By Marie-Louise von Franz

The form of time gives shape to human experience. Traditional thought, from China to ancient Greece, embodies time not only in gods and goddesses but also in the various devices which measure and grasp it.

Time as flux is apparent in the flow of grains in an hourglass; time as eternal return, in the circling aeons of the Indian and Maya calanders or the tail-eating Serpent Ouroboros; time as a universal pattern of synchronous events, in the I Ching or the astrologers' intricate figure-work. The paradoxes inherent in these parallel ways of conceiving time reveal the mysterious Coincidence of Opposites which underlies the cosmos.

• Paperback
• 96 pages with 143 illustrations, 16 in colour
• ISBN: 9780500810163