Slaying Mithra: Self-help, Human Potential and the Luciferian Perversion of the West (Part II)

By David Gosselin

The serpent sheds its skin
to be born again, as the moon
its shadow to be born again.
They are equivalent symbols.
Sometimes the serpent is represented
as a circle eating its own tail. That’s
an image of life. Life sheds one
generation after another,
to be born again.

— Excerpt from Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth

Read Part I of this essay

A fellow enthusiast of the ancient mystery revivals being spearheaded by California’s Esalen Institute was the archetype guru himself, Carl Jung. Jung spoke of “ancient alchemy” as the key to unravelling the question of how modern man supposedly lost his way in the world. Jung began to make sense of the true nature of the unconscious, so he says, by discovering the link between the Gnostic and ancient alchemical traditions.

In Memories, Dreams, Reflections he writes:

“As far as I could see, the tradition that might have connected Gnosis with the present seemed to have been severed, and for a long time it proved impossible to find any bridge that led from Gno…