Sublime

masculine =

Religions are psychotherapeutic systems in the truest sense of the word, and on the grandest scale. They express the whole range of the psychic problem in mighty images; they are the avowal and recognition of the soul, and at the same time the revelation of the soul's nature. From this universal foundation no human soul is cut off.

The dark side needs acknowledgement, and it is hardly going to get it from the Christian story, now that its identification with an image of light and goodness is set in stone.

wholeness’. In his letters, he refers to God as ‘that which steps up to [a man] and determines his destiny’.

‘religious statements without exception have to do with the reality of the psyche and not with the reality of physis’.

‘Does he believe in God, or doesn't he?’ The answer has to be ‘yes and no’, or ‘yes, but’.

He says that in his professional writings he uses the term ‘the unconscious’, but is aware that he ‘might equally well speak of “God” or “daimon” if I wished to express myself in mythic language’.

Derrida, who argued in several important writings that we need to rediscover ‘religion without the religions’.

At the back of this undervaluation of the soul is a fear of interiority.