Transformation of the God-Image: An Elucidation of Jung's Answer to Job
Edward F. Edinger
Language: English
Pages: 143
ISBN: 0919123554
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Book by Edinger, Edward F.
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autistic children is expressive of the fact that they are living completely within the confines of identity with the Self. So they're revolving around that inner center. In another dream that I quote on the same page, an ape-like figure is again associated with the God-image. If you recognize the narcissistic propensity to be an indication that the Yahweh God-image is activated, then you pour attention into that image but at the same time you recognize that a distinction should be made between
two items left over from last time that I want to talk about. In paragraph 621 Jung says: At the bottom of Yahweh's marriage with Israel is a perfectionistic intention which excludes that kind of relatedness we know as "Eros." The lack of Eros, of relationship to values, is painfully apparent in the Book of Job. And then again, in paragraph 623: God was now known, and this knowledge went on working not only in Yahweh but in man too. Thus it was the men of the last few centuries before Christ who,
someone designated as the Son of Man who represents a rejuvenation of the antiquated God-image of the Ancient of Days. And just as in 74 Dan. 7:214, New American Bible (condensed). Page 85 Ezekiel's vision there is a quaternity of figures that are described as four animals, one of them of a different nature. It doesn't indicate what the nature is. Here we encounter that characteristic theme of the three plus one, the so-called Axiom of Maria.75 So that's the second batch of data about the
is a loving father and loves you as I love you, and has sent me as his son to ransom you from the old debt." He offers himself as an expiatory sacrifice that shall effect the reconciliation with God. Jung goes on to remark how astonishing it is to discover that Yahweh's vindictiveness is so great that he must be bought off with the sacrifice of his son. Page 94 I want to talk a bit about this theme of Christ as an expiatory sacrifice. The image also comes up in the Book of Revelation where
Revelation goes on to speak of the marriage of the Lamb with the heavenly Jerusalem. After describing the descent of the heavenly Jerusalem in just this way, Jung goes on to compare it with the vision of Ezekiel and in paragraph 727 refers to a fourfold synthesis of unconscious luminosities . . . of which the description of the heavenly city reminds us: everything sparkles with 103 Rev. 21:1022 (condensed and slightly modified). 104 Rev. 22:1,2 (condensed and modified). Page 119 precious gems,