"The patriarchal tradition in the Christian religion has cut out this female element too much. Everything must be clarified. That has its advantages, it has pulled us out of a certain swamp but it also has destroyed a certain Eros attitude, the reconciling attitude, which is why the Assumption of the Virgin Mary creates a new healing symbol, a symbol which may point to a possible way out of the present situation."

- ~Marie-Louise Von Franz, Dreams and Visions of Niklaus of Flue, Page 20