and it requires but an inner or outer touch [E.g., by
religious observances.] to make them kindle and become active." (Ib., p.
274.) "The unconscious is common to all mankind in an infinitely greater
degree than the content of the individual consciousness, for it is the
condensation of the historically average and oft-repeated." (Jung, Jb. ps.
F., III, pp. 169 ff.)

Whoever allows the educative symbols to work upon him, whether he sees
only darkly the ethical applications typified in them, or clearly
perceives them, or completely realizes them in himself, in any case he
will be able to enjoy a satisfying sense of purification for his earnest
endeavor in an ethical direction. The just mentioned dim perception
(probably the most frequent case), does not exclude the existence of very
clear ideas in consciousness; the person in question generally considers
his ideas, although they are only masks in front of the absolute ideal, as
the ultimate sense of the symbol, thus accepting one degree of
significance for the complete meaning. Every one approximates the ideal as
he can; the absolute ideal through his ephemeral, but attainable ideal.
The highest being speaks in the inexhaustible Bhagavad-Gita:

"More trouble have they who devote themselves to the invisible;
By physical beings the invisible goal is attained only with
difficulty.
[XII, 5.]

God is the all. Hard is it to find the noble man who recognizes
this.
Those whom greed robs of knowledge go to other gods,
Cleave to many rulers--their own nature rules them,
And whatsoever divinity one strives to honor in belief,
I respect his belief and direct him to the right place.
If he strives in firm belief towards his divinity's favor and
grace,
Then shall he in part get what he wants, for I gladly put good in
his way.
Yet the result is but limited in the case of those of limited
sensibility.
He finds the gods who honors them. Who honors me, attains to me."
[VII, 19-23.]

If above I derived the instructive group of symbols from a mystic, that is
not to say that it must be precisely so. I brought out this case among
possible cases only for the reason that the mystic is the one who carries
out most strenuously the ethical work of purification, and under such
conditions as are most favorable to a suggestive group of symbols, and in
particul