January 22, 2026

Universal Symbolism Within a Christian Motif 

Not My Will But Thy Will Be Done

The 23rd Rule of Love 

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Then he [Jesus] said to them [his disciples], “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.” Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you, will.”
(Matthew 26:38-39)

 
The crucial point is to not treat ourselves as a philosophical problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Through the increase of our own consciousness, we bring Our Power of The Universe/God into being as well - for we are but fragments of The Power of The Universe/God - who, in His omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence, cannot experience Himself, so that he needs us as much as we need Him.

 As Carl Jung writes:
And this is why I also believe that the Godhead periodically must vacate the Godhead, as it were, and take on human form in order to experience this recognising consciousness. One has to be separated from something in order to be able to perceive it. As long as Our Power of The Universe/God is the totality, Our Power of The Universe/God cannot know anything. Everything is The Power of The Universe/God. Only that which is detached from or separate from The Power of The Universe/God can really see and know. If I am this world, I cannot perceive it.

 
Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung

On the other hand, when you understand that suffering has a purpose, and is in fact the sine qua non of all self-realisation and self-transcendence, and that without it there is no salvation, then you become an active agent of your own destiny. We all have to carry our individual crosses on the path to the eternally alone.

The problem of crucifixion is the beginning of individuation, there is the secret meaning of the Christian symbolism, a path of blood and suffering–like any other step forward on the road of the evolution of human consciousness.

Carl Jung, Unpublished Letter (1936). From Gerhard Adler’s Dynamics of the Self

Of course, suffering has to be meaningful, and not just, for instance, moving a heavy sack of cement from one place to another, as the Nazi guards forced the prisoners in concentration camps to do, only to have them return it back to the original place a la Sisyphus. “The meaninglessness of suffering, not the suffering, was the curse that lay over mankind so far.”

(Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals)

Blaming Our Power of The Universe/God/God does us no good, instead we should ask or pray to Our Power of The Universe/God for strength and courage to face our struggles, understanding that sin can never be overcome - as it is part of the human condition. “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” 

(1 John 1:8-10)

Those who believe that they are not sinful, become neurotic - that is, in a state of disunity. Neurosis is an escape from authentic suffering, namely, escaping from your very self, and from the meaning of life that was set out for you in your soul, before you were incarnated into your current bodily vessel. “A neurosis is a much greater curse! In general, a neurosis is a replacement for an evasion, an unconscious desire to cheat life, to avoid something.”

(Jung, Reflections)

Jung calls conflicts of duty “the most diabolical things ever invented and at the same time the loneliest ever dreamt of by the loneliest of all, the Creator of the world. It is an actual fact that what is good to one appears evil to the other.”

(C.W. Vol. 10: Civilisation in Transition).

True conscience is a personal, inner voice that may lead us to act differently, even if we don’t fully understand why. But one would be wise to listen to it.

Individuation is born from suffering in depths of the self, not from mere obedience to rules. If one endures the conflict conscientiously, a creative solution (or miracle) eventually arises, deo concedente [Power of the Universe -willing].

If one fulfils the will of Our Power of The Universe/God one can be sure of going the right way…It was obedience which brought me grace, and after that experience I knew what Our Power of The Universe/God 's grace was. One must be utterly abandoned to Our Power of The Universe/God ; nothing matters but fulfilling His will. Otherwise all is folly and meaninglessness.

Carl Jung: Memories, Dreams, Reflections

The 23rd Rule of Love 

By Shams of Tabriz 

Life is a temporary loan, and this world is nothing but a sketchy imitation of Reality. Only children would mistake a toy for the real thing. And yet human beings either become infatuated with the toy or disrespectfully break it and throw it aside. In this life stay away from all kinds of extremities, for they will destroy your inner balance.