Glossary: Anthropos

"The Vitruvian Man" by Leonardo da Vinci

Image from World Mysteries


The original, whole human; the symbol of archaic unity and completeness. From Gnosticticism. See also Self.

There is in the unconscious an already existing wholeness, the "homo totus" of the Western and the Chên-yên (true man) of Chinese alchemy, the round primordial being who represents the greater man within, the Anthropos, who is akin to God.

- "The Personification of the Opposites," CW 14, par. 152