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Carl Jung - "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" (Collins, Fount Paperbacks; London:1961)

p.17 Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity ...

p. 63 It often seemed to me that religious precepts were being put in place of the will of God - which could be so unexpected and so alarming - for the sole purpose of sparing people the necessity for understanding God's will. ... All the people around me seemed to take the jargon for granted, and the dense obscurity that emanated from it;

thoughtlessly they swallowed the contradictions ....

p. 72 [On the Communion service] There was no mention of the fact it was now 1860 years since Jesus had died, where as in all other memorial services the date was stressed. I saw no sadness and no joy,

and felt that the feast was meagre in every respect, considering the extraordinary importance of the person whose memory was being celebrated. It did not compare at all to secular festivals.

p. 73 It is an absence of God; the church is not a place I should go to. it is not life which there, but death.

p. 75 God has a personality and is the ego of the universe, just as I

myself am the ego of my psychic and physical being.

p. 236 Not only do I leave the door open for the Christian message, but I consider it of central importance for Western man. it needs, however, to be seen in a new light, in accordance with the changes wrought by the contemporary spirit. Otherwise it stands apart from the times, and has no effect on man's wholeness.

p.242 Blind acceptance never leads to a solution; at best it leads only to a standstill and is paid for heavily in the next generation.

p. 326 ... this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.

p. 343 Myth is the natural and indispensable intermediate stage between unconscious and conscious cognition.

p. 360 ... the life of the psyche [spirit] requires no space and no time.

p. 369 ...I prefer the term unconsciousness", knowing that I might equally well speak of "God" or "daimon" if I wished to express myself in mythic language.

p. 370-371 ... the service which man can render to God, that light may emerge from the darkness, that the Creator may become conscious of

His creation, and man conscious of himself.

p. 373 It is not we who invent myth, rather it speaks to us as a Word of God. The Word comes to us and we have no way of distinguishing whether and to what extent it is different from God. ... the Word happens to us; we suffer it, for we are victims of a profound uncertainty: with God as a complexio oppositorum, all things are possible, in the fullest meaning of the phrase.

p. 383 All conceivable statements are made by the psyche [spirit]. Among other things, the psyche appears as a dynamic process which rests on a foundation of antithesis ...