After the realization that his active imaginations and fantasies were a reflection of the events of the world at large Jung started on a new work. A work designed to take his personal writings and put them in a form that could be published. Two readings influenced him in these efforts: Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche and the Commedia of Dante. Perhaps Zarathustra and Virgil were models for Philemon? In re-reading his journals he seeks to connect his personal events with those of the world. Here is the development and application of new methods. Part of this is the recovery of the mythopoeic imagination. {Is this not also what Tolkien was also doing as he began writing the Silmarillion?}
