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30 XII 1913 - the desert

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9 months 19 hours ago #69 by Charles Lester
30 XII 1913 was created by Charles Lester
The first entry of book three.
Jung has been lead away from his science. To a new world with no sight of way forward. A large part of science is lost. Will anyone else gain insight from his work? He should do this for the sake of God. A hard way. And what of the first centuries of Christianity?  They came to relentless conclusions - they went into the desert.
"So be it"

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8 months 3 weeks ago #72 by Charles Lester
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Jung is walking on a desert of yellow sand following tracks left by naked feet. Downward thru burning hot sand. He sees a hut. The door to the hut has a cross in red painted on it. Inside is a man with a book in his lap - the New Testament. This man is anchorite of the Libyan desert. A conversation starts.

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8 months 3 weeks ago #74 by Charles Lester
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And now Jung has a discussion with the anchorite {a religious recluse}.
Starting with Jung saying the anchorite’s life must be monotonous. He says he is not because he reads {the Bible}. He must have it memorized. No, each time he reads it he sees something new. Words have more than one meaning ans especially where there are many words together. Jung wants to know more about the “multifaceted meaning of the sequence of words.
The anchorite first tells Jung of himself. He was first a rhetorician and philosopher in the city of Alexandria before he learned of Christianity. Now they speak of Philo Judeaus and how John brought his thought into the gospel.

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8 months 2 weeks ago #75 by Charles Lester
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Now follows a discussion of the meaning of the word Logos; is it a light or a man? Was man brought down to the meaning of logos or ws logos brought up to man? If the human was not important above all he would not have appeared in the flesh, but in the Logos. The anchorite had to unlearn from the first meaning to the meaning just stated.


Now the sun has gone down and the anchorite takes him to an Egyptian stone grave. There is a bed of reeds and mats. Also a pitcher of water and dates and black bread. Jung is left there to sleep and is reminded not to forget morning prayer.

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