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Hieros gamos (n.) is the old sublimation of earthly marital longing, from the Song of Songs to St. Catherine and Hauptmann's Hannele, which Jung called a prologue in heaven to the earthly comedy.
The Hieros gamos (n.) is an eternal image from Lao-tzu's tao to Cusanus and the marriage of the Lamb; man can turn his mind from it for a time but never for good, and when it is obscured his life loses meaning and balance.
Hieros gamos (n.) turned in Christianity into its opposite — torment instead of lust, the martyr's stake instead of the mistress; psychologically, the union of conscious and unconscious, which always heals.