You have the one God, and you become your one God in the innumerable number of Gods!

The title of this post was inspired by the Iranian youth’s motto during their revolution, where they referred to their new God as “The God of Rainbow”. I am sure this is the perfect name for a God who would embody every colour and form of existence if we believed in the creation of humans.

This is a worthy choice. So, I have faith in this new generation. But let’s delve deeper into the topic of God! I allow myself to get help from my mentor, Dr. Jung, especially his Masterwork, The Red Book.

I have been baptised with impure water for rebirth. A flame from the fire of Hell awaited me above the baptismal basin. I have bathed myself with impurity, and I have cleansed myself with dirt. I received him, I accepted him, the divine brother, the son of the earth, the two-sexed and impure, and overnight he has become a man. His two incisors have broken through, and light down covers his chin. I captured him, I overcame him, I embraced him. He demanded much from me and yet brought everything with him. For he is rich; the earth belongs to him. But his black horse has parted from him.

“You are afraid to open the door? I, too, was afraid since we had forgotten that God is terrible. Christ taught: that God is love. But you should know that
love is also terrible .”

Carl Jung
Red Book

Of course, the term God is not limited to the Third World (especially the Muslim world). It is a general whole world problem! As you might know, I am a non-religious person and having such a God as a great man sitting on his throne scratching his beard and sometimes having a horrible caprice, for me, is absolutely nonsense! However, I know these thoughts are also turning in your brains, my intellectual friends. Thus, I love the God of the rainbow, and I believe Dr. Jung himself has had a great challenge finding or even having encountered this very God.

“The practical knowledge of human nature I have accumulated in the course of sixty [60] years has taught me to regard each case as a new experience, for which, first of all, I have to seek the individual approach.” ~C.G. Jung, “Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams,” The Symbolic Life, CW 18, par. 518

“If a man is contradicted by himself and does not know it, he is an illusionist, but if he knows that he contradicts himself, he is individuated.” ~C.G. Jung, Letters, Vol. 2, p. 324

I must confess to stealing this last quote of Dr. Jung from one of the articles of a great Jungian analyst and an adorable friend of mine, Jean Raffa, and I am sure she has no problem with it. (You can find the whole article here!)

“[T]he term self is often mixed up with the idea of God. I would not do that. I would say that the term self should be reserved for that sphere, which is within the reach of human experience, and we should be very careful not to use the word God too often. As we use it, it borders on impertinence; it is unlawful to use such a concept too often. The experience of the self is so marvellous and so complete that one is, of course, tempted to use the conception of God to express it. I think it is better not to because the self has the peculiar quality of being specific yet universal. It is a restricted universality or a universal restrictedness, a paradox; so it is a relatively universal being and therefore doesn’t deserve to be called “God.” You could think of it as an intermediary [a portal? my word], or a hierarchy of ever-widening-out figures of the self till one arrives at the conception of a deity. So we should reserve the term God for a remote deity that is supposed to be the absolute unity of all singularities. The self would be the “preceding stage” [quotes mine], a being that is more than man and that definitely manifests; that is the thinker of our thoughts, the doer of our deeds, maker of our lives, yet it is still within the reach of human experience.” CG Jung, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: Note of the Seminar Given in 1924-1939, Vol. II (3 June 1936) par. 977-78.

We actually don’t need to think twice, as once must be enough, that if any God exists, it has to be a God for all the possibilities and coloured, don’t you think so?

I wish you all a wonderful weekend! I’ll try my best to publish some posts next time. However, here in Germany, it’s also school holidays in early October, and my lovely wife tends to take me away (to kidnap me!). Honestly, I give dearly up and let myself be taken away because I believe I need a break urgently!🤗💖🙏😘🦋

Thanks also, #psychoanalysis