A letter from C.G Jung to Hermann von Keyserling, 1928

A letter from C.G Jung To Count Hermann von Keyserling, Küsnacht, 2 January 1928"Dear Count,Your return to yourself, enforced by illness, is on the right track and is something I have wished and expected for you. You identify with the eternally creative, restless, and ruthless god in yourself, therefore you see through everything personal— a tremendous fate which it would be ridiculous either to praise or to censure!I was compelled to respect Nietzsche’s Amor fati until I had my fill of it, then I built a little house way out in the country near the mountains and carved an inscription on the wall: Philemonis sacrum— Fausti poenitentia, and “ dis-identified” myself with the god. I have never regretted this doubtless very unholy act. By temperament I despise the “ personal,” any kind of “ togetherness,” but it is so strong a force, this whole crushing unspiritual weight of the earth, that I fear it. It can rouse my body to revolt against the spirit so that before reaching the zenith of my flight I fall lamed to earth. That is the danger you too must reckon with. It is also the fear that prevents our friend X from flying. He can be nothing else but intellectual. You have paid a salutary tribute to the earth with your illness. Let’s hope your gods will be equally gracious to you next time!With best wishes for the New Year,Yours sincerely, C.G Jung"Jung ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. I, Pages 49-50