# The Secret of the Golden Flower  ## Metadata - Author: [[Carl Jung and Richard Wilhelm]] - Full Title: The Secret of the Golden Flower - Category: #books ## Highlights - In Lü Yen there was a certain faith, a religious trend, which, stimulated by Buddhism, convinced him of the illusory quality of all external things, but in a way clearly different from Buddhism. He seeks, with all his might, the fixed pole in the flight of phenomena, where the adept can attain eternal life, a thought absolutely foreign to Buddhism, which denies any substance to the ego. ([Location 256](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BDHKQZ9Z&location=256)) - Tags: [[orange]] - Let us compare the sayings of John: 'I baptize you with water: after me shall come one who will baptize with the Holy Ghost and with fire'; or: 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.' ([Location 280](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BDHKQZ9Z&location=280)) - Tags: [[orange]] - It is built on the premise that the cosmos and man, in the last analysis, obey the same law; that man is a microcosm and is not separated from the macrocosm by any fixed barriers. ([Location 314](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BDHKQZ9Z&location=314)) - Tags: [[orange]] - Note: As above so below ## New highlights added December 30, 2023 at 3:15 PM - The Golden Flower alone, which grows out of inner detachment from all entanglement with things, is eternal. A man who reaches this stage transposes his ego; he is no longer limited to the monad, but penetrates the magic circle of the polar duality of all phenomena and returns to the undivided One, the Tao. ([Location 397](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BDHKQZ9Z&location=397)) - Tags: [[orange]]