“Job is a sacrifice for Yawhe’s developing consciousness” great summation of the Divine Drama - this is the most powerful work by jung - looking at it through Blake’s work is fascinating - thank you 🙏
Tells me God is not the all knowing figure he claims to be. And we are here for his gain. Not so much for his love. I feel used on this Earth. Not loved. But I can only speak for myself.
The Well I once fell in a well where I dipped my cup Now I cannot even tell if I made it up Was it what it seemed or am I mistaken? How we forget our dreams when we awaken Dark turned light and white to black Saw all my flaws in ALL that I lacked Everything mattered as Matter reacts Actions turned patterns it mattered to fact Kettle and pot watched spot mocking dot A lot of forgot got lost in the plot Hop fought with trot as drop shot at flop Is walked to ought across Gordian knot Thinking succinct two winks in a blink Everything linked, every instinct A drink from the well expelled to the brink Heaven and hell befell into sync All into One in awe The ALL The Fall reinstalled The Law in us all I dreamt that I drank from the well of life I fell… I sank… awoke to write
All we can see of God is our idea of God. We can know our being only by letting go of our ideas, all of our ideas. The foundation of nature never changes which is our awareness separate from the awareness of anything. We can test this when we are aware of our being as a child and today and recognize our awareness hasn't changed even as we have changed greatly. Everything we are aware of is the face of God not God. Our awareness is God. Rev. 1-5 Jesus said I am the faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead. I am is the life of the body. The id of man is an idol as are all things witnessed. 🙏⚕️⛲🙏
I wasn't responding to your comment. I thought I was responding in the main section. I should say my comment has opinion that I'm not married to also. I came across Maggie Rogers song, Fallen Water today which I believe speaks to a shared experience as Mr. Leary. 🙏
This is a longer one, I'll have to save to a Playlist, but my understanding of the book of job is it essentially incorporates the evil face of God, and it is through the union of opposites that we find the transcendent function and the trinity becomes the quaterinity, in the figure of the puer....something like that....the puer becomes the senex through jungs orphan stone engraving. He lifts himself from the depths
The story of Job. as far as I know, does not have any counterparts in primitive mythologies. Here I use the word "primitive" not as meaining less developed but earlier in time, as Jospeph Campbell might have. Maybe it is because, in the earlier mythologies, man does not see himself as separate from the cosmos as opposed to the Jungian idea (8:20-ish) that man is an orphan of the cosmos. Almost every Christian I know takes the point of view of Job's "comforters" who say he must have "made God angry" more or less.
Most Christians that I have encountered have no desire to engage with the shadow aspects of Yahweh - the driving chaos that filled with energy destroys as easily as it creates and without differentiation. In the macrocosmic, those driving forces are attempting to evolve a form that becomes a container and mirror, a set of minds that struggle for unity in their identical type of struggle. Man today has the power that the intellect has given but is still driven by the destructive - as well as the creative - aspects of Yahweh / unconscious - instinctive. Our struggle is focused, proximate and catastrophic, and it is less than clear that we shall tame the primitive rather than facilitate an apocalypse. The lack of commitment to resolving the great struggle - to honestly engage with the shadow and to transform through that means is manifesting the horrors of environmental destruction, war, pestilence, and extinction / death. We are still very much in the struggle - in our dark night of existential despair and manifesting the horrors of the shadow. It is less than clear that we will engage and transform or be unfit. Sadly, I am not optimistic, but then transformation can occur very suddenly, but first we need to endure and be naked and honest in our struggle. Then, the possibility exists, that a dawn may yet restore and make beautiful what we are destroying - our world and ourselves as complex biological mirrors of and for that which unfolds as it is in itself.
10:34 -ish: "the Job Ego..." prounced Job as "jahb" as in "getta job" The voice does it once more, at 23:06 ish. I'm not dissing it. It's better than I could do. LOL!
If YHWH trusted and lived his creatures he would subject himself to suffering and his freedom dependant on the love of his creatures for him. That will never happen because YHWH can not be made to suffer.
It can be argued that the myth of Jesus to come to embody YHWH, is to through a manifesting human form, experience his horror and suffer, and that the aim is the redemption of YHWH from its primal and cruel aspect, and that the suffering of Jesus is that means by which YHWH experiences suffering and redeems itself. Job then is a precursor story and of a very similar character of what the later story is. Job is fore-shadowing. (Christians largely seem to miss this essential quality of the narrative, and avoid Job's transformative journey. The result is that many express the primitive aspect of a warring, angry, vengeful and destructive shadow reaping a whirlwind of horror. We live in an age not unlike the mid 1930s, but with ever so much more power than was present then. We have tapped the power of the sun without being transformed into wise and gentle beings, and the result is staring us in the face every day in the news and in the unfolding degradation of the biosphere.)
