"The person, that is to say his conscious "I," is a play-thing, a feather whirled around by different currents of air;
sometimes the sacrifice and sometimes the sacrificer, and he cannot hinder either.
The Book of Job shows God both as creator and destroyer. Who is this God?
A thought which humanity in every part of the world and in all ages has brought forth from itself and always again anew in similar forms."
Carl Jung
"The mystic in religious ecstasies put himself on a plane with the stars, just as a saint of the Middle Ages put himself by means of the stigmata on a level with Christ.
St. Francis of Assisi expressed this in a truly pagan manner, even as far as a close relationship with brother sun and sister moon.
The old belief removed the becoming-one with God until the time after death; the mysteries, however, suggest this as taking place already in this world."
the song of triumph of the ascending soul.
"I am the God Atum, I who alone was.
I am the God Rê at his first splendor.
I am the great God, self-created, God of Gods,
To whom no other God compares."
"I was yesterday and know tomorrow;
the battle-ground of Gods was made when I spoke. I know the name of that great God who tarries therein."
"I am that great Phoenix who is in Heliopolis, who there keeps account of all there is, of all that exists."