Saturday, May 8th, 1982

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ AND JUNE F. CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

MAY 8, 1982

ASTROLOGY; JUNG

TOPIC: Astrology

SUBJECT: Jung

SUBSUBJECTS: Alchemy, Imagination, Corbin, Gnostic and Fabricative, Idea of Man, Archetype of the Self, Anthropos, Cosmology (Four Worlds/Levels)

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• Henry Corbin, Mundus Imaginalis, or, The Imaginary and the Imaginal; also in Spring 1972: An Annual of Archetypal Psychology and Jungian Thought, James Hillman (Ed.)

• Henry Corbin, Avicenna and the Visionary Recital

• C.G. Jung, CW 9, Part II, Aion

• C.G. Jung, CW 12, Psychology and Alchemy

DIAGRAMS embedded in these notes:

• FIGURE 1982 0508-1-AB. Sun in Aquarius and Twelfth House, with Jung's Archetypes and Planets.

• FIGURE 1982 0508-2-AB. Jung's Archetype of the Self (Aion, p. 259).

• FIGURE 1982 0508-3-AB. Self, Inferior Function, and Fourfold Psychic Organism.

• FIGURE 1982 0508-4-AB. Idea of Man in Four Worlds.

TYPED AND REFORMATTED by IT and JF 2022

NOTES:

• RETYPED HANDWRITTEN NOTES (hence V08). From Classnotes AB 1982 0323 to 1982 0517.PDF, and JF NOTES 3.PDF, pp. 933-34. Typing of AB notes by IT; of JF notes by JF.

• This was the Saturday AM Event/Class Notes; it is related to WG Classes 1982 0507a, 1982 0515a, and 1982 0522.

• All capitalization and punctuation corrected, all abbreviations, astrological glyphs, and some numbers spelled out.

1982 05/08 at Wisdom's Goldenrod

Astrology; Jung

ALAN BERKOWITZ NOTES

[Classnotes AB 1982 0508 Begin]

5/8/82

[FIGURE 1982 0508-1-AB. Sun in Aquarius and Twelfth House, with Jung's Archetypes and Planets. RP's = Reason-Principles; MB = Mahabhutas; Pl. = Planetary; Refl. = Reflecting, Reflective, Reflected; Mem = Memory; Imag. = Imagination; Self app. = Self-apperception; K Rupa = Kama Rupa; REDF = Rulership Exaltation Detriment Fall; Knowl. = Knowledge. Facsimile scan from AB class notes. Note: See WG Class 1982 0507a for a digitally redrawn version of this diagram as found in Scan File 1982 0507-03R06.PDF. See also Astronoesis, p. 352, Fig. 169, which is an alternate redrawing of the diagram in the PDF.]

Corbin -- mundus imaginalis -- eighth clime. [Note: Henry Corbin, Mundus Imaginalis, or, The Imaginary and the Imaginal.]

What the man of light perceives is within him.

The imaginal body is coincident with the universe.

The symbolism of the Self that Jung works with is an attempt to get to the inner meaning of the image.

Linda read paper on Monday Astrology.

Soul power (planet) is organized by the degree is sits on (reason-principle) -- progressions unfold the degree within the structure it provides.

Being assimilates knowledge -- fabricative.

Knowledge assimilates being -- gnostic.

The self-apperception (planet – Saturn) is organized according to the degree (reason-principle).

→ the identity and continuity of the native

Paul [Damiani] -- Archetype/Symbol of the Self in Jung

Archetype of the Self = Gnostic Anthropos.

Idea of Man has four levels. Each quaternity = the world and processes at that level.

[FIGURE 1982 0508-2-AB. Jung's Archetype of the Self (Aion, p. 259). W. Soul = World-Soul. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

Aion -- Idea of Anthropos. [Note: C.G. Jung, CW 9, Part II, Aion.]

Paragraphs: 72, 116, 170, 252-3, 257-8-9, 264, 291, 296-7, 310, 318, 320, 338, 347.

Aqua doctrine -- doctrine of truth -- level A -- delivered to the soul from above the planetary spheres. Paragraphs 249, 251-2, 288, 292, 333.

Four Quaternities

Homo Sapien -- collective man.

Paradise -- renewal process of life -- albedo, baptism.

Lapis -- secret of matter, ether, freeing of soul from material sheaths.

The Self has access to the ego through the inferior function.

The Self manipulates the ego through the inferior function.

[FIGURE 1982 0508-4-AB. Idea of Man in Four Worlds. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

[Classnotes AB 1982 0508 End]

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JUNE F. NOTES

[JF NOTES 3.PDF, pp. 933-34 Begin]

Categories of the Imagination

Corbin - Mundus Imaginalis

When we truly go inside, that inside envelops all the external world.

Spiritual reality is the "where" of all things.

3 worlds

physical sensible - world of phenomena

sidereal universe

world of angels - at the (outer) surface of the ninth sphere

[other threefold levels]:

senses - imagination - intellect

body - speech - mind

7 climes [of Chaldean planets]

8th clime has features of imaginative perception that cannot be perceived by the senses, the forms have no extension and dimension - mundus imaginalis.

Avicenna [Henry Corbin, Avicenna and the Visionary Recital] annotated Plotinus last three Enneads: separate (world) entities, but all subsist in each. The soul is (individual) and it is this imaginative entity, and which separated from this world, continues in that.

The Soul Power is organized by the degree or reason principle that the planet is sitting on.

The Being assimilating Knowledge and the Knowledge assimilating Being.

Dignity - Knowing. Non-dignity - Being.

From Aion on the Self associated with the Idea of Anthropos [quotes references written on blackboard, parag #s]

72, 116 [with check mark], 170, 252-253, 257, 258-259, 264, 291, 296, 297, 310, 318, 320, 338, 347

On the Doctrine of Truth "aqua doctrine" [references are to Aion]

249-251-252, 288, 289-292, p. 191 footnote, 312, 333, 411

4-fold structure

1) purely natural and instinctive life

2) rejuvenated or reborn, life endowed with meanings

3) restoration - (process) of the original man

4) marriage with the logos, Nous, or [illegible]

Platonic text ?? [unsure which] 4 levels as in:

1) operations of natural things - sublunary

2) ([illegible] of the divisions) of Nature

3) [ditto] of Soul

4) [ditto] of Intellect

Through the inferior function, the Greater Man can control the ego.

unconscious = unconscious to the ego

When your conceptions are getting close to the meanings, you're becoming properly aligned.

The development of consciousness: Consciousness in mankind - If not a mistake we'll have to learn to use it.

Psychology and Alchemy p. 262. 4 x 4 diagram alchemical text.

[JF NOTES 3.PDF, pp. 933-34 End]