A Dogma (n.) must be a physical impossibility, for it says nothing about the physical world — it symbolizes unconscious processes; belief in it is a stop-gap that must sooner or later be replaced by understanding.
A Dogma (n.) that seems absurd may still do work: belief in a miracle detaches the psyche from the merely sensual, without which directed thinking is impossible.
A Dogma (n.) is the machine that turns something horribly alive into a beautiful abstraction — Brother Klaus's terrifying face of God tamed into the Trinity.
A Dogma (n.) takes the place of the collective unconscious, channelling its whole life into creed and ritual like a well-controlled stream.
A Dogma (n.) can be pushed from below: the Assumption of Mary came not from hesitant bishops but from the masses — the urge of the archetype to realize itself.
A Dogma (n.) is the quintessence of inner experience in a language grown alien; when it withers there is no better symbol left for the unconscious.
A Dogma (n.) no longer bridges to inner experience but is merely "believed" — hypostatized, expressing nothing, so that faith itself has become the experience.
A Dogma (n.) is what shaky opinions need: truth can stand on its own feet — fanaticism is ever the brother of doubt.
A Dogma (n.) is truer to the psyche than any scientific theory: theory is abstract and rational, dogma renders the irrational whole in images.
A Dogma (n.) is like a dream — one scientific theory is soon superseded by another, but dogma lasts for untold centuries.
A Dogma (n.) is gnosis of psychic laws that pervade even the Boundless; only heedless fools will wish to destroy it — the lover of the soul, never.
A Dogma (n.) is alive only while it is both believed and thought about; without the ancients' thinking there would be no Trinity at all.
A Dogma (n.) whether ecclesiastical, philosophical or scientific protects weak heads from being addled by the secret that every order must dissolve; excommunication is its socially useful consequence.
A Dogma (n.) that is still valid shows the unconscious its own secret reflection, in which it recognizes itself and joins forces with consciousness.
A Dogma (n.) is a temporary intellectual formulation of a religious or philosophical attitude shaped by time and circumstance; the attitude itself is the cultural achievement, driving people to creative work for a future age.
Dogma (n.) gradually becomes soulless in the end, and then life, wanting new forms, activates the archetype that has always helped man express the mystery of the soul.
Dogma (n.) is an archetype grown abstract; mystical experience inside the Church still shows its archetypal face, which is why it often smells of heresy or paganism.
Dogma (n.) is a spiritual structure of supreme beauty, Jung conceded, beside which psychology's earthbound, contradictory models are unsightly — yet they come from daily labour in the sloughs of human pain.