The Universal Christ

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the supposedly Christian continent, that another Great War was almost
inevitable. Tragically, his prediction ended up being fully correct.


I do not think Jung would have been exposed to my distinction between Jesus
and Christ. More likely, he would have used the two words interchangeably, as
have most people up to now. But if I read him correctly, his God Archetype can
teach us something important about the Christ Mystery, and our participation
in it. He understood that the full journey towards wholeness must always
include the negative experiences (the “cross”) that we usually reject. In that,
Jung was more Christian than the critics who called him anti-Christian.

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