"Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom;
yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom;
seek learning, even by study and also by faith."
Doctrine and Covenants 88:118

"And the gatherer sought to find pleasing words, worthy writings, words of Truth."
Ecclesiastes 12:10



Friday, June 17, 2016

Why the Ancients? - 2

Reading a book called The Gnostic Jung. 

Jung reached back to the Gnostics and the Alchemists.  The neo-Jungians of different stripes reach back the gods and goddesses of ancient mythology.  The men's movement reaches back to folk tales. Thomas Moore reaches back to the magicians of the Renaissance.   For decades the West has been digging about in the ancient wisdom of the East.  The whole New Age movement reaches back eclectically to just about any shiny object from the past that looks interesting.  All an effort to "reanimate" the lifeless mechanical image of Modernism - to give it a soul (anima).

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