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Try To See Yourself
ONLY IN OUR CREATIVE ACTS DO WE STEP FORTH INTO THE LIGHT AND SEE OURSELVES WHOLE AND COMPLETE.
“If we do not fashion for ourselves a picture of the world, we do not see ourselves either, who are the faithful reflections of that world. Only when mirrored in our picture of the world can we see ourselves in the round. Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete. Never shall we put any face on the world other than our own, and we have to do this precisely in order to find ourselves. For higher than science or art as an end in itself stands man, the creator of his instruments.”
– Carl Gustav Jung, “Analytical Psychology and Weltanschauung”
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The figure of the Father, which is manifested in the Old Testament, is that of a creator and originator of all things, who turns a benevolent as well as a destructive aspect towards men.
Men stand to him in a childlike relation that does not ponder the nature of this undivided, dark and light father God and is unable to exercise any criticism concerning him. . . .
In an age, however, in which the figure of a Son of God appears, the condition of human consciousness is also different; This does not mean a step back into the first phase, although a wrong turning of this kind naturally always threatens…
