dear struan:
i follow your arguements and that is why i ask the question about evil.
there isnt a simple answer. but i think i have found a satisfactory answer
in Jung's "Answer to Job".
Jung believes that the active principle in the collective unconscious is
God. but then he proceeds to explain how not only does God change us but
mankind changes God.
Jung says:
"It may even be assumed that just as the unconscious affects us, so the
increase in our
consciousness affects the unconscious."
Jung thinks of God's reaction to Job, as an innocent and righteous man
jerked around by God's unconsciousness. Jung's idea that the Incarnation
then is the means by which God redeems Himself from His morally false
position in Job is an extraordinary reversal of the consciously expressed
dogma that the Incarnation is to redeem humanity.
this then is the Jungian proposition that the unconscious is both a side of
the human mind and a door into the Transcendent. When that door opens, the
expression of the Transcendent is then conditioned by the person through
which it is expressed, possessing that person, but
it is also genuinely Transcendent and reflecting the ongoing interaction
that the person historically embodies. The possible "mere being" even of
consciousness then becomes the place of meaning and value. i see this as
correlating with Dynamic Quality.
Lithien
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