For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.
Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.
Envy does not allow humanity to sleep.
In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.