By C. G. Jung
A examine of the analogies among alchemy, Christian dogma, and mental symbolism. Revised translation, with new bibliography and index.
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Add. 5025 (1588), British Museum, No. 4, detail. 450 252. Chastity "Les Triomphes du Petrarche," MS. ), Paris, Biblioth£que Nationale. 451 253. Harpokrates encircled by the Uroboros Gnostic gem; from King, The Gnostics and Their Remains, PI. II, fig. 8. 452 254. The so-called sea-unicorn Pommet, Histoire generate des drogues (1694), II, p. 78, Paris, Biblioth^que Nationale. 454 255. ), in the author's collection. 455 256. Fabulous monster containing the massa confusa Hermaphroditisches Sonn- und Mondskind (1752), p.
For it is not a question of an imitation that leaves a man un changed and makes him into a mere artifact, but of realizing the ideal on one's own account—Deo concedente—in one's own individual life. We must not forget, however, that even a mis taken imitation may sometimes involve a tremendous moral effort which has all the merits of a total surrender to some supreme value, even though the real goal may never be reached and the value is represented externally. It is conceivable that by virtue of this total effort a man may even catch a fleeting glimpse of his wholeness, accompanied by the feeling of grace that always characterizes this experience.
Christian education has done all that is humanly possible, but it has not been enough. Too few people have experienced the divine image as the innermost pos session of their own souls. Christ only meets them from with out, never from within the soul; that is why dark paganism still reigns there, a paganism which, now in a form so blatant that it can no longer be denied and now in all too threadbare dis guise, is swamping the world of so-called Christian civilization. ]3 With the methods employed hitherto we have not succeeded in Christianizing the soul to the point where even the most elementary demands of Christian ethics can exert any decisive influence on the main concerns of the Christian European.