Notes on "Liber Novus"

Continuing to read "Liber Novus," and I've gotten through the introduction by the translator and onto the actual text.   I'm on chapter iv -- the chapters are short, almost Biblical in length.   The original text is mostly straight caligraphy, with the start of chapters indicated with illustrated initials in square blocks.  

Jung uses an evangelical tone to describe a mid-life- crisis at age 40 and relates disintegrative fantasy/meditations wherein he has dialogs with The Spirit of the Times (The rational ego?  "Zeitgeist" ? ), The Spirt of the Depths (? the shadow self?), and his Soul (? the animus ?).   The language is very dualistic, and has a religious flavor, with references to divine madness and children of light who will illuminate the darkness.  

The most interesting passage from these Dark Night of the Soul chapters is from the end of Chapter i: "The image of the world is half of the world.  He who possesses the world but not its image possesses only half the world, since his soul is poor and has nothing."   This reminds me of the tarot card, "The Devil," and makes me wonder how much Jung was in contact with metaphysical societies.   I am also waiting for Jung to say something about cinema, since he spends so much time focused on symbolic meanings behind images.