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Redemption (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the pulpit's word that no longer explains itself: how has Christ's death redeemed us when no one feels redeemed?

Redemption (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not lift off a burden you were never meant to carry; only the whole person knows how unbearable man is to himself.

Redemption (n.) got ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠under way as soon as the highest God saw what miserable, unconscious creatures the demiurge had made, not even able to walk upright.

Redemption (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the painful conscious recognition of the opposites — the Cross between two thieves, one going to hell, one to paradise.

Redemption (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠release from an earlier darkness and unconsciousness into illumination and victory over everything "given"; for the living, the Beyond is a reversal of outlook, not a world after death.

Redemption (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠two formulas: in Christianity man needs redeeming and leaves the work to God; in alchemy man does the redeeming, and it is the world-soul imprisoned in matter that needs it.

Redemption (n.) runs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠two irreconcilable ways — the Christian labours in honour of God the Redeemer as one needing redemption; the alchemist labours as Man the Redeemer for the world-soul slumbering in matter.

Redemption (n.) from ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠all the world's sufferings is and must stay an illusion — Christ's life ended not in bliss but on the cross, and the united personality never loses its sense of inborn discord.

A Redemption (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what alchemy in East and West was at its core, built around the Gnostic doctrine of the Anthropos, a fact that necessarily escaped the chemist and was first opened up by the philologist Reitzenstein.

Redemption (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠unfinished in the alchemists' tacit view: Christ's work had left nature still poisoned, so the art had to complete the restoration of incorrupt nature — an opinion Jung found hard to deny sympathy.