ABSTRACT
A principal tenet of the Gnostic tradition is that the innermost core of every human being is a spark of the divine light. Jung's Gnostic vision has its version of the divine spark. Despite created beings having been differentiated out of the Pleroma, each being nevertheless contains the essence of the Pleroma within it. The quasi- (or reluctant) Gnostic poet William Blake claimed that infinity was contained in a grain of sand, thus echoing the ancient Gnostics—not to mention Christ's teaching about the mustard seed, which Jung would reiterate in the Seven Sermons—that the entirety of the Pleroma resides within the smallest particle since both the infinite and the infinitesimal, as opposites, are contained within the Pleroma. The concept of the divine spark also features in Philip K. Dick's (PKD) Gnostic system. In the Exegesis, in a line that could have come straight from the Nag Hammadi Library, he declares that we are divine sparks enclosed in corruptible sheaves.
