>>14995551Jung identifies a more directly promethean version of Christ, hence he is identified with the serpent that enlightened man to break free of the tyrant, the same as Prometheus liberated us from Zeus on Olympus. If we are made in the image of God, then we also have God's authority and autonomy, and personal development akin to that found in depth psychology is how we honor God, rather than an Islamic style obedience to a state.
I am still conflicted about identifying Yahweh with the demiurge. Maybe its true. But often when we see someone as totally evil, it's because of our own lack of psychological differentiation. This is what Jews do when they have visions of Christ mired in feces and semen. Scatological imagery is found in alchemy related to the Christ equivalent, Mercurius, and it represents a shadow repression. They see Christ that way because they repress him. So I wonder if gnostics are doing the same thing with Yahweh. Christ's sermon on the mount is often taken to be a refutation of Yahweh's law, but I don't see it that way. They are all psychologizing of the physical laws of Moses. Like his teaching of adultery isn't about directly having sex with a woman as it was in Moses' law, but psychologically not perving on you. In essence, he is giving you his own Godhood, so that you develop the tools yourself rather than blindly obey a law.
Even in the most difficult one "turn the other cheek, bless those who persecure you, give them your shirt also..." as opposed to "eye for an eye". It is such a high teaching that it takes a high man to understand it. I think it has to do with psychologically divorcing yourself from an enemy, rather than doing so with physical punishment. When you have an enemy and are totally detached from them you overcome them, and then you can bless them. I've been working on this problem a lot. This is what it means to become a "Son of God" as in Rev 3:21
