"...childhood innocence..,the expectation that reality is or should be superintended by an all loving father, [the innocence] must be extracted from this immature attitude...[so] that the spirit of benevolence can live effectively." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p234
"God sacrifices man...the movement is from human to divine... the ego is too full and the transpersonal world too empty. The balance must be righted by a sacrifice of the ego to the advantage of the Self." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p244
"God sacrifices God...the movement is from the divine to human, indicating a relative emptiness of the ego (poverty of the spirit) which requires a sustaining influx from the transpersonal, collective unconscious." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p244
"[Man Sacrifices God]...a drainage of energy and value from transpersonal categories to serve the interests of the conscious ego...[Man Sacrifices God] more desacralizing than making sacred...[Culturally, historically] this stage would be represented by atheistic materialism. The movement of energy is from the divine to the human, and thus belongs to a condition requiring an increase in conscious autonomy." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p244
"Man sacrifices man...refers to a sacrifice of the ego by the ego...for the ego's own development and the fulfillment of its transpersonal destiny...it is a conscious procedure, not motivated by unconscious archetypal compulsion but rather by conscious cooperation with the urge to individuate." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p245
" 'Every psychic advance of man arises from at the suffering of the soul' CG Jung CW II par 49. Suffering by itself is of no value. It is only consciously accepted, meaningful suffering which... is the willing endurance of the opposites within oneself, the acceptance of one's shadow, rather than indulging in the cheap way out by projecting it [onto others] which brings transformation." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p259
"...a nuclear process pertaining to the establishment of the central core of ...personality...the Self['s] presence...indicates that the transpersonal center of the individual identity is activated and is pouring an influx of energy and meaning into the conscious personality." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p255
"...a reaction to the numinous, a holy, awesome dread of the transpersonal reality of Selfhood." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p256
"...neurotic meaningless suffering ...transformed into conscious, meaningful suffering which is understood as a necessary ingredient of a profound archetypal life process." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p256
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