#liber primus

[throatofdelusion12]

The Liber Primus is a piece of history

It is like many of the strange precursors

Such as the Voynich Manuscript

And for my tma moots it is a spiral bitch boy book

[sgkjd]

It is no small matter to acknowledge one's yearning. For this many need to make a particular effort at honesty. All too many do not want to know where their yearning is, because it would seem to them impossible or too distressing. And yet yearning is the way of life. If you do not acknowledge your yearning, then you do not follow yourself but go on foreign ways that others have indicated to you. So you do not live your life but an alien one. But who should live your life if you do not live it? It is not only stupid to exchange your own life for an alien one, but also a hypocritical game, because you can never really live the life of others, you can only pretend to do it, deceiving the other and yourself since you can only live your own life.

C. G. Jung, The Red Book ― Instruction fol. vi(r)

[popodumsqueries]

I just can’t believe that we live in the same timeline as the Liber Primus and it’s been, what, like 9 years since it was released and humanity has collectively only solved like 17 pages of it out of 73 pages total

Like the sheer unreality of it all presses against my mind so constantly that I sometimes just forget it exists.  But it does, and it will continue to do so.

I hope the other pages are solved in my timeline.  But if they are not, then I hope they get solved at some point in the future.  The world could really use a few more mysteries these days.

[tamsoj]

C.G. Jung, from The Red Book; Liber Primus, “Soul and God”  

[ritheone]

[thedrowningtsarevna]

“He whose desire turns away from outer things, reaches the place of the soul. If he does not find the soul, the horror of emptiness will overcome him, and fear will drive him with a whip lashing time and again in a desperate endeavor and a blind desire for the hollow things of the world. He becomes a fool through his endless desire, and forgets the way of his soul, never to find her again. He will run after all things, and will seize hold of them, but he will not find his soul, since he would find her only in himself. Truly his soul lies in things and men, but the blind one seizes things and men, yet not his soul in things and men. He could find his soul in desire itself, but not in objects of desire. If he possessed his desire, and his desire did not possess him, he would lay a hand on his soul since his desire is the image and expression of his soul.

If we possess the image of a thing we possess half the thing.

My friends, it is wise to nourish the soul, otherwise you will breed dragons and devils in your heart.”

– Carl Jung, Liber Primus

[sgkjd]

What do you think of the essence of Hell? Hell is when the depths come to you with all that you no longer are or are not yet capable of. Hell is when you can no longer attain what you could attain. Hell is when you must think and feel and do everything that you know you do not want. Hell is when you know that your having to is also a wanting to, and that you yourself are responsible for it. Hell is when you know that everything serious that you have planned with yourself is also laughable, that everything fine is also brutal, that everything good is also bad, that everything high is also low, and that everything pleasant is also shameful.

C. G. Jung, The Red Book ― The Conception of the God fol. iv(v)

[tamsoj]

Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love.

C.G. Jung, from The Red Book, Liber Primus, “Instruction”