He [the God] appears at first in hostile form, as an assailant with whom the hero has to wrestle.
He [the God] appears at first in hostile form, as an assailant with whom the hero has to wrestle.
This is in keeping with the violence of all unconscious dynamism.
In this manner the god manifests himself and in this form he must be overcome.
The struggle has its parallel in Jacob’s wrestling with the angel at the ford Jabbok.
The onslaught of instinct then becomes an experience of divinity, provided that man does not succumb to it and follow it blindly, but defends his humanity against the animal nature of the divine power.
It is “a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God,” and “whoso is near unto me, is near unto the fire, and whoso is far from me, is far from the kingdom”; for “the Lord is a consuming fire,” the Messiah is: ~Carl Jung, “Symbols of Transformation,” Page 337, Para 524.
“the Lion of the tribe of Judah”:
Judah is a lion’s whelp;
from the prey, my son, thou art gone up.
He stooped down, he couched as a lion,
and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? ~Hebrews 10 : 31
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