This book was edited, and has an introduction, by Carl G. Jung. Anyone who wants to study metaphysics, astrology, alchemy, or psychology must understand symbols and how they affect us. This book is a good beginning.

The part I like best about this book is the introduction by John Freeman. On page x, he begins a description of "a particular characteristic of argumentative method that is common to all the writers of this book -- perhaps of all Jungians." This is the bird-circling-a-tree quote you'll find elsewhere in this blog