The Red Book

October 1, 2009 | Comments Off

There is nothing I love more than when an unknown or lost book is finally discovered, years later, in a secret vault in a foreign country – especially when that book is gorgeous in red leather with a spine etched in gold and is filled with esoteric visions of gods and devils – and the book happens to have been written by Carl Jung.

The Holy Grail of the Unconscious
By SARA CORBETT (The New York Times)

This is a story about a nearly 100-year-old book, bound in red leather, which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in Switzerland. The book is big and heavy and its spine is etched with gold letters that say â€œLiber Novus,â€ which is Latin for â€œNew Book.â€ Its pages are made from thick cream-colored parchment and filled with paintings of otherworldly creatures and handwritten dialogues with gods and devils. If you didnâ€™t know the bookâ€™s vintage, you might confuse it for a lost medieval tome.

DÃ©sirÃ©e Good for The New York Times

SHARING THE LEGACY From left, Peter and Andreas Jung and Ulrich Hoerni, grandsons of Carl Jung, at Jungâ€™s home in KÃ¼snacht, Switzerland.

And yet between the bookâ€™s heavy covers, a very modern story unfolds. It goes as follows: Man skids into midlife and loses his soul. Man goes looking for soul. After a lot of instructive hardship and adventure â€” taking place entirely in his head â€” he finds it again.

Some people feel that nobody should read the book, and some feel that everybody should read it. The truth is, nobody really knows. Most of what has been said about the book â€” what it is, what it means â€” is the product of guesswork, because from the time it was begun in 1914 in a smallish town in Switzerland, it seems that only about two dozen people have managed to read or even have much of a look at it…

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