the story of Job, both sides of god.
“God is like the
behemoth and the leviathan;
fruitful nature giving
forth abundance,—the untamable wildness and boundlessness
of nature,—and the overwhelming danger of the
unchained power.
what has destroyed Job’s earthly paradise? The
unchained power of nature.
God has simply turned his other side outwards for once;
the side which man calls the devil, and which lets
loose all the torments of nature on Job.”
Psychology of the Unconscious
C. G. Jung
“The God who created
such monstrosities, before whom the poor weak man
stiffens with anxiety,
truly must hide qualities within himself
which are food for thought.
This God lives in the
heart, in the unconscious, in “the realm of metapsychology.
There is the source of the anxiety before the unspeakably
horrible, and of the strength to withstand the horrors."
