Jesus Christ (n.) is the exemplification of the fact not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.
Jesus Christ (n.) is not made like the sun but is he through whom the sun is made — Augustine's rebuke to Christians still bowing to the dawn.
Jesus Christ (n.) said, in an apocryphal saying: he who is near unto me is near unto the fire.
Jesus Christ (n.) is the perfect symbol of the hidden immortal within the mortal man — like the two birds on one tree, one eating the fruit, one only watching.
Jesus Christ (n.) as an image is a symbol of the self — psychologically he means unity, which clothes itself in the corpus mysticum of the Church as with flower-petals.
Jesus Christ (n.) is the still-living myth of our culture — the culture hero who, regardless of history, embodies the Primordial Man.
Jesus Christ (n.) cast off his shadow from himself — and the cut-off counterpart is easily recognized in the figure of Antichrist.
Jesus Christ (n.) was the first sacrifice in sorting out the natures: the Passion happened only so that what was mixed could be separated.
Jesus Christ (n.) or self — which symbolizes which? Like the alchemists with their stone, modern psychology must ask whether Christ is a symbol of the self.
Jesus Christ (n.) is the perfect man who is crucified — hardly a truer picture of the goal of ethical endeavour.
Jesus Christ (n.) found the spirit bound to the bed like unto himself; unloosed, the spirit embraced and kissed him, he kissed it, and they became one.
Jesus Christ (n.) was born, astrologically, as the first fish of the Pisces era and doomed to die as the last ram, or lamb, of the declining age of Aries.
Jesus Christ (n.) as man corresponds to the ego and as God to the self — at once ego and self, part and whole.
Jesus Christ (n.) is dressed in figures and carries the types: his treasure lies hidden and looks like little, but opened up it is wonderful to see.
Jesus Christ (n.) is for the biographer the obscurest item in all the reports of the New Testament — psychologically an unfathomable enigma.
Jesus Christ (n.) is a magnet pulling to itself whatever in man is of divine origin, the “signs of the Father,” and carrying it home to heaven.
Jesus Christ (n.) as the living water is a panspermia, a matrix of all possibilities from which each spiritual man chooses his own idiosyncrasy.
Jesus Christ (n.) is the inner man, reached by the road of self-knowledge — the kingdom of heaven inside you.
Jesus Christ (n.) is sometimes shown with breasts in medieval iconography — and when the Lord kissed Mechthild's soul, he had, contrary to expectation, no beard.
Jesus Christ (n.) dissolved as a personality was at the same time assimilated and integrated into the human psyche — the result seen in the growth of personality and of consciousness.