Psychology of the Unconscious / A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido. A Contribution to the History of the Evolution of Thought

by C. G. Jung

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“The last age of Cumean prophecy has come already!

Over again the great series of the ages commences:

Now too returns the Virgin, return the Saturnian kingdoms;

Now at length a new progeny is sent down from high Heaven.

Only, chaste Lucina, to the boy at his birth be propitious,

In whose time first the age of iron shall discontinue,

And in the whole world a golden age arise: now rules thy Apollo.

“Under thy guidance, if any traces of our guilt continue,

Rendered harmless, they shall set the earth free from fear forever,