The Seba library treats Evening in 6 passages, across 6 authors (including Edinger, Edward F., Neumann, Erich, Wang Bi, Richard John Lynn).
Morning knowledge is knowledge of the creator, evening knowledge is the knowledge of created things. Morning knowledge knows about God, evening knowledge knows about humanity.
Edinger, via Jung’s reading of Augustine, establishes ‘evening knowledge’ as the epistemological register of material, rational, and humanistic knowing, positioned as the twilight counterpart to sacred or divine morning knowledge.
, Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy, 1985thesis
Abydos lies ‘to the west,’ it became the place where Osiris was worshiped as the evening sun and god of the dead, and where ‘the head of Osiris rests.’
Neumann identifies the evening sun with Osiris’s descent into death and the west, making evening a mythological symbol of the solar hero’s necessary dissolution and the transition to underworld consciousness.
, The Origins and History of Consciousness (Princeton, 2019thesis
It is uncertain whether mo (no) should be read as such, making moye mean ‘no particular night’ (hence, ‘night after night’) or whether it should be read as mu (evening), so that muye means ‘evening(s) and night(s).’
The classical Chinese commentary tradition registers the semantic and phenomenological ambiguity of evening as a threshold between evening and full night, a liminality that resists stable categorization.
, The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi, 1994supporting
In the evening a wind came up and reddened all the sky before him… He rode with the sun coppering his face and the red wind blowing out of the west across the evening land.
The McCarthy passage quoted in the context of Hillman’s life aestheticizes the evening landscape as a liminal, reddening world charged with psychological and existential weight—the archetype of the threshold and the west.
, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, 2023supporting
I began to meditate regularly every evening too. I didn’t understand it at first, but I was beginning to make my day whole, which meant that I was making my consciousness whole as well.
Easwaran presents evening meditation as the complementary, integrating counterpart to morning practice, framing the evening as a psychological closing of the diurnal arc toward wholeness of consciousness.
, The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living: A Verse-by-Verse Commentary, 1975supporting
the Senn (herdsman), as one calls him, has to go out in the evening and rec[ite protective formulas]
Von Franz notes the ritual importance of evening as the threshold moment when the herdsman must enact protective magical practices against numinous powers, marking evening as a liminal time requiring heightened spiritual vigilance.
, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales, 1974aside