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Nice post, LP. I agree with you that whether Jesus actually existed or not, and whether he lived as told in the Gospels or not, matters less than the fact (ala Jung) that the conveyed stories about him clearly spoke to humanity's deep inner needs, which is what gave it the strength to survive, grow, and expand into the present era.

Personally, I also look at it astrologically: the Age of Pisces with the two fish symbolism, where the beginning of the age begins with Christ and the end of the age ends with the anti-Christ. As each age is ~2,000 years, and with the rapidly emerging CBDC Mark of the Beast approaching the latter doesn't feel far off. As noted gnostic Stephan Hoeller stated in an interview:

"One of the principal disclosures to be found in this work is Jung’s belief that the Age of Aquarius is upon us, that significant changes in the consciousness of humanity are taking place, and that more of the same may be expected in the future. The “Aeon of Aquarius,” as Jung calls it, will eventually bring great psychological changes in its wake, amounting to a new religious consciousness which will differ greatly from the religious consciousness of the Piscean Age. It will manifest primarily in a new God-image that was very important to the ancient Gnostics and that in various ways has made its appearance throughout history in the esoteric tradition.

Two thousand and some years ago a new religion constellated itself in the Mediterranean region. With that religion came a new myth of redemption, centred in the image of Jesus, the Saviour God. Now Jung is telling us in The Red Book that the Aeon of Aquarius is upon us, and with it comes the new God-image of the God within. This image is of course none other than the God to whom St. Paul referred as “the Christ in you, our hope of glory.” It is also the indwelling Christ affirmed and venerated in the Gnostic tradition.

There is no doubt that Jung saw in the new Gnostic Renaissance, which began with the discovery in 1945 of the Nag Hammadi library, a manifestation of his own prophecy in the then still secret Red Book. The connection of Jung’s prophecy with the tradition of Gnosis is unmistakable.

In his Red Book, Jung stated clearly that the task of the present and near future was “to give birth to the ancient in a new time,” and he clearly meant the Gnostic tradition is in fact that ancient thing to which he and others were giving birth.

I have spent a very large portion of my adult life studying and commenting upon the work of Jung and the Gnostic sacred writings. I should say, then, that humanity today is experiencing the rebirth of Gnosticism, and its principal God-image is being born in a new time. The esoteric as well as the exoteric implications of this process are momentous."

Happy Easter.

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Soulminkey's avatar

Beautiful essay on this Easter Day, thank you!

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