The Search for Roots: C. G. Jung and the Tradition of Gnosis by Alfred Ribi

Author:Alfred Ribi [Ribi, Alfred]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Gnosis Archive Books
Published: 2013-07-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

The Septem Sermones ad Mortuos

Not least of the motivations for Martin Buber’s criticism of Jung for being a Gnostic was a mythopoetic text written by Jung in 1916 and published in the form of a series of instructions left by the Gnostic Basilides.[429] That Jung allowed the document to appear at all, in a private edition offered as a gift to friends—which he later (and perhaps ingeniously) stated regretting as a “youthful transgression”—seems to me evidence of a fascination of the time, and as such is understandable. He no doubt did not regret having written the fantasy, but only having naively made it available to a few individuals who were not in a position to understand it. Thus, it was only “for the sake of honesty” that he permitted it to be printed in his memoir, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, recorded by Aniela Jaffé.[430]

In the prior chapter on “Jung and Gnosis” I already described developments leading to the confrontation with his unconscious fantasies, which he had already experienced in the form of alchemical images as a child walking to school. The fantasies of middle age initially appeared as arresting dreams.[431] According to Jung:[432]

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