Gift of magic icon1/9/2024 Hard and eternally inconsolable, yet the sum of all mysterious creative force? Primordial magic words seem to emanate from you, mysterious effects weave around you, and what powerful arts slumber in you? You pierce me with unbearable tension-what grimaces will you make? What terrible mystery will you create? What do you want, mysterious gift? All the darkness of all former worlds crowds together in you, you hard, black piece of steel! Are you time and fate? The essence of nature, The pearl eyes of the serpent look at me blindly and dazzlingly. ![]() Rod, and now I hold it, the enigmatic one, in my hand it is cold and heavy like iron. I want to kneel down and receive this messenger of darkness. I don’t know what this rod means, nor what it gives-I only feel what it takes. But how difficult this is! I want the black rod because it is the first thing the darkness grants me. Soul: “Oh, so it’s solace you long for? Do you want the rod or don’t you?” I: “this leaves me so dazed and confused. Soul: Are you afraid? Don’t you want to risk life? Isn’t it life that But to overcome science for the sake of magic? That’s uncanny and menacing.” After all-is science essential to life? Is science life? There are people who live without science. I: “You ask a great deal, almost too much. I: “Be patient, my science has not yet been overcome.” Do you still mean to waste years waiting?” Cast aside your blind judgment and critical gesture, otherwise you’ll never understand. Soul: “Yes, I gather that from what you’re saying. But I can’t believe in magic, or maybe I have a completely false idea of it.” Soul: “I advise you, don’t struggle against this, and above all don’t act so enlightened, as if deep down you did not believe in magic.” My heart sinks-and I’m supposed to sacrifice a greater part of my humanity to magic? I: “Magic! What should I do with magic? I don’t believe in it, I can’t believe in it. Should I miss it? For the sake of magic? What is magic?” I: “How gloomily and full of foreboding you speak! Are you sheathing me in the armor of icy severity? Are you clasping my heart with a bronze carapace? I’m happy with the warmth of life. Soul: “This is your misfortune, and-the power of the black rod.” Soul: “Nature-does nature offer solace? Does it accept solace?” I: It is hard to sacrifice to the dark, to the blind darkness-and what a sacrifice!” Will you accept it and offer it your sacrifice?” Soul: “The darkness that lies before you. I: “I can’t say What do I know about the black rod? Who gives it to me?” I: “Can I, am I allowed to make this sacrifice for the sake of the rod? Must I accept the rod?” I: Are you saying that I shouldn’t be allowed to receive the solace of those I love? And should give no solace to those I love? This means the loss of a piece of humanity and what one calls severity toward oneself and others takes its place.” ![]() Soul: “You must sacrifice solace for the sake of the black rod, the solace you give and the solace you receive.” I: “What do you mean? Should the solace that I give or the solace that I receive be sacrificed?” I: “Solace? Do I understand correctly? Understanding you is unspeakably difficult. Soul: “The sacrifice that magic demands is solace.” I: “Does it demand the sacrifice of love? Of humanity? If it does, take the rod back.” Soul: “Magic is not easy, and it demands sacrifice.” ![]() You know that man never stops craving the black art and things that cost no effort.” I: “I’m afraid that you’re stirring up my desire and misunderstanding. I: “That sounds like the sayings of old-how strange you are, my soul! What should I do with magic?” I: “What should I do with magic? Is the magical rod a misfortune? Is magic a misfortune?” I: “What is it? A rod? A black serpent? A black rod, formed like a serpent-with two pearls as eyes-a gold bangle around its neck. Soul: “Well, then, raise your hands and receive what comes to you.” I: “I accept what you say I want to have fortune and misfortune.” I: “I’m not aware of anything, what should I hear?” The Gift of Magic ~Carl Jung The Gift of Magic The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition (Philemon)
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