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Campbell on Coincidence of Opposites

Coincidenceofopposites: "Whence I begin, Lord, to behold Thee in the door of the coincidence of opposites, which the angel guardeth that is set over the entrance into Paradise" --Nicholas Cusanus, <i>The Vision of God</i> (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1960), as quoted by Joseph Campbell in <i>The Masks of God: Creative Mythology</i> (New York: Viking Penguin, 1968) p. 297. Manuscript in the Joseph Campbell Library, Outtakes series, E49. Copyright © Joseph Campbell Foundation (www.jcf.org). Used with permission.

"Whence I begin, Lord, to behold Thee in the door of the coincidence of opposites, which the angel guardeth that is set over the entrance into Paradise." --Nicholas Cusanus, The Vision of God (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1960), as quoted by Joseph Campbell in The Masks of God: Creative Mythology (New York: Viking Penguin, 1968) p. 297.

Manuscript in the Joseph Campbell Library, Outtakes series, E49.
Copyright © Joseph Campbell Foundation (www.jcf.org). Used with permission.