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For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

Carl Jung

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Carl Jung
Age: 85 †
Born: 1875
Born: July 26
Died: 1961
Died: June 6
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Karl Gustav Jung
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