The Seba library treats Ogdoad in 5 passages, across 3 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Jung, C. G., Hans Jonas).
the Gnostics held that Sophia represents the world of the Ogdoad, which is a double quaternity. In the form of a dove, she descended into the water and begot Saturn, who is identical with Yahweh.
Jung identifies the Ogdoad as Sophia's cosmological realm, defining it explicitly as a 'double quaternity' and embedding it within the Gnostic mythologem of divine descent and demiurgic creation.
, Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, 1951thesis
ogdoad and, 279 and pagan sources, 97 in Plato, 127 representation of perfect being, 156 spontaneous, 96, 574 symbolism of, 104 as Jungian of opposites, 90, 92
An index entry in Psychology and Religion cross-references the Ogdoad with the quaternion, the representation of perfect being, and the union of opposites, confirming the term's systematic placement within Jung's symbolic numerology.
, Psychology and Religion: West and East, 1958supporting
ogdoad of elements, 278; omega, see omega; physical, 155; quaternity of, 278; round, 72, 76; of the stone, 314n
An index passage in the Collected Works links the Ogdoad directly to a quaternity of the four classical elements, situating the term within alchemical as well as Gnostic numerological discourse.
, Collected Works Volume 3: The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease, 1907supporting
In invisible and nameless heights there was a perfect Aeon pre-existent. His name is Fore-Beginning, Fore-Father, and Abyss. No thing can comprehend him.
Jonas supplies the Valentinian emanationist framework — Abyss, Ennoia, the chain of Aeons — that forms the cosmological matrix within which the Ogdoad as an eight-fold pleromaic structure is intelligible.
, The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity, 1958supporting
From the circle and quaternity motif is derived the symbol of the geometrically formed crystal and the wonder-working stone … The former motif emphasizes the ego's containment in the greater dimension of the self.
Jung's elaboration of quaternity symbolism as a basis for the self's geometric expression provides the conceptual groundwork within which the Ogdoad, as doubled quaternity, acquires its psychological valence.
, Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, 1951aside