Carl Jung
"The hero who sets himself the task of renewing the world and conquering death personifies the world-creating power which, brooding on itself in introversion, coiled round its own egg like a snake, threatens life with its poisonous bite, so that the living may die and be born again from the darkness." [Carl Jung, CW 5, Para 592]
G.R.S. Mead
“Accordingly the First Egg that was ever produced being gradually warmed by the Living Creature within it, breaks open, and then there takes shape and comes forth some such thing as Orpheus says:
“When the skull-like wide-yawning Egg did break, etc."
“So by the mighty power of Him who came forth and who made Himself manifest, ‘the shell’ receives its articulation and obtains its orderly arrangement; while He Himself presides as though it were upon a throne on Heaven’s height, and in the realms ineffable sends forth His light all round upon the Boundless Æon.” [Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 1, by G.R.S. Mead, c. 1906]
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