Jung on Christianity by Murray Stein

Author:Murray Stein [Stein, Murray]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781400843091
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012-10-15T05:00:00+00:00

1 Cf. my Aion, Ch. V.

2 The Apocryphal New Testament. The Acts of John were probably written during the first half of the 2nd cent.

3 Ibid., pp. 253f., modified.

4 [Or: I will be freed and I will free.—TRANS.]

5 Trans. based on James, pp. 253f., and that of Ralph Manheim from the German of Max Pulver, “Jesus’ Round Dance and Crucifixion according to the Acts of St. John,” in The Mysteries, pp. 179f.

6 See James, p. 33.

7 Another idea of the kind is that every human being is a ray of sunlight. This image occurs in the Spanish poet Jorge Guillén, Cantico: Fe de Vida, pp. 24–25 (“Más allá,” VI):

Where could I stray to, where?

This point is my centre…

With this earth and this ocean

To rise to the infinite:

One ray more of the sun.

(Trans. by J. M. Cohen.)

8 Cf. Aion, Ch. IV.

9 The universality of this figure may explain why its epiphanies take so many different forms. For instance, it is related in the Acts of John (James, p. 251) that Drusiana saw the Lord once “in the likeness of John” and another time “in that of a youth.” The disciple James saw him as a child, but John as an adult. John saw him first as “a small man and uncomely,” and then again as one reaching to heaven (p. 251). Sometimes his body felt “material and solid,” but sometimes “the substance was immaterial and as if it existed not at all” (p. 252).

10 “The Spirit Mercurius,” pt. 2, ch. 9.

11 “Haec meditarc” () in I Tim. 4:15 has more the meaning of ‘see to’ or ‘attend to’ these things. [Both DV and AV have “meditate on these things,” but RSV has “practise these duties.”—TRANS.]

12 Lipsius and Bonnet, eds., Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha, I, p. 197.

13 James, p. 335.

14 James, p. 335.

15 Ibid., p. 254.

16 ’ uncertain.

17 Based on James, pp. 254ff., and the author’s modified version of Hennecke, ed., Neutestamentliche Apokryphen, pp. 186ff.

18 Cf. Aion.

19 The quaternity, earlier hinted at in the vision of Ezekiel, is patently manifest in the pre-Christian Book of Enoch. (Cf. “Answer to Job,” below, pars. 662ff.) In the Apocalypse of Sophonias [Zephaniah], Christ appears surrounded by a garland of doves (Stern, “Die koptische Apokalypse des Sophonias,” p. 124). Cf. also the mosaic of St. Felix at Nola, showing a cross surrounded by doves. There is another in San Clemente, Rome (Wickhoff, “Das Apsismosaik in der Basilica des H. Felix zu Nola,” pp. 158ff.; and Rossi, Musaici Cristiani delle Chiese di Roma anteriori al secolo XV, pl. XXIX).

20 Symbolized by the formless multitude.

21 Cf. “speaking with tongues” and glossolalia.

22 Based on James, pp. 334f.

23 Ibid., p. 255.

24 Genesis 3:5.

25 The possibility of inflation was brought very close indeed by Christ’s words: “Ye are gods” (John 10:34).

26 Cf. Pauli, “The Influence of Archetypal Ideas on Kepler’s Scientific Theories.”

27 Cf. the remarkable account of developing consciousness in an ancient Egyptian text, translated, with commentary, by Jacobsohn, entitled “Das Gespräch eines Lebensmüden mit seinem Ba.”

28 [Cf. Psychological Types, Def. 18, and Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, par.

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