There is once again another nerve-wracking experience (at least for me), hoping that the evil disappears from Iran and that the spring of freedom blooms for its people.

I have never supported wars, but this destructive machine must be stopped now, and the time has come!

Let’s read a lecture by my favourite teacher, Dr Jung.

I will read you some quotations from the book “The Secret of the Golden Flower”:
“The Golden Flower is the Light. What colour has the light?
One uses the Golden Flower as an image.
It is the true power of the transcendent Great ‘One’.
The phrase, ‘The lead of the water-region has but one taste’, refers to it.”
Here, the writer speaks of the substance of which the Golden Flower is made, which is found in the water region, the bladder, in Svadhisthana.
This is the localisation in the psyche which is made entirely of animal substance, the spirit of weight which imprisons us and is described as the most inferior thing.
This is the heaviness which Nietzsche tried to dance away.
He says in “Zarathustra” that the stone is thrown high indeed, but it must fall, and on the thrower.
This is the lead of the water region; it has one meaning: that the Golden Flower grows out of it.
This is the primordial substance out of which the Lapis, the Golden Flower, or the philosophers’ gold is made.
These come from the very commonest things.
The old alchemist said, “If the huckster in the market knew that the things which he sells so cheaply are the materials from which the
philosopher’s gold is made, he would raise their price”, but he does not go on to tell us how to extract the gold.
We are told that it is to be found in old privies and manure heaps, but that “Many have worked on manure heaps and have found – nothing”.
“In the Book of Changes, it is said: Heaven created water through the One. That is the true power of the Great One. If a man attains this One, he becomes alive; if he misses it, he dies. But even if a man lives in the power [air, prana) He does not see the power [air], just as Fishes live in water but do not see the water.”

This is the Tao in Chinese philosophy; it is always timeless and is the beginning and the end. Out of Tao comes water – that is the water region.
“A man dies when he has no life-air, just as the fishes are destroyed when deprived of water.
Therefore, the adepts have taught the people to hold fast to the primal and to guard the One; it is the circular course of the Light and the protection of the centre.”
Light is symbolic for consciousness; in doing the “circumambulatio”, you must follow the direction of light, if you go the other way, it is black magic.
” If one guards this true power, one can prolong the span of life, and can then apply the methods of creating an immortal body by ‘melting and mixing’.”
If you are attentive, the diamond or immortal body is formed.
“The work on the circulation of the light depends entirely on the backwards flowing movement, so that the thoughts are gathered together [the place of Heavenly Consciousness, the Heavenly Heart]. The heavenly heart lies between Sun and Moon (i.e. the two eyes),”
The right eye is the sun eye, and the left the moon eye. This heavenly heart, this centre, lies between the two eyes. “The Book of the Yellow Castle says: In the field of the square inch, of the house of the square foot, life can be regulated. The house of the square foot is the face. The field of the square inch is the face: what could that be other than the Heavenly He art? In the middle of the square inch dwells the splendour.”
The Heavenly Heart is placed on the forehead…

~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture 12July1935, Pages 238-241.

Via Carl Jung Depth Psychology 🙏