Carl Jung & the Gnostics

He went looking for anyone who had been there before him. He found the Gnostics.

Between 1913 and 1917, Jung went through what he called his confrontation with the unconscious. When he came out, he searched for those who had crossed the same ground seventeen centuries earlier. Three books: the sources he read, a thirty-day workbook, and the order to read it all in.

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Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961). Portrait, ETH-Bibliothek Zürich — public domain.

The three books

The sources, the practice, the order.

Each stands alone. Each tells you when to open the next.

The Sources

The Gnostic Jung Reader

163 pages · texts + introductions · 50-term glossary

The texts Jung read, each printed complete in the public-domain translation he knew it in: the Seven Sermons to the Dead, the Hymn of the Pearl, Sophia's fall from the Pistis Sophia, the Book of Enoch, and Irenaeus on the Valentinians — each with a short introduction and where Jung took it up.

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The Practice

The Shadow is Your Archon

81 pages · a thirty-day workbook · one page a day

Thirty two-page spreads. On the left: a passage, a few plain words on what Jung saw in it, a five-to-twenty-minute practice, and one question. On the right: twenty ruled lines for your answer. Four weeks — projection, the shadow and the archon, the mask, and the way back.

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The Order

How to Read Jung & The Gnostics

70 pages · the map · 30 / 90 / 365-day plans

The order that makes the next book readable. Jung in twelve stations and the Gnostics in ten — what each book is, which chapters to read, how long it takes, and where people go wrong. Then the twelve crossings where a Jung station and a Gnostic one meet, and three reading plans.

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The complete library

The Gnostic Jung Library

Reader, Workbook, Map — and the Gnostic Jung Glossary as a separate booklet. Written to be read together; each one tells you when to open the next.

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Where to begin

Three ways in.

Come for one. The books point you to the rest.

You want the texts

Start with the Reader — the actual pages Jung turned, complete, with a guide to what he took from each.

II.

You want something to do tonight

Start with the Workbook — one page a day for thirty days, with the page opposite left for you.

III.

You want to know where to start

Start with the Map — the order for Jung's twenty volumes and the Gnostics' fifty texts.

C. G. Jung — ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, public domain.

Why the Gnostics

The language he had been missing.

Jung wrote the Seven Sermons to the Dead in a Gnostic voice and gave it only to friends. For years the Pistis Sophia was the one Gnostic scripture anyone could read; the rest survived only in the hostile summaries of Irenaeus. Jung read all of it, and found in it a map of the same territory he had crossed alone.

"Whoever speaks in primordial images speaks with a thousand voices."

These books gather what he read and set it in the order that makes it readable — the sources in his own public-domain translations, with the new introductions, notes and glossary that tell you where, in Jung, each one surfaces.

Questions

Before you begin

Start with the Map if you want to know where to begin, or the Reader if you want the texts in your hands tonight. If you'd rather do than read, the Workbook needs nothing else to start. The Library gathers all three at a lower price.

No. It is a course of reading and writing, not a course of treatment, and it says so on the page. If the exercises make things harder rather than clearer, the book itself tells you to close it and talk to someone. Nothing in these books replaces professional care.

The source texts are printed in the public-domain translations Jung could have read them in — old, and they sound old; they are the pages he turned. The introductions, notes and glossary are new and written for this edition.

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