At the end of the Septem Sermones ad Mortuos we find a beautiful hymn, a poignant prayer to the one single star in the zenith, to the one guiding God. “To this one God man shall pray… To him all love and worship is due.” It’s your God, the true origin of life. This lecture will explore various passages in the Black Books and The Red Book which actually herald the dawn of a new stellar consciousness. The sun is no longer the primary symbol of the self, rather it is the star. The sun has entered the underworld, the nocturnal world of the unconscious. This is the place of renewal.

Andreas Schweizer is a practicing Jungian analyst in Zürich; he holds a PhD in theology. He studied theology and comparative religion in Zürich as well as Egyptology with Prof. Erik Hornung in Basel. He has been a training analyst since 1986, first at the C. G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht and currently also with ISAP-Zürich. He was president of the Psychology Club, founded in 1916 by C. G. Jung, for sixteen years, and of the Eranos Conferences in Ascona for fourteen years. He has published numerous essays and books, including The Sungod’s Journey through the Netherworld, Cornell University Press, 2010, and C. G. Jung, Letters to Hedy Wyss 1936 – 1956. Edited and with a Commentary by Andreas Schweizer, Daimon Publisher, 2023, 250 pages.

The Red Book, Scrutinies, pp. 354–359.