Why Jung Believed Jesus Hid a Method to Break the Demiurge’s Control

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There's a reason the Gnostic Gospels
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were buried in the Egyptian desert for
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nearly 2,000 years. There's a reason the
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early church fathers declared them
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heretical and ordered them destroyed.
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And there's a reason Carl Young, one of
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the most brilliant minds in modern
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psychology, spent the last decades of
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his life obsessing over these forbidden
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texts. What Young discovered in the
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Gnostic interpretation of Jesus wasn't
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the comforting savior of Sunday school.
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It was something far more radical, far
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more dangerous to systems of control,
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and far more practically useful for
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anyone trying to break free from the
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prison of conditioned consciousness.
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Young believed that Jesus, as understood
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by the Gnostics, taught a specific
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psychological method for liberation from
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what they called the demiurge, the false
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god who creates and maintains the prison
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of material reality. And that method
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hidden in plain sight within the
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teachings is as relevant today as it was
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two millennia ago. Oh, and I just wanted
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community. Anyway, moving on. As I was
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saying,
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the Gnostic worldview presents a cosmos
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radically different from Orthodox
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Christianity in Gnostic texts like the
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Apocryphan of John and the hypostasis of
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the Archons, the material world is not
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the creation of the true transcendent
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God. Instead, it's the flawed creation
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of a lesser deity called the demiurge.
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Sometimes identified with Yaldabath, a
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blind and arrogant entity who believes
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himself to be the only god. This
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demiurge creates the material world as a
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prison, a realm of ignorance, suffering,
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and limitation designed to trap divine
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sparks of consciousness within physical
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bodies, keeping them ignorant of their
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true origin. The demiurge rules through
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archons, spiritual forces or principles
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that maintain the prison through fear,
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desire, identification with the body,
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and most importantly through keeping
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humans asleep to their true nature. When
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Young encountered these texts,
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particularly after the discovery of the
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Nagamadi library in 1945, he recognized
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something profound. The Gnostic demiurge
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wasn't a literal cosmic villain. It was
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a precise psychological description of
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what he had been calling the ego and the
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persona, the false self structure that
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humans mistake for their identity. The
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demiurge is the psychological force that
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creates and maintains a false reality, a
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limited worldview built from
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conditioning, trauma, societal
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programming, and identification with the
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material body and its drives. The
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archons are the complexes, the
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autonomous psychological forces that
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control behavior from the unconscious.
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And the divine spark trapped in matter.
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That's what Young called the self. The
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true center of the psyche, the totality
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of who you actually are, buried beneath
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layers of false identification.
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Now, here's where Jesus enters the
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picture, but not the Jesus of
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conventional theology. The Gnostic Jesus
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doesn't come to die for humanity's sins
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in the orthodox sense. He comes as a
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revealer, a messenger from the realm
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beyond the demiurge, sent to awaken the
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sleeping sparks, to teach them the
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method of liberation, to show them how
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to recognize the prison and escape it.
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The Gospel of Thomas, one of the most
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important Gnostic texts, contains
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sayings of Jesus that read completely
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differently when understood through this
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lens. Jesus says, "If you bring forth
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what is within you, what you bring forth
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will save you. If you do not bring forth
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what is within you, what you do not
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bring forth will destroy you. This isn't
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moral instruction. It's a psychological
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technique. What is within you, buried
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beneath the ego's false constructs, is
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the divine spark, the self. Bring it
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forth, make it conscious, integrate it,
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and you're saved from the prison.
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Suppress it, deny it, remain identified
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with the false self, and it destroys you
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from within. Jung saw in this teaching a
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parallel to his own concept of
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individuation. The process of becoming
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conscious of the unconscious, of
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integrating the shadow, of withdrawing
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projections, and ultimately of shifting
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the center of identity from the ego to
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the self. But the Gnostic Jesus offers
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something more specific, a method that
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Young believed was deliberately encoded
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in the teachings to avoid detection by
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the powers that wanted to keep humanity
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asleep. The method involved several
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distinct stages and Jung spent
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considerable effort decoding them from
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both gnostic texts and alchemical
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manuscripts which he believed were
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transmitting the same knowledge in
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different symbolic languages.
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The first stage is nosis itself which
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translates as knowledge but means
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something more like direct experiential
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knowing. This isn't intellectual
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knowledge. It's the sudden recognition
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of the prison. It's the moment when you
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see, really see that the reality you've
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been living in is a construct. That the
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self you thought you were is a fiction
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that the world as presented by consensus
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consciousness is a controlled illusion.
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In the Gospel of Philip, another Gnostic
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text, it states, "Ignorance is the
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mother of all evil. Ignorance will
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eventuate in death because those who
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come from ignorance neither were nor are
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nor shall be." The opposite of ignorance
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isn't belief or faith. It's nosis,
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direct seeing. Jesus, in the Gnostic
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interpretation, doesn't ask for belief.
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He demands awakening. Jung called this
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same moment the encounter with the self
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or the beginning of the individuation
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process. It often comes through crisis,
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through what he called the confrontation
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with the unconscious.
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Something breaks, the normal defenses
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collapse, and suddenly you see through
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the game. You recognize that you've been
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living automatically, that your thoughts
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aren't your own, but are programmed
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responses, that your desires are
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manufactured by external forces, that
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your identity is a costume you've been
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wearing so long you forgot it was a
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costume. This recognition is
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destabilizing, even terrifying. The
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Gnostics called it the call or the
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awakening. Modern psychology might call
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it a existential crisis or dark knight
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of the soul, but it's the necessary
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first step. The second stage involves
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what the Gnostics called separation from
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the archons and what Jung would describe
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as withdrawing projections and
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confronting the complexes. The archons
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in Gnostic texts aren't fought directly
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through willpower. They're transcended
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through recognition. In the text called
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Zastustrianos, the ascending soul passes
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through various levels of archonic
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control by naming them, by seeing them
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clearly for what they are. Once named,
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once seen, they lose their power. This
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is identical to Jung's therapeutic
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method. A complex that operates
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unconsciously controls you. The moment
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you make it conscious, name it, see its
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pattern, it loses its autonomous power.
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It doesn't disappear, but it no longer
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possesses you. Jesus in Gnostic texts
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teaches his disciples the names and
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natures of the archons specifically so
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they can pass beyond them. In the Pist
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Sophia, Jesus provides detailed
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descriptions of each archonic power and
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how to recognize and transcend it. Jung
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saw this as a psychological map, a guide
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to the various autonomous complexes and
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how to integrate them. The archon of
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fear, the archon of desire, the archon
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of pride. These aren't demons out there.
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They're psychological forces within. And
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the method to transcend them is the
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same. Bring them into consciousness.
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Name them, see their mechanism, and
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refuse to identify with them.
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The third stage, and this is where it
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gets really interesting, involves what
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the Gnostics called the bridal chamber
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and what Young interpreted as the
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integration of opposites, specifically
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the union of masculine and feminine
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principles within the psyche. The Gospel
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of Philip states, "When Eve was still
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with Adam, death did not exist. When she
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was separated from him, death came into
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being. If he enters again and attains
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his former self, death will be no more."
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This isn't about literal men and women.
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It's about psychological wholeness. The
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separation of masculine and feminine, of
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conscious and unconscious, of ego and
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shadow. This is the fundamental split
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that creates the experience of
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separation, suffering, and death. The
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reunion, the sacred marriage, the heros
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gamos, as Young called it, is the
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reintegration of these split aspects.
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Young dedicated enormous energy to
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understanding this principle through
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alchemy, which he believed was
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transmitting Gnostic wisdom in coded
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form. The alchemical marriage where the
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king and queen, sun and moon, sulfur and
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mercury unite, isn't about chemical
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processes. It's about the psychological
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integration of thema and animus, the
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inner feminine and masculine. When these
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unite, when the psyche achieves this
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internal wholeness, the person is no
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longer split, no longer at war with
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themselves, no longer controllable
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through the manipulation of internal
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conflicts. This is liberation from the
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demiurge's primary control mechanism,
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internal division. But here's what makes
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the Gnostic Jesus method particularly
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radical and why Young believed it was
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deliberately hidden. The Gnostic texts
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don't just teach liberation for the
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individual. They teach that each person
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who achieves nosis and liberation
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weakens the demiurge's overall power.
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The Gospel of Truth states, "He who has
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knowledge knows where he comes from and
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where he is going. But more than that,
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it teaches that nosis is contagious.
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That awakened consciousness naturally
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awakens other consciousness.
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Jesus doesn't save people through his
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death. He awakens people through his
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teaching and his example. Each awakened
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person becomes a revealer for others.
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Young saw this principle operating in
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what he called the collective
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unconscious. When one person
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individuates, when one person breaks
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free from collective conditioning and
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achieves psychological wholeness, it
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creates a pattern, a possibility, a
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template that makes it easier for others
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to do the same. It's not that they're
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copying the individuated person. It's
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that the individuated person's existence
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proves it's possible, and that proof
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registers in the collective psyche. This
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is why systems of control are so
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threatened by awakened individuals. It's
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not just that they've personally
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escaped. It's that their escape makes
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the prison visible to others and
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demonstrates that liberation is
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possible.
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The method Jesus taught according to
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Jung's interpretation of Gnostic texts
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can be summarized in practical
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psychological terms. First, achieve
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nosis through direct confrontation with
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the unconscious. This means meditation,
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dream work, active imagination, any
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practice that breaks the dominance of
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ego consciousness and allows the
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unconscious to speak.
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Second, name and transcend the archons
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by making your complexes conscious.
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Identify the patterns that control you,
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the automatic reactions, the
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compulsions, the fears and desires that
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aren't actually yours but have been
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programmed into you.
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Third, integrate the opposites through
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the union of internal masculine and
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feminine, conscious and unconscious,
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light and shadow. This is the work of
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accepting all aspects of yourself,
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especially the parts you've rejected or
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denied. Fourth, recognize yourself as
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the divine spark, the self, not the ego.
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Shift your identity from the constructed
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personality to the totality of
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consciousness.
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And finally, help others awaken, not by
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preaching or converting, but by
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embodying liberation.
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In Jung's later work, particularly in
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his book Ion, he explored the figure of
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Christ as a symbol of the self. But he
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was careful to distinguish between the
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Christ of Orthodoxy and the Christ of
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Nosis.
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Orthodox Christ saves you through belief
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and vicarious atonement. Gnostic Christ
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awakens you through teaching and
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example. Orthodox Christ maintains the
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power structure, the need for church,
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priest, intermediary.
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Gnostic Christ eliminates the
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intermediary and places the
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responsibility and the power directly
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within each individual.
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This is why the Gnostic texts were
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declared heretical. They're inherently
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anti- athoritarian. They place ultimate
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authority within each person's direct
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experience of the divine, not in
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external institutions or doctrines.
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And honestly, this is where the teaching
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becomes uncomfortable for people because
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it removes the comfort of salvation
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through belief or through someone else's
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sacrifice.
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The Gnostic method requires work,
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requires consciousness, requires taking
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full responsibility for your own
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liberation.
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You can't be saved by believing the
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right things or following the right
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rules. You can only be liberated by
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doing the psychological work of making
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the unconscious conscious, of
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integrating what has been split, of
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awakening from the sleep of conditioned
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existence.
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Jung knew this made the teaching
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unpopular.
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People want to be saved. They don't want
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to have to save themselves.
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The demiurge, understood
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psychologically, is every force that
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keeps you asleep and identified with
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limitation.
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It's societal conditioning that tells
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you who you should be. It's trauma that
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convinced you you're fundamentally
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broken. It's consumer culture that keeps
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you chasing satisfaction through
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external acquisition.
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It's political ideology that divides the
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world into us versus them. It's
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religious doctrine that places God
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outside and above rather than within and
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throughout. It's the voice in your head
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that sounds like you, but is actually
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the accumulated programming of family,
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culture, media, education, all the
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systems that benefit from you remaining
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small, controllable, and asleep.
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Breaking the demiurge's control means
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recognizing all of this as external
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imposition rather than internal truth.
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Jesus in the Gnostic texts repeatedly
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emphasizes that the kingdom of God is
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within, not coming in the future, not
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located in heaven after death, but
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present now, accessible now if you know
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how to see it. In the Gospel of Thomas,
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he says, "The kingdom of the father is
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spread out upon the earth, and people do
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not see it." Why don't they see it?
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Because the demiurge has convinced them
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to look everywhere except within.
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Everywhere except now.
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The method to break this control is to
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reverse the gaze. To turn attention
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inward, to question every assumption, to
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examine every belief, to make conscious
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every unconscious pattern until you find
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what was there all along, buried beneath
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the conditioning, the divine spark, the
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self, your actual nature beyond all the
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false identities.
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Jung spent his final years working on
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answer to Job, a controversial text
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where he examined the nature of God
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through a psychological lens. He argued
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that the God of the Old Testament, the
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jealous, wrathful, contradictory deity,
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was actually a symbol of the unconscious
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itself, powerful but not fully
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conscious. And he suggested that the
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incarnation of Christ represented
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consciousness entering into and
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transforming the unconscious divine. But
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in his private writings and letters,
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particularly those collected in the
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Gnostic Yung, he went further. He
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suggested that the Gnostic
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interpretation was more psychologically
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accurate, that Yahweh was the demiurge,
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the ego God, and that Christ represented
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the self, the true divine consciousness
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coming to awaken humanity from the
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demiurge's prison. This interpretation
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explains why Jesus was killed by both
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religious and political authorities.
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He wasn't teaching people to be better
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slaves to the system. He was teaching
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them how to break free from the system
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entirely. He was revealing that the
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authorities, both spiritual and
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temporal, were manifestations of the
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demiurge, the false god who maintains
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control through fear, through promised
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rewards and threatened punishments,
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through external authority.
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The kingdom within, the direct nosis,
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the awakened consciousness. This makes
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all external authority obsolete. Of
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course, they killed him. He was teaching
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people to escape the prison. And of
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course, they buried the Gnostic texts.
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They contained the exact method. But
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here's the thing Yung understood that
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makes this relevant today. The method
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still works. The demiurge is still
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operating perhaps more effectively than
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ever through technology, media,
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algorithms that know you better than you
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know yourself. systems designed to keep
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you distracted, divided, and
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domesticated.
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But the method to break free hasn't
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changed because human psychology hasn't
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fundamentally changed. Make the
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unconscious conscious. Name the forces
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that control you. Integrate what has
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been split. Shift identity from ego to
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self. Recognize the prison and help
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others see it, too. The Gnostic Jesus
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wasn't killed to save you. He was killed
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to stop him from awakening you. But the
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teaching survived, hidden in texts,
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encoded in symbols, transmitted through
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mystery schools and alchemical
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manuscripts and depth psychology.
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Jung cracked the code. He translated the
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ancient wisdom into modern psychological
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language. He showed that nosis and
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individuation are the same process
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described in different vocabularies.
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He proved that liberation from the
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demiurge's control isn't ancient
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mythology. It's practical psychology.
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It's the work of becoming conscious in a
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world designed to keep you asleep.
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And if you're reading this, if these
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words are resonating, if something in
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you is recognizing the prison, then the
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call has reached you. The awakening has
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begun. The method is available. The
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question isn't whether liberation is
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possible. The question is whether you're
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willing to do the work that Jesus
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taught, that the Gnostics preserved, and
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that Jung decoded for the modern mind.
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The demiurge's control breaks the moment
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you see it clearly. The archons lose
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their power the moment you name them.
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The prison walls dissolve the moment you
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recognize you're not the prisoner.
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You're the divine spark that was never
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actually contained. You were always
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free. You just had to remember. And
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maybe that's what Jesus really meant by
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salvation. Not being saved by someone
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else, but awakening to the truth that
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you were never really lost.