Forwarded from Ghost of de Maistre
“… Faust is the most recent pillar in that bridge of the spirit which spans the morass of world history, beginning with the Gilgamesh epic, the I Ching, the Upanishads, the Tao-te-Ching, the fragments of Heraclitus, and continuing in the Gospel of St. John, the letters of St. Paul, in Meister Eckhart and in Dante….” - Carl Jung's “Letter to Max Rychner,” 28 February 1932; Letters I, 88-89.