The
Reifying Gift of Gnosis
It
was a mystery the great psychologist
could
not fathom, and it haunted his inquisitive
mind;
but one day—it always happens this
way!
—happenstance
introduced C. G. Jung
to
St. Brigitta of Sweden (1303-1373) who
had
a vision of the devil’s insatiable greed
that
solved his baffling mystery of soul’s
resistance
to understanding—and my mystery
as
well, as the deafening silence to my poetry
on
the secret way of life revealed; and when
I
read C. G. Jung’s letter to Dr. Hans Schmid,
his friend
and pupil—no less coincidental
than
his own discovery of St. Brigitta—I leapt
with
joy at Jung’s realization that understanding
was a
murderer of the soul; and it bothered
the
great psychologist no more, as he allowed
every
soul to be the keeper of its own secret
until
life made it ready for the secret way
that
dispelled their sacred mystery with
the
reifying gift of gnosis.
Wednesday,
February 7, 2024
Georgian
Bay, Ontario
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