A letter from Carl Jung to Reverend David Koch 9/27/1957
"...Instead of using the term God, you [could] say “unconscious,”
instead of Christ “self,”
instead of incarnation “integration of the unconscious,”
instead of salvation or redemption “individuation,”
instead of crucifixion or sacrifice on the Cross (suffering), “realization of the four functions or of “wholeness” (sensing, intuition, thinking and feeling.)"
"...Christ is the model for the human answers and his symbol is the cross, the union of the opposites.
This will be the fate of man, and this he must understand if he is to survive at all.
We are threatened with universal genocide if we cannot work out the way of salvation by a symbolic death.
In order to accomplish his task, man is inspired by the Holy Ghost in such a way that he is apt to identify him with his own mind.
He even runs the grave risk of believing he has a Messianic mission, and forces tyrannous doctrines upon his fellow-beings.
He would do better to dis-identify his mind from the small voice within, from dreams and fantasies through which the divine spirit manifests itself.
One should listen to the inner voice attentively, intelligently and critically (Probate spiritus!), because the voice one hears is the influxus divinus consisting, as the Acts of John aptly state, of “right” and “left” streams, i.e., of opposites.
They have to be clearly separated so that their positive and negative aspects become visible.
Only thus can we take up a middle position and discover a middle way."
Carl Jung on “Religious Belief” – Carl Jung Depth Psychology (carljungdepthpsychologysite.blog)