There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact. Remark: I would not deny the efficacy of prayer when I and God work together, but that involves not just myself and God but also people with whom I live, my family and… 

Edward F. Edinger: Hence the Christian myth has little place in the psychology of the young. One of the essential features of the Christian myth and the teaching of Jesus is the attitude taken toward weakness and suffering. A real transvaluation of ordinary values is brought about. Strength, power, fullness and success, the usual conscious… 

Blood spilled requires more blood to pay the debt. The books must be balanced. Thus, understood psychologically, blood represents the life of the soul, of transpersonal origin, exceedingly precious and potent. It is to be reverenced as divine and any effort of the ego to manipulate, appropriate or destroy it for personal purposes provokes vengeance… 

Theology without alchemy is like a noble body without its right hand. But to guard against the hybris of the human will, the second quotation must immediately follow: “Our Art, its theory as well as its practice, is altogether a gift of God; Who gives it when and to whom He elects: it is not… 

The basic problem for the adult is how to achieve the union with nature and the gods When one looks back on his psychological origin, it has a twofold connotation: first, it is seen as a condition of paradise, wholeness, a state of being at one with nature and the gods, and infinitely desirable; but…