Aphoristic Writings, Notebook, and Letters to a Friend, by Otto ...

artificially induced diarrhoea (especially through calomel, the most purgative agent)
can, as is well known, protect one from epilepsy: diarrhoea conducts away that which
would otherwise remain stagnant and bring the individual to downfall.
Fever and fear: struggle against evil; here it’s overcome.
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Man is animal and not plant, because the moral (good and evil, creation and
murder), is the ultimate; that is why blood (red) and sky (blue) are the opposites of the
animal; not green – brown (earth?), not health – sickness.
Astrology has a future that is founded on incarnation; character can be deduced
from the constellation of stars.
Narrowness of consciousness = time = the unconscious: because the strength for
unity is lacking.
1 : 2 : 3 = Form (idea, man) : Matter (woman) : Thing (child, empirical
experience)
Matter is divisible: that lies in number 2. All results, all syntheses are triads: that
lies in number 3.
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