![]() Since ‘the soul is by nature Christian’ this result is bound to come as infallibly as it did in the life of Jesus: we all have to be ‘crucified with Christ,’ i.e., suspended in a moral suffering equivalent to veritable crucifixion. The reality of evil and its incompatibility with good cleave the opposites asunder and lead inexorably to the crucifixion and suspension of everything that lives. Inside reign the archaic gods, supreme as of old. Yes, everything is to be found outside-in image and in word, in Church and Bible-but never inside. His soul is out of key with his external beliefs in his soul the Christian has not kept pace with external developments. Ĭhristian civilization has proved hollow to a terrifying degree: it is all veneer, but the inner man has remained untouched, and therefore unchanged. But perhaps it is just this that is so unendurable, that there are irrational things in our own psyche which upset the conscious mind in its illusory certainties by confronting it with the riddle of its existence. ![]() It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so full of riddles as it is that a few more things we cannot answer would make no difference. The union of opposites on a higher level of consciousness is not a rational thing, nor is it a matter of will it is a process of psychic development that expresses itself in symbols. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making darkness conscious. It is the quintessence of the individual and at the same time the collective. For the unconscious that is conceived in our minds does not belong to me and is not peculiar to me, but is everywhere. The self which includes me includes many others also. It is the visualization of the “creative point.” ~Carl Jung, CW 13, ![]() This light dwells in the “square inch” or in the “face”, that is between the eyes. Western consciousness is by no means the only kind of consciousness there is it is historically conditioned and geographically limited, and representative of only one part of mankind. “Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower” ~Carl Jung, CW 13, § 2. The East teaches us another, broader, more profound, and higher understanding-understanding through life.
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