The Dark Side of God

For Jung, good and evil are locked in an eternal duel for supremacy. If one believes in one God, he must contain the two within himself. This conflict led Jung to write answer to Job, which he referred to as pure poison because of its controversial nature. In this work he explores the shadow or dark side of God, Satan, who is to become the Antichrist. He believed that the Trinity should be supplanted by a Quaternity, a common symbol for the Self. The Trinitarian symbolism lacks the feminine, the material, and hence the dark substance of the flesh and the devil.

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