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Intricate Creation	The Druids Key	Avalon

I had to abandon the idea of the superordinate position of the ego. ... I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point -- namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the centre. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the centre, to individuation.
... I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate.

- C. G. Jung. Memories, Dreams, Reflections.

The Nurturing Cosmos

"The "squaring of the circle" is one of the many archetypal motifs
which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it
is distinguished by the fact that it is one of the most important
of them from the functional point of view. Indeed, it could even
be called the archetype of wholeness."

-from Mandalas. C. G. Jung. trans. from Du (Zurich, 1955)


Dragonfly Sutra	Celedon	Heart of Spirit

"... Only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is:
'Formation, Transformation, Eternal Mind's eternal creation'
(Faust, II). And that is the self, the wholeness of the personality,
which if all goes well is harmonious, but which cannot tolerate
self-deceptions."
C. G. Jung


Mandalas1	Mandalas 2	Main Gallery

Earth Mandala

"The goal of contemplating the processes depicted in the mandala
is that the yogi shall become inwardly aware of the deity.
Through contemplation, he recognizes himself as God again, and
thus returns from the illusion of individual existence into the
universal totality of the divine state."

from Concerning Mandala Symbolism. C. G. Jung.
trans. from "Uber Mandalasymbolik,"
Gestaltungen des Unbewussten (Zurich, 1950)


Infinite Possibilities	Earth Grid	Earth in Balance

"... there must be a transconscious disposition in every individual
which is able to produce the same or very similar symbols at all
times and in all places. Since this disposition is usually not a
conscious possession of the individual I have called it the
collective unconscious, and, as the bases of its symbolical products,
I postulate the existence of primordial images, the archetypes.
... the identity of conscious individual contents with their
ethnic parallels is expressed not merely in their form but in
their meaning."

from Concerning Mandala Symbolism. C. G. Jung.
trans. from "Uber Mandalasymbolik,"
Gestaltungen des Unbewussten (Zurich, 1950)

'The Tao'

YANTRAS

According to Tantra,
the creation of the world begins with an act of division of the opposites that are united in the deity.
From their splitting arises, in an explosion of energy, the multiplicity of the world .

Starting from pure unity (Shiva),
the world is a continuous unfolding (energized by the power of Shakti),
until a state is reached, when the process must reverse and involute back to the very beginning.

Multiplicity must once again become unity.
According to Tantra the human being is a miniature universe
and the same principles that apply to the universe apply in the case of the individual being.

A yantra is a geometrical pattern made of several concentric figures
(squares, circles, lotuses, triangles, point).

When these concentric figures are gradually growing away from its center in stages,
this is for human beings a symbol of the process of involution.

When they are gradually growing towards its center,
this is for human beings a symbol of the process of evolution.

A yantra is thus a tool making the process of evolution conscious to the adept of Tantrism.
It enables the adept to retrace his steps from the outward-directed world of multiplicity to the inward focus of unity.

All primal shapes of a yantra are psychological symbols corresponding to inner states of human consciousness.
Yantras are sacred symbols of the process of involution and evolution.

'Psychedelic Yantra 1'

'Psychedelic Yantra 2'

'Golden Lotus Yantra'

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'Ganesh Yantra'

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