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.The hero is the one who, while still alive, knowswhich the mind must plunge alone and be dissolved.Therefore,and represents the claims of the superconsciousness whichGod and the gods are only convenient means themselves of thethroughout creation is more or less unconscious.The adventurenature of the world of names and forms, though eloquent of, andof the hero represents the moment in his life when he achievedultimately conducive to, the ineffable.They are mere symbols toillumination the nuclear moment when, while still alive, hemove and awaken the mind, and to call it past themselves.5found and opened the road to the light beyond the dark walls ofHeaven, hell, the mythological age, Olympus and all the otherour living death.habitations of the gods, are interpreted by psychoanalysis asAnd so it is that the cosmic symbols are presented in a spiritsymbols of the unconscious.The key to the modern systems ofof thought-bewildering sublime paradox.The kingdom of Godpsychological interpretation therefore is this: the metaphysicalis within, yet without, also; God, however, is but a convenientrealm = the unconscious.Correspondingly, the key to open themeans to wake the sleeping princess, the soul.Life is her sleep,door the other way is the same equation in reverse: the uncon-death the awakening.The hero, the waker of his own soul, isscious = the metaphysical realm."For," as Jesus states it, "be-himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.God,hold, the kingdom of God is within you."6 Indeed, the lapse ofthe waker of the soul, is therewith his own immediate death.superconsciousness into the state of unconsciousness is preciselythe meaning of the Biblical image of the Fall.The constriction of Perhaps the most eloquent possible symbol of this mystery isconsciousness, to which we owe the fact that we see not the that of the god crucified, the god offered, "himself to himself.'"Read in one direction, the meaning is the passage of the phe-* Beyond the categories, and therefore not denned by either of the pair of oppo-nomenal hero into superconsciousness: the body with its fivesites called "void" and "being.'1 Such terms are only clues to the transcendency.senses like that of Prince Five-weapons stuck to Sticky-hairThis recognition of the secondary nature of the personality of whateveris left hanging to the cross of the knowledge of life and death,deity is worshiped is characteristic of most of the traditions of the world (see,for example, supra, p.164, note 154).In Christianity, Mohammedanism, andpinned in five places (the two hands, the two feet, and the headJudaism, however, the personality of the divinity is taught to be final whichcrowned with thorns).8 But also, God has descended voluntar-makes it comparatively difficult for the members of these communions to un-ily and taken upon himself this phenomenal agony.God assumesderstand how one may go beyond the limitations of their own anthropomor-phic divinity.The result has been, on the one hand, a general obfuscation ofthe life of man and man releases the God within himself atthe symbols, and on the other, a god-ridden bigotry such as is unmatched else-the mid-point of the cross-arms of the same "coincidence ofwhere in the history of religion.For a discussion of the possible origin of thisaberration, see Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism (translated by JamesStrachey; Standard Edn., XXIII, 1964).(Orig.1939.)' Supra, p.176.8[iSupra, pp.79-80.Luke, 17:21.241240 THE UNIVERSAL ROUNDEMANATIONSrevolves throughout a lifetime.According to an Aztec version,opposites,"1' the same sun door through which God descendseach of the four elements water, earth, air, and fire terminatesand Man ascends each as the other's food [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]