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VII
SERMONES AD MORTUOS - C G JUNG
Sermo VII
Yet when night was come the dead again approached with lamentable mien and said: There is yet one matter we forgot to mention. Teach us about man.
Man is a gateway, through which from the outer world of gods, daemons, and souls you pass into the inner world; out of the greater into the smaller world. Small and transitory is man. Already he is behind you, and once again you find yourselves in endless space, in the smaller or innermost infinity. At immeasurable distance stands one single Star in the zenith.
This is the one god of this one man. This is his world, his pleroma,
his divinity.
In this world is man Abraxas, the creator and the destoyer of his own
world.
This Star is the god and the goal of man.
This is his one guiding god. In him goes man to his rest. Toward him
goes the long journey of the soul after death. In him shines forth as
light all that man brings back from the greater world. To this one god
shall man pray.
Prayer increases the light of the Star. It casts a bridge over death. It prepares life for the smaller world and assuages the hopeless desires of the greater. When the greater world waxes cold, burns the Star.
Between man and his one god there stands nothing, so long as man can
turn his eyes away from the flaming spectacle of Abraxas.
Man here, god there.
Weakness and nothingness here, there eternally creative power.
Here nothing but darkness and chilling moisture. There wholly sun.
Whereupon the dead were silent and ascended like the smoke above the herdsman's fire, who through the night kept watch over his flock.