Jung has some eerily relevant comments in his answer to Job, considering that we're now facing theMAGAGOD.
"Yahweh can do all things and permits himself all things without
batting an eyelid. With brazen countenance he can project his shadow side
and remain unconscious at man’s expense. He can boast of his superior
power and enact laws which mean less than air to him.
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Murder and
manslaughter are mere bagatelles, and if the mood takes him
he can play
the feudal grand seigneur and generously recompense his bondslave for the
havoc wrought in his wheat-fields.
“So you have lost your sons and
daughters? No harm done, I will give you new and better ones."
Before, Job had known Yahweh “by the hearing of the ear"
but now he has got a taste of his reality, more so even than David—an incisive
lesson that had better not be forgotten.
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Formerly he was naïve, dreaming
perhaps of a “good” God, or of a benevolent ruler and just judge.
He had imagined that a “covenant” was a legal matter and that anyone who was
party to a contract could insist on his rights as agreed;
that God would be
faithful and true or at least just, and, as one could assume from the Ten Commandments, would have some recognition of ethical values or at least
feel committed to his own legal standpoint.
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But, to his horror, he has
discovered that Yahweh is not human but, in certain respects, less than
human, that he is just what Yahweh himself says of Leviathan (the
crocodile):
He beholds everything that is high:
He is king over all proud beasts.
Unconsciousness has an animal nature. Like all old gods Yahweh has
his animal symbolism
with its unmistakable 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, while the upper deity, the one above the “sapphire throne,”
merely had the “likeness” of a man.
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".
One can submit to such a God only with fear and trembling, and can
try indirectly to propitiate the despot with unctuous praises and
ostentatious obedience.
But a relationship of trust seems completely out of
the question to our modern way of thinking.
Nor can moral satisfaction be
expected from an unconscious nature god of this kind.
Yahweh’s allocutions:
"This is I, the creator of all the
ungovernable, ruthless forces of Nature.
I am an amoral force of Nature, a purely phenomenal
personality that cannot see its own back."
This could be a moral satisfaction for Job,
because through this declaration man, in spite of his impotence, is
set up as a judge over God himself.
We do not know whether Job realizes
the fact that a kind of Moira or Dike rules over Yahweh,
causing him to give himself away so blatantly.
"Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous;
because … he upbraideth us with our offending the law,
and objecteth to our infamy.…
He professeth to have the knowledge of God:
and he calleth himself the child of the Lord.
He was made to reprove our thoughts."
Not from mere thoughtfulness and unconsciousness, but from a deeper motive,
the Wisdom of Solomon here touches on the sore spot.
the Wisdom of Solomon internalized Job's message. too bad its pearls are ignored and trampled.
"The unrighteous and the ungodly,
however, say:
Let us oppress the poor righteous man,
let us not spare the widow,
nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged.
Let our strength be the law of justice:
for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth."
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