Carl Jung: The “Dechristianlzation” of our world
aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.9 Part 2)
The dechristianlzation of our world, the Luciferian development of science and technology, and the frightful material and moral destruction left behind by the second World War have been compared more than once with the eschatological events foretold in the New Testament. These, as we know, are concerned with the coming of the Antichrist:
“This is Antichrist, who denieth the Father and the Son.” 1 John 2:22
“Every spirit that dissolveth Jesus . . . is Antichrist … of whom you have heard that he cometh.” 1 John 4:4
The Apocalypse is full of expectations of terrible things that will take place at the end of time, before the marriage of the Lamb. This shows plainly that the “anima Christiana” has a sure knowledge not only of the existence of an adversary but also of his future usurpation of power.
Why my reader will ask do I discourse here upon Christ and his adversary, the Antichrist? Our discourse necessarily brings us to Christ, because he is the still living myth of our culture.
He is our culture hero, who, regardless of his historical existence, embodies the myth of the divine Primordial Man, the mystic Adam.
It is he who occupies the center of the Christian mandala, who is the Lord of the Tetramorph, i.e., the four symbols of the evangelists, which are like the four columns of his throne. He is in us and we in him.
His kingdom is the pearl of great price, the treasure buried in the field, the grain of mustard seed which will become a great tree, and the heavenly.
These few, familiar references should be sufficient to make the psychological position of the Christ symbol quite clear. Christ exemplifies the archetype of the self. ~Carl Jung, Aion, Christ, A Symbol of the Self, Pages 36-37.
Footnote 2: I John 4:3 (DV). The traditional view of the Church is based on II Thessalonians 2: which speaks of the apostasy, of the (man of lawlessness) and the (son of perdition) who herald the coming of the Lord.
This “lawless one” will set himself up in the place of God, but will finally be slain by the Lord Jesus “with the breath of his mouth.” He will work wonders (according to the working of Satan).
Above all, he will reveal himself by his lying and deceitfulness. Daniel 11: is regarded as a prototype.
Image: Antichrist and the Devil. From the Deeds of the Antichrist, fresco by Luca Signorelli, c. 1501
Carl Jung on Inner World – Anthology
Just as you become a part of the manifold essence of the world through your bodies, so you become a part of the manifold essence of the inner world through your soul. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 264.
I earnestly confronted my devil and behaved with him as with a real person.
This I learned in the Mysterium: to take seriously every unknown wanderer who personally inhabits the inner world, since they are real because they are effectual. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 260.
Man is a gateway, through which you pass from the outer world of Gods, daimons, and souls into the inner world, out of the greater into the smaller world. Small and inane is man, already he is behind you, and once again you find yourselves in endless space, in the smaller or inner infinity. ~Carl Jung; The Red Book; Page 354.
The world of the inner is as infinite as the world of the outer. Just as you become a part of the manifold essence of the world through your bodies, so you become a part of the manifold essence of the inner world through your soul. This inner world is truly infinite, in no way poorer than the outer one. Man lives in two worlds. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 264.
A religious life presupposes a conscious connection of the inner and outer worlds and it requires a constant, meticulous attention to all circumstances to the best of our knowledge and our conscience. We must watch what the gods ordain for us in the outer world, but as well as waiting for developments in the outer world we must listen to the inner world; both worlds are expressions of God. ~Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 36.
When the woman experiences the mystery of creativeness in herself, in her own inner world, she is doing the right thing and then no longer demands it from the outside — from her husband, her son, or anyone else close to her. . ~Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 29.
Man is not a machine in the sense that he can consistently maintain the same output of work. He can meet the demands of outer necessity in an ideal way only if he is also adapted to his own inner world, that is, if he is in harmony with himself. Conversely, he can only adapt to his inner world and achieve harmony with himself when he is adapted to the environmental conditions. ~Carl Jung; “On Psychic Energy,” CW 8; par. 75.
This is old age, and a limitation. Yet there is so much that fills me: plants, animals, clouds, day and night, and the eternal in man. The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things. In fact it seems to me as if that alienation which so long separated me from the w0rld has become transferred into my own inner w0rld, and has revealed to me an unexpected unfamiliarity with myself. ~Carl Jung; Memories, Dreams and Reflections; Page 359.
I should like to stress the fact that intense withdrawal from outer reality brings about an animation of the inner w0rld which calls forth these phenomena. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture IX,15Dec1933, Page 39.
Conversely, he can only adapt to his inner world and achieve harmony with himself when he is adapted to the environmental conditions. ~Carl Jung, “On Psychic Energy,” par. 75.
We must watch what the gods ordain for us in the outer w0rld, but as well as waiting for developments in the outer world we must listen to the inner world; both w0rlds are expressions of God. ~Carl Jung, Jung-Ostrowski, Page 39.
In the second half of life one should begin to get acquainted with the inner w0rld. That is a general problem. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 402.
The religious interest, which ought normally to be the greatest and most decisive factor, turned away from the 1nner w0rld, and great figures of dogma dwindled to strange and incomprehensible vestiges, a prey to every sort of criticism. ~Carl Jung, CW 5, Para 113.
My family and my profession remained the base to which I could always return, assuring me that I was an actually existing, ordinary person. ~Carl Jung, MDR, Page 189
