ABSTRACT
In a letter to Victor White, Jung wrote that Aion ‘came to me as a shock’ and said that he felt ‘utterly unequal to such a task’ (2007: 103). Aion, with its astrological basis and use of the synchronicity concept, can be considered a radical departure from his more ‘conservative’ earlier thought. In a private conversation with Margaret Ostrowski-Sachs, Jung explained:
Before my illness I had often asked myself if I were permitted to publish or even speak of my secret knowledge. I later set it all down in Aion. I realized it was my duty to communicate these thoughts, yet I doubted whether I was allowed to give expression to them. During my illness I received confirmation and I now knew that everything had meaning and that everything was perfect.
(cited in Edinger 1996: 13)