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Soul Family
The unconscious always tries to produce an impossible situation in order to force the individual to bring out his very best. Otherwise one stops short of one’s best, one is not complete, one does not realize oneself.
The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing … He must obey his own law, as if it were a daemon whispering to him of new and wonderful paths … There are not a few who are called awake by the summons of the voice, whereupon they are at once set apart from the others, feeling themselves confronted with a problem about which the others know nothing… To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being … he has failed to realize his own life’s meaning.
— C. G. Jung
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The Gnostic sect of the Perates taught that out of the divine original substance of the world, out of “the water which gives shape to the perfect man”, that is, from the unconscious and its urge to individuation, “each creature selects that which is peculiar to it”, that which characterizes it. What belongs to him is attracted to him “more than the iron to the magnet”.
This means that the bonds with other people are produced by the Self and these relations are very exactly regulated as to distance and closeness…Each person gathers around him his own “Soul family”, a group of people not created by accident or by mere…
