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The God-image (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a complex of archetypal ideas and therefore a sum of libido appearing in projection — not only an image, but an elemental force.

The God-image (n.) once ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠spontaneously created confronts its maker autonomously and addresses him — so no criticism can disprove that it fashioned itself in him rather than he it.

The God-image (n.) turns ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠regression into progression: devotion sinks back to the parents, but if the symbol that rises is taken as a real symbol rather than a sign for father and mother, the backward movement becomes a way forward.

The God-image (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the symbolic expression of a psychic state that has absolute ascendancy over the will and can enforce achievements no conscious effort could manage — the imprint of the most overwhelming influences of unconscious energy on the conscious mind.

The God-image (n.) did ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not drop into man's lap from heaven, nor did the moral order: he carries it in nuce within himself — so enlightenment cannot dispel it, nor irony kill it.

The God-image (n.) lives, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Augustine held, not in the body but where the understanding is, where the power of investigating truth is.

The God-image (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠always anthropomorphic, in a more or less subtle way.

The God-image (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠so close to the self that any uncertainty about it causes the self profound unease — which is why the question is generally ignored.

The God-image (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠missing, in the end, the human element — the sea-monster turning, via the warm-blooded beast, into a man hints at God's incarnation.

The God-image (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠is incomplete produces a monstrous double, as a man's split-off contents mix with his shadow into an antagonist.

The God-image (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not invented but an experience that comes upon man spontaneously; it changes consciousness, and consciousness changes it.

The God-image (n.) and ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the symbols of the self coincide empirically — not a claim of metaphysical identity, only that both images arise in the human psyche.

The God-image (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠all that psychology can prove — not God, but an archetype of God, which is the most one can assert about him psychologically.

The God-image (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not posit God, it merely points to him — but the naïve equate the effective image with the transcendental X.

The God-image (n.) cannot ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be dismissed with an apologetic “only”: its mana convinces you that it expresses the Ens realissimum itself.

The God-image (n.) cannot ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be empirically distinguished from the archetype of the self — and insisting on the difference only separates man from God and prevents God from becoming man.

The God-image (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠psychologically, the soul's built-in correspondence to God, without which no connection could ever come about.

A God-image (n.) cannot ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be distinguished from the psychological self except by incontestable and unprovable faith, and the self holds something of the hidden god.

The God-image (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠changed like a kaleidoscope over the millennia, yet it matters which definition of his conscious dominant a man holds binding, for on it depends whether consciousness will be king.

The God-image (n.) exists ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠empirically as an image of wholeness, the symbol of the self, most often shaped as a mandala; psychology studies it to reconnect consciousness with its roots, not to dissolve religion.