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SERMONES AD MORTUOS - C G JUNG
Sermo V
The dead mocked and cried: teach us, fool, of the church and the holy communion.
The world of the gods is made manifest in spirituality and sexuality. The celestial ones appear in spirituality, the earthly in sexuality. Spirituality conceives and embraces. It is woman-like and therefore we call it MATER COELESTRIS, the celestial mother. Sexuality engenders and creates. It is man-like, and therefore we call it PHALLOS, the earthly father.
The sexuality of man is more of the earth, the sexuality of woman is
more of the spirit.
The spirituality of man is more of heaven, it goes to the greater.
The spirituality of woman is more of the earth, it goes to the smaller.
Lying and devilish is the spirituality of the man which goes to the smaller.
Lying and devilish is the spirituality of the woman which goes to the
greater.
Each must go to its own place.
Man and woman become devils one to the other when they do not divide their spiritual ways, for the nature of creatura is distinctiveness. The sexuality of man has an earthward course, the sexuality of woman is spiritual. Man and woman becomes devils one to the other if they do not distinguish their sexuality. Man shall know of the smaller, woman of the greater.
Man shall distinguish himself both from spirituality and from sexuality. He shall call spirituality Mother, and set her between heaven and earth. He shall call sexuality Phallos, and set him between himself and the earth. For the Mother and the Phallos are superhuman daemons which reveal the world of gods. They are for us more effective than the gods, because they are closely akin to our own nature. Should you not distinguish yourself from sexuality and from spirituality, and not regard them as of a nature both above and beyond you, then you are delivered over to them as qualities of the pleroma. Spirituality and sexuality are not your qualities, not things which you possess and contain. But they possess and contain you; for they are powerful daemons, manifestations of the gods, and are, therefore, things which reach beyond you, existing in themselves. No man has a spirituality to himself, or a sexuality to himself. But he stands under the law of spirituality and of sexuality.
No man, therefore, escapes these daemons. You shall look upon them as daemons, and as a common task and danger, a common burden which life has laid upon you. Thus is life for you also a common task and danger, as are the gods, and first of all terrible Abraxas.
Man is weak, therefore is communion indispensable. If your communion is not under the sign of the Mother, then it is under the sign of the Phallos. No communion is suffering and sickness. Communion in everything is dismemberment and dissolution.
Distinctiveness leads to singleness. Singleness is opposed to communion. But because of man's weakness over against the gods and daemons and their invincible law is communion necessary. Therefore shall there be as much communion as is needful, not for man's sake, but because of the gods. The gods force you to communion. As much as they force you, so much is communion needed, more is evil.
In communion let every man submit to others, that communion be maintained for you need it.
In singleness the one man shall be superior to the others, that every
man may come to himself and avoid slavery.
In communion there shall be continence.
In singleness there shall be prodigality.
Communion is depth
Singleness is height.
Right measure in communion purifies and preserves.
Right measure in singleness purifies and increases.
Communion gives us warmth, singleness gives us light.