ABSTRACT
When we consider the spirit in its archetypal form as it appears to us in fairytales and dreams, it presents a picture that differs strangely from the conscious idea of spirit, which is split up into many meanings. Spirit was originally a spirit in human or animal form, a daimonion that came upon man from without. The concept of spirit is restricted to the supernatural or anti-natural, and has lost its substantial connection with psyche and life. The grand plan on which the unconscious life of the psyche is constructed is so inaccessible to our understanding that we can never know what evil may not be necessary in order to produce good by enantiodromia, and what good may possibly lead to evil. Sometimes the probate spiritus recommended by John cannot, with the best will in the world, be anything other than a cautious and patient waiting to see how things will finally turn out.
