At the center of the New Testament portion of the biblical drama is the mystery of Incarnation: the birth, passion, and resurrection (another expression of the three phases) of Jesus Christ, the eternal Logos become “flesh.” This religious mystery was taken by Hegel to be a symbolic expression of the essential nature of Absolute Spirit or the evolutionary Whole—visible equally in nature and in history—as it was for Jung in the psyche’s striving for wholeness or the actualization of the Self as complexio oppositorum, a “weaving together of opposites” (one of Jung’s favorite formulas for the
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