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06-24-2007, 04:57 PM
In Job, Satan describes himself as "Walking to and fro on earth.", and later in the book we come across a passage describing an action by God, "He breaks open a shaft away from people; in places forgotten by feet they hang far away from men; they swing to and fro." The words to and fro appear in both.
I've done some small and general studies of Carl Jung and some of the basic concepts of his analytical psychology. 'The Ego' is the conscience self, and 'The Persona' is a mask built, learned beginning in childhood to display or correct society face. It is how you communicate in the world. Children learn it by being punished in school and taught by parents, and eventually it is simply who we are socially. 'The Shadow' is all these repressed things unaccepted by society that we store in the unconscious which are only utilize in private. Jung theorized that 'The Shadow' sometimes reveals itself in a dream as an enemy and is similarly menacing. Sometimes it can appear as the enemy of your particular nation, such that if you were an American your 'Shadow' might appear as a Islamic Terrorist. Another example is a junkie's 'Shadow' being an accusing police officer. 'The Moral Complex' also imposes restrictions on our 'Ego' and 'Persona' and is demonized in 'The Shadow'.
Maybe this has actual implications on God's breaking open a shaft away from people and places forgotten by feet i. e. 'The Shadow' literally being Satan. In other words our sins and evils are in us all to an extent, therefore hypocrisy is inevitable. And 'The Shadow', which was a menace in dreams, but in tribulation becomes something menacing to our very right to life as it masquerades with our iniquities, and needs to be conquered to enter heaven.
If you still do not understand than maybe this will help; In the Holocaust, Hitler convinced many German's rather successfully that 'The Shadow' was Jewish people.
I've done some small and general studies of Carl Jung and some of the basic concepts of his analytical psychology. 'The Ego' is the conscience self, and 'The Persona' is a mask built, learned beginning in childhood to display or correct society face. It is how you communicate in the world. Children learn it by being punished in school and taught by parents, and eventually it is simply who we are socially. 'The Shadow' is all these repressed things unaccepted by society that we store in the unconscious which are only utilize in private. Jung theorized that 'The Shadow' sometimes reveals itself in a dream as an enemy and is similarly menacing. Sometimes it can appear as the enemy of your particular nation, such that if you were an American your 'Shadow' might appear as a Islamic Terrorist. Another example is a junkie's 'Shadow' being an accusing police officer. 'The Moral Complex' also imposes restrictions on our 'Ego' and 'Persona' and is demonized in 'The Shadow'.
Maybe this has actual implications on God's breaking open a shaft away from people and places forgotten by feet i. e. 'The Shadow' literally being Satan. In other words our sins and evils are in us all to an extent, therefore hypocrisy is inevitable. And 'The Shadow', which was a menace in dreams, but in tribulation becomes something menacing to our very right to life as it masquerades with our iniquities, and needs to be conquered to enter heaven.
If you still do not understand than maybe this will help; In the Holocaust, Hitler convinced many German's rather successfully that 'The Shadow' was Jewish people.