...

Abandon theory for a moment...

After all in theory there's no difference between theory and practice;

In practice there is

Theory can sometimes be a good map, but in reality you live in the real world,
Where practice makes perfect

What does God mean?

Ignore theory for the moment, and just consider the image below

Language is at root a means for people to communicate with each other, and unlike most statements on god, this statement will make sense to anyone, from the most committed atheist to the most dedicated god-fearer...

So therefore, in practice, the true meaning behind the word "god" must tie into it somehow

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LECTURE VI : 26 February "1936"---PAGE 868------------Miss Toni Wolff : Does it not also explain his dream of the devil's face in a more synthetic way? ( Wolff being a Intuition superior function type? : )--------------------Prof. Jung : That is true. The dream of the devil's face when Zarathustra showed his "other side" become more understandable now--he is the devil himself.----------------------Yea, ye also my friends, will be alarmed by my "wild Wisdom"; and perhaps ye will flee therefrom, along with mine enemies.----------------------------THIS is another "Manifestation" of that peculiar "Wotan Effect" which is so incredible. Yet it is a fact that "Old Wotan" has to certain extent [come to life again]; one "hears" of it either directly or indirectly, and if anybody predicted such a FACT "twenty years ago", it would have been thought utterly impossible. It has become a FACT to the extent that the [Attitude of the ruling party in Germany] is really against the CHURCH; they are trying to subjugate the CHURCH and to translate, as it were, the terminology of the CHURCH into a sort of Pagan BELIEF. That idea of Pagan Christianity or the German ["faith"] is of course nothing else than the {Nationalization of GOD}; they then have a specific {[national GOD]}, Wotan for the German as Jahveh was for the Jew. --------------------------[e.g.? The American Religious Right Fundamentalists "faith" is a kind of Nationalization of GOD? as Zionists Settlers are a Nationalization of GOD? as the Saudi Royal Family is a Nationalization of GOD? as Ayatollah ALi Khamenei is a Nationalization of GOD? as the Church of England/Queen is a Nationalization of GOD? etc. : )]--------------THAT is quite inevitable. And it is understandable that in the face of such even friends might be ALARMED. One "is" ALARMED! I have quite a number of German friends and I must say I am alarmed by the FACT that they are so [gripped].---------------PAGE 868 : Volume II : LECTURE VI : 26 February "1936" C.G.Jung's Nietzsche's Zarathustra.

-- Anonymous