CG JUNG - Countryside Anarchist

LECTURE 4
ascension of Christ is the symbolical representation and anticipation of
the desired end, that is, being lifted above the personal and into the
suprapersonal. In the old church Christ represents the leader, and
hence the promise of what the mystic or initiate could also contain.
But to non-Christians of the West, the here and now is the only reality.
The sthÖla aspect, the rootedness in mÖlvdhvra, must first be fully lived in
order for us to be able to grow beyond it afterward. Before we get that
far, we are not to know that we are caught in mÖlvdhvra. Only in this way
can we develop our personal consciousness to the level of the vjñv center,
and only in this way can we create culture. It is indeed only a personal
culture, as I have said, but behind the culture stands God, the suprapersonal.
And so we attain to the sÖküma aspect. Only then do we see
that what seemed to us the summit of our endeavor is merely something
personal, merely the light-spark of consciousness. Then we realize that
taken from the standpoint of the psyche as a whole, it is only our personal
consciousness that has attained vjñv, but that we, from the aspect
of the cosmic cakra system, are still in mÖlvdhvra.
It is best to understand this by a metaphor. You can imagine the cosmic
cakra system as an immense skyscraper whose foundations go deep
down in the earth and contain six cellars, one above the other. One
could then go from the first up to the sixth cellar, but one would still find
oneself in the depths of the earth. This whole cellar system is the cosmic
mÖlvdhvra, and we still find ourselves in it even after we have reached the
sixth cellar—our personal vjñv. This we have to keep in mind always,
otherwise we fall into the mistake made by theosophy and confuse the
personal with the cosmic, the individual light-spark with the divine light.
If we do this we get nowhere; we merely undergo a tremendous inflation.
Taken from the standpoint of the cosmic cakra system, then, we can
see that we are still very low down, that our culture is a culture in
mÖlvdhvra, only a personal culture where the gods have not yet awakened
from sleep. Therefore we have to awaken Kundalini in order to
make clear to the individual spark of consciousness the light of the gods.
In the thought world and in psychic events we can reach this other state
of mind, we can look at ourselves from the sÖküma aspect, but then everything
is reversed. Then we see that we are sitting in a hole and that we do
not go down into the unconscious, but that in gaining a relation to the
unconscious we undergo a development upward. To activate the unconscious
means to awaken the divine, the devz, Kundalini—to begin the
development of the suprapersonal within the individual in order to kindle
the light of the gods. Kundalini, which is to be awakened in the sleeping
mÖlvdhvra world, is the suprapersonal, the non-ego, the totality of
the psyche through which alone we can attain the higher cakras in a
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