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A Prophet (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the introverted intuitive at work in a whole people: without that type, Israel would have had no prophets.

A Prophet (n.) makes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠his own life symbolic — adapted to the eternal meaning of events but not to the present, so he can only profess or proclaim: a voice crying in the wilderness.

A Prophet (n.) who ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠appears at a moment's notice suggests psychic disequilibrium; every respectable prophet strives manfully against the pretensions of his role.

A Prophet (n.) places ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠himself inside the enantiodromia he foretells: by predicting the antichristian phase, Nostradamus became its mouthpiece.

A Prophet (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a person possessed by a numinous archetype who, not realizing it is a role thrust upon him, lives it out concretely — and so becomes prophet or reformer.

A Prophet (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠always disagreeable and usually has bad manners, but occasionally hits the nail on the head.

A Prophet (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠often just the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest, while the unheeded wise man is counted a fool; luckily it is sometimes the other way round, or mankind would have perished of stupidity.