response to the book of Job
“is God sending the devil as a temptation or
is the tempting aspect of God also someone that can tempt you into development.
The basic premise of the opening of the Book of Job is this
a conversation takes place, this kind of divine wager between God and one of the sons of God who is a tempter or who is an adversary.
someone who is there to provoke, who's going to test proof, I suppose one might say, scrutinize.”
and challenge.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/psychology-the-cross/id1555012364
if you want to peruse the original text
here's a link to vol 11, of Jung's collected works, including Answer tonzjob.
free from the internet archive, can be downloaded as pdf.
"Clement of Rome taught that God rules the world with a right and a left hand, the right being Christ, the left Satan. Clement’s view is clearly monotheistic, as it unites the opposites in one God.
Later Christianity, however, is dualistic, inasmuch as it splits off one half of the opposites, personified in Satan, and he is eternal in his state of damnation.
then we are confronted with a major religious problem: the problem of Job."
Unconsciousness has an animal nature.
"Job was naïve, dreaming perhaps of a “good” God, or of a benevolent ruler and just judge.
But, to his horror, he has discovered that Yahweh is not human but, in certain respects, less than human,
just what Yahweh himself says of Leviathan (the crocodile):
He beholds everything that is high: He is king over all proud beasts.
animal symbolism with its borrowings from the much older theriomorphic gods of Egypt, especially Horus and his four sons."
Of the four animals of Yahweh
only one has a human face.
That is probably Satan, the godfather of man as a spiritual being. Ezekiel’s vision attributes
three-fourths animal nature and only one-fourth human nature to the animal deity,
This symbolism explains Yahweh’s
behaviour, which, from the human point of view, is so intolerable:
it is the
behaviour of an unconscious being who cannot be judged morally.
Yahweh is a phenomenon and, as Job says, “not a man.”
