Jung's writings don’t present a rigid "cosmology"
the way classical systems (Kabbalah, Hermeticism, Neoplatonism) do,
but through his lifetime of work,
especially in the Red Book and his psychological writings,
you can piece together a vision of existence;
a Systema Mundi Totius ("System of the Whole World").
He wasn’t writing theology;
he was charting the architecture of the psyche,
which he believed was the mirror and microcosm of the cosmos.
Micro Level: The Human Psyche
Jung saw the psyche as a living map of the cosmos:
🏝️The Ego is the island of personal consciousness.
🌌The Personal Unconscious contains repressed,
forgotten,
or unnoticed material.
🏰The Collective Unconscious houses the archetypes♠️♥️♦️♣️
&the deep structures of reality.
The Self is the totality, and the path to realizing it is individuation.
🌐 The Unus Mundus
Latin for "One World."
The fundamental,
undivided,
pre-manifest state
of all existence.
Both matter &psyche
emerge from this.
In modern terms:
the quantum field,
in esoteric terms:
the Source,
the Void,
or Monad.
🚗 The Ego
Your personal,
waking identity ;
the center of consciousness,
but not the whole psyche.
The Ego stands in dialogue
with the Self
and the Unconscious.
♾️ The Self
The "God-image"
within the individual psyche.
it is both the blueprint for wholeness
&the regulating center.
In esoteric terms:
the Atman,
the inner spark
of the Divine.
🐇 The Collective Unconscious
The psychic blueprint
&warehouse
of all archetypes,
shared by every human
&even animal consciousness.
This is where myths,
symbols,
dreams,
&instincts
arise.
🃏 The Archetypes
Primordial patterns // structures
embedded in the psyche;
the raw ingredients
for all mythologies,
behaviors,
&psychic experiences.
They’re both transcendent principles
&psychic inhabitants
of the human mind.