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"The world and its experiences are in the nature of a symbol, and..it really reflects something that lies hidden in the subject himself, in his own transubjective reality." Carl Jung, 'Psychological Commentary'

Tibetan Book of the Dead
W Y Evans-Wentz, translator

Know Yourself

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1	"The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some springing from beneath; the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation." Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English lawyer and philosopher, 'The Advancement of Learning', bk. 2, ch. 5, sect. 2 Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 4th edition (Angela Partington, editor)

2	“To experience trueness as a personal reality, one must first know what it means to ‘Be’; and to know how to ‘Be,’ it is necessary that one first learn what to ‘Be.’ This can only be achieved when one has acquired Self knowledge.” Meditations on the Apocalypse, A Psycho-Spiritual Perspective on the Book of Revelation (F. Aster Barnwell)

3	"The deities are not come from somewhere else; they exist from eternity within the faculties of thine own intellect. Know them to be of that nature." Bardo of Karmic Illusions, Book 1 Tibetan Book of the Dead (W Y Evans-Wentz, translator)

4	"In alchemy…the philosopher's stone is the supreme realization of mystic identification with the god within us and with the eternal." A Dictionary of Symbols (J. E. Cirlot)

5	"Never in all the reaches of history has there been precisely You before, and if you know how to value and cultivate the essence of your innermost sense and sentiencies, you become a creative element in the whole dynamic system." Creative Vision for Art and for Life (Richard Guggenheimer)

6	"The urge and compulsion to self-realization is a law of nature and thus of invincible power." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

7	"All this sensible world is fashioned in man. There is no part of it to be found, whether corporeal or incorporeal, which does not subsist created in man, which does not perceive, which does not live, which is not incorporated in him." John Scotus Eriugena (800?-877?), 'On The Division of Nature' Selections From Medieval Philosophers (Richard McKeon, editor and translator)

8	"Our real identity and cognitive range includes the entire cosmos and all its beings, and we must strive to be a fully conscious, independent investigator, co-creator, and cosmic colleague." The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality (Richard Leviton)

9	"He is your being and in him, you are what you are, not only because he is the cause and being of all that exists, but because he is your cause and the deep center of your being." The Cloud of Unknowing (Unknown English author)

10	"Light is consciousness imaging itself. So each particular is a tiny holographic image of self-perception within a larger, anthropocosmic formation of self-perception. Perception is the unceasing activity of existence. The universe is created in perception: it evolves through the evolution of perception; and its goal lies in the perfection of self-perception." Robert Lawlor, 'Pythagorean Number as Form, Color, and Light' Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science (Christopher Bamford, editor)

11	"'Know thyself' is a potent key to the knowledge of Deity and to the workings of divinity." Esoteric Psychology I (Alice A. Bailey)

12	"Only as we know ourselves can we bring about the inner transformation which will lead to a real and deep re-ordering of the world." The Transforming Mind (Laurence and Phoebe Bendit)

13	"The gnostic movement shared certain affinities with contemporary methods of exploring the self through psychotherapeutic techniques. Both gnosticism and psychotherapy value, above all, knowledge – the self-knowledge which is insight. They agree that, lacking this, a person experiences the sense of being driven by impulses he does not understand." The Gnostic Gospels (Elaine Pagels)

14	Joyousness that is weighed is not at peace. After ridding himself of mistakes a man has joy. Often a man finds himself weighing the choice between various kinds of pleasures, and so long as he has not decided which kind he will choose, the higher or the lower, he has no inner peace. Only when he clearly recognizes that passion brings suffering, can he make up his mind to turn away from the lower pleasures and to strive for the higher. Once this decision is sealed, he finds true joy and peace, and inner conflict is overcome. -- Chapter 58 Line 4 I Ching or The Book of Changes (Richard Wilhelm, translator)

15	"Things that accord in tone vibrate together. Things that have affinity in their inmost natures seek one another. Water flows to what is wet, fire turns to what is dry ... What is born of heaven feels related to what is above. What is born of earth feels related to what is below. Each follows its kind." -- Chapter 1 I Ching or The Book of Changes (Richard Wilhelm, translator)

16	"You are part of God, Who is everything. His power and glory are everywhere, and you cannot be excluded from them." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

17	"When the 'I am' is discovered – and every enlightened tradition has said this – we find ourselves and we find God. Look for yourself, and you'll find your creator." Who Do You Think You Are? The Healing Power of Your Sacred Self (Carlos Warter, M.D., Ph.D.)

18	"We must awaken our innermost wisdom, pure and divine, called the Mind of Buddha…It is the divine light, the inner heaven, the key to all moral treasures, the centre of thought and consciousness,..the seat of kindness, justice, sympathy, impartial love, humanity, and mercy, the measure of all things. When this innermost wisdom is fully awakened, we are able to realize that each and every one of us is identical in spirit, in essence, in nature with the universal life." Kaiten Nukariya, professor at the So-To-shu Buddhist College in Tokyo Collected Works (Carl Jung)

19	“Self-knowledge is not possible without knowledge of God.” Collected Works (Carl Jung)

20	"And at last I searched within, and I saw that God is still more interior to me than myself." St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 'Canticle of Canticles', 74:5 Mysticism and Ecumenism (Robley Edward Whitson)