"The Transformation of God" -- Chapter 4 of _The Creation of Consciousness_
Channel: Carl Jung Depth Psychology Reading Group
Date: 15/06/2019

Reference: _The Creation of Consciousness_, Chapter 4: "The Transformation of God" by Dr. Edward F. Edinger, published by Inner City Books http://www.innercitybooks.net .  

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00:42--"It may sound like theology, but it is not."

01:25--"...traditional religious images are our richest source of data concerning the objective Psyche."

02:10--Dr. Jung's remarkable letter to Elinid Kotschnig, written June 30, 1956, "in which he speaks of the continuing incarnation and the transformation of God."

03:00--The transformation of God by Jesus Christ.

10:28--Other examples of the transformation of God through his encounter with conscious man. Sodom & Gomorrah -- Genesis 18:23-32.

14:38--The Sacrifice of Isaac or the Akedah -- Genesis 22:1-14; Jerusalem Bible.

21:05--"Abraham is asked to participate in the tragic drama of divine transformation."
John 3:16.

23:05--The Myth of Tantalus, whose body becomes a crucible for the divine transformation of God.

29:02--The story of Sisyphus.

37:42--The Visions of Zosimos.

40:40--Dr. Jung was once asked "how he could live with the knowledge he had recorded in _Answer to Job_, he replied, 'I live in my deepest hell, and from there I cannot fall any further.'"

44:13--"...because I wanted God to be alive and free from the suffering man has put on him by loving his own reason [Logos] more than God's secret intentions."

45:10--"It is man's task to become more and more conscious."

53:18--"The Holy Ghost, the autonomous transpersonal spirit that connects man with God, has been lost by modern man."

55:15--"Ours is a time of great promise and great peril.... The danger is greater the more psychologically naive one is."

58:08--"The Age now dawning seeks 'linked-knowledge'."

58:22--"Not another religion in competition with all the others, but rather a psychological standpoint from which to understand and verify the essential meaning of every religion."

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