If we do not have the depths, how do we have the heights?
Yet you fear the depths, and do not want to confess that you are
afraid of them. It is good, though, that you fear yourselves; say
it out loud that you are afraid of yourselves. It is wisdom to fear
oneself Only the heroes say that they are fearless. But you know
what happens to the hero.
With fear and trembling, looking around yourselves with
mistrust, go thus into the depths, but do not do this alone; two
or more is greater security since the depths are full of murder. Also
secure yourselves the way of retreat. Go cautiously as if you were
cowards, so that you pre-empt the soul murderers. The depths
would like to devour you whole and choke you in mud.
He who journeys to Hell also becomes Hell; therefore do not
forget from whence you come. The depths are stronger than us;
so do not be heroes, be clever and drop the heroics, since nothing is
more dangerous than to play the hero. The depths want to keep
you; they have not returned very many up to now, and therefore
men fled. from the depths and attacked them.
What if the depths, due to the assault, now change themselves
into death? But the depths indeed have changed themselves
into death; therefore when they awoke they inflicted a thousandfold
death. We cannot slay death, as we have already taken all
life from it. If we still want to overcome death, then we must enliven it.
Therefore on your journey be sure to take golden cups full of the
sweet drink of life, red wine, and give it to dead matter, so that it can
win life back The dead matter will change into black serpents.
Do not be frightened, the serpents will immediately put out the
sun of your days, and a night with wonderful will-oβ-the-wisps
will come over YOU.
Take pains to waken the dead. Dig deep mines and throw in
sacrificial gifts, so that they reach the dead. Reflect in good heart
upon evil, this is the way to the ascent. But before the ascent,
everything is night and Hell.
Carl Gustav Jung, The Red Book
Theseus and the Minotaur in the Labyrinth, by Edward Burne-Jones, 1861.
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