Carl Jung on the Bible – Anthology.
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My personal religious convictions are not shaken in the slightest by the fearful contradictions in the Biblical texts. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 87.
The words of the Bible and the sayings of Christ are paradox. We too must be paradox, for only then do we live our lives, only then do we reach completeness and integration of our personalities. ~Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 40.
Some examples of editorial slips made by the Church in the Bible:
“Ye will be as gods!”
“When thou art alone then I am with thee.”
“If thou would ‘st pray enter into thy chamber …”
The parable of the unjust steward. ~Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 45.
One finds, besides, a lot of things about this in the Bible itself: there are more things in the Bible than the theologians can admit. ~Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, Pages 410-423
We must read the Bible or we shall not understand psychology. Our psychology, whole lives, our language and imagery are built upon the Bible. ~Carl Jung, The Visions Seminar Vol. 1; Page 156.
If, aside from your work, you read a good book, as one reads the Bible, it can become a bridge for you leading inwards, along which good things may flow to you such as you perhaps cannot now imagine. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Page 434.
The words of the Bible and the sayings of Christ are paradox. We too must be paradox, for only then do we live our lives, only then do we reach completeness and integration of our personalities. ~Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 40.
The Bible says, “Whosoever shall say “Racha” to his brother is guilty of hellfire.” If we substitute “shadow” for “brother” and implicate the dark brother within, we open out this biblical word into new perspectives. ~Carl Jung, Jung-Ostrowski, Page 25.
The Bible and the Church.
From Conversations with C. G. Jung
The Church and the Bible:
If the Nazis had invaded Switzerland during the Second World War, I would have become a Catholic out of protest because the Catholic Church would then have represented the only spiritual power.
That is, of course, if I had not been shot first.
The existence of the Church has its own validity.
Anyone who drops out of the Church loses its maternal protection and is a prey to national confessionalisms.
It takes an enormous inner strength to live through severance from the Catholic Church.
It is a tremendous responsibility to endeavor to entice someone else away from the Church.
Many now stand outside.
For those who are engaged in a vital conflict, a one-sided commitment is always presumptuous.
They are reproached by others for not being humble enough to take from the Church.
This is not so: they separated themselves from the Church out of reverence for the Spirit that bloweth where it listeth.
When Christ is most luminous the Church receives the least light.
The light of the Church is therefore greatest when the moon is in opposition to the sun.
Some examples of editorial slips made by the Church in the Bible: “Ye will be as gods!”
“When thou art alone then I am with thee.”
“If thou would ‘st pray enter into thy chamber ..” The parable of the unjust steward.
Many patients must grasp that there is much that lives in their psyche that is not consonant with the Church: it is the Spirit that continues to beget and bloweth where it listeth.
One need not always be in opposition to the Church.
The Church is valid up to the point where life goes on.
There are often elements in the psyche that are absolutely heathen.
They have to be domesticated in some way in Christianity, but there are still certain heathen elements that even the Church has not been able to absorb. ~Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, The Church and the Bible, Page 45.
We must read the Bible or we shall not understand psychology.
We must read the Bible or we shall not understand psychology.
Our psychology, whole lives, our language and imagery are built upon the Bible. ~Carl Jung, The Visions Seminar Vol. 1; Page 156.
The psychological situation from which we started is tantamount to “Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here” (Luke 24 : 5f.).
But where shall we find the risen Christ?
I do not expect any believing Christian to pursue these thoughts of mine any further, for they will probably seem to him absurd. I am not, however, addressing myself to the happy possessors of faith, but to those many people for whom the light has gone out, the mystery has faded, and God is dead.
For most of them there is no going back, and one does not know either whether going back is always the better way.
To gain an understanding of religious matters, probably all that is left us today is the psychological approach.
That is why I take these thought forms that have become historically fixed, try to melt them down again and pour them into molds of immediate experience.
It is certainly a difficult undertaking to discover connecting links between dogma and immediate experience of psychological archetypes, but a study of the natural symbols of the unconscious gives us the necessary raw material. ~Carl Jung; Psychology and Religion, Page 89. Paras 147-148.
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