CG JUNG - Countryside Anarchist

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blood, the powers deep down in the earth. And white means the higher
intuition. Then wherever you find the golden color, you get the idea of
clear insight, though it is not the highest insight. Thus the golden color
in mÖlvdhvra, which is also in the letters on the petals; there is somehow
a subconscious working force of insight in this region. Within the erotic
life a power of insight is working. The erotic seems a way to insight into
the nature of things, and that grows into the spiritual aspect above. Then
thestrangethingisthatinmaõipÖra you have blue letters on blue-gray
petals, and in anvhata the red color of the pericarp is repeated in the
letters on the leaves. Red represents the musical tone there. Anvhata, in
my opinion, symbolizes the creative life—the petals of the lotus are red,
and the power of insight is in the center in that golden triangle. The
musical undertone of that region is alive somehow—life has a different
reality; a blood reality comes from the outside and tries to work its way in
and harmonize the two.
I give you this explanation as a suggestion of how to work on these
things. I may cite here a word of Lao-tzu: “The meaning that you can
think out is not the meaning.” 18 Take all I say in this light. Forget everything
I tell you, and begin as you must begin. There are different approaches
to these things. Of course, I have certain grounds for my explanation,
but you must work it out as a riddle that you try and solve. There
may be more than one meaning, just as there might be two correct
meanings of a dream, through what we may call the coincidence of
things in our psychic and our outer life. The outer event and the psychic
event may be quite different, yet they have a similar character and may
be symbolized by the same dream. Perhaps one finds the outer and has
not yet found the inner. It may be the same with cakras: the meaning of
one symbolism runs into another and is discovered only by deep insight.
As I told you, that energetic life is all moving, and only by dipping into
that movement can you get at it. Here we reach things which are rather
difficult to talk about, and the color symbolism is a great help. You sink
into the color, so to speak, and then you find its meaning.
Take the anvhata cakra again. In the center is the triangle, and around
that is the bzja of yam. Then there is the hexagram, consisting of two
interlocked triangles, in dark smoke color, and that is surrounded by the
coloring of the rising sun, and outside that are the twelve red petals of a
18 A rendition of the commencement of the Tao Tê Ching. Arthur Waley translates the
opening lines as: “The way that can be told is not an unvarying way; the names that can be
named are not unvarying names.” The Way and Its Power: A Study of the Tao Tê Ching and Its
Place in Chinese Thought (London, 1934), 141. (Tao has sometimes been rendered as
“meaning.”) Jung had a copy of this translation.
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