The Doppelgänger or ‹double› cannot be taken into the palace square of the deity. It must be dissolved – or, the same thing, it must reconnect with the human being.
For it is a split-off piece of our being that we must reintegrate before we return to the Creator. That the doppelgänger can detach itself, that it can become a being of its own, became possible because we denied the weaknesses of our character before others and before ourselves. Reunification with this split-off part of our being can begin when we recognize and acknowledge the doppelgänger as the shadow side of ourselves.
From Johannes W. Schneider, Der Doppelgänger. Dornach 2000, p. 45.
Graphic Sofia Lismont Translation Christian von Arnim
