Jung and the Father of the Prophets
Above Philemon’s image painted on folio page 154 of Liber Novus Jung penned an appellation in Greek: “Father of the Prophets, Beloved PHILEMON”; on the mural of Philemon at the Bollingen Tower, he restated the appellation: “PHILEMON the prophets’ forefather”.
In this lecture we will examine in detail Jung’s encounter with Gnostic mythology during the period leading up to composition of the Septem Sermones ad Mortuos in February 1916. Was there a connection between Jung’s vision of Gnosis and what historians now understand as Gnostic tradition? And who, or what, is the “Father of the Prophets”? How is he connected to Philemon, Simon Magnus and the Septem Sermones?