Black is DIVINELY Beautiful: The Big Black Mare and The Little White Foal.

I am referring here to what is perhaps the most 'primal' of all 'literal metaphors'.  Of course, there are a number of other such metaphors; however, this one stands out in a most unique and distinctive manner, when  revealed to ones conscious mind.

I use the word 'revealed' advisedly here, as whenever this particular THEME - reveals itself through the 'literal metaphor'; (or, as Carl Jung would say, this particular 'archetype') - through a particularly striking image, (the 'literal representation'), or so-called 'archetypal image,' one experiences a sense of profound meaningfulness.

An otherwise perfunctory, or unexceptional perception of a particular object suddenly strikes one as being profoundly meaningful.

Jung referred to this phenomenon as 'numenosity.'  An uncanny sense of rightness accompanies the revelatory experience.

Anyone who has actually read Carl Jung's original works will know of his 'dictum' - that we are only ever conscious of the   'archetypal image'  - that is,  the  'archetype as such', as revealed through a specific image. The archetype as such, (according to Jung), is a purely 'formal entity'; and presumably remains forever in the unconscious mind - as a structural component of some kind.

This question has not as yet been addressed with sufficient dilligence; that is, the question as to whether one can know directly the 'form' of the  archetype - in itself; (or, 'as such') - beyond it's image representation.  I am still undecided on this theoretical point.

Here, I wish to describe only one such  particularly striking image representation.

The actual content of the conscious representation can be variegated; however, whatever the precise nature of the revelatory material, one common theme stands out: the primal contrast between  'light' and 'darkness' - represented literally by a point of pure 'white light' at the centre of an infinite expanse of absolute 'blackness.'

This essential theme can and does find expression in a multitude of ways.  The key element being the relationship between 'literal blackness' and 'literal whiteness.'

For example, the relationship between Consciousness, represented by  'Pure White Light';  and Unconsciousness, represented by 'Blackness' - meaning, in this context, the Total  Absence of  ALL Light.