, originates in dependence on impressions received by eye, that also is on fire… With the fire of passion, say I, with the fire of hatred, with the fire of infatuation; with birth, old age, death, sorrow, lamentation, misery, grief and despair are they on fire. The ear is on fire; sounds are on fire; … the nose is on fire; odours are on fire; … the tongue is on fire; tastes are on fire; … the body is on fire; things tangible are on fire; … the mind is on fire; … ideas are on fire; … mind-consciousness is on fire; impressions received by the mind are on fire; and whatever sensation, pleasant, unpleasant or indifferent, originates in dependence on impressions received by the mind, that also is on fire. And with what are these on fire? With the fire of passion, … with the fire of hatred, with the fire of infatuation; with birth, old age, death, sorrow, lamentation, misery, grief and despair are they on fire. 
[his prescription of how to escape being on fire]: 
The learned and noble disciple conceives an aversion for the eye, conceives an aversion for forms, conceives an aversion for eye-consciousness, conceives an aversion for the impressions received by the eye; and whatever sensation, pleasant, unpleasant, or indifferent, originates in dependence on impressions received by the eye, for that also he conceives an aversion. Conceives an aversion for the ear, an aversion for sounds, … conceives an aversion for the nose, conceives an aversion for odours; . . . conceives an aversion for the tongue, conceives an aversion for tastes, . . . conceives an aversion for the body, conceives an aversion for things tangible …. etc