The Shadow

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

“The Philosophical Tree” (1945).  In CW 13: Alchemical Studies. P.335
C. G. Jung
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When the darkness comes to light, only then have we recognized it, and only then can we correct it.  This is the state of the collective unconscious becoming conscious in the world.  Our presumed enlightenment did not take a turn to darkness, it upheaved it.
- Cat