The Psychological Club was founded in 1916; a place to “overcome the limitations of one-to-one analysis and to provide a venue where patients could learn to adapt to social situations” to quote ShamdasaniA key theme in Liber Novus is the need to encounter the dead, to have a right relation with the dead.
In an entry from January 16, 1916 Jung’s soul presents him with a cosmology. An element of this is that the nature of man is to strive for absolute individuality. Jung had studied the literature on Gnosticism starting in 1913. He saw a similarity between the era of the early church and the modern epoch. The result of this was the Septem Sermones ad Mortuos - (Seven Sermons of the Dead) which he had printed as a book where he named Basilides in Alexandria as the author.
