"Parmi les localités qui jouent un rôle dans la légende du Saint Graal, certains attachent une importance toute spéciale à Glastonbury."

"Jung has on various occasions referred to the myth of the "night sea journey" cited by Frobenius, which he named the "whale dragon myth"."

Botticelli - The birth of Venus, detail (1485) Extracts from : Walter Odajnyk Archetype and Character Power, Eros, Spirit, and Matter...

"Although in the popular imagination Eros is seen in personal and human terms as love, it is primarily an abstract and cosmic principle."

"The writer Thomas Berry says that it's all a question of story. The story is the plot we assign to life and the universe..."

"The individuation process, as a universal law of life, exhibits an archetypal pattern which remains more or less constant and regular."

"L’espace de la création du mélancolique correspond, selon Agamben, au « nigredo » de l’alchimie, lieu de passage, de transformation..."

"Of the nature of the soul, though her true form be ever a theme of more than mortal discourse, let me speak briefly, and in a figure."

"For the king and lord Osiris, they represent by an eye and a sceptre, and some even interpret the name as "Many-eyed"."

"The syllables Ella occurring in Cinderella, are the Greek Ele, which means shiner or giver of light."

"Her supernatural and mystical dresses seem to symbolise the awakening, growth, and final apotheosis of Wisdom within the mind."

"The inaccessibility of the ends of the rainbow has encouraged the growth of countless legends."

"Initiatory death signifies the end at once of childhood, of ignorance, and of the profane condition."

"Les Égyptiens, dit Hor-Apollo, désignent l'éternité par les figures du soleil et de la lune."

“Behold then in this little play A world-wide truth set free ! Easily may a symbol teach What thy reason cannot reach.”

"C’est des mains de la fille de Zeus, Pallas Athéné, que Persée reçoit le bouclier symbolique, le miroir de vérité."

"In Greek mythology, Sleep and Death, Hypnos and Thanatos, are twin brothers."

"Se fiant vaniteusement à ses ailes qui ne sont qu’artifice, .. l’intellect ne connaît plus de mesure, il se propose d’atteindre le soleil."

"The achievement of this Orphic poetry is to create the peace, trust, and sensitivity in which man can listen to this music of nature..."

"May the Dragon of Envy be far from us, and the Swan of Imprudence, the Cassiopeia of Vanity, the Andromeda of Laziness..."

"The white cat was a healer and a nurse. She destroyed poison, counteracted irritation and strengthened people's powers of recuperation."

Extraits de : Les Mystères du Tarot de Marseille ; Documentaire de Philippe Truffault et Christophe Poncet (Arte, 2015)

"The same processes the alchemists employed in contemplation of the transmutation of metals can be used to bring union to the self."