V

Descent into Hell in the Future

iii(v)-iv(r)

237-240

"In the following night, the air was filled with many voices. ...

A loud voice called, "I am falling." ... Do you want me to leave myself ... to the madness ...? ... W[h]ither? You fall, and I want to fall with you, whoever you are.

{cf., e.g., Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s falling down the rabbit-hole

The spirit of the depths opened my eyes and I caught a glimpse of the inner things, the world of my soul, the many-formed and changing.

into Wonderland.}

I see a gray rock face along which I sink into the great depths. [fn. 82 : "The Draft continues : "A dwarf {was this a kobold/gnome?} clad entirely in leather stood before it, minding the entrance" (p. 48)."] I stand ... in a dark cave. ... I crawl through a narrow crack in the rock and reach an inner cave whose bottom is covered with

black water. ...

{"Black waters" are Taoist and Bon.}

But beyond this I catch a glimpse of a luminous red stone ... . I wade through the ... water.

[fn. 83 : "The Corrected Draft has : "It is a six-sided crystal that gives off a cold, reddish light (p. 35). Albrecht Dieterich refers to the representation of the underworld in Aristophanes’ The Frogs (which he understood to be Orphic origin) as having a large lake (Nekyia ... [Leipzig : Teubner, 1893]. p. 71)."]

The cave is full of the frightful noise of shrieking voices. I take the stone, it covers a dark opening in the rock. ... I place my ear to the opening. I hear the flow of underground waters.

I see the bloody head of a man on the dark stream. ...

{Orpheus : "His head they threw into the river ..., but it floated" (GM 28.d).}

I see a large black scarab floating past on the dark stream. In the deepest depths of stream shines a red sun, radiating through the dark water.

There I see – and a terror strikes me – small serpents on the dark rock walls, striving toward the depths, where the sun shines."

{The water-snake god <PP (Apophis) pursueth the barque of the Sun-god through the river of the Netherworld.}

"My knowledge has a thousand voices, an army roaring like lions; the air trembles when they speak, and I am their defenseless sacrifice. Keep it far from me, science that clever knower, that bad prison master who binds the soul and imprisons it in a lightless cell. ... Let me persist in divine astonishment, so that I am ready to behold your [spirit-of-the-depths’s] wonders.

Let me lay my head on a stone before your door, so that I am prepared to receive your light."

{as Ya<qob lay his head on a stone-pillow at Luz/Bet->el (B-Re>s^it 28:11)}

p. 238a

"When the desert begins to bloom, it brings forth strange plants. You will consider yourself mad, and ["Madness grows" (p. 38 of the Corrected Draft) {like unto how a strange plant groweth}]. ... the Christianity of the time lacks madness, it lacks divine life. Take note of what the ancients taught us ... : madness is divine."

p. 238, fn. 89

Erasmus’s discussion is particularly important ... : "... the soul ... when it bursts its chains ... to be free, practicing running away from its prison, then ... men of this kind ... we find foretelling things to come, knowing tongues and writings which they had never studied beforehand – altogether showing forth something divine" (In Praise of Folly, tr. M. A. Screetch ..., pp. 128-29)."

p. 238b

But who can withstand fear when the divine intoxication and madness comes to him? Love, soul, and God are beautiful and terrible. ... If the spirit of the depths seizes you, you ... will cry out in torment. ... You are right to fear the spirit of the depths, as he is full of horror."

p. 238, fn. 91

"The Draft continues : "The spirit of the depths was so alien to me that it took twenty-five nights to comprehend him. And even then he was still so alien that I could neither see nor ask. He had to come to me as a stranger from far away and from an unheard-of side. He had to call me. I could not address him, knowing him and

p. 239, fn. 91

his nature. He announced himself with a loud voice ... . The spirit of this time arose ... against this stranger ... together with his many serfs. ... Then the spirit of the depths burst forth and led me to the site of the innermost. But he had reduced the spirit of this time to a dwarf ... . And the vision showed me

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the spirit of this time as made of leather, that is, pressed together, sere and lifeless."

{cf., e.g., a Bon goddess having "faces of leather" (BT, p. 90, #55)}

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He could not prevent he from entering the dark underworld of the spirit of the depths. ... The mystery of the red shining crystal was my next destination" (pp. 54-55)."

"from the red light of the crystal ..., there lay ... uncovered before me : in the depths of what is to come ... . The blond hero lay slain.

The black beetle ... is necessary for renewal; and so thereafter, a new sun glowed., the sun of the depths, full of riddles, a sun of the night.

{The scarab-beetle-god H^PR is depicted impelling the sun over the horizon in order to create the dawn.}

And ... the sun of the depths quickened the dead".

iii(v)

"But whoever looks from inside, knows that everything is new. ...

{"And I saw (Apokalupsis of Ioannes 21:1) : "Behold, I make all things new." (ibid. 21:5)}

iv(r)

Events have no [intrinsic] meaning. ... .

... the supreme meaning ... is not in events, and not in the soul, but is the God standing between events and the soul, the mediator of life, the way, the bridge and the going across."

p. 239a

"I myself am ... sacrificer and sacrificed."

p. 239, fn. 93

"In "Transformation symbolism in the mass," (1942), Jung commented on the motif of the identity of the sacrificer and the sacrificed, with particular reference to the visions of Zosimos of Panapolis, a natural philosopher and alchemist of the third century. Jung noted :

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"What I sacrifice is my egotistic claim,

{The "egotistic claim" to be sacrificed is any claim to authorship of any literature; for the writing is not a product of any "ego", but is an other-authored revelation from deities.}

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and by doing this I give up myself. ..." (CW 11, @397). Cf. also the Katha Upanishad, ch. 2, verse 19."

p. 239b

"They should sacrifice the hero in themselves ... . ... If the hero in you is slain, then the sun of the depths arises in you, glowing from afar, and from a dreadful place. ... everything that up till now seemed to be dead in you will come to life, and will change into poisonous serpents that will cover the sun, and you will fall into night ... in this frightful struggle. Your shock ... will be great, but from such torment the new life will be born. ... Your darkness, which you did not suspect since it was dead, will come to life and you will feel the ... life ... now ... buried in the matter of your body."

p. 240a

"I would like you to see what the murdered hero means. ... Through the murder of princes we will learn ... the prince in us, the hero ... . ... But we must recognize what is ... your prince ... . But our ruler is the spirit of this time ... . ... [fn. 100 : "The Draft continues : "... the spirits of the depths sent me nameless thoughts and visions, that wiped out the heroic aspiration in me as our time understands it" (p. 62)."] ... But the nameless spirit of the depths evokes everything that man cannot. ... If all heroism is erased, ... we ... will fall into ... our underworld, among the rubble of all the centuries in us." [fn. 101 : "The Draft continues : "Everything that we have forgotten will be revived ..." (p. 64)."]

p. 240, fn. 102

"1917, there was a discussion ... following a presentation by Jules Vodoz on the Song of Roland. Jung argued that "... In detail, the authoritarian principle ... clashes with the emotional principle. The collective unconscious enters into allegiance with the emotional." Concerning the hero, he said : "The hero ... should fall. All heroes ... lose their footing.""

VI

Splitting of the Spirit

iv(r-v)

240-241

p. 240b

"On this desert path there is not just glowing sand, but also horrible tangled invisible beings who live in the desert. ... .

{In the Zaratustrian description of the travels of the soul of the dead, the scenery wherethrough the soul must walk is a desert, but populated with monsters.}

... the desert is ... inhabited by magical beings who ... attach themselves to me and daimonically change my form. ... I have become a monstrous animal form for which I have changed my humanity."

{Shapeshifting of one’s dream-body is a commonplace practice of Siberian shamanry.}

p. 241a

"spider-legged monsters" [apparently identical with the "tangled invisible beings"on p. 240b]

{Kalakan~ja spider-deities (CDH, p. 17)}

"My soul : "Who gives you thought and words? ... Are you not my ... recipient ...? ... Don’t you know yet that it comes from me and belongs to me?"" {the suspicion of thoughts’ having been inserted into one’s mind by another entity, is hereby confirmed}

iv(r)

p. 241a

"I find myself again on the desert path. ... There lurk ... shooters of poison darts. ... . ... a nameless one appeared and leveled the murder weapon ... .

{God Prajapati became an antelope or stag (MS 4:2:12 – PS`, p. 6) in order to be shot by the archer-god Rudra (S`B 1:7:4 –PS`, p. 31).} {The "poison darts", howbeit, may be Indonesian.}

p. 241b

I felt myself transformed into a rapacious beast. ...

My soul appeared to me to be hollow, tasteless and meaningless. ...

{This may be goddess Vac/Us.as in the myth about Prajapati and S`arva/Rudra.}

iv(v)

The deadly arrow was stuck in my heart, and I did not know what it meant."

"The God becomes sick if he oversteps the height of the zenith. That is why the spirit of the depths took me when the spirit of this time had led me to the summit."

VII

Murder of the Hero

iv(v)

241-242

p. 241b

"Siegfried’s horn resounded over the mountains ... . ... Then we saw him coming high across the mountains on a chariot made of the bones of the dead. ... As he came around

p. 242a

the turn ahead of us, we fired at the same time and he fell slain. Thereupon I turned to flee, and a terrible rain swept down." [fn. 115 : "I had killed ..., helped on to the deed by ... the little brown man with me. ... The rain that fell ... expiated".]

p. 242b

"Siegfried, blond and blue-eyed, the German hero, had to fall by my hand". [fn. 123 : "To Aniela Jaffe`, he recounted that he had thought of himself as ... overcoming ... the Siegfried line. ... (... Memories, p. 204). The original Siegfried line was a defensive line established by the Germans in northern France" during the Great War.]

p. 242a

"I saw a merry garden, in which forms walked .., all covered in colored light, some reddish, the others blueish and greenish."

p. 242, fn. 117

"The unconscious reached beyond one, like a saint’s halo. ... the light-colored sphere ... surrounded the people. ... this was a vision of the beyond, where men are complete."

VIII

The Conception of the God

iv(v)-v(r)

242-245

iv(v)

You will give your gifts to those who pray to you in terror ..., and

your light will shine upon those whose knees must bend before you ... .

{cf. "at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow" (Philippians 2:10).}

Your life is with he [him] who has overcome himself

v(r)

These, Oh [O!] child of what is to come, are the wonders that will bear testimony that you are a veritable God."

p. 243b

"When my prince had fallen, the spirit of the depths opened my vision and let me become aware of the birth of the new God. The divine child approached me out of the terrible ambiguity, ... the laughable-serious, the sick-healthy, the inhuman[="beast" on p. 241b]-human and the ungodly[viz., non-Christian]-godly. I understood that the God whom we seek in the absolute was not to be found in absolute ... seriousness, ... humanity or even in godliness. ... I understood that the new God would be in the relative {cultural relativism}. ... God ... should ... encompass the ... laughable and serious, human and inhuman? ...

Therefore ... Christ first had ... his Antichrist, his underworldly brother."

{That Christ’s twin-brother is the devil is a Bogomil doctrine.}

p. 244b

"I became aware of the birth of the God. ... the God sank into my heart ... by mockery and worship, by grief and laughter, by yes and no. ... He was born as a child from my own human soul, which had conceived him with resistance like a virgin.

Thus it corresponds to the image which the ancients have given us."

{as figured in, e.g., Kore’s initial resistance to Haides}

p. 243b

"I have ... preached ... to the deceased. ...

It was ... monkey business, ... Hell’s masquerade of the holiest mysteries.

{cf. the monkey-armies’ crossing of Rama-Setu}

How else could ... have saved his Antichrist? ... But this dead ["force and value"] can also change into serpents."

p. 243, fn. 136

"The Draft continues : "... they even say that Christ himself had been a serpent" (p. 83). Jung commented on this motif in 1950 in Aion, CW 9, 2, @291."

{"As Moseh lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so shall the Son of Man be lifted up".}

p. 243b

"These serpents will extinguish the prince of your days."

p. 244a

"the serpents will immediately put out the sun of your days, and a night with wonderful will-o’-the-wisps will come over you."

"That will be a time of salvation ..., and the eternal fire, and redemption will descend. Then there will no longer be a hero ... . Because from that time henceforth all imitation is cursed. The new God ... forces men through himself. The God is his own follower in man. He imitates himself. ... But if God moves into the self, he snatches us from what is outside us, but single in relation to us. ... You arrive at him in yourself and only through your self seizing you. ... If we are in ourselves, then the space around us is free, but filled by the God. ... Therefore the spirit foretold to me that the cold of outer space will spread across the earth. [fn. 156 : "In Black Book 2 Jung noted : "with a gray beard and wearing an Oriental robe" (p. 231)."] With this me showed me ... that the God will step between men and drive every individual with the whip f icy cold to the warmth of his own monastic hearth. Because people were beside themselves, going into raptures like madmen."