Posted by BlueLamp on March 29, 2000 at 15:44:36:
In Reply to: Position of Jesus. posted by Tiggy on March 27, 2000 at 18:45:11:
Yes you are basically talking Jung's quaternity here. You have Adam
(E1), Eve (E2), God the Son (E3 representing the unity Adam and Eve
were supposed to be, a Savior in other words), Mary (E4, the final
piece of the puzzle) thus producing the Jungian self as idealized by
Jesus in human form. Jungian scholars like to use Merlin as a
Christlike figure and I personally like the goddess Rhiannon (of
Welsh mythology and Stevie Nicks song fame - BlueLamp is also a
Stevie song)... Christianity definitely brings a history to spiritual
myth due to a very strong Jungian synchronicity... Buddhism has this
same thing but it is in terms of abstract concepts, Eastern
religions (and personality) is more abstract while the West is in to
concrete events (of history or myth)... Jesus had His Cross,
Merlin his cave and Rhiannon her dungeon which gets into the 2nd
quaternity of the Enneagram which starts with the human Jesus output
of the first quaternity (E5), then is God the Father (human Jesus's
E6 conscience)... then is E7 life (Jesus in the Gospels) then is
an E8 heroic victorious death/climax (Jesus on the Cross) resulting
in the E9 output of spirit (Holy Spirit or Jesus in resurrected
form)... Buddhism has this 2nd quaternity in abstract form also...
There may be physical processes for all these spiritual things,
our E9 spirit may be a worldline that goes through a superposition of
particles in our brain before going on to be part of a really huge
superposition of all universes in heaven, our E6 God the Father
conscience may be superposition subsets in our brain that get in
tune with the complete superposition of all universes, and E3 God
the Son represents ideal unity not only of Adam & Eve or all
humanity but also a unity of our spirit with God as symbolized by
Jesus guided by His God the Father conscience before leaving us the
Holy Spirit... John