CG JUNG - Countryside Anarchist

INDIAN PARALLELS
gion of the flesh, the corporeal human being, the meat eater. (åakti
Laktini with breasts red from blood and running with animal fat.) The
ram, vehicle of Agni, is its animal.
Anvhata is the fourth center. It pertains to the heart, or rather to the
midriff. Here, in the air, vvju praõaçakti (prvõa = pneuma) has his seat.
Here lives puruüa, the conscious human being. From there one sees the
vtman, and the yogi now knows, “I am it.” In anvhata the prospective
spirit is born; it starts becoming conscious. The accompanying symbol is
the kalpataru tree, which fulfills all wishes. Below it is the manipitha
altar. 18
The fifth cakra is viçuddha: it lies in the neck, particularly in the larynx.
Here lies the seat of speech, and thereby the spiritual center. It is “the
purple center of the white ether [akasha] which sits on the white elephant.”
åakti-çvkinz is now white, and åiva appears in androgynous form,
half white, half golden. Together they celebrate the mystical union.
Viçuddha is the lunar region and at the same time the “gateway of the
great liberation” through which man leaves the world of error and the
pairs of opposites. Akasha means the fullness of the archetypes; it concerns
a renunciation of the world of images, a becoming-conscious of
eternal things. 19
ujñv is the sixth and highest corporeal center. (ujñv = knowledge, understanding,
command). It is located between the eyebrows. 20 Here the
command of the leader, the guru, is received from above. In the vjñv
mantra the lotus is portrayed with two white leaves. 21 The yoni triangle is
reversed: it is white, and in the middle of it, itara-li´ga sparkles like lightening.
utman here shines like a flame. It is the pure, universal power in
the form of a phallus. The mantra attached to the vjñv cakra is Om. In
the sixth cakra lies the seat of mahat (mind 22 )andprakùiti. Here the “subtle
body,” 23 the diamond body, develops (cf. The Secret of the Golden
18 [Note to the 1932 edition: “Thy blissful form, O Queen, manifests in Anvhata and is
experienced by the mind inward turned of the blessed ones, whose hair stands on end and
whose eyes weep with joy.”]
19 [Note to the 1932 edition: The anthroposophical expression of the akashic records is
misleading, since it is not the case of the inheritance of certain isolated experiences but of
that of the psychic possibilities of having such experiences.]
20 [Note to the 1932 edition: cf. the vision of the patient, 54. Likewise, Jung and Wilhelm,
The Secret of the Golden Flower.] In the vision in question, a ray of light strikes a child on the
forehead, imprinting a star. See The Visions Seminar, vol. 1, 9 December 1930, 151.
21 [Note to the 1932 edition: The vision of a yogi: white fire that rises into the brain and
flares up and beyond as a blaze whose wings reach out both sides of the head.]
22 In English in the original.
23 In English in the original.
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