The Red Book: Liber Novus, by C.G. Jung

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ANTHROPOGNOSIS -- THE KNOWLEDGE OF MAN

In our search for God we neophytes have lost our way because we have forgotten the basic principle of all wisdom of the ancients, and because we have forgotten the goal and the beginning of all investigation: the human body. Hippolytus (Refutatio, 133) says this beautifully: ''The beginning of spiritual maturity is the knowledge of humanity, the knowledge of God is perfected (spiritual) maturity." So then we are searching for God by following the advice of the ancients -- along anthropological lines!

The second most peculiar creation, besides man, is the ape. The ancients knew this all too well. Full of bitterness Ennius calls out: "O ape, you abominable monster, how similar you are to us men!" (Cicero, De nat. dor. 1,35.) The ancient beast-men Behemoth and Leviathan are called the "first fruits" of the ways of God" in Job XL.19. That there were, at one time, beast-men is not to be doubted after the discoveries of the Pithecanthropus, Dubois, the Neanderthal, Spyer, Krapinesian skull fragments and countless discoveries of stone tools. It is probable that these beast-men have not yet fully disappeared. It is striking that the most ape-like men and the most man-like apes live so close to one another. This is especially true in central Africa. Fig. 5 shows a Wambutti with a chimpanzee-like facial structure. Recently, in New Guinea, an almost animalistic type of people were discovered.

-- Theozoology, or the Science of the Sodomite Apelings and the Divine Electron, by Dr. Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels

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