Sunday, April 22, 2018

Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit

MQTlogoa1500x500 Thought For Today… (the Ultimate Question)

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Timor dei initium sapiente……………………..

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“In a letter of November 19, 1960, Jung explains the inscription:

By the way, you seek the enigmatic oracle Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit in vain in Delphi: it is cut in stone over the door of my house in Kusnacht near Zurich and otherwise found in Erasmus's collection of Adagia (XVIth cent.). [Jung had acquired a copy of the 1563 edition of Erasmus's Collectaneas adagiorum, a compilation of analects from classical authors, when he was 19 years old.] It says: yes, the god will be on the spot, but in what form and to what purpose? I have put the inscription there to remind my patients and myself: Timor dei initium sapiente ["The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."] Here another not less important road begins, not the approach to "Christianity" but to God himself and this seems to be the ultimate question.”

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3 comments:

  1. Lovely post, Joe. Wonderful photos. Is that a cherry or a birch that you're pushing over? I don't even know if you have cherries where you live. It might be too cold for them.

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  2. Lovely post, Joe. Wonderful photos. Is that a cherry or a birch that you're pushing over? I don't even know if you have cherries where you live. It might be too cold for them.

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  3. Snow the tree is a birch. Photo taken in Cape Breton area of Nova Scotia, Canada

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