Early Christian Work in Zurich Institute

 

Per the The Dayton Daily News of November 1953, a query on my favorite newspaper database queues up an article regarding the Jung Codex.  The article hints that one book of the NHL curiously made its way out of Egypt and into the hands of Dr. Carl Jung at his Jung Institute for Analytical Psychology.  No real details are given on how the Institute managed to obtain the copy; however, it hints that a "lengthy and somewhat bizarre negotiation" was required to obtain the leather-bound book.

Jung is referenced in the article with respect to his interest in Gnosticism.  Gnosticism, as I think the article defines Jung's reference of the ancient religion, is "a process of discovering the self in response to a call of God and by doing so renewing man's lost knowledge of God and his oneness of God."  The human experience is constantly encountering problems of reality and illusion...unconscious and conscious stimulation,...symbols, dreams, and images...and the relationship of human personality to the "moral absolute."

All of this, for whatever reason, kind of makes sense, I guess?  Lots of people in certain areas of research like to rip on Jung as being part of some nefarious group of people...I don't know.  Maybe this transaction was shady, but the search for some type of reality seems fair.  I don't have the brain capacity or material resources of a Dr. Jung, but I would like to know how to navigate through the illusions and traps of this reality.