After his encounter with the ghosts, Jung sketched in his journal the outlines of his first mandala, the Systema Munditotius, which forms a pictorial cosmology of the vision conveyed in the Sermons. The figure of Abraxas, the Great Archon in Gnosticism, is depicted here, who represents the dark antithesis in the depths, the builder of the physical universe, a world-creator of an ambivalent nature. Sprouting from him we see the tree of life. The lower world of Abraxas is characterised by five, the number of natural man (the twice-five rays of his star). The accompanying animals of the natural world are a devilish monster and a larva, which signifies death and rebirth.
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