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[113] The disenchanted nature penetrated by the spirit of science of human is deprived of its god as well as lost its soul, and human "experience of the inner world were correspondingly reduced."
Spirit of science, once noted as an new incarnation of Logos, in fact turns out to be the leading of humanity and its nous back to the dark embrace of Physic.
Karma is a bitch, history repeats itself, AGAIN.

[106] " The unconscious conversion of instinctual impulses into religious activity is ethically worthless, [...] Ethical decision is possible only when one is conscious of the conflict in all its aspects. The same is true of religious attitude."

[106] " This disbelief in the devilishness of human nature goes hand in hand with the blank incomprehension of religion and its meaning."

[104] "We now know what human beings are capable of, and what lies in store for us if ever again the mass psyche gets the upper hand. Mass psychology is egoism raised to an inconceivable power, for its goal is immanent and not transcendent."

[104] "The feeling of redemption [...] are scarcely appreciated today. We can hardly realize the whirlwinds of brutality and unchained libido that roared through the streets of Imperial Rome. For us the needs of the Christian community have gone by the board; we no longer understand their meaning. We do not even know against what it is meant to protect us." Think about what the contemporary Stoic ideas set up against

[102-104]"Religious experience in antiquity was frequently conceived as bodily union with the deity,"- moral reacted "Christianity and Mithraism" - "moral subjugation of the animal instincts".

[98]
Love-libido-God.
Half plays nice, half makes you victims-half at ego's disposal, half confront ego automatically-Half orderly beneficent, half chaotically destructive.

[98]"[LOVE] It is one of the mightiest movers of humanity. If it is conceived as “divine,” this designation falls to it with absolute right, since the mightiest force in the psyche has always been described as “God.” Whether we believe in God or not, whether we marvel or curse, the word “God” is always on our lips."

[98]"No doubt this presents those who would like to keep the man-to-God relationship free from psychology with no small problem. "

...O.K. hermeneutics guys, sit calmly down.

[97]"There can be no doubt that love has an instinctual determinant; it is an activity peculiar to mankind, and, if the language of religion defines God as “love,” there is always the great danger of confusing the love which works in man with the workings of God."
DANGER: Individuality identifies with the collective unconscious.

[95] "Confess your sins to one another"-"mutual bond"-"mutual love"-"bond to God as well as Bond to Fellow Men"-"Solidary and Entity of Faith remains"

[95]"Thus, inasmuch as the scientific approach disregards metaphysics, basing itself entirely on verifiable experience, it plunges us straight into the uncertainty which is conditioned by the variability of everything psychic. It emphasizes outright the subjectivity of religious experience, thereby offering an open threat to the solidarity of faith."

[95]The religious figure can hardly be separated from individual psyche, the more it does the more it fades its plasticity and certainty, "since it owes its explicit form and vitality precisely to its intimate connection with the individual psyche."

[95]"we find ourselves confronted exclusively with psychic existents. These, in accordance with their nature, are intimately interwoven with the individual personality and are therefore subject to all manner of variations, unlike the postulates of faith whose uniformity and permanence are guaranteed by tradition and by institutional religion."

[95]"...the divine figure is in the first place a psychic image, a complex of archetypal ideas which faith equates with a metaphysical entity.[...] a complex of ideas. This complex, as experience has shown, possesses a certain functional autonomy and has proved itself to be a psychic existent."

[95]"The conscious projection at which Christian education aims brings a double psychic benefit: 1) one keeps oneself conscious of the conflict (“sin”) of two mutually opposing tendencies, thus preventing a known suffering from turning into an unknown one, which is far more tormenting, by being repressed and forgotten; 2), one lightens one’s burden by surrendering it to God, to whom all solution are known."

[95] The religious discipline, the confession of sins, means to keep one's unconscious conflicts conscious. The God this time is a redeemer, a sacrificer. So religious experience is first about psyche experience.

[95]"In the psychological sense this means that complexes weighing on the soul are consciously transferred to the God-image. This, it should be noted, is the direct opposite of an act of repression, where the complexes are handed over to an unconscious authority, inasmuch as one prefers to forget them."

[95]"The God-image thrown up by a spontaneous act of creation is a living figure, a being that exists in its own right and therefore confronts its ostensible creator autonomously."

[93]"In that case the creator-god who emerges from the father-imago is no longer a product of repression or a substitute, but a natural and inevitable phenomenon."

[92-93] The reactivation of father-imago can be not a result of Repression, which is unconscious and aims at making something unreal real ("now someone outside of me is responsible for this."), it can be of "purpose of making a real difficulty unreal, that is, of juggling it out of existence", and "an entirely natural and automatic process of transformation."

[72] "We surmise, rather than know, that this struggle has got something to do with creation, with the unending battle between affirmation and negation."

[72] Job suffers doubtly, father imago, chaotic incomprehensible aspect: "The emotional analogy lies in having to suffer a hopeless struggle against overwhelming odds. It is as if this struggle were accompanied from afar by the clangour of “creation,” as if it constellated in the unconscious a wonderful and mysterious image that has not yet forced its way into the light of the upper world."

[65] "This “creator” created first Sound, then Light, and then Love. That Sound should be the first thing created has parallels in the “creative word” in Genesis, in Simon Magus, where the voice corresponds to the sun, in the sounds or cries of lamentation mentioned in Poimandres, and in God’s laughter at the creation of the world (κοσμοποιία) in a Leiden Papyrus."

[64] " In the light of these reflections, the poem and its prelude appear as the religiously and poetically formulated product of an introversion that has regressed back to the father-imago."

[39] "Finally, in split-off complexes there are completely unconscious fantasy-systems that have a marked tendency to constitute themselves as separate personalities."

[39] "The fantasy-products directly engaging the conscious mind are, first of all, waking dreams or daydreams,[...]then ordinary dreams, which present to the conscious mind a baffling exterior and only make sense on the basis of indirectly inferred unconscious contents.[...]"

[34] "“If only I were not the child of my very ordinary parents,[...]Romulus and Remus (pl. II), Moses, Semiramis, and many others[...] Hence the fantasy of our adolescent is simply a re-echo of an ancient folk-belief ."

[30] "One could almost say that if all the world’s traditions were cut off at a single blow, the whole of mythology and the whole history of religion would start all over again with the next generation."

[29] "Myth is certainly not an infantile phantasm, but one of the most important requisites of primitive life."