Image: Crucifix, sculpture by Michelangelo, Santo Spirito Church, Florence, Italy (ca. 1494), a depiction of naked crucifixion with the genitals of the condemned exposed.
Truly; the way leads through the crucified, that means through him to whom it was no small thing to live his own life, and who was therefore raised to magnificence.
He did not simply teach what was knowable and worth knowing, he lived it.
It is unclear how great one’s humility must be to take it upon oneself to live one’s own life.
The disgust of whoever wants to enter into his own life can hardly be measured.
Aversion will sicken him. He makes himself vomit.
His bowels pain him and his brain sinks into lassitude.
He would rather devise any trick to help him escape, since nothing matches the torment of one’s own way.
It seems impossibly difficult, so difficult that nearly anything seems preferable to this torment.
Not a few choose even to love people for fear of themselves.
I believe, too, that some commit a crime to pick a quarrel with themselves. Therefore I cling to everything that obstructs my way to myself .
He who goes to himself climbs down.
Pathetic and ridiculous forms appeared to the greatest prophet who came before this time, and these were the forms of his own essence. He did not accept them, but exorcised them before others.
Ultimately; however, he was forced to celebrate a Last Supper with his own poverty and to accept these forms of his own essence out of compassion, which is precisely that acceptance of the lowest in us.
But this enraged the mighty lion, who chased down the lost and restored it to the darkness of the depths.
And like all those with power, the one with the great name wanted to erupt from the womb of the mountain like the sun. But what happened to him?
His way led him before the crucified and he began to rage.
He raged against the man of mockery and pain because the power of his own essence forced him to follow precisely this way as Christ had done before us. Yet he loudly proclaimed his power and greatness.
No one speaks louder of his power and greatness than he from whom the earth disappears under his feet.
Ultimately the lowest in him got to him, his incapacity; and this crucified his spirit, so that, as he himself had predicted, his soul died before his body.
No one rises above himself who has not· turned his most dangerous weapon against himself One who wants to rise above himself shall climb down and hoist himself onto himself and lug himself to the place of sacrifice.
But what must happen to a man until he realizes that outer visible success, that he can grasp with his hands, /leads him astray.
What suffering must be brought upon humanity; until man gives up satisfying his longing for power over his fellow man and forever wanting others to be the same.
How much blood must go on flowing until man opens his eyes and sees the way to his own path and himself as the enemy; and becomes aware of his real success.
You ought to be able to live with yourself but not at your neighbor’s expense.
The herd animal is not his brother’s parasite and pest. Image: Crucifix, sculpture by Michelangelo, Santo Spirito Church, Florence, Italy (ca. 1494), a depiction of naked crucifixion with the genitals of the condemned exposed.
Truly; the way leads through the crucified, that means through him to whom it was no small thing to live his own life, and who was therefore raised to magnificence.
He did not simply teach what was knowable and worth knowing, he lived it.
It is unclear how great one’s humility must be to take it upon oneself to live one’s own life.
The disgust of whoever wants to enter into his own life can hardly be measured.
Aversion will sicken him. He makes himself vomit.
His bowels pain him and his brain sinks into lassitude.
He would rather devise any trick to help him escape, since nothing matches the torment of one’s own way.
It seems impossibly difficult, so difficult that nearly anything seems preferable to this torment.
Not a few choose even to love people for fear of themselves.
I believe, too, that some commit a crime to pick a quarrel with themselves. Therefore I cling to everything that obstructs my way to myself .
He who goes to himself climbs down.
Pathetic and ridiculous forms appeared to the greatest prophet who came before this time, and these were the forms of his own essence. He did not accept them, but exorcised them before others.
Ultimately; however, he was forced to celebrate a Last Supper with his own poverty and to accept these forms of his own essence out of compassion, which is precisely that acceptance of the lowest in us.
But this enraged the mighty lion, who chased down the lost and restored it to the darkness of the depths.
And like all those with power, the one with the great name wanted to erupt from the womb of the mountain like the sun. But what happened to him?
His way led him before the crucified and he began to rage.
He raged against the man of mockery and pain because the power of his own essence forced him to follow precisely this way as Christ had done before us. Yet he loudly proclaimed his power and greatness.
No one speaks louder of his power and greatness than he from whom the earth disappears under his feet.
Ultimately the lowest in him got to him, his incapacity; and this crucified his spirit, so that, as he himself had predicted, his soul died before his body.
No one rises above himself who has not· turned his most dangerous weapon against himself One who wants to rise above himself shall climb down and hoist himself onto himself and lug himself to the place of sacrifice.
But what must happen to a man until he realizes that outer visible success, that he can grasp with his hands, /leads him astray.
What suffering must be brought upon humanity; until man gives up satisfying his longing for power over his fellow man and forever wanting others to be the same.
How much blood must go on flowing until man opens his eyes and sees the way to his own path and himself as the enemy; and becomes aware of his real success.
You ought to be able to live with yourself but not at your neighbor’s expense.
The herd animal is not his brother’s parasite and pest. Man, you have even forgotten that you too are an animal.
You actually still seem to believe that life is better elsewhere. Woe unto you if your neighbor also thinks so.
But you may be sure that he does. Someone must begin to stop being childish.
You actually still seem to believe that life is better elsewhere. Woe unto you if your neighbor also thinks so.
But you may be sure that he does. Someone must begin to stop being childish. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 310.
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