"The great work begins" was first written by psychoanalyst Carl G. Jung in 1918, and can be found in The Red BookLiber Novus page 211. This line appears, contained within the introduction, under the header The Way To the Self, in which Jung includes a dialogue between the unconscious self and the Soul:
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Self What induces you to keep me awake?
Soul Now is no time to sleep, but you should be awake and prepare important matters in nocturnal work. The great work begins.
Prior Walter I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Hannah Pitt Well, that's a stupid thing to do.
Prior Walter This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.
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