Christians Seem To Stay Projected Out Into A God Image And Never Therefore Realize God In Themselves
Christians don't usually realize their own teleios* because they keep attributing the destiny part of themselves, the greater center, to God and to the Jesus Christ of their Church beliefs.Jung recognized as a psychologist that the Christian mythologizing was their attempt to realize that in the God-man, Jesus, humanity recognized for the first time that God is within, and that what was within called God had been projected out onto the heavens, the universe itself. "Our Father, Who art in Heaven . . .." If this is not a fine statement of projection, I don't know what is? There are indications that the earliest form of the prayer was simply, "Father . . .." The possessive, "our," was not there. "Who art in Heaven" was added by Christians, already saying this prayer as a ritual.
Did Jesus say God was in the heavens? Maybe he did, or didn't? We don't know if the same Matthew who changed "kingdom of God" to "kingdom of heaven," as we know from comparing Matthew with Luke in parallel passages, inserted "heaven" here. It is likely since he did big changes with "heaven" elsewhere, as just pointed out. Thus we are left with the more historical statement, "Be perfect as your Father is perfect." Not "heavenly father is perfect."
Note, that while we see Jesus referring to God as Father, as in the Gethsemene prayer, "Father, all things are possible to you . . .." here we see Jesus referring to "Father of all of us, of humanity itself."
Could Jesus' concept have been that we may originate from nature by a biological father and mother, and then as adults becoming conscious of ourselves and the universe, we recognize that we are still being fathered, this time by the spirit or essence of father, the seed carrior, the male who makes things happen through initiating sexual intercourse?
Jesus does not talk about Mother as God, the Great Mother as Jung might describe it. Perhaps in Jesus' thinking the biological mother and the God Mother are one, are nature, the progenitor of life in the flesh, the instincts, nature itself.
The Second Birth Is From The Father, Not The Mother
So it is then, in the thought of Jesus, that you do not have a second birth from the mother. You are now existing as body, as flesh, as instincts, from your first mother. Your second birth is a spiritual birth recognized as the birth of consciousness, the use of awareness, thinking and being to transcend natural life from the mother, while at the same time being in it through your sexual and instinctual being.You are animal from nature but your second birth is of the spirit into the spirit, and that comes from the archetype of spirit, of The Father. Thus Jesus recognized in a new use of Father this process of transforming flesh into spirit, or making of your instinctive and natural life a vehicle for values greater than life itself.
It makes sense. As long as Jesus was aware of himself in the flesh he was son in the flesh. but now he was becoming spiritualized while still in the flesh. Therefore his other father was God as Father, his spiritual father.
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* Christians don't realize their own individuation, their own destiny, their evolution in meaning and purpose in their lives before they die, because they project this function and process onto Jesus. Jesus evolved, brought the message, and ended on the cross. So they don't do anything themselves but try and relive the Jesus destiny and values.
