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An Encyclopaedia of Archetypal Symbolism is the first publication of a representative sample from the vast collection of images associated with, and functioning in, the service of rituals of the many sacred traditions from all over the world. They have been assembled by ARAS - The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism - ever since 1933. The collection is indeed vast and now comprises 13,000 examples. Duplicates of these are housed in the C. G. Jung Institutes in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
This collection began with a number of original illustrations that were assembled by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn who, in fact, founded the annual meetings of the Eranos Society at her estate on Lake Maggiore in Switzerland. Each annual meeting had a principal theme, and the papers relating to each theme were presented by specialists in the fields of science, philosophy, theology, psychology, the study of mythology and the history of the religions. Jung attended all these annual meetings until his death. Frau Froebe regularly and assiduously collected and presented those images that illustrated the topic of each year's meeting.
In 1946 she gave her collection to the Warburg Institute in London. Photographic duplicates were given to the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich and to the Bollingen Foundation in New York. Eventually the Librarian of the Analytical Psychology Club in New York, Jessie Fraser, began to edit them. She developed the archives and extended the range of their subject matter far beyond their original range and themes.
Among the scholars who participated in the Eranos meetings were such well-known names as Kerényi, Zimmer, Eliade, Neumann, Corbin, Quispel, Herbert Read, Scholem, and Joseph Campbell, to mention just a few.
The present superbly produced volume has been edited by Beverly Moon; and Joseph Henderson, who has been concerned and actively involved with the foundation and the organization of ARAS, has written a most instructive and thoughtful introducti