Comparison Between the Art of Red book and mine
Comparison Between the Art of Active Imagination I Create and the art of the Carl Gustav Jung from active Imagination in the Red Book
When I first encountered the images from Jung's Red Book, even through pictures posted online, I noticed spiritual, emotional, and physical effects within myself. This idea came from Zeus during a period when I wrote the books The 72 Kabbalistic Angels, Greek Myths: Mysteries of Eleusis, Hindu Myths: Markandeya Purana, and Lucid Dreaming with Zeus, Carl Jung, and the Red Book: The Conciliation of Opposites under his guidance.
After writing these books with the goal of facilitating the practice of active imagination through a solution given by him, the next task was to compare the effects of some images from the Red Book with images I created. After all, I wanted to understand whether the effects of my images were similar to those produced by Jung’s.
These tasks took many years. Currently, while holding image number 36 from the Red Book (according to Jung’s numbering), I was guided to merge this image with my recent artwork, along with the Kabbalah of Hecate, which consists of ten very simple black-line drawings.
In the book Lucid Dreaming with Zeus, Carl Jung, and the Red Book: The Conciliation of Opposites, I discuss my first impressions of image number 36 from the Red Book, as well as many others. Below, I will give you an idea of the type of experience one might have with image number 36.
*"It generates thoughts: ‘I always walk toward the Father, going happily and peacefully, without obstacles or problems. All problems are swiftly and easily removed from my path.’
This is a type of impression in which we hear the purpose of the drawing from that particular active imagination.
Next, I was able to perceive the same drawing in a different way, through a story.
I saw myself earning a lot of money, becoming very successful professionally. Then, a golden sun appeared, illuminating everything with an incredible light.
This sun expands, takes over, floods the place, and then all those people walk across the Earth with this sun, feeling the warmth of its rays.
A deep calm takes over our being, and we become drowsy, wrapped in this lightness.
We meet many familiar faces and greet each other."* (Fabiano, 2019, p. 23).
There is a blue tube that leads us to God, and He speaks about me to some people.
In my experience with the Tree of Life, we can observe that in the middle path, there is a direct connection between the sphere of the sun (Tiphareth) and the sphere that leads us to Ein Sof (Kether).
God intercedes for me, speaking to many people, asking for their understanding, and bringing wisdom to them regarding many things.
As I mention on page 24, in Jung’s Red Book, he states that his goal is to reach the rising sun. Along the way, he meets the god Izdubar, whose goal is to reach the land from which Jung came.
"This drawing by Jung, of the god Izdubar, which I confronted, leads us to the rising sun that Jung refers to as his goal. On his journey, he met Izdubar, whose objective was to reach the land from which Jung came. They exchanged information about their worlds and ways of living, eventually sitting by the firelight and falling asleep." (Fabiano, 2029, p. 24)
On the same page 24 of this book, I also talk about the sun, quoting Jung in the Red Book, page 289:
"A footnote explaining illustration 89 of the Red Book states that in Jung’s Black Book No. 7, Ha appeared to him, saying he was Philemon’s father. Ha explained the runes that Jung was curious about:
‘Look at the two with different feet—one earthly foot and one solar foot. They reach out to the upper cone and have the sun within them, but I have drawn a crooked line toward another sun. That is why one of them must descend. However, the upper sun leaves the cone, and the cone watches it, wondering where it will go...
The upper cone comes and forms a bridge to the lower part, taking its sun back inside, the one that had previously escaped. Now, morning clouds appear in the lower cone, but its sun has become invisible beyond the horizon line. Now you are one, joyful to have the sun above, and you wish to ascend to it.’" (Fabiano, 2019, p. 24-25).
But the question is: how would this same image behave in a lucid dream or active imagination when interacting with drawings created to assist my life?
Since the year 2000, I have been creating a large amount of artwork alongside active imagination. In total, I have made 3,200 line drawings, patterns, geometric compositions, spherical mandalas, and more—combining technology to generate unexpected three-dimensional images from two-dimensional drawings, patterns from simple sketches, and other techniques aimed at revealing highly interesting images from the collective unconscious. These works are always abstract.
One of the impressions I had with image number 36 from the Red Book was that it dealt with prosperity.
But without observing dreams in a lucid way, how can we truly understand the causes of the experiences we create?
In reality, we realize that we are never alone and that this creation happens in interaction with other people—whether incarnate or not—among other entities.
Recently, I have been returning to interact with drawings from the Kabbalah of Hecate, about which I still have little information regarding their effects.
By using them all together, we can see in the environment a woman in a black cloak, enveloping within it people from our lives, as well as the deceased. There are also people we do not know. Here, we have the element of water.
The element of fire—the Father—is reached through the connection with the Sun, which is below Him and therefore considered inferior on the Tree of Life.
But could Izdubar represent the element of air? Like Adam Kadmon, the son of Ein Sof (God, the Wise Old Man), does he establish a connection and intercede for us, similar to Jesus? And what is his relationship with the element of water (feminine), given that there was an interaction between Hecate and Izdubar that felt completely natural and easy and without wars?
This war I am referring to happens when we unite opposites. When they do not know each other or when they have very different opinions and ways of being, they fight. What is different is when the union between Zeus and Ceres occurs, where we see and perceive an immense love and happiness with their union. We can experience these effects when we unite the seal of Zeus and Ceres or Demeter that I made.
Active imagination, combining my drawings (the 10 drawings of the Great Mother Hecate) with the image on page 36 of the Red Book, revealed that Izdubar is a warrior who clears the path where things are rigid, breaking the blocks that obstruct understanding between people, including in family relationships. Blocks of stone separated people from me, and he carried the mercy of Ein Sof, manifested in Tzadkiel, interceding for us alongside Ein Sof (the most subtle force above Kether). Physically, this experience resulted in a deep relaxation in the back of my body.
Now, let's examine the myth of Izdubar. Could he be a Son?
This part will be in the next chapter.
Will he assist me in my life?
Follow the developments of this active imagination on my website, and take the opportunity to explore the images I have created through this process.