THE APOCALYPSE

ARCHETYPE

A Lecture Series
by Edward Edinge

CONTENTS

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List of Illustrations . 5

List of Abbreviations . 8

Introduction . 10

P A R T O N E (side one)
In t roduction . 11
(course texts and references; manifestations and ways of understanding archetype)

P A R T O N E (side two)
In t roduction con tinued . 17
(other apocalyptic literature; authorship; apocalypse as compensation; enlargement of
personality/consciousness vs. possession by archetype)

PART TWO (side one)

Cha p t er s 1, 2, & 3 . 20
(John's vision of seven lamps; son of man; letters to seven churches)

P A R T T W O (side two)
Cha p t er s 1,2, & 3 con tinued . 32
(seven gifts offered: the tree of life; crown; manna/white stone; iron scepter; white
robes/book of life; pillar; throne)

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P A R T T H R E E (side one)
Cha p t er s 4 & 5 . 38
(Christ knocking/as thief in the night/key holder; kingship; heavenly court; sea of glass)

P A R T T H R E E (side two)
Cha p t er s 4 & 5 con tinued . 45
(lamb/ram; seven eyes of God/judgment; sacrifice; question regarding inferior function)

P A R T F O U R (side one)
Cha p t er s 6 & 7 . 48
(number seven; the breaking of the seals:1st-4th linked to color symbolism; 5th & 6th, to
vengeance/revenge)

P A R T F O U R (side two)
Cha p t er s 6 & 7 con tinued . 62
(imagery of catastrophic destruction; mark/seal; robes washed white in the blood of the
lamb)

P A R T F I V E (side one)
Cha p t er s 8, 9, & 10 . 67
(incense/censor/fire; 1st four trumpets blowing divides earth into thirds; 5th opens abyss)

P A R T F I V E (side two)
Cha p t er s 8, 9, & 10 con tinued . 77
(King David and the abyss; locust/plagues; eating scroll)

P A R T S I X (side one)
Cha p t er s 1 1, 12, & 13 . 83
(measuring rod; pregnant sun-moon woman; red dragon; divine man-child; war in
heaven; casting out of Satan/angels; beast emerging from sea and ground)

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P A R T S I X (side two)
Cha p t er s 1 1, 12, & 13 continued . 95
(Answer to Job; Leviathan and Behemoth; number 666/6/hexagon; question regarding
Jesus)

P A R T S E V E N (side one)
Cha p t er s 14, 15, & 16 . 100
(fear of God; purchasing/redeeming first fruits; torturing fire; harvesting; giants; golden
bowls/cup carrying plague/infection)

P A R T S E V E N (side two)
Cha p t er s 14, 15, & 16 continued . 112
(AIDS; frogs; question regarding corporate soul and group psychology)

P A R T E I G H T (side one)
Cha p t er s 1 7 & 18 . 119
(harlot/Venus; golden cup of filth/Babylon; peacock flesh and lion's blood; the city)

P A R T E I G H T (side two)
Cha p t er s 17 & 18 con tinued . 128
(nation-state; case history of David Ceresh; dream of white ash)

P A R T N I N E (side one)
Cha p t er s 19 & 20 . 133
(last judgment of the dead; separation of righteous/blessed from unjust/condemned;
Platonic version; nakedness; Egyptian version; scale)

P A R T N I N E (side two)
Cha p t er s 19 & 20 con tinued . 150
(justice/balance; split/conflict of opposites; side note: Jung's letter to Bishop)

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P A R T T E N (side one)
Cha p t er s 21 & 22 . 154
(New Jerusalem as holy city; bride; wedding feast/eating; apocatastisis; modern
apocalyptic age)

P A R T T E N (side two)
Cha p t er s 21 & 22 con tinued . 168
(world as unity through consciousness or destruction; opposites of God create divine
conflict/apocalyptic ordeal in man; first incarnation in Christ, second in humanity; New
God image as paradoxical union of opposites)

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 List of Illustrations .

Vision of Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos . 9

Saint John on Patmos . 21

Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos . 22

Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos . 23

Subject from Revelations . 26

The Angel Standing in the Sun . 27

The Revelation of Saint John . 30

The Opening of the Third Seal . 52

Death on a Pale Horse . 53

Death on a Pale Horse . 54

Death on a Pale Horse . 55

The Opening of the Sixth Seal . 61

And the Moon Became as Blood . 63

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The Second Trumpet: The Shipwreck . 73

The Fifth Trumpet . 76

The Fifth Angel Sounding the Trumpet . 79

The Woman Who is Going to Give Birth & . 85

the Great Dragon Wanting to Devour the Infant

The Great Red Dragon & the Woman Clothed . 86

with the Sun

Anti-Christ on Globe . 89

Seven-Headed Serpent from the Book of . 92

Revelation

The Great Red Dragon & the Beast from . 93

the Sea

The Number of the Beast is 666 . 94

The Brave Little Tailor . 108

The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly . 109

Stupid Tales

Dragons Vomiting Frogs . 114

The Woman on the Beast: Angel Shows St. John . 120

Vision of the Great Harlot

The Last Judgment . 135

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The Last Judgment . 136

The Last Judgment . 139

The Last Judgment . 141

The Damned . 146

Hell . 147

Vision of a Great Gulf on Planet Hell . 151

Heavenly Jerusalem . 155

John Sees the New Jerusalem . 156

The Calling of the Elect to Heaven . 164

The Four & Twenty Elders Casting Their Crowns . 174

before the Divine Throne

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List of Abbreviations .

ll = parallel idea, example or concept

[ ] = comments or material introduced by the editor

REF. = references to other authors or literature

CW = the Collected Works of C.G. Jung (other Jung titles are often abbreviated for
example, Memories for Memories, Dreams, and Reflections or Mysterium for Mysterium
Coniunctionis)

par. = paragraph

underlining of book names

italicizing occurs for all biblical chapters and verses and in Latin or Greek root words

biblical texts are in a different font and teal blue

CAPITALIZING occurs for:

TAPE NUMBER (in red)

reference information like LEGENDS or REF. to other works

KEY CONCEPTS (in blue)

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JACOBELLO ALBEREGNO – Vision of Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, d.1397 – Galleria dell”
Accademia, Venice

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Introduction .

“Whoever knows God has an effect on him.”

C.G. Jung – Answer to Job

In 1994 Dr. Edward Edinger, then a Jungian analyst of the Los Angeles C.G. Jung Institute,
gave a ten-part lecture on the Book of Revelation, which he called the Apocalypse Archetype.
This lecture series grew out of a need to understand increasing amount of apocryphal material
in both the society and individual. While such works as Dreaming the End of the World by
Michael Ortiz Hill classified apocalyptic dreams, Edinger’s seminal work focused on
understanding the meaning of specific apocalyptic images and the influence of this archetype
on our current time.

Edinger’s material is wonderful and dense. This CD attempts to further distill his work in
several ways: first, by placing the lectures into a two-column format with, predominantly,
the biblical and concrete references in the left column and symbolic interpretations (made by
Edinger or Jung) in the right. Additionally, the content is broken down point by point (often
breaking apart lengthy quotes) in order to outline the structure of the material piece-meal.
Biblical material is written in a different color (and for paraphrased or quoted material, in a
different font) than the main body of the text. Actual quotations (checked against the original
written sources) are italicized so that the user can visually note whether material is being
paraphrased or directly quoted from the source. Key points are highlighted in blue.
Additional editor’s information (such as definitions or, for example, related poetry) is
highlighted in green.

This CD is intended to be a guide and companion to the lectures themselves and also
serve as a reference tool. The ability of the computer to sift through and access material
through word searches allows one to research a given topic or image quickly and easily.
Discrepancies between this CD and the book, Archetype of the Apocalypse (also
compiled from these lectures) are due to changes in the ordering of the material for the
book form. Since this CD is not being published, various illustrations (mostly from
Revelations: Art of the Apocalypse) have been included. Finally, to say that this project
has been a labor of love (which it has), would be to go beyond the Christian use of the
term.

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 The Apocalypse Archetype .

PART ONE (side one)

Introduction to the Book Of Revelation

TEXT - Jerusalem Bible (or New Jerusalem references spontaneously amplify the
Bible) which gives in its footnotes all the Old otherwise dense/ unintelligble text
Testament references

REF. Dreaming the End of the World -

collection of apocalyptic dreams interpreted
from a quaisi-Budddist perspective

definition of key terms:

ARCHETYPE =

1) a typical primordial psychic pattern or an encounter with an archetype has two

order of images that because of its collective aspects - as a pattern, it is experienced as
or generalized quality is seen as deriving an object of knowledge and
from the collective/ transpersonal/ objective understanding
rather than personal psyche

2) a dynamic agency, a living psychic as a dynamic living agency it is

organism experienced as a subject, an entity like
ourselves with intentionality and some
semblance of consciousness

REF. Jung in Answer to Job par. 557 - when an archetype is activated it takes
discusses the dual nature of ARCHETYPES on an autonomy that directs psychic
as object and subject with spontaneity and phenomenon within its vicinity
purpose-- a kind of free will

apokalypsise = Greek word for “revelation” -

refers to the uncovering of what has been
hidden

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kalypto = (v.) to cover or hide

apo = (prep.) away, from

therefore to take the cover away from what

has been secret or covered thus revealing
something that has been previously invisible

in general usage, APOCALYPSE refers to

the coming of the deity to assert soverenty,
judge, reward and punish humanity

there is both Jewish and Christian

APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE - the
apocalypse of John being the most famous

the MAIN CHARACTERISTIC of this

literature is that it is a description of dreams,
visions, or journeys to heaven in which the
seer is shown other worldly secrets and a
world history that culminates in the end of
the age and last judgment with the coming of
a messiah or divine king who imposes
punishment and brings about a new order

FOUR CHIEF FEATURES to the image of REVIEW - an archetype is an primordial

the apocalypse: psychic pattern of the collective
unconscious that is, at the same time, a
dynamic agency with intentionality
1) REVELATION which is self-generative-- manifesting and
living itself out in the individual and
2) JUDGMENT collective psyche

3) DESTRUCTION or punishment
an archetype is composed of a network
4) RENEWAL in a new world of interrelated images that comprise a
complex system
constellated powerfully at the beginning of of symbols
the Christian aeon and again now at the
beginning of a new aeon

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 FIGURE 1.1

THE APOCALYPSE ARCHETYPE

EVIL ---------------- THE BEAST THE LAMB --------- GOOD

\ \ / /
ETERNAL DEATH \ / ETERNAL LIFE
\ \ / /
LAKE OF FIRE/HELL SEPARATION OF THE PARADISE
\ OPPOSITES /
WRATH | GRACE
\ | /
PUNISHMENT | REWARD
\ | /
\__________FINAL JUDGMENT __________/
|
ANNOINTED ONE |
MESSIAH |
\ |
CLOUDS \ THRONE |
\ \ / |
\ \ / |
\ \ / |
HEAVENLY COMING OF |
BODIES FALL THE KING |
TO EARTH | |
| | |
TRANSLATION REVELATION APOCALYPSE DESTRUCTION COSMIC
BTWN. UNCOVERING | THE CATASTROPHE
REALMS | “TRIBULATION” |
| \ | |
EARTHLY INFERNAL --- THE | PLAGUE
BODIES BODIES ABYSS | EARTHQUAKE
RISE TO RISE TO OPENS | WAR
HEAVEN HEAVEN | FAMINE
| |
THE RAPTURE |
UNION OF OPOSITES
/ | \
MANDALA WHOLENESS HIEROSGAMOS

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Q. what does the apocalypse archetype A. represents the coming of the Self into
mean PSYCHOLOGICALLY? conscious realization - a momentous event
that is experienced differently by the
individual psyche vs. the collective but is
in both instances world shattering--
shattering the world as it has been and
redoing it

this archetype is taking place here and

now in the last half century-- evidenced in
daily analytic practice and contemporary
world history, manifesting in international
relations, in the break-down of the social
structures of Western civilization, and in
the psyche of individuals

anticipated encounters with

extraterrestrial life is an aspect of the
same archetype

COLLECTIVE MANIFESTATIONS of the

archetype (e.g. religious groups who are
explicitly identified with the archetype) form
a spectrum:

1)at one extreme, are APOCALYPTIC CULTS

of a semi- suicidal nature - often large family
groupings centered around a charismatic
quasi-criminal or quasi-psychotic leader

EX. Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David

Koresh

2) SURVIVALIST CULTS heavily armed and

waiting for Armageddon

3) APOCALYPTIC SECTS with about a million the difference between a cult, a sect (with
members 500,000. to a million members), and a
denomination (ten million members) is
EX. Jehovah’s Witnesses and one of member numbers
Seventh Day Adventists

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4) CONVENTIONAL FUNDAMENTALISTS also - the larger the group, the more it gets
relatively more moderate, with apocalyptic ironed out (some of the fire gets stamped
convictions out of it)

5) SECULAR ENVIRONMENTALISTS
apparently rationalistic, whose passionate
intensity reveals that they are functioning
out of the archetype e.g. whose behavior
indicates that there is a religious dimension
to their libido

INDIVIDUAL MANIFESTATIONS of the represent part of the phenomenology of

apocalypse archetype that arise in the the individuation process e.g. the
analytic process emergence of the Self into conscious
realization

the four aspects of the archetype mentioned

earlier also apply to the individual:

1) REVELATION has the psychological correlate of a

shattering new insight with the
accompanying flow of transpersonal
images into consciousness

2) JUDGMENT experienced as an abrupt and profound

awareness of the shadow which can be
overpowering and threaten complete
demoralization

3) DESTRUCTION or punishment manifested by anxiety in the individual

4) THE COMING of a new world corresponds to mandala and quaternity

images which represent a conscious
relationship to the Self and its wholeness

as the final book of the bible, Revelation

represents an AMALGAMATION of
Jewish and Christian apocalyptic imagery

only semi-Christian, for example, making

repeated references to the Old Testament
prophesy of the Great Day of Yahweh

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as the culmination of the Hebrew-Christian describes symbolically the concluding
canon, it lays out the final scenario of the events of the Judeo-Christian myth, a
end of the Christian aeon myth that has served as the metaphysical
container of Western civilization

biblical scholars attempt to come to

intellectual terms with the myth in which
they are still contained

FOUR MAIN WAYS OF which may correspond to temperamental

UNDERSTANDING: or typological variations

1) PRETERIST viewpoint (Latin root praeter

meaning beyond or past) - sees Revelation
not as prophetic but as putting in symbolic
form events in the Roman empire that had
just recently taken place

2) HISTORICAL viewpoint - interprets

Revelation as a symbolic representation of
the entire course of church history leading up
to the final consummation

3) FUTURIST viewpoint - sees Revelation as

referring to events around the return of
Christ coming some time in the future

4) IDEALISTIC OR SYMBOLIC viewpoint -

sees Revelation as referring symbolically to
the conflict of good and evil in any time or
age - and so is not specifically or literally
historical

5) PSYCHOLOGICALLY the text is a

manifestation of the Apocalypse archetype -
which expresses itself in different contexts
that overlap and interpenetrate each other

Another way of saying this is that different

strands of CONTEXTUAL REFERENCE
run throughout the book:

1) description of PAST concrete events in the

sacred history of Israel

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EX. Babylonian exile

2) reference to PRESENT (~100 A.D.)

concrete events - corresponds to the
preterist position

EX. reference to the destruction of Israel by

the Roman empire as well as the eventual
destruction of the Roman empire

3) description of FUTURE concrete events -

in other words, events occurring in our time

4) reference to events that occur OUTSIDE OF e.g. events that take place in the eternal,
TIME - the eschatological or pleromatic pleromatic realm of the psyche, the
strand collective unconscious

5) the psychological strand involves an

expression symbolically of the PSYCHIC
EVENT of the coming of the Self into
conscious realization

PART ONE (side two)

Revelation is BASED ON a personal assimilates Jewish apocalyptic literature

visionary experience but is also influenced to the Christian world view and even
by prior apocalyptic literature - as seen in incorporates Greek mythology
parallels to Ezekiel’s vision and direct quotes
from the Book of Daniel

Jung in Mysterium par. 521 says:

Any renewal not deeply rooted in the best

spiritual tradition is ephemeral.

ll in the analytic process, which to achieve

its full depth and effectiveness relates the
personal to the archetypal/historical
dimension e.g. is assimilative

the AUTHOR OF Revelation is uncertain whether or not concretely/historically

but is considered to be John the Evangelist, true, this tradition is taken as a psychic
the author of John I and II fact that posits the consensus e.g. is a
statement of the collective psyche

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Jung in Answer to Job par. 698 states that e.g. a counter position to compensate the
John's emphasis on GOD AS LIGHT and one-sidedness of consciousness - his
perfect love with “no darkness at all" would visions opened up his eyes to the
create a Revelation immensity of the collective unconscious

Revelation is a symbolic representation of

an encounter with the activated collective
unconscious out of which comes a
manifestation of the Self symbolized by
the New Jerusalem seen in the final
chapter

apocalypse has come to mean a

CATASTROPHE which is appropriate to:

1) collective manifestations of the archetype

because they are, by definition, unconscious

2) the stubbornly rationalistic secular ego because the ego cannot bend, it breaks
that refuses to grant the existence of a
psychic authority greater then itself

but for the individual, the apocalypse can be presents an opportunity for the
experienced as an upheaval but with enlargement of the personality and
POSITIVE CONSEQUENCES emerging relation to the transpersonal
level of the psyche

EX. DREAMS of nuclear bombs, the end of do not presage psychic catastrophe,
the world, or invasions from outer space rather, refer to manifestations of the Self,
the nucleus of the psyche, coming into
visibility

Jung in Mysterium par. 209 comments on an saying that the image shows us that,
earthquake in an alchemical text
the widening of consciousness is at first
upheaval and darkness, then a
broadening out of the man to the whole
man

CW Vol. 9i par. 217 – Jung in "Concerning

Rebirth" says that at the summit of life:

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…the greater figure, which one always was we don't have to be overcome or
but which remained invisible, appears to the possessed by the image of the apocalypse
lesser personality with the force of a if we understand it
revelation. He who is truly and hopelessly
little will always drag the revelation of the
greater down to the level of his littleness, and particularly important as our world sinks
will never understand that the day of more and more into possession by this
judgment [the apocalypse] for his littleness archetype
has dawned… But the man who is inwardly
great will know that the long expected friend
of his soul, the immortal one, has now really EX. modern DREAMS of the
come, 'to lead captivity captive' ... to make apocalypse are becoming increasingly
his life flow into that greater life-- a moment common
of deadliest peril.

REF. Michael Ortiz Hill, Dreaming the End one feature of the apocalypse archetype
of the World p. 81 involves an ERUPTION from below and
the ABYSS opening up

EX. DREAM of the ground erupting like a

large boil or volcano first in central park and [in Archetype of the Apocalypse
then all over the world p. 92]

EX. a "fallen catholic" DREAM that a the dreamer's being a "fallen catholic"
Catholic priest is dying of AIDS - his nose relates to the falling apart of the
and mouth are rotted. Outside, a cathedral conventional traditional religious/
and the town are crumbling mythological container

[in Archetype of the Apocalypse

p. 129]

this dream is an example of the overlap of

the personal and collective dimension -
which can work in both directions with
either the archetypal imagery getting into
individual consciousness via a complex or
the collective zeitgeist encouraging the
personal experience

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PART TWO (side one)
Chapters 1-3

Ch. 1:9 - John is in PRISON and is told the opening and setting for what is to
come - namely the experience of the
by a loud voice behind him, like the numinosum
sound of a trumphet, saying, write
down in a book all that you see, and
send it to the seven churches….

n um i n o u s = supernatural, mysterious; filled with a

sense of the presence of divinity –
Webster’s

IMPRISONMENT both objectively and subjectively involves

severe restrictions and confinement on
ones libido e.g. one can be imprisoned
physically or psychologically by a very
narrow confining life attitude or one's
neurotic complexes

as a result, because the libido is not given

its normal/natural/spontaneous discharge,
it builds up and later erupts/explodes in
the revelation - psychologically, prison is
generally a precondition for explosion

John’s attention is drawn to a VOICE e.g. a voice that comes from the
unconscious - turning around is to pay
THAT COMES FROM BEHIND him - he
attention to the unconscious, what is
is then obliged to turn around and face it behind or inside of one

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HIERONYMUS BOSCH - Saint John on Patmos, c. 1504-1505 – Staatlichen Museen, Berlin-
Dahlemn

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HANS M EMLING – Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, from the Altarpiece of Saint John
the Baptist, 1474-79 – Memling Museum, Saint John’s Hospital, Bruges, Belgium

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HANS BURGKMAIR – Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, 1518 – Alte Pinakothek, Munich

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VISIONARY OR MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE is a one-way experience that involves
passive imagination - often generated
through deliberate, self-imposed
imprisonment as in conditions of fasting
and solitude – stores up libido that erupts
and gives the person a glimpse into the
vs. transpersonal psyche or collective
unconscious

ANALYSIS goes further than John’s vision in not

only listening to the unconscious but in
trying to promote a dialogue between it
and the ego through active imagination

INDIVIDUATION differs from mystical

experience by requiring:

1) active ego participation in the

dialogue and;

2) an assimilation of contents from

the unconscious

John turns around and sees SEVEN

GOLDEN LAMP STANDS

REF. Albrecht Durer's woodcut of John's

first vision

REF. Zechariah Ch. 4 - vision of lamp stand

with seven lights which he is told are the
SEVEN EYES of Yahweh that reigns
throughout the earth

REF. Yahweh's instructions for constructing

the tabernacle include a lamp stand with
SEVEN LAMPS on it e.g. the menorah which
is the earthly version of the heavenly/
Platonic ideal form that John now sees

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Jung in Answer to Job par. 579 n. 3
discusses that in the Book of Job, Satan
appears in Heaven after roaming the earth -
Jung notes that SATAN must be one of
YAHWEH'S EYES

NOTE: linked to the symbolism of the eye a watching of the ego

of God and a watching process

repeated use of the number SEVEN: seven Revelation describes a repeated assault of
lamp stands, seven stars-- linked to the the seven archetype discussed later
seven planetary spirits

John sees a figure called the SON OF MAN, Jung interprets this sequence as indicating
an image that emerges sequentially over time, that Yahweh was drawing closer to man
in: by presenting a messianic figure who
partook of his own divine nature but/and
575 B.C. the image first shows up in Ezekiel was labeled "the Son of Man"
who is called the “Son of Man”

165 B.C. seen in a direct quote from a vision psychologically indicates that the realized
of Daniel Self is the son of the ego

100 B.C. in the Book of Enoch which is, at ll in alchemy in which the philosopher's
present, noncanonical stone (the supreme goal of the opus) was
called the son of the alchemist e.g. has
both a divine and earthly begetting

ll Jung's phrase that “God needs man”

30 A.D. Christ identified himself with son of

man from the Book of Enoch

95 A.D. Book of Revelation

NOTE: also discussed by Jung in Answer to

Job

another feature of the vision/ numinosum image of Sol as the Self

was BRILLIANT LIGHT - everything was
white - the son of man has a face like the sun
shining with all its force

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FRANCIS DANBY – Subject from Revelations, 1829 – collection of Robert and Jane Rosenblum

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JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER – The Angel Standing in the Sun, 1846 – Tate Gallery,
London

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Q. how can an image represent the Self, the
totality, when it pictures only one side of a
pair of opposites - for example, the solar vs.
the dark, lunar attributes

A. involves two parts: 1) because Sol has many features of

wholeness (its being the first and the last,
its eternal nature, its cosmic
proportions), it can be considered a
genuine symbol of the Self

2) because the manifestation of the Self is

always local, it is modified by the nature
of the conditions of the experiencing ego
- in other words, the level of
development and/or one-sidedness of the
ego affects how the Self manifests

ll BRILLIANT LIGHT is a common feature

in mystical experiences/ visions

reasons for the disproportionate emphasis

on light:

1) in visions, brilliant light typically follows

and is compensatory to the ego's experience
of excessive darkness

e.g. the dark night of the soul

2) in the case of John, the emphasis on light

underlies his role as a harbinger of a new
aeon which was going to bring light to the
darkness of paganism

3) also, the Christian attitude as it evolved

was identified with the light and banished the
darkness as much as possible

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another feature of the son of man is the
SHARP SWORD coming out of his mouth

REF. Isaiah Ch. 49:2 - the servant of a text with which the author of
Revelations was familiar
Yahweh says: he made my mouth like

a sharpened sword….

in John's vision, two different motifs both mouth and sword have the same
(MOUTH AND SWORD) are welded into archetypal reference – logos - the sharp
a single image thing that comes out of the mouth being
"the word"

logos is also equated with God in the

John Ch. 1

REF. Matthew 10:34 - Christ is identified represents an image of separatio, of the

discriminating process of consciousness
with the sword: that separates the individual from a state
of containment within the collective or
participation mystique
Do not suppose that I have come to
bring peace to the earth, it is not
peace I have come to bring but a
sword, for I have come to set son
against father, daughter against
mother...

Christian aeon poised to initiate a vast at one stage (historically and

separatio process between spirit and matter psychologically) a decisive separation
from the unconscious is a developmental
requirement that precedes any authentic
coniunctio

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ALBRECHT DURER – The Revelation of Saint John, 1498

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ll DREAMS of swords, scissors, a kitchen
knife or blade

the seven stars in the hand of the son of man

represent the ANGELS of the SEVEN
CHURCHES

in fact, the stars, lamps, angels, and churches

are essentially the same thing manifested at
different levels

geographically, the seven churches form a

clockwise circular ring in Asia minor

John is suppose to write to the angels of the

church

interpreted by some biblical scholars to mean angels are personifications of a collective

the CORPORATE PERSONALITIES of the grouping, a collective or group soul
churches

[Edinger discusses the concept of the every functioning group has a collective
“corporate soul” and group psychology soul which can be symbolized by either
more fully on p. 116 of the disc] an angel or demon - both represent an
intangible psychic dynamism (either
positive or negative respectively)

because these particular angels are linked

to the apocalyptic Christ, the son of man,
they are associated with psychic depth

COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS has (which in descending order become more

different levels or LAYERS: and more primitive)

1) FAMILY/ancestral
2) NATIONAL
3) ETHNIC/tribal
4) ANIMAL
5) VEGETABLE
6) MINERAL/inorganic

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letters written to the angels of the church
start out critical and threatening and end with
a promise of an extraordinary gift
to those who are victorious

VICTORIOUS = to be true to the faith even psychologically, to be victorious is for the

in the face of persecution and to the point of ego to survive the onslaught of instinct
death e.g. of any affect of passionate intensity

ll in the practice of Christian martyrdom

REF. Jung CW Vol. 5 par. 524 – says that appears at first in hostile form, as an
God: 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
divine power.

ll poem “The Man Watching” from Selected ...Whoever was beaten by this Angel
Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke p. 105-107 (who often simply declined the fight)
went away proud and strengthened and
great from that harsh hand,
that kneaded him as if to change his
shape.
Winning does not tempt that man.
This is how he grows: by being defeated,
decisively,
by constantly greater beings.

PART TWO (side two)

SEVEN potential GIFTS offered to the

churches:

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1) to feed from the TREE OF LIFE from
which Adam and Eve were separated when
expelled from Paradise

REF. the commentator J.M. Ford notes that

according to Jewish thought, at the end of
time, Paradise and the Tree of Life will
reappear and the righteous will be allowed to
eat its fruit as a reward for having practiced
the doctrine of the law in this world

REF. Rabbi Mehuniah in a state of ecstasy

relates that of the four Rabbis who are said
to have entered the garden of Paradise:

1ST one died,

2ND one became insane,
3RD one apostatized,
4TH, survived

apostat i z e = to renounce a religious faith, to abandon a

previous loyalty

2) To Smirna, even if you have to die, the crown represents the solificatio e.g.
being anointed with sun-like qualities
keep faithful and I will give you the
CROWN of eternal life for your prize,
as a gift for the victorious

ll to the image of the golden circle (a halo of represents a deification of the recipient -
sunlight) surrounding the head identifies him with the sun and creates a
parallel with the Apocalyptic Christ

REF. to the image of the crown in the a highly ambiguous image that can either
DREAM series in Psychology and Alchemy be a content of psychosis or, in the case
and in the CW Vol. 5 of authentic individuation, represent the
kingly eternal quality of achieving a
connection with transpersonal
consciousness

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3) To Purgamun, to those who prove
victorious, I will give the hidden
MANNA and a white stone, a stone
with a new name written on it known
only to the man who receives it

ll in John Ch. 6 - in which Christ says: REF. to the nourishing aspect of the
contact with the Self which is linked to
the non-temporal or eternal dimension of
I am the bread of life, your fathers existence
ate the manna in the desert and they
are dead, but this is the bread that
comes down from heaven that man
may eat without dying, I am the
living bread and anyone who eats
this bread will live forever

REF. in The Jerusalem Bible, the MANNA

is described as hidden

REF. 2nd Macabe Ch. 2 describes that with

the destruction of the temple during
Babylonian conquest and exile, Yahweh
instructs Jeremiah to hide the arc of the
covenant and its contents in a cave in Mount
Horbe where, as it has never been found, it
still remains

Hebrews Ch. 9 one of contents of the arc is psychologically, contact with the Self or
transpersonal dimension leads to the
the manna left over from the Exodus e.g. the
unfolding of a rich network of meaning
hidden manna that the victorious will receive and imagery which makes one feel blessed

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the WHITE STONE white represents the albedo, a symbol of
the Self that is distorted by local factors
e.g. by the Christian split between spirit
and nature and subsequent identification
with the spirit

the albedo, although presented as the

ultimate stage, is appropriate to that
historical period

ll to the alchemical lapis or philosopher's

stone which achieved a state of redness after
having gone through a blackening and
whitening

4) To Phiatira, to those who prove

victorious I will give the authority
over the pagans/nations to rule them
with an IRON SCEPTRE and scatter
them like earthenware and I will
give them the morning star

literally or concretely, can refer to divine psychologically, refers to the subtle but
favor which provides military or political powerful psychic effectiveness possessed
power and victory by a highly conscious, individuated
person

REF. to Psalm 2 - Yahweh speaks to his a Messianic psalm e.g. one that refers to
the Messiah
anointed about the kings of the earth plotting
against Him:

With an IRON SCEPTRE you will

break them, shatter them like so
many pots.

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REF. Jung in The Undiscovered Self CW anyone who has insight into his own
Vol. 19 par. 583 says: actions, and has thus found access to the
unconscious, involuntarily exercises an
influence on his environment

(in contrast to persuasion or

preaching)

e.g. the efficacy of the Self becomes

operative in the human realm when the
individual has a connection to the Self

5) To Sartus, to those who prove

victorious, they will be dressed in
WHITE ROBES and I will not blot
their names out of the Book of Life
but will acknowledge them to my
father and the angels

REF. to Mysterium par. 671 the albedo, the white robe represents the purification of
first stage of the coniunctio, the unio the ego by spiritualization (the first stage
mandalus in the coniunctio) which was the ultimate
goal at the beginning of the Christian era
REF. Edinger’s Mysterium lectures p. 280 because humanity was wallowing in
nature and instinct

REF. Philipians 4:3 and Revelations 21:27

to not blot their names out of the BOOK OF
LIFE - God keeps a book listing all who are
entitled to or destined for eternal life

ll in DREAMS to references to a great book a transpersonal register that corresponds

to a permanent deposit in the archetypal
psyche of consciousness gained by an
individual who reaches a sufficient level of
ego consciousness in his lifetime

requires a degree of unique, individual

differentiation vs. being a mass, collective
person

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6) To Philidephia, those who prove
victorious, I will make into PILLARS
in the sanctuary of my God and they
will stay there forever; I will inscribe
on them the name of my God

ll Peter 1:2 in which Peter says that Christ

is the living STONE rejected by man but
chosen by God and precious to him;

set yourself close to him, so that you

too... may be living stones making a

spiritual house e.g. a temple

ll to the DREAM reported by Max Zeller in Jung, when he heard the dream
Dreams: The Vision of the Night about commented that the temple corresponds
people building gigantic pillars for a temple to a new religion that is being built by
of mass dimensions - the process was in its people around the world and which will
very beginning, but the foundation was take six hundred years before it is
already there completed

[in Archetype of the Apocalypse

p. 33]

7) To Laodesea, to those who prove e.g. I'll make you a King like me

victorious I will allow to share my

THRONE just as I was victorious
myself and took my place with my
father on his throne

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ll to the idea of crowning, coronation, and
enthronement

REF. in answer to Pilate's question of

whether Christ is a King, Christ answers,
Yes, but my kingdom is not of this
world

REF. to CW Vol. 17 par. 309 "The points to the meaning of psychological

Development of Personality" in which Jung kingship when achieved consciously
discusses Christ's resistance to the Devil's rather than through a literal state of
temptation (a promise of all the kingdoms of possessed identification with the power
the earth) – involves an assimilation of the motive
power motif that led to a transformation of
world-conquering Caesarism into spiritual
KINGSHIP

REF. Edinger The Christian Archetype p. 53

PART THREE (side one)

Chapters 4 & 5

LAST WEEK Ch. 3:20 - Christ says to one

of the churches, Look, I am standing at
the door KNOCKING, if one of you
hears me calling and opens the door,
I will come in to share his meal side
by side with him

ll the common DREAM theme of knocking indicates that the unconscious is

or trying more forcibly to make its way in clamoring for admission to consciousness
- it is important to follow the proper
internal procedure (to open the door and
show hospitality, even to a stranger) but
often, the dream ego instead behaves
according to outer rather than inner
circumstance

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Revelation 3:3 - the apocalyptic Christ says
to repent and wake up or he will come
to them like a thief

Luke 12:37 - be like servants waiting

for their master to return from the
wedding feast, ready to open the door
as soon as he comes and KNOCKS.
Blessed are those servants whom the
master finds awake when he comes.
In truth I tell you, he will… sit them
down at table and wait on them….

Luke 12:37 – “if the householder had

known at what time the burglar
would come, he would not have let
anyone break in …you too must
stand ready, because the Son of man
is coming at an hour you do not
expect.

Thessalonians Ch. 5 - the Day of the if one does not pay attention to the earlier
knocking, the response from the
Lord will come like a THIEF in the unconscious gets more impatient and
forces its way in violently, for example,
night. It is when people say How
creating literal accidents which forcibly
quiet and peaceful it is that sudden shift one's attention from external and
habitual concerns to another level
destruction falls on them, as
suddenly as labor pains come on a
pregnant woman; and there is no
escape.

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Revelation 3:7 - the apocalyptic Christ, the
holy and faithful one has the KEY of David,

And when he opens, nobody can close

and when he closes, nobody can open

REF. Isaiah Ch. 22:22 - God is addressing

Shedna, an inflated master he is about to
depose, during an apocalyptic moment when
Babylon is besieging Jerusalem

e.g. through this quotation, the grand indicates that the different LEVELS OF
eschatological reference in Revelation is THE PSYCHE, (the personal and
linked to a concrete specific historical event archetypal) are interwoven
noted in Isaiah

e sch ato l o gy = a branch of theology concerned with the

end of the world; in Christian doctrine,
this includes the second coming of Christ,
the resurrection of the dead, and the Last
Judgment – Webster’s

the level that one focuses on in, for

example, dream work, depends upon what
one is familiar with

the study of mythology and the various

manifestations of archetypal imagery
allow one to recognize archetypal material
in its natural habitat

the four kinds of KEYS represent different 1) the key of the palace of David - which
aspects of the key of David in Revelation 3:7 is a concrete, literal, historical key

REF. Revelation 1:18 - the apocalyptic 2) the keys of death and the underworld

Christ says I hold the key to death

and the underworld

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REF. Revelation 9:1 and 21 - an angel is 3) the key of the abyss
given the KEY to a shaft leading down to the
abyss

REF. Matthew 16 - Christ gives Peter the 4) the keys to the kingdom of heaven
key to the kingdom of Heaven and whatever
you bind/loose on earth will be bound/loosed
in Heaven

ll pope's seal has the keys of the kingdom

pictured on it

SYMBOLICALLY, the key is that living

efficacy which:

1) opens the unconscious (whether in

its heavenly or hellish form) or;

2) informs the way one relates to a

concrete situation

Revelation 3:10 - the apocalyptic Christ

says “because you have kept my
commandment to persevere endure
trials , I will KEEP YOU SAFE in the
time of trial which is coming for the
whole world

REF. Fundamentalists scholars use this psychologically, refers to the capacity to

passage to refer to the RAPTURE which bear/endure great hardship and distress if
states that the believing Christians will be one understands the circumstances of the
spared tribulation by being removed from event to be meaningful e.g. to be part of a
earth to heaven larger, purposeful pattern that has a goal
outside of the immediate, concrete events

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John 14 - in my father s house there
are many rooms - I go to prepare a
place for you

First Eshelonians Ch. 4 - the Lord will over 50-60% of population in the United
States believe in the literal interpretation
descend from Heaven upon His throne and
of the bible
the people will be "CAUGHT UP" and meet
the Lord in the air

image of God as a great KING sitting on his psychologically, the image of the king
throne represents the Self

REF. Psalm 47:2 - God as king of the whole

world

ll terms to king are "Messiah," "Christ" and

"anointed one"

Christ claims kingship, although not of this

world, with Pilate

the earthly king is God's divine

representative on earth - leads to the concept
of the divine rights of kings

REF. to John Perry's The Lord of the Four

Quarters which discusses the origin and
evolution of sacred kingship in early
societies from which human government
evolves

the king as the ultimate "authority" psychologically, the conscious realization

of the Self (as the ultimate inner
authority) serves as a counter pole that
stands over and against the world

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 a basic question in the course of
progressive self under-standing is, by
what authority does one live one's life, by
whom or what are you commanded

e.g. by Godly or worldly concerns, by the

Self or ego

the vision of the HEAVENLY COURT forms a mandala

with the circle of the twenty-four elders,
four animals, seven lights serves as a
prototype of the earthly tabernacle in the
temple

surrounded by a SEA OF GLASS or crystal

which lls the great basin of water outside of
the tabernacle called the "brown sea" which
is used for ritual washings

ll in Gnostics in the Apocryphon of John in e.g. god is contemplating his own image in
the water before his throne
Nag Hammadi Library - a sea of light water
surrounds the monad/ God - this is the
linked to the symbolism of GLASS
spring of the water of life - He gazes upon
his image which he sees in the spring of the
spirit, He puts his desire in His light water

REF. to glass in Edinger's Mysterium

lectures p. 164

HISTORICALLY - Egyptians discovered

and were highly proficient in working with
glass about the 16th century B.C.

only mention of glass in the Old Testament the lack of references to glass may be due
is in Job which says that gold and glass (or to the antipathy of the Israelites to
in some translations, crystal) cannot equal Egyptian products or the Greek
wisdom e.g. although not equal to wisdom, rationality, represented by glass
gold and glass are of a high value

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hyalos - the Greek word for GLASS has an
Egyptian origin

QUALITIES OF glass include:

1) transparent / can see through

2) permanent indestructible quality - glass

can be broken but not destroyed

ll vitreous body linked in alchemy to the

philosopher’s stone

vitreou s = of, relating to, derived from, or consisting

of glass – Webster’s

ll between the heavenly sea of glass before promote the ability to see ego's equivalent
the throne of Yahweh and the earthly uses of to the archetypal
glass (bottles, flasks, windows, eyeglasses,
mirrors, telescopes, microscopes, and
magnifying glass)

DREAMS of objects of glass or the refers to one's current rational

shattering of glass consciousness or containing world view -
a level of consciousness that may be
shattered in preparation for an
enlargement

EX. of a nuclear bomb DREAM in which

the dreamer, following the explosion,
explores and sees a lot of broken glass

EX. T.S. Eliot in "The Hollow Men" uses

the image of rat's feet over broken glass to
describe man's hollow condition

T.S. Eliot, The Complete Poems and Plays, We are the hollow men…
“The Hollow Men,” pp. 56-59 Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar…

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 The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms…

Between the desire

And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the shadow
For Thine in the Kingdom…

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Revelation 4:6-8 - mentions the FOUR many a simplification of Ezekiel’s vision, a

divine quaternity that is three quarters
eyed and six winged ANIMALS (a lion, bull,
theriomorphic - indicating the degree of
man, flying eagle) grouped around the throne humanization of the God image at that
time
who sing day and night

th er i omorph ic = having an animal form

PART THREE (side two)

image of the LAMB & RAM associated respectively

with innocence (the sacrificial state) and
fiery aggression

EX. Abraham was spared the sacrifice of

Isaac by finding a substitute ram caught in a
thicket

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EX. in the ZODIAC - Aries, the ram, is the
sign of the ending aeon - transition times, by
their very nature, are apocalyptic moments

the LAMB/RAM has seven horns and seven the lamb represents a consolidation into a
eyes - the latter corresponds to the seven single figure of the seven-fold nature of
spirits of Yahweh that roam about the earth the deity or Self

the horns correspond to the various

potencies of the deity

REF. Jung in Mysterium par. 4 says that indicates the transconscious character of
sub-human, theriomorphic symbolism is the pairs of opposites which constitute
often combined with images of kingship or the paradoxical Self or man's totality
the divine

Revelation 5:5 - the lion and the lamb (or the the opposites are prominent whenever we
encounter a manifestation of the Self
lamb and the ram) are antitheses which
represent the double nature of the Messiah
or apocalyptic king

REF. Jung in Aion par. 168 discusses the

double nature of the Messiah

the seven EYES, the eyes of God, are an represents the archetypal or psychic
important image in the final judgment experience of being looked at, stripped of
all disguises, and seen for exactly what
you are (not easy to endure)

accompanies the coming of the Self into

visibility by the ego

REF. Edinger, The Creation of

Consciousness beginning p. 35

ll all religions of the world have the notion of

a final judgment, often coming just after
death

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EX. DREAM in Dreaming the End of the nuclear explosion activates the
World, Michael Ortiz Hill: apocalypse archetype with its
accompanying imagery, imagery that is
three weeks after experiencing the nuclear not linked to the concrete event
bombing of Hiroshima, a Japanese doctor
dreams he is in Tokyo after the great
earthquake and around him are piles of
decomposing bodies looking at him

an EYE sitting in the palm of a girl's hand

leaps into the sky and flies toward him--
staring - he awakens short of breath and
heart pounding

ll DREAM that describes a fire-ball that is

"fixed yet moving, staring at me like an eye"

the elders sing that because the lamb was power and glory is attained through
SACRIFICED (its blood bought men for sacrificial blood
God), it is worthy to take the scroll from the
right hand of the throned deity

e.g. the sacrificed lamb is worthy to be given

power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor,
glory, and blessing

REF. Jung in the CW Vol. 11 beginning par. psychologically a sacrifice or gift, the
381 - discusses "The PSYCHOLOGICAL giving up of something of value, always
MEANING OF Sacrifice" carries with it a claim of which we are
either conscious or not

if you are conscious of your claim then

you can sacrifice it because it is your
possession, if you are not conscious then
the thing cannot be sacrificed because it is
not owned

the ego's self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of

one's own selfish claim, is caused or
compelled by the Self which in the
process is also sacrificed-- since we have
only what we give, through sacrifice, the
Self is gained

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 e.g. the Self incarnates or enters into
manifestation, frees itself from
unconscious projection and enters into
our lives, passing from unconsciousness
into consciousness, from potentiality into
actuality

the MARTYR COMPLEX is a perversion or psychopathological

form of sacrifice - often a woman presents
herself as the suffering one with the claim
being both tyrannical and totally
unconscious

the power motive can be against the

environment/others or against one's own
developmental urge which leads to an
arresting of one's development and a
refusal to confront ongoing life

Q. can the facing of one's INFERIOR A. the presence of the Apocalypse

FUNCTION, previously avoided through archetype can be discerned by its
projection, be an apocalyptic experience? accompanying images

A. the fourth function is characteristically

in such a primitive state that it brings up
and carries with it the power of the
primitive Self and thus is experienced as a
revelation

PART FOUR (side one)

Chapter 6 &7

SIX ITEMS:

1) symbolism of the number SEVEN

throughout the book of Revelation

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EX. SEVEN lamps, stars, angels, churches,
lamb with seven horns and seven eyes, scroll
with seven seals, the seventh seal leads to
seven trumpets

REF. Jung says that numbers are archetypes

- the ancients more aware of the qualitative
aspect or numinosity of numbers that has
been almost totally lost to the modern mind

REF. 1st century Jewish philosopher, Philo

in "The Creation of the World" discusses the
beauties and holiness of the number seven

REF. to the Pythagorean Theorem of the the fountainhead of every figure and
right angle triangle in geometry definite shape

seven neither begets nor is begotten e.g. it is

a prime number that has no factors

in reference to our text, what does it mean to

be assaulted by the number seven?

EX. seven days of creation

EX. seven days of the week come from the

seven planets in the Ptolemaic system

EX. seven stages of life noted by

Shakespeare (also Solon in ancient Greece)

EX. seven wonders of the world

EX. seven deadly sins

EX. seven gifts of the Holy Spirit

EX. the most important of the references for

understanding the number seven is the seven
planets of antiquity that form a planetary
ladder on which the soul ascends to reach the
eighth step, the eternal realm

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EX. DREAM in Psychology and Alchemy anxiety linked to the assault by the
in which “the father calls out anxiously, number seven and apocalypse imagery
‘That is the seventh!’"

EX. the seven basic metals of alchemy are the number seven refers to the process of
associated with the seven planets transformation or development that
occurs through a series of initiatory stages

EX. Proverbs Ch. 24 - says that a just man seven as a transformational image
falls seven times and rises up again

REF. Ego and Archetype discusses that is linked to the symbolism of these two
seven is the sum of three and four numbers

THREE refers to egohood, processes in time and

space which go through a threefold
vs. sequence like past/ present/ future or
beginning/ middle/ end

FOUR is the number of wholeness – is beyond

the categories of consciousness (space and
time) and therefore represents static
eternity

the numbers seven-eight parallel that of

three-four

SEVEN like three, represents a sequence of stages

in a life process
vs.

EIGHT like four, represents a totality

THREE refers to the process of a complete ego-

based operation that has the possibility of
vs. leading to an experience of the Self from
the standpoint of the ego

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SEVEN refers to a process of a Self-based
dynamic sequence leading to an experience
of the Self from the standpoint of the Self
- the process whereby the Self comes into
realization through its own terms

the number seven is representative of the e.g. the coming of the Self into conscious
basic theme of the Apocalypse realization which is characteristically
accompanied by a great deal of anxiety

Jung in Mysterium par. 8 - equates the

seven-fold “hidden magical Septenary”
which forms a mandala with the fountain in
the Rosarium pictures

Ch. 6 – the BREAKING OF THE SEALS

1) the lamb breaks the FIRST seal and

a rider with a bow on a white horse is
given the victor s crown

2) the SECOND seal is broken and a

rider with a huge sword on a bright
red horse is told to take away peace
from the world and set people killing
one another

3) the THIRD seal is broken and a rider (see image on next page, p. 52)

holding a pair of scales on a black

horse is told to ration corn and
barley

4) the FOURTH seal is broken and a (see images of death on a pale horse on
following three pages, pp. 53-55)
deathly pale horse emerges with a
rider called plague followed by Hades

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The Opening of the Third Seal, from Commentary on the Apocalypse, Bruges, Belgium 15th
century – Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

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JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER – Death on a Pale Horse, 1825-30 – Tate Gallery,
London

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BENJAMIN WEST - – Death on a Pale Horse, 1817 – Museum of American Art, Philadelphia

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WILLIAM BLAKE – Death on a Pale Horse, 1800 – Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England

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an assault by the septenary gives rise to an
assault by the QUATERNITY, represented
by the four horsemen

ll in Zechariah Ch. 6 - Zechariah's vision of

four chariots with the first chariot having red
horses; the second, black; the third, white;
and the fourth, piebald (e.g. spotted) -
identified as the four winds of heaven that
are going to patrol the world

three of the colors are straight forward and corresponds to the AXIOM OF MARIA
the fourth is ambiguous i.e. pale or spotted and the problem of the three plus one that
refers psychologically to the three
functions plus the fourth

ll alchemical color sequence of black/nigredo,

white/albedo, and red/rubedo (sometimes
with a fourth of the yellowing/gold)

the problem of the four parallels the nature

of the last three horsemen who are going to
wreck havoc on the world by dispensing
some sort of calamity (killing, famine, and
plague)
vs.

the first horse is white which is normally

associated with positive images including the
Apocalyptic Christ who later appears riding
a white horse

three main opinions by biblical thus the ambiguity and disagreement of

commentators re: the meaning of this FIRST the three plus one issue is demonstrated
RIDER on the white horse who is seen within a historical context
respectively as:

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1) ll to the figure of Christ in Revelation 19

2) an imitation of Christ e.g. the anti-Christ

3) an avenging angel like the others

representing war or domination

4) ALSO Quispel’s preterist viewpoint

(referring to recent historical events that have
just happened) that all of the horsemen refer
to the Parthians waiting on the border to
attack the Roman empire

Revelation Ch. 6:9 - the breaking of the

FIFTH SEAL reveals the souls of all the
people killed for bearing witness to
the word of God who shout for
vengeance and were given white robes
and told to be patient until the role
was complete and their fellow
brothers had been killed just as they
had

the image of the ROLE pre-existent pattern that is already

present which God is obliged to follow

ll passage in Jewish apocalypse 4th Esra or

Esdras - the chambered souls (the dead who
await salvation) -asked how long they have
to wait, God answers till the measure
appointed be fulfilled

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Jung in Answer to Job says that in order for …nothing can happen without a pre-
Yahweh to incarnate, He has to find what existing pattern
pattern He would use

indicates to what an extent Jung saw the

archetypes to be determinants

this passage raises the question of the motive

of REVENGE/ VENGEANCE

EX. Homer on the first page of the Iliad the Archetype of the Apocalypse gives
raises the question of whether the divine this reference as Virgil’s Aeneid
mind can entertain such vengeance as was
being expressed against the heroes in the
story

EX. Yahweh as a vengeful God

EX. psychology of revenge is rampant today

with terrorist organizations

EX. Deuteronomy 32 - Yahweh says:

I shall return VENGEANCE to my

foes... I shall make my arrows drunk
with blood, and my sword will feed on
flesh....

EX. Jeremiah 46 - describes the Day of

Yahweh, a day of vengeance when…
the sword will devour until gorged,
until drunk with their blood…

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EX. Naiam Ch. 1 – “Yahweh is a jealous Revelation is largely Jewish with a
superficial Christian overlay
and vengeful God … he is rich in
wrath… he stores up fury for his
enemies. Yahweh is slow to anger but
great in power… never lets evil go
unpunished. In storm and whirlwind
he takes his way... His fury-- who can
withstand it? Who can endure his
burning wrath? His anger pours out
like fire and the rocks break apart
before him.

Jung in Answer to Job says,

that the FIRST ADVENT of Christ is meant to

transform Yahweh

the SECOND ADVENT, in Revelation, brings

back the untransformed God image

Jung in Answer to Job par. 708 discusses 1) related to the PERSONAL psychology
TWO LEVELS OF MEANING behind the of John or more generally, an outburst of
cosmic catastrophe of Revelations in general long pent-up negative feelings… [that] can
and the wrath of the ram following the frequently be observed in people who
breaking of the sixth seal in particular strive for perfection

Jung in Answer to Job par. 730 cautions I have seen many compensating dreams of
against a purely personalistic interpretation, believing Christians who deceive
saying: themselves about their real psychic
constitution and imagined that they were
in a different condition from what they
were in reality. But I have seen nothing
that even remotely resembles the brutal
impact with which the opposites collide in
John's visions…

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 2) that the purpose is NOT to show John
his PERSONAL shadow so much as to
open his eyes to the immensity of God, for
he who loves God will know God…
because John loved God [and his fellow
human beings] this “gnosis,” this
knowledge of God, struck him

ll between John and Job

there is an implicit CONTRAST between the conscious assimilation of Christianity

the LOVING GOD of Christianity on the one constructs a veneered layer onto the
hand individual psyche in which the primordial
Yahwehistic libido has undergone a certain
amount of transformation through
vs. education and experience

vs.

the UNTRANSFORMED GOD image seen in however below this veneer, the primordial
the Book of Revelation on the other psyche exists as described in the Book of
Revelation

VENGEANCE/REVENGE prominent dynamism in the operation of

the unconscious that derives from the
untransformed Self

a grave problem to humanity, not to be

glossed over by ineffectual preaching on
Christian humility

Jung says in CW13 par. 335: doesn't banish but mediates through a
consciousness that knows what its true
One does not become enlightened by nature is
imagining figures of light, but by making the
darkness conscious….

Book of Revelation and its accompanying are facts of the objective psyche, that
dark and violent imagery everyone who goes deeply enough within
himself will discover because it is a part
of the collective psyche - a foundation in
which we are all grounded

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The Opening of the Sixth Seal, from Trinity Apocalypse, Anglo-Norman, c. 1255-60 – Trinity
College Library, Cambridge, England

Revelation 6:12 - In my vision when

he broke the SIXTH SEAL, there was a
violent earthquake and the sun
went... black... the moon turned red as
blood all over, and the stars of the sky
fell on the earth like figs dropping
from a fig tree when a high wind
shakes it; the sky disappeared... then
all the earthly rulers… the whole
population... took to the mountains to
hide in caves...

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… they said to the mountains and
the rocks, Fall on us and hide us
away from... the anger of the Lamb.
For the day of his anger has come,
and who can survive it?

image of STARS FALLING from heaven this is an image of the upper or spiritual aspect
down to earth of the collective unconscious erupting into
consciousness

represent archetypal entities that enter ego

consciousness - an invasion of consciousness by
the collective unconscious

one of the features of the coming of the Self

ll DREAM recorded in Edinger's The

Creation of Consciousness p. 28 - in which
in the beginning of the dream the dreamer is
standing in the Palisades overlooking New
York City which has been destroyed and is
in a rubble - in the twilight there are fireballs
in the sky heading for earth

PART FOUR (side two)

Revelation 6:12 - with its corresponds to the phenomenology of psychosis

when the collective unconscious bursts wide
CATASTROPHIC IMAGES of stars falling,
open and inundates the ego with transpersonal
earthquakes, the sun turning black and the images that the ego can't handle
moon, a blood red

invasion happens from two directions both kinds of images arise when the unconscious
simultaneously – from above and below starts to open up

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HOWARD FINSTER – And the Moon Became as Blood, 1976 – National Museum of Art,
Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.

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Revelation 7:1-8 - four angels, standing at the
four corners of the earth, holding the four
winds of the world back are told to wait to
devastate the world until a SEAL is put on
the foreheads of the servants of God

there are a total of144 thousand seals - archetype of twelve underscored

TWELVE thousand from each tribe

ll Ezekiel 9 - Jerusalem is about to be sealing for purpose of protection against

divine vengeance
attacked by divine vengeance - six men
advance from the upper North gate each
holding a deadly weapon - among them is a
man dressed in linen with a scribed zinc-horn
in his belt whom Yahweh tells to go
throughout Jerusalem and mark a
CROSS/TAW on the foreheads of all who
grieve and lament over all the loathsome
practices - he tells the six armed men to kill
and exterminate man, woman, and child
without pity/mercy who are not marked

J.M. Ford (annotator and commentator for

Anchor Bible) connects:

the SEAL or taw of salvation or preservation

with the judicial proceedings involving the
Urim and Thummin, the objects, probably
sacred lots, by which the priests gave an
oracular decision in the name of
Yahweh…set into the breast plate of the high
priest

originally were small stones [used] in judicial implies a developmental sequence in the
proceedings marked with the first and last alphabet that moves from guilt to
letters of the Hebrew alphabet innocence

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aleph (for guilty)

vs.

taw (for innocent/blameless)

ll aleph as the mark of the beast

worshippers

ll the mark/seal of Cain that protects him

from being killed

seal separates the elect from the multitude; separates those with different levels of
the esoteric and exoteric development

e so t er ic = intended for or understood by only an

initiated few

exot er ic = capable of being understood by most

people, not just an informed or select
minority

ll in DREAMS - in which a seal or mark is a e.g. of being called for the individuation
significant indication of vocation process

Chapter 7:13 - describes that people in ll to early Christian baptism, after which
WHITE ROBES: the neophyte was dressed in a white robe

1 - have been through the great persecution

2 - their robes washed white again in the REF. Edinger in Ego and Archetype
discusses the solutio symbolism of
blood of the lamb
baptism in blood

3 - now stand in front of God's throne and

serve him day and night in his sanctuary

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ll Genesis 49:10 – The scepter shall not Messianic text which refers to the coming
of the Messiah
pass from Judah until... he washes his
clothes… in the blood of grape.

ll Isaiah 63: - reference to one who comes text connected to the vengeance of the
coming Messiah
from Edom magnificently dressed in
CRIMSON GARMENTS, clothes red

like someone treading the wine press

the figure states that he has trod the wine

press of the people, trod them down in anger
trampled on them in wrath:

their blood squirted over my

garments and all my clothes are
stained. For I have decided on a day
of vengeance… .

washing ones robe white in the BLOOD OF

THE LAMB is ambiguous with two levels
of meaning:

1- on the surface it involves sharing the psychologically, suffering is redemptive

SACRIFICIAL DEATH OF CHRIST by enduring when it is experienced consciously as a
martyrdom for his name part of the archetypal drama of the
transformation of the Godhead

thereby experiencing a baptism in the blood all suffering that is conscious of that
generated by the archetypal drama that their context is redemptive because it is a
martyrdom lives out participation in the self-sacrifice of the
god image whereby the later is undergoing
transformation by virtue of the fact that
there is a conscious participation of an
ego that knows what is going on

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 e.g. that understands the archetypal
context/meaning of the suffering

ll in Pascal's remark that Christ's agony will

continue until the end of the world because it
is re-living itself all the time

ll Gnostic doctrine of Jesus patibilis (latin

for suffering Jesus)

EX. Answer to Job

Christ is continually undergoing his

sacrificial death in all of nature

2- at another level, washing ones robe white

in the blood of the lamb means to join in the
SLAUGHTER OF ONES ENEMIES

PART FIVE (side one)

Chapters 8, 9, & 10

Ch. 8 - seven trumpets are given to seven

angels who stand in the presence of God -
another angel who had a golden censor stood
at the alter and was given incense to offer
with the prayers of all the saints

IMAGES:

1 – INCENSE

2 - CENSORS (circular item on a chain that

the priest moves about to sense proceedings)
that dispense incense

3- the TEMPLE and its furnishings are

duplicated in heaven:

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IMAGES/ TEMPLE - continued

a square room: is the holy of holies

containing the arc of covenant with
the mercy seat

on the other side of the curtain is the

lamp, the table of SHOBREAD, and
an alter of incense

outside are the basin and sacrificial

alter where the animals are sacrificed

Exodus 30 - instructions for the construction

of the ALTER of incense:
dimensions

covered with pure gold

burn incense in morning and night,

and perpetually for all generations to
come

incense made of sweet perfumed

spices regarded as holy and cannot
be used for personal use

Leviticus 10 –- 250 rebels against Moses and use of the incense and censor are
dangerous when unauthorized
his authority perish in the flame of Yahweh
through the unauthorized use of CENSORS symbolizes the use of transpersonal libido
by the ego

Revelations 8 - angel offered incense

with saints prayers, then filled the
censor with fire from the alter and
threw it down on the earth;
immediately there came peals of
thunder and flashes of lightening,
and the earth shook

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J.M. Ford, commentator on the Anchor 1– the THRONE/ALTER
Bible, notes four astonishing reversals: gives wrath

vs.

mercy and atonement

2- INCENSE as
an instrument of punishment

vs.

sweet savor to the Lord

3 – the hurling down of COALS/FIRE

vs.

the gentle rise of incense indicating prayer

4- TRUMPETS
played in this context

vs.

during worship

Ford also describes the daily SACRIFICE

OF INCENSE offered in the temple:

in the morning (after the lamb is immolated

but before it is placed on the alter of
holocaust)

i mm o l at e = to offer in sacrifice; to kill as a sacrificial

victim – Webster’s

repeated in evening (after the lamb is placed

on the alter but before the libation) three
priests:

1ST - placed burning coals from the alter of

holocaust onto the alter of incense

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(priest prostrated himself in adoration and
retired)

2ND - poured incense on coals, bowed and

departed, walking backwards

3RD - priest and people pray and chant

Psalm 150 while trumpets play

censor used to burn INCENSE = earthly

version of heavenly fire

accompanied by very rigid prescriptions on

how it may be used

Ecclesiastically, the incense SACRIFICE psychologically, we understand the

symbolizes the transpersonal power/ symbolism in terms of the individual -
authority assumed by church leaders over thus the injunctions surrounding the use
their flock of believers of the fire indicate how carefully
transpersonal libido must be handled

e.g. assume authority to interpret the nature

of god and how he should be worshipped such energy isn't immediately identifiable
but comes in surges of special facility -
creative inspiration, gifts, and capacities
ll that church is the sole access to the holy
spirit

REF. Revelations 8 - angel offered incense

with saints prayers, then filled the censor
with fire from the alter and threw it down on
the earth - immediately there came peals of
thunder and flashes of lightening and the
earth shook

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Q. what is a CENSOR doing in heaven?

A. on earth, the censor serves as a subtle

form of sacrifice in which incense is placed
on fire and fragrant smoke ascends to God

A. the heavenly incense alter, however,

works in the reverse direction - distributing
divine fire downward

ll Ezekiel 10 - man in linen takes burning

coals from below divine chariot and casts it
on the city below

the casting of fire on earth - FIRE FALLING

from heaven is a repeated image

EX. Elijah overcame false prophets of Baal

by calling down divine fire to consume his
vs. their sacrifice

EX. Christ announces that he has come to

bring fire to the earth

EX. Yahweh manifesting himself as fire in

the burning bush

transpersonal fire has a double aspect, comes frequently encounter in DREAMS

from TWO different DIRECTIONS:
fire means affect, when divine, it
heavenly and infernal fire - falls out of represents undifferentiated transpersonal
heaven libido that can have its origin in heaven or
hell (two manifestations of the same
but also rises up from the abyss phenomenon)

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EX. in DREAMS, an outstanding example
of transpersonal fire in mammoth
proportions is a nuclear explosion which,
because of its magnitude, is linked to
apocalyptic imagery

EX. smaller version of same phenomena is

found in imagery of LIGHTENING

EX. Jung in Vol. 9i "Study in the Process of represents blasting an individual psyche
Individuation" says: out of identification with the containing
matrix - the beginning of an individuation
Picture Number.2 is of lightening coming process initiated by the Self
down on a rocky landscape, blasting out a
sphere from the surrounding rocky hill-side

TRUMPETS blowing:

1ST - a third of the earth and all the assaulted with threes - divides things into
threes - and eliminates one third
trees, and every blade of grass was
burnt up

2ND – a third of the sea turned into symbolically, THREE is the number of
egohood -a differentiating process in
blood, a third of all the living things which the conflict manifested by the
opposites (number two) resolves and
in the sea were killed, and a third of
reconciles in a third position i.e. a
all ships were destroyed synthesis

3RD – a huge star fell… on a third of three is therefore the principle of

conscious experience - the way ego
all rivers and on the springs… and a consciousness organizes and understands
experience and behavior
third of all water turned to
wormwood

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The Second Trumpet: The Shipwreck, from The Apocalypse of Angers, designed by Jean Bondol;
woven by Nicolas de Bataille, c. 1373-81 – Musee des Tapisseries, Angers, France

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4TH - a third of the sun, moon, and number ONE represents the original state
of wholeness
stars were blasted
number TWO is the state of doubleness,
conflict, and opposition - thesis and
antithesis

in Revelation the earth is being divided into the earth is being assaulted with that
THIRDS phenomena and forced into a full
experience of and living out of what it
means to be conscious - a separation of
the opposites and endurance of the
conflict that that separation occasions in
order to seek resolution

EX. Edinger's DREAM that a special ritual e.g. the sacred food of the Self (the host)
must be performed in order to allow the that nourishes the ego must be grounded
consecrated host of the communion meal to during this moment of crisis
touch the ground. This is necessary because
in the midst of the communion ceremony, a
group of terrorists is going to burst in to the ordinarily it would be a disaster for the
church and massacre one-third of the host to be dropped - but in this case it
congregation… at this point, the officiating must be in touch with concrete, earthy,
priest must DROP… to the ground… and reality of the same nature as a football
protect the HOST with his body—the way a game to allow the sacred entity to survive
football player protects a fumbled football… the apocalyptic encounter
to protect the host from the possibility of
blood’s falling on it during the massacre.

ll at the same time, Leonard Bernstein

produced his Mass or “Theatre Piece” in
which the officiating priest drops the host

FOOTBALL represents a degraded sacred ritual of the

coniunctio discussed in Edinger’s The
Mystery of the Coniunctio - brings a level
of earthy reality to the experience of the
sacred that it doesn't have in the elevated
ritual

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implication of the BLOOD from massacre [destructive affect has a dissolving effect
falling ON THE HOST - is that the blood on the sacred value that is protected
would dissolve the host (cause a solutio) and against through the sacred being in contact
thus needs to be covered with palpable/physical reality]

Revelation 9 - the fifth angel blew his J.M. Ford says that the English word
“abyss” is used to render the Hebrew
trumpet, and I saw a star that had term tehom which has four meanings:
fallen from heaven onto the earth,
1 - the OCEAN which once spread over the
and the angel was given the key to earth but is not restricted to a
the shaft leading down to the ABYSS. subterranean abyss which is closed and
sealed and accessible only through a shaft
When he unlocked it … smoke rose…
like the smoke from a huge furnace so 2 - DEEP ABODE of Yahweh's enemy, the
that the sun and sky were darkened… sea dragon
and out of the smoke dropped locusts
3 - EARTH, A PIT which is a place of
which … were given the powers that intermediate punishment
scorpions have on the earth
4 - the TEMPORARY RESIDENCE of fallen
angels… a waterless, bird-less, fiery place
beyond the confines of earth and heaven,
where the angels are in utter darkness
and covered by rocks

OVERLAPPING TERMS as used illustrates how the psyche describes its

biblically: own depths

abyss = the deep

e.g. different aspects of the unconscious

Hades = the land of the dead

Gehenna = refers to the valley south of

Jerusalem where there use to be human
sacrifices burnt and later trash - therefore a
place of fiery punishment

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The Fifth Trumpet, from Lambertus, Liber Floridus, Flemish, c. 1448 – Musee Conde,
Chantilly, France

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PART FIVE (side two)

Gaer Legends of the Bible p. 221- when

building King David's home, the workers
accidentally removed the LID TO THE
ABYSS letting out all of the ocean waters -
David replaces the lid with a stone that has
the holy name written on it

But it was soon discovered that the earth demonstrates the need to put a lid on the
below had lost its moisture and even the unconscious, but not too much
rains were not enough to grow crops

e.g. the abyss had been sealed too far down

to insure that it didn't flood but created the
opposite trouble of drying up the earth

King David then composed fifteen PSALMS, the psalms are equated with active
and as each psalm was completed, the imagination - poetry, like the symbolic
Waters of the Deep rose one thousand ells attitude, can raise the level of the
unconscious and moisten the dry earth of
the parched ego

David offered thanks to God when the water [REF. Mysterium p. 160 par. 189-190 "If
was raised to a level that kept the grounds thou knowest how to moisten this dry
always moist enough for crops – but didn't earth with its own water, thou wilt loosen
allow the abyss to rise above or below this the pores of the earth...."]
point

the abyss is inhabited by DEMONS, e.g. autonomous unconscious complexes

FALLEN ANGELS, and transpersonal with archetypal cores that are deeply
powers of darkness enough rooted are demonic entities
deriving their energy from the
untransformed primordial psyche

EX. any significant personal analysis

shows at least minor demonic possessions
- in-depth self-knowledge is a protection
against demonic possession

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EX. when asked how he could live with the e.g. if the ego lives in hell, the demonic
knowledge of the nature of God that he complexes have been penetrated by
revealed in Answer to Job, Jung replied: consciousness and undergone resolution

I live in my deepest hell and from there I

can't fall any further.

[REF. Von Franz, C.G. Jung: His Myth in

Our Time p. 174 noted in the Archetype of
the Apocalypse]

next, as the abyss is opened, the SMOKE psychologically significant that the same
from the huge furnace erupts description is given to the opening of the
abyss as to the theophany on Sinai

ll Exodus 19:18 - the theophany on Mt. e.g. the abyss and Yahweh are the same
phenomenon viewed from different ego
Sinai standpoints

describes the manifestation of Yahweh on

Mount Sinai

th eophan y = a visible manifestation of a deity –

Webster’s

Revelation 9:7-10 - next, the LOCUST come represents the demonic powers
out of the smoke - like horses armed
for battle, with gold-like crowns, faces
that seemed human, hair like
women s , teeth like lion s, body armor
like iron - the noise of their wings
sounded like the great charge of
horses and chariots in battle, with
tails like scorpions

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borrows from Book of Joel 1 - invading
locust army involved in the day of Yahweh

J.M. Ford believes that this text is a PLAY

ON WORDS between:

hargol (Hebrew) = locust

harjal (Arabic) = troops

The Fifth Angel Sounding the Trumpet, from Commentary on the Apocalyspe, Bruges,
Belgium 3d quarter of 15th century – Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

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Book of Joel 1-2:9 -

listen to this you elders... tell your

this description of the DAY OF
children about it... and their children YAHWEH represents an invasion of pent
the next generation: what the nibbler up demonic forces activated with the act
of the apocalypse archetype - one of the
has left, the grown locust has eaten... ways in which invasion by the collective
unconscious can manifest itself
a nation has invaded my country...
with teeth like a lions teeth... reduced
my vines to a desolation and my fig this imagery applies to an INDIVIDUAL
trees to splinters, striped them and only where there is a vast disparity or
intense polarization between
broken them down leaving their consciousness and the accumulated
energies of the unconscious - there has to
branches white, the fields are ruined, be a dissociated state that builds up to get
the land is in mourning…. imagery of this sort

in the next chapter –

but for a CIVILIZATION that has become
psychologically secularized (i.e. has lost
in their van, a fire devours, in their all sense of connection to the
rear a flame consumes. The country transpersonal dimension of the psyche
and life) there is fertile ground for the
is like a garden of Eden ahead of eruption of this type of imagery
them and a desert waste behind them,
nothing escapes them…

the locust “hurl themselves at the city,

they leap onto the walls, swarm up
the houses, getting in through the
windows like thieves

J.M. Ford/Edinger - ll between the various

PLAGUES called down by the trumpet
blasts and the plagues of Egypt:

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1 – thunder, hail, and fire

2 - Nile turning to blood

3 - darkness over Egypt for three

days

4 – locust

5 - some other parallels are

reversed

imagery is coming FULL CIRCLE –

the OLD TESTAMENT PLAGUES that psychologically, the tyranny of the ego
Yahweh imposed on the Egyptians were the (represented by the Pharaoh) called forth
means by which the Israelites were freed the plagues from the unconscious
from bondage - thus the beginning of the
Israel nation

vs.

the APOCALYPTIC PLAGUES are now applied similarly the current overemphasis of the
to the Israelites themselves ego may call forth the plagues again

Chapter 10 – I heard a voice speak

from heaven say…

to take the open scroll out of the hand

of the angel who says to EAT it it
will turn your stomach sour but in
your mouth it will taste as sweet as
honey - then you are to prophesy
again, this time against many
different nation and countries and
languages and emperors

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 common image in DREAMS of being
the above episode derives from Ezekiel 2:8
given something to eat -means that it’s to
you son of man, are to listen to what be taken in and assimilated
I say to you; do not be a rebel... open
your mouth and eat what I am
about to give you - a hand stretches
out holding a scroll on which is
written lamentation, dirges, and
cries of grief - feed on this scroll,
then go to the house of Israel and tell
them what I said - I did and it
tasted sweet as honey

ll Deuteronomy 8:3 - he fed you with concerns the two-fold symbolism of the
mouth:
manna.. to make you understand
that man lives not on bread alone but
1 - RECEPTIVE ORGAN that takes in
on every word that comes from the edible/nourishing material and assimilates
it and turns it into ones own substance
MOUTH of Yahweh

ll Proverbs 9:5 - wisdom says come and 2 - also the EXPRESSIVE ORGAN that
emits the creative word
eat my bread, drink the wine which I
have drawn

ll Ecclesiasticus 15:2-3 - wisdom will give food and word are symbolically linked -
for example, the bible repeatedly
him the bread of understanding to characterizes the word of God as food
eat and the water of wisdom to drink

WORD OF GOD/Sophia is taken in through Q. of whether the material has been

the mouth as food to be digested assimilated/ingested or is simply
regurgitated like birds

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if a prophet, you are suppose to regurgitate need to look at this with prophets who
the word through preaching, to eat the scroll are giving expression to transpersonal
and then go out and preach what is in it truths

PART SIX (side one)

Chapters 11, 12, & 13 and Answer to Job
7:10-16

Chapter 11 - then I was given a long evidence that the ego must take an active
part in understanding and completing the
cane as a MEASURING ROD, and was purposes of the unconscious once
activated
told to measure God s sanctuary and
the alter and the people who worship
the ego must take part in the actualization
there but not the outer court which of the Self
has been handed over to the pagans

e.g. John is asked to become an active EX. Max Zeller's DREAM of a vast
participant in the divine drama temple being constructed and various
people working on it

prototype in Ezekiel 40 - Ezekiel measurement is a careful, rational, analytic

procedure - thus precise, quantitative
describes one of his visions in which measurement is applied to visionary
subject matter
the hand of Yahweh puts him down
on a high mountain Babylon where
he saw a man whose appearance was
like brass and who had a flax cord
and measuring rod in his hand -
told to look carefully and later tell
the house of Israel what he sees - the
man then proceeds to measure out the
dimensions of a TEMPLE

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REF. NIV Study Bible provides a drawing of
the temple

the dimensions are described so specifically

that it can literally be drawn even though the
temple at Jerusalem had already been
destroyed

Chapter 12 - now a great sign appeared as Jung notes in Answer to Job, this
passage, considered psychologically, is
in heaven, a WOMAN adorned with one of the most important in the Book of
the SUN standing on the MOON and Revelation
with the twelve stars on her head for
a crown…

she was pregnant, and in labor,

crying aloud in the pangs of
childbirth

the strained conventional interpretation is

that this SUN-MOON WOMAN represents the
community of God's people or the virgin
Mary

THE CHILD is considered to represent Christ

and his ascension

an interesting variation in the Jehovah’s

Witnesses theology says that the woman is
Jehovah's wife

then a second sign appeared in the

sky: there was a huge RED DRAGON
with seven heads and ten horns, and
each of the seven heads crowned with
a coronet…

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its tail dragged a third of the stars
from the sky and dropped them to the
earth and the dragon stopped in
front of the woman as she was having
her child so that he could eat it as
soon as it was born from its mother…

THE WOMAN WHO IS GOING TO GIVE BIRTH AND THE G REAT D RAGON WANTING TO
DEVOUR THE INFANT, from The Apocalypse of Angers, designed by Jean Bondol; woven by
Nicolas de Bataille, c. 1373-81 – Musee des Tapisseries, Angers, France

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WILLIAM BLAKE, The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, from Bible for
Thomas Butts, c. 1805 – National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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… the woman brought a male child the phrase regarding the son's ruling with
an iron sceptre, is the only biblical
into the world, THE SON who was to reference in this passage that is consistent
with the remaining fabric of illusions in
rule all the nations with an iron
Revelation
scepter, and the child was taken
straight up to God while the woman e.g. in comparison to the rest of
escaped into the desert where god had Revelation, this passage [re: the sun-moon
woman] is a foreign body
made a place of safety ready for her
to be looked after for 1260 days

Jung in Answer to Job par. 711 says - this psychologically, it represents the
vision is out of context - in comparison to heavenly hieros gamos whose fruit is the
the previous visions which were afterward divine man-child threatened with the fate
revised and embellished, this image is original of Apollo who was like-wise pursued by
a dragon

GREEK MYTH - from relations with Zeus, Apollo and Artemis represent the sun
Leto became pregnant with APOLLO AND and the moon which means that the
ARTEMIS - jealous, Hera had a Python Sol/Luna coniunctio existed in Leto on an
pursue Leto and forbid any rooted earth to unconscious basis before the births, when
allow her to give birth a separatio took place

eventually Leto gave birth on the floating in Revelation you see the reverse
island of Delos which at that moment phenomena - the woman is already
became rooted – later, Apollo slew Python, connected to the sun and moon (which are
his mother’s enemy separate entities) and gives birth to a
single child who is a union of the
opposites

Jung in Answer to Job par. 712 says: the son who is born of these heavenly
nuptials is perforce a complexio
opositorum, a uniting symbol, a totality of
life

in Revelation - the child is born and taken or

CAUGHT UP TO GOD and his throne

Jung in Answer to Job par. 713 – says, this means that the child- figure will
remain latent for an indefinite time and
that its activity is reserved for the future

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Edinger adds, this spontaneous coniunctio vision, in the
middle of the book, is the living heart of
Revelation

buried in the sound and fury of the

apocalypse is the supreme value found in
this image - a symbol of wholeness and
totality

Answer to Job par. 713 the imagery derives from a heathen/ pagan
source e.g. Greek mythology rather than
Christian tradition - indicates that it is an
authentic product of the unconscious

in the unconscious is everything that has

been rejected by consciousness, and the
more Christian one’s consciousness is,
the more heathenishly does the
unconscious behave if in the rejected
heathenism there are values which are
important for life - which can be thrown
out like the baby with the bath-water

Chapter 12:7-12 – and now WAR broke represents a decisive split in the
pleroma/unconscious between the two
out IN HEAVEN, when Michael with sides of the Godhead
his angels attacked the dragon and
his angels who were defeated and
driven out of heaven

the great dragon, the primeval the split between good and evil indicates
that Satan, the second son of Yahweh, has
serpent, known as SATAN who had been born
deceived all the world was hurled
down to the earth - then a voice
shouted salvation and power and
empire forever have been won by our
God

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WILLIAM A. BLAYNEY – Anti-Christ on Globe, 1961 – Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York

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… but for earth and sea trouble is
coming, for the devil has gone down
to you in a rage knowing that his
days are numbered

Other references to SATAN'S FALL include:

REF. Luke 10:18 - Christ announces Satan's

fall from heaven like lightening

REF. Genesis and Book of Enoch refer to

fallen angels especially in the time of Noah

REF. Milton's Paradise Lost, based on the same image of Satan being cast out of
legendary sources, had SATAN'S BEING heaven that appears in the Book of
CAST OUT of heaven as preceding both the Revelation is set by Milton at the very
fall of Adam and Eve and the serpent's beginning of ecclesiastical human history
temptation of Eve but does not fit canonical material

Milton - Paradise Lost as Rivkah Kluger demonstrated in The

Image of Satan in the Old Testament and
Book I: lines 33 - 49 as also seen in Book of Job, Satan wasn't
Who first seduc'd them to that cast out of heaven but came and went as
foul revolt? he wished throughout the Old Testament
Th' infernal Serpent; hee it was, times
whose guile
Stirr'd up with Envy and it is significant that, although canonically
Revenge, deceiv'd incorrect, this particular archetypal image
The Mother of Mankind; what first appears in Milton's time [around
time his Pride 1667]
Had cast him out from Heav'n,
with all his Host Jung in Aion says that Satan fell out of
Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid heaven about 1500 A.D. with the visible
aspiring advent of the Anti-Christ
To set himself in Glory above his
Peers, the image of the antichrist appears when
He trusted to have equall'd the the god-image falls out of metaphysical
most High projection and in lodging itself in the
If he oppos'd; and with ambitious aim vicinity of the ego, is reversed
Against the Throne and
Monarchy of God

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Rais'd impious War in Heav'n and Battle e.g. the polarity reverses because
proud whenever transpersonal energies are
With vain attempt. Him the touched by the ego they become
Almighty Power Luciferian, e.g. inflationary
Hurl'd headlong flaming from th'
Ethereal Sky (this shift was first seen by the creative
With hideous ruin and combustion down … minority within Western humanity, like
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell Milton)
In Adamantine Chains and penal
Fire,
Who durst defy th' Omnipotent
to Arms.

Revelation states that with the CASTING indicates that heaven, the collective
unconscious, is cleansing itself of its
OUT OF SATAN that the inhabitants troublesome character and fobbing it off
onto the earth, or ego
of heaven rejoice but woe to those of
the earth and sea for the devil has in the last 500 years of the Christian aeon
there has been a vast expansion of
come down unto you having great conscious human energies and initiatives
wrath because he knows that he has in all areas that have become increasingly
inflationary
but a short time

Blake's series of engravings on the Book of the latter (No. 16) is not mentioned in
Job follow the biblical account pretty and has nothing to do with the Book of
straight forwardly Job

No. 15 pictures Yahweh showing Job his however, Blake's unconscious with
underside, namely Behemoth and Leviathan uncanny perspicacity interjects that image
at the point at which Job makes the
No. 16 depicts Satan being cast out of discrimination between the two sides of
heaven into hell below the earth Yahweh's nature

Chapter 13:1 – “Then I saw a BEAST one aspect of the apocalypse archetype is
that with the opening up of the
emerge FROM THE SEA: it had seven unconscious and the coming of the Self in
all of its tumultuous phenomena, both the
heads and ten horns... like a leopard,
spiritual and animal transpersonal energies
with paws like a bear and a mouth come onto the scene
like a lion…

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Seven-Headed Serpent from the Book of Revelation, from Luther Bible, German 1st edition, c.1530
– Bible Society, London

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WILLIAM BLAKE, The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea, from Bible for Thomas
Butts, c. 1805 – National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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WILLIAM BLAKE, The Number of the Beast is 666, c. 1805 – Rosenbach Museum and Library,
Philadelphia

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13:11 – Then I saw a second beast these two beasts carry the major
psychological content of this particular
emerging FROM THE GROUND; it had section - Leviathan, the sea monster, and
Behemoth, the land monster
two horns like a lamb but made a
noise like a dragon - a servant to the
first beast

REF. Dreaming of the End of the World by

Michael Ortiz Hill which has a collection of
apocalyptic dreams provides an almost
precise MODERN PARALLEL:

EX. so much heat had been generated deep

down into the earth from the atomic
explosions that earthquakes forced long
dormant dinosaur eggs to the surface, where
they hatched

REF. the Book of Job – Ch. 40 – the firstimages of the primordial psyche, the
mention of LEVIATHAN and BEHEMOTH underside of Yahweh which Jung refers to
is when Yahweh shows Job what Job refers in Answer to Job as the abysmal world of
to as Yahweh’s “menagerie” shards

PART SIX (side two)

Jung’s ANSWER TO JOB provides us with the apocalypse is now going on in the
a meaningful understanding of Job’s ordeal, collective psyche – once you are aware of
the apocalyptic events pictured in the Book the symbolism you can look below the
of Revelation, and events of which we are surface and see what is happening
now in the midst psychologically at the level of the
collective psyche

the significance of Answer to Job can’t be

overestimated because it provides us with
an understanding of the meaning of both
an individual Job ordeal and those in the
collective psyche in which we are
participant-observers, as in the case of the
Jewish Holocaust

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REF. – Jung in Aion, par. 178 says,
According to the Syrian Apocalypse Baruch,
Leviathan shall rise from the sea with the
advent of the Messiah - and Behemoth shall
be revealed and both shall become food for
the survivors of the End

Edinger in The Bible and the Psyche p. 159 theme of sizable importance
recounts the Jewish legend that with the psychologically entailing the assimilation
coming of the Messiah, there will be a great of the primordial psyche
MESSIANIC BANQUET at which the flesh
of Behemoth and Leviathan will be eaten and
the “garden of Eden state” will be restored

Patai’s collection of the Messiah Texts

states that the Holy One will slaughter
Behemoth and Leviathan… and prepare a
great banquet for the pious. And he will seat
each… according to his honor... and He
brings all the fine things of the Garden of
Eden….

And the Holy One will expound to them the refreshingly different version which
meanings of a new Torah through the depicts reconciliation and the emergence
Messiah... and will give keys to Michael and of an authentic totality
Gabriel to open the gates of Gehenna and
bring the wicked up, wash and anoint them
with oil and heal them of the wounds of
Gehenna and clothe them in beautiful and
good garments and bring them before the
holy one

vs.

in John's version of the apocalypse, except understood as the necessary

for the mandala vision at the end, the main psychological process for that stage of
body is made up of violent separatio images development of the collective psyche

Chapter 13 - describes the beast who reference to the Roman Emperors of the
time, some of whom claimed personal
requires himself to be worshipped divinity

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branded with the name or number of the Jung states that the chapter, "The Enigma
BEAST (666) of Bologna," in Mysterium Coniunctionis
gathers to it numerous different
interpretations through the centuries and
is thus like psychic flypaper

the number of the Beast, 666, is also like

psychic flypaper that has generated
innumerable projections through the
centuries

the number 666 has been associated with: groups uniformly project their enemies
onto this number - since in antiquity,
Nero Caesar letters were used for numbers, by juggling
the name of an enemy (into Latin, Greek,
the "Gnostic Ogdoad" by certain or Hebrew) the number could be
Christian fathers eventually configured into 666

the Catholic church Italika during the

Protestant reformation in 16th symbolically the number six is known as
Century Europe (calling the pope the "marriage” number because it is the
Papeiskos) product of the two prime numbers, two
and three
Luther by the Catholic church

Muhammed by both Luther and the represents the “union” of a pair of triads,
Catholic church represented geometrically by two
triangles
more recently, Napoleon and Hitler

in alchemy, the upward pointing there is nothing obviously negative about

TRIANGLE is the sign for fire and the this image initially until you think about
lower, the sign for water and when they are the potential for conflict when you bring
superimposed or married, then you get the fire and water together
"Solomon’s seal," or six pointed star of
David

SIX image of the coniunctio under the aegis of

the number three which is the aegis of the
ego

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aegis= 1 : Class Myth. the shield or breastplate of
Zeus or Athena, bearing at its center the
head of the Gorgon 2: protection,
sponsorship - Webster's

SIX another way of looking at it that might

account for six as a negative number is to
look at the numbers one through eight as
forming TWO QUATERNITIES

in the FIRST SERIES leading to quaternity number two is the demonic number
because it generates the "other" which has
(1, 2, 3, 4) a sinister component as seen in such
terms as "duplicity," "double-cross" and
"doubt" which all cognate with twoness

in the SECOND SERIES of four number six occupies the same relative
position as number two
(5, 6, 7, 8)
[representing the "otherness" or
conflictual element of the second
quaternity which involves a second
movement toward wholeness that is now
under the auspices of the ego]

[in this relative position, the number six

plays an important part in forming] the
second triangle in conflict with the first
triangle

a little speculative, but a reflection

induced by trying to understand what
makes the number six so diabolical in the
Book of Revelation

HEXAGON Edinger in Ego and Archetype p.216 -

interprets a DREAM with a hexagon as
the dark, primitive, mask-like aspect of
the dark deity

when his eight year old saw a picture of it

sitting on his desk, she shuddered

NOTE: Edinger in Ego and Archetype p.216 says the number six "is associated with the
completion or fulfillment of a creative task"

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 [in summary, the number six is associated
with that which is perceived as "other," the
dark side of God or Satan, and conflict but
also with images of creativity, marriage,
and the coniunctio ]

Q. I am assuming that the Jesus of John's A. Jung in Vol. 2 of his Letters (in two
vision was John's experience of a deposit in letters to Upton Sinclair beginning on p. 87
the collective unconscious which was left and p. 201) discusses the significance of
by JESUS the man, however do you feel the historical Jesus in relation to the
that there is also an existing ongoing Jesus archetypal content he was carrying
outside of that deposit who is both aware
of that deposit and this experience of John?
the HISTORICAL JESUS was a human being
Similarly does the resurrected body refer
with extraordinary qualities but happened,
only to these deposits or is there some form
because of the timing, to be the recipient of
of consciousness that continues, for at least
a massive collective projection, the
victorious individuals, following death?
description of which has so overlaid the
gospel accounts that it is impossible to
separate the historical Jesus from the
archetypal overlay that is projected onto
him by the collective psyche

here and there, if one looks closely, one can

detect authentic passages of unique
individuality [attributable to JESUS] that
cannot be derived from the Psalms or the
Book of Enoch or from some other
traditional location - but there are very few

Jung's description of a historical vs.

archetypal Jesus is from an empirical
psychological standpoint and is not a
metaphysical pronouncement

faith can hold whatever convictions it has

without being touched by [the
psychological approach] because Jung
addresses his remarks not to possessors of
faith but to those who have dropped out of
containment within a traditional faith and
are searching for an authentic understand-
ing of what religious phenomena means

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 so it is not so much a matter of the
historical Jesus leaving a deposit, at least at
this stage of things, as it is of the
archetypal symbolism being projected onto
the historical Jesus

but then, the fact that that event took place

and therefore the archetype manifested for
the first time in human history, that fact
then became a deposit in the archetypal
psyche - so that there was a kind of
circular happening

it came from the unconscious and it

returned to the unconscious but having
gone through the process of being
incarnated and of having passed through
the consciousness of a countless number of
individuals who were caught up in the
religious convictions that were generated

PART SEVEN (side one)

Chapters 14, 15, &16

Chapters 14:6&7 - then I saw another Jung in Answer to Job par. 719,
comments on the “Eternal Gospel” saying:
angel flying high over-head, sent to
announce the eternal gospel to all the first angel proclaims an ‘ever lasting
gospel’ the quintessence of which is ‘Fear
who live on the earth... FEAR GOD God!’ There is no more talk of God's love.
and praise him, because the time has
come for him to sit in judgment; e.g. God is fearful

worship the maker of heaven, and

Jung goes on to say in par. 733:
earth and sea....
John correctly foresaw… some of the
possible dangers which threaten our world
in the final phase of the Christian aeon...
He knew, also, that the fire in which the
devil is tormented burns in the divine
pleroma forever… God has a terrible
double aspect:

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 … a sea of grace is met by a seething lake
of fire and the light of love glows with a
fierce dark heat of which it is said ‘ardet
non lucet’ –it burns but gives no light. That
is the eternal, as distinct from the temporal,
gospel: one can love God but must FEAR
him. - Answer to Job par. 733

understood psychologically, proximity to

the Self is accompanied by anxiety

pl eroma = fullness, plenitude; in Gnostic theology,

the spiritual universe as the abode of God
and of the totality of the divine powers
and emanations – OED

in Revelation Ch. 1:17 - John says when I important to understand this transpersonal
dimension of anxiety - the experience of
saw him I fell down in a dead faint anxiety, at least for adults, is not only
personalistic but indicates nearness to the
Self

uniformly when individuals in the Bible every major anxiety experience is a kind of
encounter an angel, the first thing an angel miniature apocalypse which
says is "fear not!" psychologically means a coming into
consciousness of the Self - anxiety is a
harbinger of that phenomenon

Chapter 14:1 - describes a lamb on 144 thousand can be considered the

apotheosis of the number twelve in being
Mount Zion with 144 THOUSAND twelve squared times a thousand e.g.:
people all with his and his Father s
name written on their foreheads. I 2
12 X 1,000 = 144,000
heard a sound coming out of the sky
like the sound of the ocean or the twelve raised to higher and higher levels is
roar of thunder; it was like the thus a number of totality

sound of harpists playing their

harps

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there in front of the throne they this is the number of elect martyrs who
follow the sacrifice of the lamb
were singing a new hymn in the
presence of the four animals and the
elders - a hymn that could only be
learned by the 144 THOUSAND who
had been redeemed purchased from
the world

the ones who have kept their first fruits of all harvest, including first
fruit of human womb, e.g. the first born,
virginity and not been defiled with belongs to Yahweh and are suppose to be
sacrificed to him
women; they follow the Lamb
wherever he goes; and have been
redeemed purchased to be the FIRST
FRUITS for God and for the Lamb

if one eats the first fruits instead of handing symbolically, the first fruits are God's food
them over to Yahweh, one invites disaster and if they are not given freely, Yahweh
takes them by violence- as seen in Ch. 14
when harvest time comes

ll in Exodus when the first born of the sacrifice of the first fruit is an archetypal
Egyptians were not given voluntarily, they pattern that plays out at a number of levels
were taken involuntarily and killed

ll at the divine level in which the first fruit

of Yahweh, Christ, was also sacrificed

[ll sacrifice of the first King, Saul - FROM represents the first efforts of the ego to
OLD TESTAMENT SERIES] carry the meaning of the Self that
ultimately end in failure - whereas the
second effort (represented by David)
succeeds

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ll FIRST BORNS have a more problematic
relationship to the unconscious and
transpersonal dimension

FROM OLD TESTAMENT SERIES the first born child belongs to Yahweh thus
one must either sacrifice the child or buy
him back through the deliberate sacrifice of
something else

the sense of "specialness" of the first born

needs to be put in the service of the Self

Chapter 14:9 – “a third angel followed the beast represents the primordial psyche
- the Leviathan/ Behemoth combination, a
shouting aloud, All those who feature or aspect of ego-Self identity
worship the BEAST and his statue, or
eternal torture with fire refers to the fate of
have had themselves branded on the those wholly identified with the primordial
psyche
hand or forehead with its name …
will be made to drink the wine of when the Self is activated in an individual
who is largely identified with the
God s fury... in fire and brim-stone primordial psyche - that individual is
they will be tortured in the presence tortured by compulsive desires for the two
great beastly principles - pleasure and
of the holy angels and the Lamb and power
the smoke of their torture will go up e.g. hungry yearnings, envies, hatreds,
forever and ever. There will be no everything that pertains to pleasurable
gratification and power gratification i.e.
respite, night or day, for those who being superior
worship the beast….

ll in alchemical texts to the CRUDE

SULFUR (versus true)

Mysterium par. 192 - Jung’s classic You too are infected with this collective
psychological interpretation of an sickness. Therefore bethink you for once…
alchemical allegory - in which he links crude and consider: What is behind all this
sulfur to desirousness e.g. pleasure and desirousness? A thirsting for the eternal,
power which can never be satisfied with the best…

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 … because it is ‘Hade’s in whose honor the
desirous’ go mad and rave.’ The more you
cling to that which all the world desires, the
more you are Everyman, who has not yet
discovered himself and stumbles through
the world like a blind man leading the blind
with somnambulistic certainty into the
ditch. Everyman is always a multitude.
Cleanse your interest of that collective
sulfur which clings to all like a leprosy. For
desire only burns in order to burn itself
out, and in and from this fire arises the true
living spirit which generates life according
to its own laws... This means burning in
your own fire and not being like a comet or
flashing beacon, showing others the right
way but not knowing it yourself.

FIRE relates to the alchemical operation of

calcinatio and all of its accompanying
symbolism

ll the torturing fire referred to in Revelation

Q. WHY is the fire ETERNAL ? understood in the context of the CHRISTIAN

SCRIPTURES (including the Book of
( doesn't sound very auspicious Revelation) being documents of
for transformation ) SEPARATIO* the major content of which
involves a decisive, radical separation

between heaven and earth, spirit and

matter/nature, upper and lower

separatio is a crucial feature of the

Christian myth and the Western
civilization/psyche that developed out of it
- we are all split

* exception: Revelation ends with the

image of the mandala city, the new
Jerusalem

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 the CHRISTIAN MYTH envisions a
permanent eternal split

vs.

O RIGEN in the 3rd century B.C. considered

the possibility of the redemption of the
devil but was branded heretical

vs.

the new PSYCHOLOGICAL aeon aims at the

UNION of the split

thus the eternal aspect of the torture, the

eternal burning of the fire, results from an
emphasis within the Book of Revelation on
separatio alone and not the next stage of
union and integration which would
naturally follow

Chapter 14:14-20 – “in my vision, I terrible image whose basic underlying/

implicit idea is that humanity is a vast
saw a white cloud and sitting on it, agricultural process for God, to be
harvested for food and drink
one like a son of man with a gold
crown on his head and a sharp sickle
in his hand. Then another angel
came out of the sanctuary and
shouted… Put your sickle in and
reap, HARVEST time has come and
the harvest of the earth is ripe…

Then the one sitting on the cloud

set his sickle to work on the earth,
and the earth s harvest was reaped…

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Another angel, who also carried a
sharp sickle is told to Put your
sickle in, and cut all the branches off
the vine of the earth, all the grapes
are ripe.

So the angel set to work and

HARVESTED the whole vintage of the
earth and put it into a huge wine-
press… of God s anger outside the
city, where it was trodden until the
blood that came out of the winepress
was up to the horses bridles as far
away as 1,600 furlongs

ll idea in the Book of Enoch Ch. 7:1-4 -

describes what took place just before
Noah's flood when angels or heavenly
beings descended from heaven and married
the daughters of men and defiled themselves
with them

the angels taught the women

charms and enchantments, and the
cutting of roots, and made them
acquainted with plants…

And they became pregnant, and

bore great GIANTS…

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… who consumed all the acquisitions Jung in Answer to Job par. 669 says that
the giants are pointing to an inflation of the
of men. And when men could no cultural consciousness at that period of
time just before the flood
longer sustain them, the giants
turned against them and devoured
mankind….

ll apocalyptic DREAM in Edinger's decisively demonstrates the living psychic

Creation of Consciousness p. 28 reality of this material here and now

I am walking along… the Palisades,

overlooking all of NYC [which] is in a
rubble -- the world has been destroyed as
we know it… fires everywhere, thousands of
people are running in every direction…

…the Hudson river has overflowed many

areas… smoke is billowing up… the land
has been leveled… fire balls are in the sky,
heading for the earth. It was the end of the
world, total destruction of everything…

The cause of this great destruction was a BEING EATEN BY GIANTS =

race of great giants who had come from succumbing to inflation
outer space… in the middle of the rubble I
could see two of them sitting… casually
scooping up people by the handful and
eating them [like grapes]… The giants had
landed in flying saucers (the fireballs are
other landings)… the earth as we know it
was conceived by this race of giants in the
beginning of time.

They cultivated our civilization, like we

cultivate vegetables in a hot house… and
now they had returned to reap the fruits that
they had sown.

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picture of giants from The Brave Little Tailor, Olga Dugina & Andrej Dugin – Harry Abrams Inc.,
1999

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picture of giant from The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales, Jon Scieszka & Lane
Smith – Viking Penguin, 1992

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ll in Gnostic Gospel of Thomas that speaks precisely the issue we are dealing with
to two possibilities: when the collective unconscious is
activated or lives itself out through us
unconsciously to the extent that the ego is
ACCURSED OPTION - lion eats man and man EATEN BY one of the archetypal
becomes lion - man is assimilated to lion GIANTS OR LIONS
stuff
to that extent man has become lion which
vs. is a disaster

if the experience can be assimilated and

BLESSED OPTION - man eats lion and lion understood by consciousness then the
becomes man archetypes are humanized and they
become human

that's the issue we have in the applies on the psychological as well as

HARVESTING imagery of Revelation - the physical level
fundamental elementary question that runs
throughout all levels of existence is "who
eats whom?"

Chapter 15:5 - in the next part of the

vision, out of the tent of the
testimony seven angels with seven
plagues come wearing pure white
linen fastened around their waist
with golden girdles...

…one of the four animals gave the psychologically, the golden bowl
represents the Self in its containing aspect
angels seven GOLDEN BOWLS filled because gold represents the supreme value
with the anger of God… the smoke
from the glory and the power of God
it's quite remarkable that these loathsome
filled the temple so that no one could contents should be contained in golden
go into it until the seven bowls of bowls - represents a paradoxical
combination of opposites
PLAGUE AND RAGE were emptied
over the earth.

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ll Ch. 17 - golden cup held by the harlot
riding on the beast

if look at imagery clinically and objectively, psychologically, the basic image is that
and separate ourselves from the horror of it some very negative and disagreeable
that would be evoked emotionally, what we contents of the collective unconscious are
are seeing is that heaven is being cleansed of being poured into the ego because,
a lot of disagreeable stuff which is being symbolically speaking, earth equals ego
turned over to the earth to be dealt with

what this indicates is that from the

standpoint of empirical psychology there
has been a build-up of negative contents
in the unconscious leading finally to an
OVERFLOW

ll the laws of gravity relevant to consider such matters, in part

at least, as almost mechanical in order to
compliment the tendency to project
punitive purpose on the unconscious
(which is clearly done in the Book of
Revelation)

ordinarily the unconscious does not have

a punitive purpose - it tends to react to
the ego the way the ego reacts to it - if it
is used as a depository for everything
disagreeable, sooner or later it does
OVERFLOW

arises after prolonged and profound

neglect of the unconscious allowing the
build-up of problematic libido which the
ego has disposed of by repression

according to Judeo-Christian mythology - a more objective way of putting it that

this NEGLECT OF GOD'S prerogatives, the does not demoralize the ego with guilt is
failure to pay Him the attention that's due, is to say that it [ignoring the Self] is a
a sin leading to punishment psychological mistake

ll modern DREAM is relevant to this

imagery:

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DREAM - I am in an elevated position just
above a heavy cloud cover, the way one is in
an airplane… The sky, the air, above the
clouds is clear and blue. At first it is like a
movie, but I am really present as if at a
theatre performance. But it is in the open
air…

Directly opposite me, in the middle distance,

is the Capital dome, Washington D.C. I think
at first it is the real thing then wonder if it
isn’t a stage set/mock-up. It is illuminated,
outlined by many small lights, like the small
lights of Christmas…

In the space between me and the Capital

dome comes a figure (an actor?) dressed as
an angel. It says "I've cut my hand.” And a
stream of blood is directed down to earth –
AIDS-infected blood.

(Immediately on awaking I think of the

Prologue in heaven in Job and also in Faust.
I know… that this means a plague of some
sort.)

some Fundamentalist ministers interpret that in psychological terms what is the

the AIDS plague is caused by God's anger mistake that causes AIDS - on a symbolic
against sinful sexual misbehavior level, it is the failure to guard the borders
of ones individual identity

AIDS first appeared among a group of has profound symbolism

almost unbelievably promiscuous male
homosexuals

PART SEVEN (side two)

AIDS virus attacks the immune system by

sneaking into its cells and then directing them
to make more of the virus thereby destroying
the immunes system's cells from within

ll the behavior that opened the door to the

virus in the first place

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ll the killing of the immune system in order Edinger sides with the immune system
to keep it from rejecting an organ transplant (because it is connected with the
unconscious) against organ transplants

Chapters 16:12-14 - The sixth angel the Eastern kings refer to Parthia, the
great dangerous enemy of the time
emptied his bowl over the great river
Euphrates; all the water dried up so
that a way was made for the kings of
the East to come in… Then from the
jaws of the dragon and beast and
false prophet, I saw three foul spirits
come; they looked like FROGS and in
fact were demon spirits, able to work
miracles, going out to all the kings of
the world to call them together for the
war of the Great Day of God the
Almighty.

Jung in the Zarathustra seminar p. 255 - it is the expression of the loathsomeness of

comments on Nietzsche’s obsession that he life, or of the lower man - frogs are the
was obliged to swallow a toad first attempt of nature towards making
something like a man… so they are
symbols for human transformation

(due also to the fact that they

metamorphose from tadpole to frog,
another aspect of their transformative
quality)

Jung continues, saying frogs represent the

inferior man living in the swamp or mire
which he applied to Nietzsche’s trying to
live above the shadow

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Dragons Vomiting Frogs, 15th century miniature from Liber Floridus, Mussee Conde, Chantilly,
France

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 [e.g. the obsession to swallow the toad
representing a compensatory image of
integrating the shadow]

ll Frog Prince – a transformation fairy tale in

which a FROG, when accepted becomes a
prince

in Revelation - image of regurgitating the frog

is opposite of Nietzsche’s obsession of
swallowing it

ll DREAM in Michael Ortiz Hill's Dreaming

the End of the World:

I'm in the desert near Alamogordo, New

Mexico (that's where the atomic tests were
held)… I see my father… he tells me "It is
time" and directs me to the door. I am
puzzled and excited-- not knowing what I am
excited about.

I climb on my rusty bicycle and rush down a

slight slope to the desert below. The whole
horizon is visible, and under the darkening
skies the lights of the city flash on and off.
The air is charged as if lightening will soon
strike. I realize the Bomb is about to drop,
and I race, ecstatic, toward Ground Zero so
I can meet it fully. In my waking life, I've
never felt such ecstasy.

At Ground Zero there is thunder without the local people's trying to incinerate the
lightening. Instead of the Bomb, an odd frog, exterminate it with fire, parallels the
FROG-like creature drops out of the sky-- attitude toward the frog in Revelation
floating down as slow as a feather, using its
large webbed feet as wings. It’s about three
feet tall. As soon as it lands, it is attacked by
local people. They beat it mercilessly. I
intervene just as they are about to douse it
with gasoline and light it.

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I sit with it and read it a children's book, the dream ego does it just right (that's the
trying to teach it English. It is very wise, but way to individuation) and discovers in the
most of its wisdom seems in its capacity to process of accepting it, that it is a bringer
play. It darts in and out of rabbit holes. I find of wisdom and not slimy mire
myself frustrated even though I know that
somehow the specialness of its intelligence is
bound up with its playfulness-- like a child's. the attitude of the local people in contrast
to the dream ego indicates that there will
be a conflict in the dreamer about this
matter (e.g. the attitude toward the frog)

QUESTION/ANSWER

Q. to enlarge more specifically on Edinger’s

remarks on the CORPORATE SOUL/
GUIDING ANGEL and how it would
express itself

(linked to remarks made in PART TWO that suggesting that we are dealing, in
the letters to the seven churches were psychological terms, with an image
addressed to the angels of the seven representing a corporate personality, a
churches) collective psychic organism and group
psychology
[discussed as “corporate personalities” on p.
31 of this disc]

corporate soul or collective psychic organism

is not equivalent to a guiding angel but is
quite ambiguous and can be an evil demon at
times

for a Jungian understanding of groups and ... bonds with other people are produced
group psychology, the ideal psychological by the Self and these relations are very
group is described by Von Franz in exactly regulated as to distance and
Projection and Recollection p. 177 closeness. One might describe this as the
social function of the Self. Each person
gathers around him his own 'soul family’
a group of people not created by accident
or by mere egoistic motivation but rather
through a deeper, more essential spiritual
interest or concern: reciprocal
individuation…

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 … Whereas relations based merely on
projection are characterized by
fascination and magical dependence, this
kind of relationship, by way of the Self,
has something strictly objective, strangely
transpersonal about it.

It gives rise to a feeling of immediate,

timeless 'being together.' The usual bond
of feeling, says Jung elsewhere, always
contains projections that have to be
withdrawn if one is to attain to oneself and
to objectivity.

'Objective cognition lies hidden behind the

attraction of the emotional relationship; it
seems to be the central secret.' In this
world created by the Self we meet all those
many to whom we belong, whose heart we
touch; here 'there is no distance but
immediate presence.'

DIAGRAM ONE - of the so called “IDEAL in this setting each individual (represented
GROUP” which is not the usual state of by a separate circles) has his own
affairs conscious relation to the Self already
established

and the relation to the others in the group

is then a shared experience of conscious
relation to the Self

in this setting the corporate soul, the

collective experience that is shared jointly
has been adequately mediated by each
individual so that the corporate soul is
indeed a guiding angel when each
individual has its own conscious
relationship to the Self

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DIAGRAM TWO - the USUAL state of but instead the group or corporate soul
affairs with GROUPS in which individual carries the projection of the Self for some
group members do not have a conscious or all of the individuals with the result
relationship to the Self that there is a participation mystique, a
collective identity

the ego is comfortable in this situation as

long as it is in conformity with the general
viewpoint of the group spirit, but the
group spirit reveals its demonic aspect
whenever the individual goes against the
group spirit

then the group gangs up against the

individual who is trying to achieve a
greater level of autonomy by being
different

Jung in a 1955 letter in Vol. 2 of Letters p. Even a small group is ruled by a

218 - makes an important statement about suggestive spirit which, if it is good, can
group psychology have very favorable social effects, though
at the expense of mental and moral
independence of the individual.

The group accentuates the ego; one

becomes braver, more presumptuous,
more cocky, more insolent, more reckless;
but the Self is diminished and gets pushed
into the background in favor of the
average.

For this reason all weak and insecure

persons belong to unions and
organizations, and if possible to a nation
of eighty million! Then one is a big-shot,
because he is identical with everybody
else, but he loses his self (which is the soul
the devil is after and wins!) and his
individual judgment.

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Jung Vol. 2 of Letters p. 218 continued - The ego is pressed to the wall by the group
only if in his judgment it is not in accord
with the group. Hence the individual in the
group always tends to assent as far as
possible to the majority opinion or else to
impose his opinion on the group. The
leveling influence of the group on the
individual is compensated by one member
of it identifying with the group spirit and
becoming the Leader.

As a result, prestige and power conflicts

are constantly arising due to the
heightened egotism of the mass man.
Social egocentricity increases in
proportion to the numerical strength of the
group.

PART EIGHT (side one)

Chapters 17 &18

Chapters 17 - the seven angels show degraded and perverted version of Venus
and of ancient nature religion in general
the punishment given the famous
PROSTITUTE who rules enthroned
beside abundant waters, the one with
whom all the kings of the earth have
committed fornication and who has
made all the population of the world
drunk with the wine of her adultery:
He took me in spirit to a desert, and
there I saw a WOMAN RIDING A
SCARLET BEAST which had seven
heads and ten horns and had
blasphemous titles written all over it.
The woman was dressed in purple
and scarlet, and glittered with gold…

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and jewels and pearls, and she was
holding a gold wine cup filled with
the disgusting filth of her fornication
on her forehead was written… a
cryptic name: Babylon the great, the
mother of all the prostitutes and all
the filthy practices on the earth.

The Woman on the Beast: Angel Shows St. John Vision of the Great Harlot Seated on a Seven
Headed Monster, from Lambeth Apocalypse, c. 1260 - Lambeth Palace Library, London

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Lucretius (96-55 B.C.) dedicates his book Rome hadn't fallen into its decedent
On the Nature of Things to VENUS period yet and he was still expressing the
older healthy religion of ancient Rome
Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men,
Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars
Makest to teem fruitful lands for all of living
things Venus was a carrier of the sacred life
Through thee alone are evermore conceived, energies to healthy Rome but degenerated
Through thee are risen to visit the great in Imperial Rome
sun—
Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on
Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away,
For thee, the daedal earth bears scented Venus was the divine mother of Aeneas,
flowers, who founded Rome
For thee the waters of the unvexed deep
Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky
Glow with diffused radiance for thee...!
Thou bringest the eternal generations forth

in Revelation, the image of the illustrates the fact that everything

PROSTITUTE feminine (earth, nature, body, matter)
underwent a profound depreciation with
the onset of our aeon

not exclusively a matter of Christianity,

because Stoicism and Platonism did the
same thing a bit more subtly but none the
less they started it - and if anything,
Gnosticism was even worse

PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON I want to remind you since we live in a

is a principle in philosophy that is different age, and different values are
particularly applicable to psychological facts coming to birth in our age, that everything
that happens in the psyche happens for
an adequate reason

it is so easy for the ego to take the

superficial attitude that certain
PSYCHOLOGICAL HAPPENINGS in
the collective psyche were just errors that
could have been different - but they
couldn't have been different - they were
the way they had to be given the nature of
the psychic reality

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 realizing that then, it is psychologically
juvenile to criticize some event in the
collective psyche as if we know better
how it should have happened

Jung in Symbols of Transformation says: the way the Western psyche evolved (and
we can only assume it was a necessary
We can hardly realize the whirlwinds of sequence) - my understanding and
brutality and unchained libido that roared certainly Jung's is that the vast collective
through the streets of imperial Rome. individuation process which lies behind
history required at the beginning of our
the actual concrete state of affairs called era the creation of a powerful spiritual
forth this reaction that depreciated all that counter-pole to the instinctual degradation
carried the symbolic sign of the FEMININE and excesses that accompanied the
(matter, body, all those binding elements that decadence of the ancient world
chain us to the suffering flesh)

So what happened was a grand a vast collective movement to get above,

SUBLIMATIO operation historically and the purely concrete, particular, bodily,
that that was the particular operation that material level of existence - sublimatio
was proscribed by the collective involves getting above it and being able to
unconscious/psyche at that time and that's look down on it
what took place
a vital process when one is caught in the
agony of suffering matter - to achieve a
spiritual standpoint outside and above it
is no small thing

PLAGUES poured out from GOLDEN interwoven with Old Testament material
BOWELS is a paradoxical image but the paradoxical nature shows the
authenticity of the material

ll DREAMS of a golden cup feminine containing aspect of the Self

ll harlot's disgusting filth contained in a fascinating history is attached to this

golden cup image - example of how autonomous
psyche works through the centuries
enlarging and elaborating and transforming
itself - this image of the golden cup of
Babylon was picked up by alchemy in a
very interesting way

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Jung in Mysterium Coniunctionis discusses the mother who is now pregnant with this
Ripley’s Cantilena: new conception retires to her chamber

an alchemical parable about a barren old King announces the death and rebirth of the
who calls himself the “Ancient of Days” and God image - alchemical symbolic
complains about his barren sterile state- he foreshadowing of the modern task of
seeks REBIRTH/rejuvenation by crawling reconciling the split opposites in the Book
back into his mother's womb saying: of Revelation and the Christian psyche
and assimilate consciously what's called
the disgusting filth and fornication
I'le Humbled be into my Mother's Breast ,
Dissolve to my First Matter, and there rest
Meanwhile she of the Peacocks Flesh did e.g. assimilating all of those contents
Eate, relegated to the shadow and therefore
And Dranke the Greene-Lyons Blood with considered despicable in the Christian
that fine Meate, dissociation
Which Mercurie bearing the Dart of Passion,
Brought in a GOLDEN CUP of Babilon

Jung in Mysterium Coniunctionis par. 426f consists of the goddess's own attributes,
comments on this text as follows: that is to say she eats and drinks herself
… she is being ruthlessly regaled with her
the FOOD EATEN BY THE QUEEN: own psychic substances

the positive and negative qualities of the

1 -PEACOCK'S FLESH (the bird of Juno)
animal substances she has to integrate

2- and LION'S BLOOD given to her in the cup … emphasizes still more the erotic nature
of fornication of the lion, his lust and greed. Such an
integration amounts to a widening of
consciousness through profound insight.

why such an UNPALATABLE DIET Because the old king lacked something, on
proscribed to the Queen? which account he grew senile: through
lacking the dark chthonic aspect of nature
… the sense that all creation was in the
image of God, the antique feeling for
nature [as Lucretius expresses] which in
the Middle Ages was considered a false
track and an aberration.

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chth o n ic = dwelling in or beneath the surface of the
earth (Chthonian gods being the powers
that send up fruits and bounteous
blessings from below) -OED

Jung in Mysterium Coniunctionis par. 426f Dark and unfathomable as the earth is, its
continues theriomorphic symbols do not have only a
reductive meaning, but one that is
prospective and spiritual. They are
paradoxical, pointing upwards and
downwards at the same time. If contents
like these are integrated in the queen, it
means that her consciousness is widened
in both directions

[This diet benefits] the regeneration of the

king by supplying what was lacking…not
only the darkness of the animal sphere,
but rather a spiritual nature or natural
spirit which even has its analogies with
the mystery of faith….

Edinger notes that eating PEACOCKS describes a process that we are now
FLESH and drinking LION'S BLOOD, or engaged in, in the collective psyche - as
according to Revelation eating the disgusting the old system of values collapses then all
filth of her fornication that had been excluded by that system
rushes back in

thus the onslaughts of violence and crude

sexuality, disorientation of all kinds, wild
orgiastic behavior can be understood as
symptoms of the process of assimilating
the contents which after all are in a golden
cup

the value of the Self lies behind them if

one isn't destroyed before one gets to an
under-standing of the missing value

Jeremiah Ch. 51:1-7 - Yahweh sends

destructive wind and winnowers to…

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…BABYLON to leave it bare - beleaguered explicit reference to Babylon which had
just defeated Jerusalem and sent its
on all sides, destroyed for she made the inhabitants into slavery/ captivity

whole world drunk, the nations drank

her wine and then went mad

wi n now = to separate desirable from undesirable

elements, the chaff from the grain –
Webster’s

the text states directly that this HARLOT is

Babylon the Great - she is associated
secondarily to Rome by many commentators
and to Jerusalem by others:

HARLOT AS BABYLON image of prototypical evil city that had

been literally destroyed

HARLOT AS JERUSALEM - based on Ezekiel reference to backsliding when Jerusalem

Ch. 16:1-22 description: murdered the prophets who Yahweh sent
to her and was therefore subject to God's
wrath
The word of Yahweh was addressed
to me as follows: Son of man,
confront Jerusalem with her
loathsome practices! Say, The Lord
Yahweh says this... I spread my cloak
over you and covered your
nakedness… I made a covenant with
you… and you became mine… I
bathed you in water… loaded you
with jewels… but you became
infatuated with your own beauty…

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…and used your fame to play the
whore, lavishing your debauchery on
all comers. What is more… you took
the sons and daughters you had
borne me and sacrificed them as food
to the images. Was not your whoring
enough in itself… And in all your
loathsome practices and your
whorings you never called your early
days to mind, when you were stark
naked, kicking on the ground in your
own blood....

HARLOT AS ROME - by far the majority

viewpoint because of Rome’s vicious
persecution of the Christians

HARLOT AS CATHOLIC CHURCH - a later

attribution made by the early Protestants

HARLOT AS E CUMENICAL MOVEMENT - as

a traitorous idolatrous violation of the true
message - a more recent attribution by some
contemporary fundamentalists

REF. Spengler in his description of the the archetype of the WICKED CITY
decline of the West speaks of the rise of the (could just as well be New York/Rome,
metropolis that is part of the symptomology phenomenologically speaking)
of decadence
vs.

the HEAVENLY CITY - the New

Jerusalem at the very end of Revelation

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THE CITY is an archetypal image that belongs to the
symbolism of the mandala

Jung discusses the image of the city in cites a Gnostic text that identifies the city
Psychology and Alchemy with the metaphysical Monad, the
Mother-City of the Only-begotten (the
Greek equivalent being the metropolis )
(because it comes up in the dream series he is
describing)
symbolism of the city is feminine, as a
containing entity, so the personification
As ‘metropolis’ the Monad is feminine, like
of the wicked city is also a woman
the padma or lotus… In the Book of
Revelation, we find the Lamb in the center of
the Heavenly Jerusalem. And in our Coptic similarly, the cup as a container is
text we are told that Setheus [the monad as symbolically also a feminine image
‘creator’] dwells in innermost and holiest
recesses of the pleroma, a city with four
gates…

early way of founding a city and its basic as an inner image in dreams, the city
design involved plowing a circular furrow represents the Self as an ordered,
around the area to be enclosed and dividing it structured totality that amounts to a
into quarters temenos

Latin word civitas is the root for both city we see in the image of the Self living itself
and civilization out in concrete external reality, an
archetype at work in the social medium
rather than just individual psychology
city is the seat of civilization - civilization
comes from life in cities

today, the organized unit of civil or social life now the symbolism of the city applies to
is no longer the city, now it’s the NATION- the nation-state as a whole, the collective-
STATE political mirror image of the Self

this is what gives nationalism its religious

power - the archetype of the Self
collectively experienced resides in the
nation-state with the transpersonal
authority that belongs to the Self

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the CHURCH is also an earthly collective embodiment
of the Self but in modern times it has been
so emasculated that it doesn't present any
danger, doesn't have any real power

Augustine made considerable use of the

image of the city in his major work The City
of God in which he spoke of two cities:

“EARTHLY CITY” was made up of

symbolically, the earthly city is the ego
individuals who lived by love of self -
typified by Babylon

vs.

“HEAVENLY CITY” or “city of God” is

symbolically, the city of God
made up of individuals who lived by love of
corresponds to the Self
God - typified by the heavenly Jerusalem at
the end of Revelations

did not identify the city of God concretely

with the church – and membership in the
church did not necessarily give you
membership in the city of God

PART EIGHT (side two)

NATION-STATE corresponds symbolically to the city, to

the original Greek polis

REF. Hegel, the 19th century German gripped by the archetypal image of the
philosopher, saw the nation-state (not city as the Self
identical with the Prussian state) as an
earthly incarnation of God it is worthwhile making ourselves familiar
with the way the psyche manifests itself
Imagined an ideal nation-state community in collectively - the Self is projected into the
which individual rights and freedom would national community and it forms the basis
exist within the framework of a community of ones national and ethnic identity
of transpersonal awareness - a community
that carried objective suprapersonal
purposes and values

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one sees individual's of differing national/ their opposing convictions derive from
ethnic identities in WARFARE over who the Self, from the conflict within the God
has the ultimate truth image, the conflict of the opposites
manifesting and living itself out on the
plane of human history
EX. Arabs vs. Israelis

the individual's involved are the helpless

EX. Ireland pawns of the archetypal images that
possess them

OTHER MATERIAL:

CASE HISTORY - extracted from Inside the

Cult by Breault and King - of Vernon
Howell, also known as DAVID KORESH, the
leader of an apocalyptic sect in Waco, TX at
war with the federal agents in Spring1993

born 1959 of a 14 YEAR OLD MOTHER whom

he didn't know until he was five - brought up
by aunt for his first years who he thought
was his mother

his FATHER WAS MISSING – later, when the lack of certain vital childhood
older, there was a punitive step-father relationship experiences deprives the
individual of the opportunity for an
incarnation and personalization of the
archetype

when a parent is missing, there is a hole in

the psyche through which the raw
unmediated energies of the archetype can
flow

he had a LEARNING DISABILITY and was

taunted by other children and called "Retard"

also SODIMIZED by older boys

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his grandmother belonged to the SEVENTH- emphasizes the imminent return or
DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH – where she took “advent” of Christ at the End of the world
him from the age of six – he had a good
relationship to her and began studying the
bible quite intensely

from his teen age years into his early indicates that he was experiencing the
twenties he had a severe MASTURBATION Christian dissociation in quite a marked
COMPULSION, accompanied by a profound form in having no relation to his sexual
sense of guilt libido

during this time there was a PERIOD OF he underwent a sizable psychological

LOSTNESS in which he did odd jobs – then change: he moved from a state of
something happened, which we don't have dissociation concerning power and sex
the information on drives to an identification with them - in
childhood he lived out a victim
psychology and had no relationship to the
successful power motive

he came in contact with a splinter group of demonstrated very intelligent power

Seventh Day Adventists called the BRANCH plays, knew exactly what he was doing,
DAVIDIANS - inserted himself in their midst he gratified his power motive
and gradually took them over and became the
charismatic, unquestioned leader of the group

pronounced WOMEN, even married women, and allowed full vent to his sexuality
he desired as his wife at the command of
God

convinced that God had revealed to him a went from dissociated split to full blown
total understanding of the Book of Revelation possession by the Apocalypse archetype
which developed into a full scale
identification with the Apocalyptic Lamb
he was writing a COMMENTARY ON THE
SEVEN SEALS in Revelation when the
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms people
invaded the compound – he said he would
come out when he was done

in a1987 wedding invitation he wrote: I have seven eyes and seven horns. My
name is the Word of God and I ride on a
white horse…

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 … I am here on earth to give you the
seventh angel's message. I have ascended
from the east with the seal of the living
God. My name is CYRUS and I am here to
destroy Babylon.

two years earlier while in Israel he had a after that vision, he changed his name to
VISION in which God told him he was the David Koresh (which means Cyrus in
reincarnation of Cyrus (the Persian King Hebrew)
who rescued the Israelites from Babylonian
captivity by defeating Babylon)

he developed a family of followers requiring illustrates possession by the archetype of

explicit obedience; gave innumerable, the Apocalypse which always leads to
interminable, CRAZY BUT BRILLIANT bible catastrophe unless one gets out in time
sermons lasting for hours; administered harsh
punishment for minor infringements of rules;
because catastrophe is built into the
fell into passionate rages when crossed; if
archetype, the individual has to make it
criticized, reacted with a combination of
happen in order to fulfill the archetype
personal intimidation and theological
reasoning; always preached about the end of
the world soon to come study of such identifications/ possessions
helps us to understand the psyche by
revealing to us the nature of the unrealized
Self

simultaneously BEAST AND SAVIOR - he since the Apocalypse archetype means, in

wasn't a criminal or psychotic by ordinary essence, the coming of the Self,
criteria; quasi both due to possession by the possession by the archetype means to be
archetype which makes him function possessed by the process of the coming
charismatically but inhumanly of the Self but it comes in an unconscious,
primordial form that manifests as a
paradoxical combination of opposites
ll Captain Ahab in Melville's Moby Dick

ll Hitler both a savior and a beast at the same time

RECENT DREAM – sent to Edinger

The dreamer was in a room that was very

white, light and larger than the real room it
referred to…

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… And a WHITE, FINE ASH, a powdery I don't know what it means but if it was
dust began to seep through the doors and brought to me in an analytic hour I would
windows even though the room was tightly follow it up with amplifications and
closed. maybe some meaning would start to shine
through

Someone said that considerable money had it insists on making its presence known -
been spent SEALING THE ROOM and one cannot seal oneself from it - it
expressed failure that the effort had failed. represents events outside the ego that
And I knew that the ash had come from an require an opening up to in some form or
atomic bomb test in Nevada… another

I felt frustrated at the government's takes us back to what was said about the
resumption of testing and CONCERNED nature of Apocalypse imagery - it need
ABOUT THE WELL-BEING OF not be negative or disastrous if the ego is
MYSELF, THE CATS, AND OTHERS. We open/cooperative with the coming of the
tried to sweep away the radioactive ash, but I Self
worried that it had already contaminated
everything.
only when the ego is alienated and
antagonistic toward the reality of the Self
(On awakening I felt a frightening loss of does the apocalypse become a
control). catastrophe

AMPLIFICATION

Michael Ortiz - Dreaming the End of the

World p. 137 - dreamt by a ten year old girl:

The television and radio were buzzing and

melting. A snake that slithered out of the
television said, "The reason you are seeing
all this is because it’s the beginning of a
NUCLEAR WAR." It was a peace snake. I
started looking for the snake when the Bomb
blew up.

Me and a few other kids were the only ones

left. There weren't any adults alive. Me and
my friends had to take the parts of broken-up
houses and make a new shelter. When I was
looking for wood, I found the PEACE
SNAKE, but it was dead.

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We dug a deep hole where we buried the the imagery of dust is more complicated
snake, and we built our house over it. At than one might think on first view
night, blue and silver and black and red
DUST blew in. We thought it was good dust,
but it turned out to be radiation dust. It
coated the house… a few… kids died… so we
had a small graveyard.

Sparkling WHITE dust blew in the next night. the color white refers to the albedo - but
We thought it was bad dust too, but it its interpretation is bipolar e.g. can be
wasn't… There was a big pile of it near the positive or negative
hole where we buried the peace snake. We
heard these murmuring words from the hole
if dreamer is in need of more shadow
saying, "Put some of this white dust in the
assimilation, then the emphasis on
hole and you’ll cure me. It's peace dust." So
whiteness can have a negative implication
we did.

That night it grew into a beautiful big snake belongs to the process of sublimatio
with all these different colors, and it curled
around the whole house. It told us whenever
there was going to be a radioactive storm. A in alchemical terms, white dust is white
peace storm came that made the snake grow foliated earth (an earthly entity) that has
and covered the ground with white dust like been subjected to ordeals (pounded and
thick snow. We found that, if we put a little reacted upon) to approach a state that is
peace dust on our plates, we’d have fruit and almost gaseous (being suspended in air)
things to eat. And when it melted, it dissolved
the radioactive DUST with it.
if ash, it has gone through a calcinatio
process e.g. undergone a spiritualizing
After…there was a big forest and a few
process
houses and people. Different wild animals
walked around and weren't afraid of
people… The peace snake became our pet.

PART NINE (side one)

Chapters 19 & 20

Ch. 20:11-13 – “Then I saw a great Introduces the image of the LAST
JUDGMENT, a central tenet of the
white thrown and the One who was Christian creed - immensely important
archetypal image in all the major religions
sitting on it. In his presence, earth
- not an invention of Christianity
and sky vanished, leaving no trace…

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…I saw the dead, both great and in the CHRISTIAN MYTH the event of the
last judgment and what it signifies
small alike standing in front of his psychologically is postponed to the end
of the aeon
throne while the books of life lay
open… and the dead were judged vs.
from what was written… as their MOST RELIGIONS project it into the
deeds deserved. The sea gave up all afterlife

the dead who were in it; Death and

but in both instances it has the same
Hades were emptied of the dead that effect of sparing the individual the
experience of the last judgment in his life
were in them; and every one was
time which is fearful to contemplate
judged as his deeds deserved….

in the 4th century the Apostle's Creed was one of the phenomenological aspects of
the first formulated creed which lays out in a the activated Self is that it generates the
formulary fashion the essential dogmatic ego's experience of being judged as to how
content of the Christian myth of which the it lives its life, it's deeds, as well as the
LAST JUDGMENT is an integral part: psychological attitude with which it lives
its life (the psychological facts that lie
behind those deeds) because deeds don't
I believe in God the Father always reveal the true psychology of an
Almighty… and in Jesus Christ his individual

only Son Our Lord: Who was

conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of The time has now come for depth
the Virgin Mary Suffered under psychology to understand the imagery of
the last judgment as a psychological
Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, experience available while one is
and buried. He descended into hell; conscious/alive as the experience of a
decisive encounter with the
The third day he rose again from the Self requiring a thorough assimilation of
dead: He ascended into heaven, And the shadow - with which so much of the
Last Judgment imagery is concerned
sitteth on the right hand of God…
From thence he shall come to judge
the quick and the dead…

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HANS M EMLING – The Last Judgment, 1466-73 – Pomorskie Museum, Gdansk, Poland

135
S. G. F. Brandon in The Judgment of the so when this image comes up in empirical
Dead - gathered from all of the major material, amplification material for it is
religions and cultural contexts including immense
ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Hebrew
religion, Greco-Roman culture, Christianity,
Islam, Persian religion, Hinduism, Buddhism,
and the religions of China and Japan

ANONYMOUS BOLOGNESE PAINTER – The Last Judgment, 14th century – Pinacoteca,

Bologna, Italy

136
OLD TESTAMENT references to the LAST
JUDGMENT:

Malachi Ch. 3 - Yahweh says refers to the coming of the Self -

Look, I m going to send my psychologically, the temple of the Self is
the ego
messenger to prepare a way before
me. And the Lord you are seeking
will suddenly ENTER HIS TEMPLE
and the angel of the covenant whom
you are longing for is on his way…
Who will be able to resist the day of
his coming? Who will remain
standing when he appears?

For he will be like the refiner s fire, fu l l er =1: one that fulls cloth; 2: a
blacksmithing hammer for grooving and
like the fullers alkali. He will take his spreading iron
seat as refiner and purifier; he will
purify the sons of Levi and refine
a l k a l i = a soluble salt obtained from the
them like gold and silver, so that they ashes of plants
can make the offering to Yahweh as it
should be made.

I mean to visit you for the judgment

and I m going to be a ready witness
against sorcerer, adulterer, and
perjurer, against those who oppress
the wage-earner,, the widow, and the
orphan, and who rob the settler of his
rights... no need for you to be afraid
of me….

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REF. Handel uses this passage in the 4th aria
of “The Messiah” which takes its text from
the Malachi Ch. 3

NEW TESTAMENT uses various terms for

the image of the LAST JUDGMENT:

the day of judgment

the last day
the coming (Greek parousia =
presence)

as the Christian Creed puts it, after Christ's

earthly sojourn and ascension to Heaven, he
is going to come back specifically for the
purpose of judging

this idea of Christ's coming back

merges/overlaps with the image of the
“Kingdom of God” or the “Kingdom of
Heaven,” and signifies similar material

Matthew Ch. 25:31-46 - New Testament basis of all the medieval representations
text on the second coming: of the LAST JUDGMENT

When the Son of Man comes in his up to Michelangelo's fresco on the back
wall of the Sistine Chapel showing the
glory, escorted by all the angels, then returning Christ as a kind of traffic
director with one stream going
he will take his seat on his throne of
heavenward and one going down to Hell
glory. All nations will be assembled
practically all the MEDIEVAL versions
before him and he will separate men have a clear-cut boundary line, a definitive
one from another as the shepard break, between Heaven and Hell

separates sheep from goats. He will vs.

place the sheep on his right hand and
in Michelangelo's picture - as a symptom
the goats on his left. of the RENAISSANCE, the strict line of
dissociation is breaking down

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HIERONYMUS BOSCH – The Last Judgment, c. 1502 Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Vienna

139
Matthew Ch. 25:31-46 - continued
Then the King will say to those on
his right hand, Come, you whom my
Father has blessed, take as your
heritage the kingdom prepared for
you since the foundation of the world.
For I was hungry and you gave me
food, I was thirsty and you gave me
drink, I was a stranger and you
made me welcome, naked and you
clothed me, sick and in prison and
you visited me.

Then the virtuous will say to him in the text explicitly states the psychological
fact that the greater personality is found
reply, Lord when did we see you in the least of psychological
manifestations
hungry and feed you, or thirsty and
give you drink? When did we see you e.g. those aspects of the psyche that the
ego considers the least, the most worthy
a stranger and make you welcome, of neglect, most despised, and deprived -
naked and clothe you… sick or in paradoxically, that is the very spot the
Self resides
prison and go to see you? And the
King will answer, I tell you which makes sense psychologically
because the process of coming into
solemnly, in so far as you did this to awareness of one's wholeness involves the
acceptance and assimilation of all those
one of THE LEAST OF these brothers of shadow aspects that one had previously
mine, you did it to me. Next he will considered the least and most despicable
say to those on the left hand, Go the way to the Self is through those
away from me, with your curse upon "least" shadow aspects - a theme which
comes up specifically in a case in
you, to the eternal fire prepared for Edinger's The Living Psyche - p. 29 in
which this biblical text is an association to
the devil and his angels…
one of the pictures

140
JACOB JORDAENS – The Last Judgment, 1653 – Musee du Louvre, Paris

141
Matthew Ch. 25:31-46 - continued
For I was hungry and you never
gave me food, I was thirsty and you
never gave me anything to drink, I
was a stranger and you never made
me welcome, naked and you never
clothed me, sick and in prison and
you never visited me. Then it will be
their turn to ask, Lord when did we
see you hungry or thirsty, a stranger
or naked, sick or in prison and did
not come to your help? Then he will
answer, I tell you solemnly, in so far
as you neglected to do this to one of
the least of these, you neglected to do
it to me. And they will go away to
eternal punishment and the virtuous
to eternal life.

the theme of "JUDGMENT AFTER

DEATH" is not limited to the Judeo-
Christian myth

EX. Socrates, in the 10th book of The

Republic describes the PLATONIC MYTH:

a warrior named Er is slain in battle and left

for dead. When the corpses are taken up on
the 10th day his body is still in tact, and
when taken home he comes back to life and
recounts what he witnessed during his
apparent death experience:

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“When his soul went forth from his body he
journeyed with a great company and they
came to a mysterious region where there
were two openings side by side in the earth,
and above and over against them in the
heaven two others…

and judges were sitting between these, and

that after every JUDGMENT they bade the
righteous journey to the right and upward
through the heaven with tokens attached to
them (in front) of the judgment passed upon
them…

and the unjust to take the road to the left and

downward - they too wearing signs (behind)
of all that had befallen them, and that when
[Er]… drew near [to the judges] they told
him that he must be the messenger to
mankind to tell them of that other world,
and… everything in the place….”

in talking to the various souls who had come the millennium/thousand years of
from heaven and from Hades - the ones Revelation is not a new invention but is
coming from below lamentied and wailing taken out of Plato
recalled what dreadful things they had
suffered and seen in their journey beneath
the earth… which had lasted a THOUSAND
YEARS

EX. from the Greco-Roman period in Plato's entails countless years of folk wisdom
The Gorgias, Socrates says: reflecting on the archetype of the Last
Judgment

Give ear then… to a very fine story, which Zeus's father

you… will consider fiction, but I consider
fact… the actual truth. As Homer says, Zeus
and Poseidon and Pluto divided their
kingdom among themselves after inheriting it
from their father. Now in the days of
CRONUS there was this law about mankind,
which from then till now has prevailed
among the gods…

143
Plato's The Gorgias, continued –
… that the man who has led a godly and
righteous life departs after death to the Isles
of the Blessed and there lives in all happiness
exempt from ill, but the godless and
unrighteous man departs to the prison of
vengeance and punishment which they call
Tartarus.

And in the days of Cronus and even when

Zeus was but lately come to power, living
men rendered JUDGMENT on the living,
pronouncing sentence on the very day on
which these were to die, and so the verdicts
were not well given. Accordingly, Pluto and
the stewards from the Isles of the Blessed
came and told Zeus that the wrong people
were going to both places.

Then Zeus said, "Well, I will put a stop to

that. Cases are judged badly now… because
those who are tried come to judgment with
their clothes on, for they are still alive when
judged. And therefore many… who possessed
evil souls are invested with fine bodies and
linage and wealth, and when the trial takes
place, many witnesses come forward to testify
that they have lived righteous lives. So the
judges are dazzled by these…

…and at the same time they [the JUDGES]

are clothed themselves when they give
sentence, their eyes, their ears and their
whole bodies acting as a screen before their
souls. They have all these hindrances before
them, both their own clothing and that of
those on trial.

First of all… men must be stopped from judgment must occur in conditions of
foreknowing their deaths, for now they have deadness and nakedness -
knowledge beforehand. Next they must be psychologically, these two images are
STRIPED NAKED of all these things before related and analogous
trial, for they must be judged after death…

144
 … And the judge must be naked too and Jung describes his near-death experience
dead, scanning with his soul itself the souls of as a painful striping away of everything
all… deprived of all his kinsmen and of all except his very essence - the dying
that fine attire of his left on earth so that his process itself is a striping to nakedness
verdict may be just....

ZEUS APPOINTS SONS of his who, when experiential images of death and
nakedness are the experiences that
dead, will act as judges at the crossroads:
accompany the encounter with the
RHADAMANTHUS from Asia to Apocalypse image, the image of being
judge those from Asia exposed to that unerring eye of God that
sees you as you really are and then
AEACUS from Europe to judge those requires the assimilation/consciousness of
from Europe the shadow generated by the experience

M INOS as a court of appeal if the

other two are in doubt

ll theme of NAKEDNESS in the Rosarium their nakedness stands for the naked truth
Philosophorum pictures of the coniunctio of what they represent
process which starts out with the two
figures clothed but as they proceed must be
striped of their clothing

EX. in Bk. 6 of Virgil’s Aeneid: (translated by Dryden)

These are the realms of

unrelenting Fate;
And aweful Rhadamanthus rules
the state;
He hears and judges each
committed crime;
Inquires into the manner, place,
and time.
The conscious wretch must all his
acts reveal
Loath to confess, unable to The Archetype of the Apocalypse says
conceal. “both” rather than “loath”
From the first moment of his vital
breath,
To his last hour of unrepenting
death…

145
…Straight o’er the guilty ghost, the Michelangelo depicts the snaky whips of
Fury shakes, the Furies in the “Last Judgment”
The sounding whip, and
brandishes her snakes,
And the pale sinner, with her
sisters, takes.

ROGER VAN DER WEYDEN – The Damned (detail) from The Last Judgment, c.1445-48 –
Musee de l’Hotel-Dieu, Beaune, France

146
ANONYMOUS PORTUGUESE PAINTER – Hell, 16th century – Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga,
Lisbon, Portugal

147
REF. Anatomy of the Psyche p. 207 earliest manifestation of the “Last
references Larousse Encyclopedia of Judgment” archetype
Mythology according to which in Egypt
(5000 years ago), the dead underwent a
number of processes including
PSYCHOSTASIA (a weighing the soul of
the deceased)

When the deceased had, thanks to the

talisman placed on his mummy and
especially to the passwords written on the
indispensable Book of the Dead, with which
he was furnished, safely crossed the
terrifying stretch of country between the land
of the living and the kingdom of the dead, he
was immediately ushered into the presence of
his sovereign judge either by Anubis or by
Horus.

After he had kissed the threshold he

penetrated into the ‘Hall of Double Justice.
This was an immense room at the end of
which sat Osiris… redeemer and judge who
awaited his “son who came from earth.”

In the center was erected a vast scale beside

which stood Maat, goddess of truth and
justice, ready to weigh the heart of the
deceased.

Meanwhile Amemait, “the Devourer”-- a

hybrid monster, part lion, part hippopot-
amus, part crocodile-- crouched nearby,
waiting to devour the hearts of the guilty.

All around the hall, to the right and to the left

of Osiris sat forty-two personages… judges,
each corresponding each to a province of
Egypt; and each was charged with the duty of
examining some special aspect of the
deceased's conscience.

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The deceased himself began the proceedings
and without hesitation recited what has been
called “the negative confession” [an
extended list of all the sins… [he] claims not
to have committed]

following that comes the WEIGHING OF

HIS SOUL - in one of the pans of the
balance, the goddess Maat herself is
represented by a feather, the symbol of truth
- and in the other pan, the heart of the
deceased - and then the reading is carefully
noted and written down

1) if the two pans are in perfect the deceased is thus justified and lead into
EQUILIBRIUM, then Osiris renders a favorable a life of eternal happiness
judgment saying:

Let the decease depart victorious. Let him go

wherever he wishes to mingle freely with the
gods and the spirits of the dead.

2) if the pans did NOT BALANCE, then the

heart was fed to the waiting monster and the
deceased went to hell

Daniel Ch. 5 - in which HAND-WRITING

spontaneously appears on the wall during a
feast given by the Babylonian king
Belshazzar who calls Daniel to interpret: the
writing reads mene, mene, teqel, parsin

1 - mene (measure) – God has measured these terms are relevant as part of the
phenomenology of the Last Judgment
your sovereignty and put an end to archetype
it

2 - teqel (weigh) – you have been the image of the SCALE/BALANCE

weighed in the balance and found

wanting

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3 - parsin (divide) – your kingdom has that same night Belshazzar was murdered

been divided and given to the Medes

and the Persians

19th century – Ralph Waldo Emerson

passage from his essay "On Compensation:"

A wise man will extend this lesson to all parts

of life, and know that it is the part of
prudence to face every claimant and pay
every just demand on your time, your talents,
or your heart. Always pay; for first or last
you must pay your entire debt. Persons and
events may stand for a time between you and
JUSTICE, but it is only a postponement…

PART NINE (side two)

… dread a prosperity which only loads you "Justice" personified as a woman holding
with more. Benefit is the end of nature… for a set of scales
every benefit you receive, a tax is levied. He
is great who confers the most benefits. He is
base… to receive favors and render none.
associated with the traits of being: level,
In the order of nature, we cannot render straight, fair, honest, balanced
benefits to those from whom we receive them,
or only seldom. But the benefit we receive
must be rendered again, line for line, deed
for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware an aspect of the Self which, when
of too much good staying in your hand. It will activated, opposes its objective standard
fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away on the ego
quickly in some sort...

The terror of cloudless noon, the emerald of

Polycrates, the awe of prosperity, the instinct one doesn't ever escape justice/ judgment -
which leads every generous soul to impose those who have disregarded it all of their
on itself the tasks of a noble asceticism and lives probably have an experience of it at
vicarious virtue are the tremblings of the their deaths
balance of justice through the heart and mind
of man.

150
HOWARD FINSTER – Vision of a Great Gulf on Planet Hell, 1980 – National Museum of
American Art, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.

151
practically all this material concludes with a represents a dissociation in the collective
DECISIVE SPLIT in the afterlife - psyche for which discoveries in depth
represented for example in the separation psychology have found the basis for
between the sheep and goats (Matthew Ch. ultimate healing/reconciliation
25:31 ) and between the blessed and
condemned most importantly, depth psychology has
transferred this crucial experience of
Judgment, to the psyche, the inner world
of the individual so that it now can be
experienced consciously

Jung in Memories, Dreams, and Reflections describes an encounter with the Self that
p. 345 says: begins with an irreconcilable conflict of
duties
If a man faced with a conflict of duties
undertakes to deal with them absolutely on
a clear sense of duty gives the moral
his own responsibility, and before a judge
guidance necessary as to how one should
who sits in JUDGMENT on him day and
proceed
night, he may well find himself in an isolated
position.

There is now an authentic secret in his life but what happens if one is
that cannot be discussed-- if only because he simultaneously presented with two
is involved in an endless INNER TRIAL in irreconcilable duties of equal weight?
which he is his own counsel and ruthless
examiner, and no secular or spiritual judge
can restore his easy sleep.

If he were not already sick to death of the

decisions of such judges, he would never
have found himself in a conflict. For such a
conflict always presupposes a higher sense of
responsibility. It is this very quality which
keeps its possessor from accepting the
decision of a collectivity. In his case the court
is transposed to the inner world where the
verdict is pronounced behind closed doors.

Once this happens, the psyche of the measure/ mene

individual acquires heightened importance. It
is not only the seat of his well-known and
socially defined ego; it is also the instrument
for MEASURING what it is worth in and for
itself.

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Nothing so promotes the growth of
consciousness as this inner confrontation of
opposites. Quite unsuspected facts turn up in
the indictment, and the defense is obliged to
discover arguments hitherto unknown.

In the course of this, a considerable portion that's what we are doing in the
of the OUTER world reaches the inner, and psychological interpretation of these
by that very fact, the outer world is scriptures (which, enshrined as dogma,
impoverished or relieved. On the other hand, are part of the outer world)
the INNER WORLD has gained that much
weight by being raised to the rank of a by understanding them psychologically
tribunal for ethical decisions. and the reality that stands behind them
we are impoverishing the scriptures of
However, the once unequivocal ego loses the their content and relieving them of their
prerogative of being merely the prosecutor, it weight and at the same time augmenting
must also learn the role of defendant. The ego the weight and magnitude of the psyche
becomes ambivalent and ambiguous and is
caught between hammer and anvil. It
becomes aware of a POLARITY
SUPERORDINATE to itself. the Self

Jung in CW 18 par. 670 raises an issue of Jung addresses people from their own
general rather than specific relevance to the standpoint/ psychological reality - in this
course content; a Bishop asked Jung: case he is speaking to someone
What are we to do with the great majority of completely contained within the church
people we have to deal with who are not in
any church?
but his real standpoint concerning
religious dogma and metaphysical
Jung answers: I'm afraid you can't do
conviction is given in his letter to
anything ... The CHURCH is there and is
Bernhard Lang Vol. 2 of Letters p. 375
valid for those who are inside. Those who
are outside… cannot be brought back into
the Church by the ordinary means. [I have not included the text of this letter
which is at the end of PART NINE (side
But I wish the clergy would understand the two)]
language of the soul, and that the clergyman
would be a directeur de conscience! ... I wish
that a new generation of clergymen would
come in and do the same thing as they do in
the Catholic church: that they would try to
translate the language of the unconscious,
even the language of dreams, into proper
language...

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PART TEN (side one)
Chapters 21 & 22

the Book of Revelation ends in a grand finale a grand mandala vision - a complex
with the vision of the NEW JERUSALEM quaternity

Ch. 21:10-27 - ... an angel carried me to

the top of a very high mountain, and
a city of precious stone(s) parallel to the
showed me Jerusalem, the holy city,
alchemical lapis and dreams of precious
coming down out of heaven from God. stones as a reference to the Self - beautiful
and eternal
It had all of the glory of God and
glittered like some precious jewel of
crystal-clear diamond…with walls of
great height standing on twelve the city is perfectly SQUARE, (or cube)
twelve thousand furlongs in length and
foundation stones, twelve gates, over breadth, and equal in height, a hundred
and forty-four cubits high
which were written the names of the
twelve tribes of Israel. The wall was
built of diamond, and the city of pure
gold, like clear glass. The foundations
of the city were faced with all kinds of
PRECIOUS STONE… diamond, lapis
lazuli, turquoise, crystal, agate, ruby,
gold quartz, malachite, topaz,
emerald, sapphire, amethyst… the
twelve gates were twelve pearls… the
main street of the city was pure gold,
transparent as glass.

154
Heavenly Jerusalem, from Trinity Apocalypse, c.1255-60 – Trinity College Library, Cambridge,
England

155
…there was no temple in the city since
the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb
were themselves the temple, and the city
did not need the sun or the moon for
LIGHT, since it was lit by the radiant
glory of God… and there will be no night
there… Nothing unclean may come into
it; no one… loathsome or false, but only
those… listed in the Lamb s book of life…

John Sees the New Jerusalem, from the Apocalypse of Angers, designed by Jean Bondol; woven
by Nicolas de Bataille, c.1373-81 – Musee des Tapisseries, Angers, France

156
Ch. 22:1-2 - Then the angel showed also reproduces certain features of the
original state of Paradise with the river
me the river of life, rising from the and trees of life
thrown of God… and flowing crystal
clear. Down the middle of the city
street, on either bank of the river were
the TREES OF LIFE, which bear twelve
crops of fruit in a year, one in each a place of healing - in this translation,
month and the leaves of which are the "of Pagans" but in others "of Nations
cure for the pagans....

ll DREAM of Jung's reported in Memories,

Dreams, and Reflections p.176 - occurring
three times in Spring/Summer of 1914:

an intense artic cold had descended over all

of Europe - in the third dream, frightful cold
had again descended from out of the cosmos.
This dream, however, had an unexpected
end.

There stood a LEAF-BEARING TREE, but an amplification of this dream is the tree
without fruit (my tree of life, I thought), of life within Heavenly Jerusalem
whose leaves had been transformed by the
effects of the frost into sweet grapes full of
healing juices. I plucked the grapes and gave
them to a large, waiting crowd.

Revelation Ch. 21:2-9 – I saw the holy

an image of the hieros gamos - the sacred
marriage of the lamb and his bride, the
city, new Jerusalem, coming down out Heavenly Jerusalem
of Heaven from God, prepared as a
this vision is a description of a coniunctio
BRIDE ADORNED for her husband... which Jung discusses in Answer to Job
par. 726-727:
one of the seven angels spoke to me
saying Come, I will show you the This final vision, which is generally
interpreted as referring to the relationship
Bride, the wife of the Lamb. of Christ to his Church has the meaning of
a “uniting symbol…”

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and he carried me away to a great …and is therefore a representation of
perfection and wholeness hence the
high mountain and showed me the quaternity, which expresses itself in the
city as a quadrangle, in paradise as the
holy city of Jerusalem coming down
four rivers... While the circle signifies the
out of heaven from God... roundness of heaven and the all-
embracing nature of the “pneumatic”
deity, the square refers to the earth.
Heaven is masculine, but the earth is
feminine.

Therefore God has his throne in heaven,

In Ecclesiasticus 24:11 - WISDOM says: while Wisdom has hers on earth, as she
In the beloved city he has given me says in Ecclesiasticus: “Likewise in the
beloved city he gave me rest, and in
rest, and in Jerusalem I wield my Jerusalem was my power.”
authority
The city is SOPHIA, who was with God
before time began, and at the end of time
will be reunited with God through the
sacred marriage. As a feminine being she
coincides with the earth...
Answer to Job par. 727

wisdom/ Sophia is equated with the Bride the trouble is that the marriage takes place
and heavenly city in the pleroma rather than on the earthly
level

pl eroma = fullness, plenitude; in Gnostic theology,

the spiritual universe as the abode of God
and of the totality of the divine powers
and emanations - OED

Jung continues in Answer to Job par. 728: No doubt this is meant as a final solution
of the terrible conflict of existence. The
solution, however, as here presented, does
not consist in the reconciliation of the
opposites, but in their final severance by
which means those whose destiny it is to
be saved can save themselves by
identifying with the bright pneumatic side
of God. An indispensable condition for
this seems to be the denial of propagation
and of sexual life altogether.

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pn eu mat ic = of, relating to, or using gas (as air or
wind); spiritual
– Webster’s

SUPERIMPOSITION of two different 1 - throughout Revelation a cosmic

levels of symbolism: separatio/split process is going on

2 - at the end of which is a

coniunctio/quaternity image which implies
a reconciliation of opposites and a state of
wholeness

concretely, this last coniunctio portion of however, if we take the text as it is,
Revelation may have been patched on assuming that the collective psyche has
[added to the original text] by redactors generated and preserved it as such, it
signifies that at certain levels of
development a decisive separatio is a
state of wholeness

whenever one reaches a decisive

developmental stage that fulfills the innate
potential of one's time and nature, images
of the Self will signify that fact

(although at a later stage of development

those images will be seen to be in conflict
with each other)

redact = to put in writing; edit

- Webster’s

earlier in Revelation, the heavenly Jerusalem often in association with wedding

is described as a bride adorned for her symbolism is the WEDDING FEAST
husband and a grand wedding is taking place

In Jewish LEGEND this feast appears as the

Messianic banquet in which the faithful,
pious ones are to be served the meat of
Behemoth and Leviathan and drink wine
made from the grapes grown in Paradise

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Revelation Ch. 19:17 – I saw an angel the flesh that is being offered is the flesh
of the slaughtered - a grizzly version of
standing in the sun and he shouted the symbolic wedding feast
aloud to all the birds that were flying
high overhead in the sky, Come here.
Gather together at God s great feast.
You will eat the flesh of kings, and
the flesh of great generals and heroes,
the flesh of horses and their riders
and of all kinds of people.…

ll in a DREAM reported in The Creation of

Consciousness p. 28

FIRST HALF: (mentioned earlier in PART

SEVEN (side one) p. 107)

the dreamer is observing N.Y.C. from the

other side of the river -it's in state of ruins -
giants from outer space have descended and
are eating human beings - the giants
cultivated our civilization like we cultivate
vegetables in a hot house… and now they
have returned to reap the fruits they have
sown

SECOND HALF:

the dreamer is going to be spared being eaten

because he has slightly high blood pressure
but instead has to submit to an ordeal - We
walked for an extraordinarily long time,
witnessing cataclysmic destruction. Then
before me I saw a huge golden throne… as
brilliant as the sun, impossible to view
straight on. On the throne sat a king and a
queen of the race of giants. They were the
intelligences behind the destruction of our
planet…

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The ordeal or task I had to perform, in
addition to witnessing the world's
destruction, was to climb up this staircase
until I was at their level—“face to face” with
them… I started climbing, it was long and
very difficult, my heart was pounding very
hard. I felt frightened but knew I had to
accomplish this task, the world and humanity
were at stake.

I woke up… perspiring heavily. Later I

realized that the destruction of the earth by
the… giants was a wedding feast for the
newly united king and queen.

Q. how do we understand this grizzly A. psychologically, the state of affairs of

WEDDING FEAST? the apocalypse, signifies that the
archetypal opposites that make up the
God image [the Self] have been activated
creating profound dynamisms for love or
war [e.g. the opposites] which either clash
in enmity or try to unit in love

when this dynamism touches a conscious

ego, the process then engages the human
psyche (both individually and
collectively)

the process insists on being incarnated or

acted out - to do so it must draft human
beings into its service to live out the
coniunctio dynamic of war and love

BEING EATEN BY GIANTS represents

a consuming/ devouring of the individual
ego - the archetypal dynamism consumes
and eats up the individual and his
personal life

individuals become actors in the

archetypal drama

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 the drama LIVES ITSELF OUT either:

unconsciously in the collective

as HUMAN HISTORY

or

consciously in the individual as

INDIVIDUATION (providing that the
individual can face it with sufficient
consciousness to understand it)

Jung states in Answer to Job par. 660: the imago Dei pervades the whole human
sphere and makes mankind its
involuntary exponent….

when particularly activated, the God-

image not only pervades but EATS/
CONSUMES/POSSESSES human beings
or their egos

Ch. 21:1-5 - Then I saw a new heaven

and a new earth; the first heaven and
the first earth had disappeared now;
and there was no longer any sea.

I saw the holy city, the new

Jerusalem, coming down from God
out of heaven as beautiful as a bride
all dressed for her husband.

Then I heard a loud voice call from clearly stating the theme of
INCARNATION
the throne Here God lives among
men. He will make his home among
them; they shall be his people.

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He will wipe away all tears from
their eyes; there will be no more
death, and no more mourning or
sadness, or pain. The world of the
past is gone.

Then the One sitting on the throne the APOCATASTASIS - the restoration
of all things, new creation, new heaven
spoke, Now I am making the whole of and earth
creation new.

Acts Ch. 3 - Peter says: Now you must important concept psychologically:

repent and turn to God, so that your

originally the world was perfect, whole,
sins may be wiped out, and so that and complete before Adam's sin - which
signified the entrance of ego
the lord may send the time of consciousness that spoiled that original
comfort. Then he will send you the state of wholeness and completion

Christ he has predestined... whom

at the appointed time, that original state is
heaven must keep till the universal going to be restored on another level - a
restoration [apocatastasis panton, new creation corresponding to the original
one that got spoiled by the birth of the
literally, “restoration of all”] comes human ego

ll STOICS - imagined the course of the

universe in terms of an infinite series of
cyclical cosmic periods of which the
apocatastasis is the final stage of the old
period and the point where the new one
begins

the image of the apocatastasis was kicking

around in the collective psyche in other
places than Hebrew and Christian literature

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LUCA SIGNORELLI – The Calling of the Elect to Heaven, from The Last Judgment, c. 1499-1502 –
Cathedral Fresco, Orvieto, Italy

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REF. - gained special prominence through the
work of Origen - one the of early Greek fathers
of the church who was later deemed heretical

Origen says in Book One of First Principles his conclusion, that everyone will ultimately
Ch. 6: be redeemed including the devil, is unique
among the early Christian fathers and had a
The end of the world and the consummation sense of ultimate wholeness beyond the split
will come when every soul shall be visited with of the Christian aeon
the penalties due for its sins. This time, when
everyone shall pay what he owes, is known to psychologically, this refers to the ego's
God alone. We believe, however, that the restored relation to the Self after a long
goodness of God through Christ will period of estrangement - the whole process
RESTORE his entire CREATION… even his of ego development from infancy to maturity
enemies being conquered and subdued. involves an elaborate estrangement from the
original total and complete but unconscious
relation to the Self

Edinger describes in Part One of Ego and how the ego is born out of the Self and goes
Archetype through various stages of inflation and
alienation - eventually, if it develops far
enough, their is a returned relation to the Self
on a conscious level

REMAINING REMARKS: concern the it is evident that the APOCALYPSE archetype

question of what it means for MODERN is now highly ACTIVATED in the collective
people to be living in an APOCALYPTIC psyche and is living itself out in human
AGE history

in that respect the FUNDAMENTALISTS are

right in their preoccupation with this
imagery - the trouble is that they are
anachronistic in their understanding of it

fundamentalists are approaching it from the

psychology that was operative two
thousand years ago in terms of concretistic
metaphysical projections

an achron i sm = A chronological misplacing of persons,

events, objects, or customs from a former age
that is incongruous in the present
– Webster’s

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 the evidence for the activation of the
apocalypse archetype in the collective
psyche is everywhere - the coming of the
Self is happening

and the phenomena that ought to be

experienced consciously and integrated by
the individual in the course of the
individuation process are instead
OCCURRING UNCONSCIOUSLY AND
COLLECTIVELY in society as a whole

that's happening according to the

psychological law that an activated psychic
content not consciously realized manifests
itself externally in the outer world

we are on the verge of a time of troubles of

immense proportion - how massive the
CATASTROPHE will be will depend on how
many individuals have achieved a sufficient
level of individuation to know what's going
on

Jung wrote in a letter of April 2, 1945 : Jung was keenly aware that what he knew
about the nature of the God image (that only
Just as Job lifted his voice so that everybody one person in five billion was aware of)
could hear him, I have come to the conclusion could AVERT OR MITIGATE the impending
that I had better risk my skin and do my worst world catastrophe if he made that
or best to shake the unconsciousness of my information known
contemporaries rather than allow my laxity to
let things drift towards the impending world that's why he wrote Answer to Job in which
catastrophe.... he lays out the profound, divine drama that
is unfolding in the collective psyche

is the one and only ANTIDOTE that the

Edinger notes that Jung’s Answer to Job
individual has in surviving the ordeal in its
collective manifestation by telling us what is
going on, the meaning of the vast collective
upheaval e.g. the coming of the Self into
collective awareness with the intention to
incarnate in humanity

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Answer to Job is part two of a trilogy: the SELF/GOD image is coming -visiting the
earth, humanity, and the individual ego for
1ST - Aion the purpose of INCARNATING itself -
Yahweh wants to become man
2ND - Answer to Job
3RD - The Undiscovered Self
(Jung's title under which it was originally
published in Germany was Present and
Future)

Jung says in Answer to Job par. 740: namely the PARADOXICAL GOD
IMAGE that units within himself both
Yahweh's decision to become man is a symbol good and evil
of the development that had to supervene when
man becomes conscious of the sort of God
image he is confronted with.

God acts out of the unconscious of man and

forces him to harmonize and unite the
opposing influences to which his mind is
exposed from the unconscious.

The unconscious wants both: to divide and to it wants both love and war
unite. In his striving for unity, therefore, man
may always count on the help of a metaphysical
advocate, as Job clearly recognized.

The unconscious wants to flow into

consciousness in order to reach the light, but
at the same time it continually thwarts itself,
because it would rather remain unconscious.

That is to say, that God wants to become man, e.g. the ordeal humanity must undergo as the
but not quite. The conflict in his nature is so untransformed God image enters the human
great that the incarnation can only be bought sphere IN SEARCH OF ITS OWN
by an expiatory self-sacrifice offered up to the TRANSFORMATION
wrath of God's dark side.
as stated earlier, it is a psychological rule,
that if an activated psychic content is not
integrated consciously, it manifests itself
externally in a literal concrete way

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Emerson in his essay “Nature” recognized one so if we want to know the nature of certain
aspect of this insight: unrealized aspects of our psychology, we
have only to examine the [outer]
Every mans condition is a solution in circumstances that confront us
hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put.
He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as the converse is true, that a dangerous outer
truth. event may be averted through psychological
understanding
PART TEN (side two)

one way or another the world is going to be

made into a single whole unity - unified by
means of either mutual human consciousness
or mass destruction

Edinger's psychological HYPOTHESIS: if a sufficient number of individuals can have

the experience of the coming of the SELF AS
AN INDIVIDUAL INNER/ PSYCHOLOGICAL
EXPERIENCE, then we may be spared the
worse features of its external manifestations
and have less of a dynamic urge in the
collective

when the Self comes it brings the opposites

with it because that's its essential content -
as long as the Self is unconscious, then the
opposites lie side by side peacefully (the
lion lies down with the lamb) because there
is no consciousness of their separateness

but as soon as the Self touches the area of

consciousness, the opposites split apart and
the individual ego is confronted with conflict
- it is a question of whether the individual
will be able to contain that conflict -
unfortunately usually this is very difficult

Jung says in Answer to Job par. 659: All opposites are of God, therefore man must
bend to this burden; and in so doing he finds
that God in his “oppositeness” has taken
possession of him, incarnated himself in him.
He becomes a vessel filled with divine
conflict.

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 if the individual cannot contain the
CONFLICT OF OPPOSITES then it spills
into the outer world via projection – and
unfortunately that's the rule

and then the conflict of opposites that have

been constellated live themselves out, not in
the vessel of the individual psyche, but in
that of the society as a whole

society becomes the vessel in which the

warring opposites live themselves out -
precisely what's happening today - the God
image is living out its oppositeness in the
bitter FACTIONAL DISPUTES breaking out in
the world:

EX. warring clans in Somolia

EX. Tutsi vs. Hutu in Rwanda

EX. Serbs vs. Croates

EX. Palestine vs. Israel

EX. our own political fanatical groups

at war with one another

EX. all wretched "isms"

Jung says in Answer to Job par. 746: The only thing that really matters now is
whether man can climb up to a higher moral
level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in
order to be equal to the superhuman powers
which the fallen angels have passed into his
hands. But he can make no progress with
himself unless he becomes very much better
acquainted with his own nature.
Unfortunately, a terrifying ignorance
prevails in this respect, and an equally great
aversion to increasing the knowledge of his
intrinsic character…

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We can, of course, hope for the undeserved
grace of God, who hears our prayers. But
GOD, who also does not hear our prayers,
WANTS TO BECOME MAN, and for that
purpose he has chosen, through the Holy
Ghost, the creaturely man filled with
darkness-- the natural man who is tainted
with original sin and who learnt the divine
arts and sciences from the fallen angels.

The guilty man is eminently suitable and is

therefore chosen to become the vessel for the
continuing incarnation, not the guiltless one
who holds aloof from the world and refuses
to pay his tribute to life, for in him the dark
God would find no room…

Since he has been granted an almost god-like

power, man can no longer remain blind and
unconscious. He must know something of
God's nature and of metaphysical processes
if he is to understand himself and thereby
achieve gnosis of the Divine.

this ordeal of the apocalypse that is now

beginning (to which all humanity is being
subjected) corresponds to Job's ordeal as
spelled out by Jung in Answer to Job and
even more pertinently to Christ's ordeal

Christ was the FIRST ATTEMPT of the God

image to incarnate and transform itself

now, the SECOND TIME around, humanity as

a whole (rather than just one person) is the
subject of that process

in that incarnated form He offers himself as a

self-sacrifice to bring about his own
transformation, just as he did with Christ

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Jung says in Volume 2 of Letters applied to Yahweh's second act of
p. 313: incarnation into humanity as a whole -
humanity is then in the role of being the Son
of God
Christ… was up against an unpredictable and
lawless God who would need a most drastic
sacrifice to appease His wrath, viz. the and God is bringing about his own
slaughter of His own son transformation by another self-destruction
while incarnated in the “mortal body” of
humanity – the same sequence in a larger
Curiously enough, as on the one hand his self-
arena - the whole race instead of a single
sacrifice means admission of the father's
individual
amoral nature, he taught on the other hand, a
new image of God, namely that of a Loving
Father in whom there is no darkness. this second act of incarnation likewise brings
about a transformation of the God image -
the image of a totally good God (even though
This enormous antinomy needs some
pestered by a dissociated evil Satan) is no
explanation. It needed the assertion that he was
longer viable
the Son of the Father, i.e., the incarnation of the
Deity in man.
the NEW GOD IMAGE that comes into
conscious realization is a paradoxical union
As a consequence, the sacrifice was a self-
of opposites and with that new God image
destruction of the amoral God, incarnated in a
comes a potential healing of the
mortal body. Thus the sacrifice takes on the
metaphysical split that characterized the
aspect of a highly moral deed of a self-
whole Christian aeon
punishment as it were....

however, the transformation of the God

image can take place only if the human
participants are conscious of what's going on
because consciousness is the agency of
transformation

there's no transformation if we end with a

heap of ruins and a group of primitive
savages who have to start the whole
laborious climb to civilization all over again

only if there are enough individuals aware of

the unfolding archetypal drama will massive
[concrete] destruction be averted

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Edinger believes, that the transformation of the God image is
ultimately certain because one person, Jung,
has already realized what is going on

the extent of the destructive collective

process will depend on how many other
individuals can achieve consciousness - how
many will it take to reach a critical mass?

Jung says in Answer to Job par. 747: GNOSIS OF THE DIVINE is relevant to
every depth analysis which is a miniature
apocalypse:
Since man has been granted an almost god-like
power, he can no longer remain blind and
unconscious. He must know something of the individual experiences standard
God's nature and of metaphysical processes if symptomatic events: conflict, frustration,
he is to understand himself and thereby achieve defeat, demoralization, despair leading to
gnosis of the Divine. impairment or paralysis of libido flow

if life is to go on in fullness and healing is to

take place, the nature of the situation has to be
why does this happen to me?
understood, the meaning and answers to
QUESTIONS have to be found:
where does the responsibility for it
lie?

what does it mean?

in analytic work, shallow answers to these if that method suffices to provide the healing
questions may be found in the study of one's and meaning, then so be it
PERSONAL life history - going through
experiences/traumas that make up so many of
if it doesn't, then one has to go to the
our complexes
transpersonal level of events and one comes
at last to the Self, the paradoxical /God-image

the experience that one has and the

knowledge that one learns is what is meant
by gnosis of the divine and when reached,
then the neurosis is healed

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these same issues apply on a vast the same questions come up:
COLLECTIVE scale, to humanity as a whole,
as it goes through the experience of world
why is this happening?
wide apocalyptic events

who is responsible?

what does it mean?

these questions take on a kind of desperate when the issue is contained and dealt with in
urgency the more serious the circumstances the collective (rather than the individual), it
become all takes place unconsciously because
consciousness is carried only by the
individual

when these questions are dealt with

collectively, large scale REGRESSIVE
PHENOMENA manifests an egavistic return to RELIGIOUS
FUNDAMENTALISM

there's disintegration of complex social

structures and reversions to more primitive MASSIVE COLLECTIVE SHADOW
social arrangements: PROJECTIONS leading to factional
wars and violence of all kinds on all
social levels from neighborhood
(a general disintegration of social and psychic
gangs, family, to a national level
values and structures that had been the
architecture of the psyche provided by the
containing religious myth that is no longer WIDESPREAD DESPAIR leading to
operative) large scale increases in suicide,
addictions of all kinds

these tendencies are so widespread that they vast collective psychic moods have immense
generate psychic contagion tending to infect contagious power
even those who otherwise might have
sufficient consciousness to resist them

I paint this terrible picture as the backdrop to that Jung’s message in Answer to Job will
a possible mitigating factor: finally gain the attention of enough of the
creative minority in society to be brought to
general view, to receive some general
discussion

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people might then begin to get a glimmer of a vast historical transformation of God is
the MEANING OF THE COLLECTIVE going on and their ordeal is the necessary
UPHEAVAL: sacrificial event to bring about that
transformation

or more prosaically, Jung speaks of this it’s just possible this course of events could
being the kairos, the right time, for take place - which Jung must have had in
a metamorphosis of the gods, of the mind when he wrote that he had to write
fundamental principles and symbols Answer to Job rather than allow his laxity to
let things drift toward the impending world
catastrophe

WILLIAM BLAKE – The Four and Twenty Elders Casting Their Crowns before the Divine
Throne, c. 1803-5 – Tate Gallery, London

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