"The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen ..." — Carl Jung

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.