The Crucifixion (n.) unites the hero with the mother-tree in death while negating the union — supreme courage and supreme renunciation, the most drastic symbol imaginable of instinct subdued.
The Crucifixion (n.) raises the question: what kind of father would rather his son were slaughtered than forgive creatures corrupted by his precious Satan?
The Crucifixion (n.) was no bloodless sacrifice but six hours of slow torture, a slave's disgraceful death, so that physical cruelty was matched by moral cruelty.
The Crucifixion (n.) is what the reality of evil does to everything that lives: we must all be suspended in a moral suffering so unbearable that the ordinary man can afford it only as seldom as possible — how else could he remain ordinary?
The Crucifixion (n.) awaits everyone on the road to wholeness: he is crossed by what he has no wish to be (the shadow), by what he is not (the You), and by his psychic non-ego — some are nailed by their virtues, others by their vices.
Crucifixion (n.) is, to the alchemist, being fixed to a double antithesis, a painful suspension torn in four directions among the warring elements, which the god who suffers it also reconciles.