Charles Victor on Religion

Reading between the lines of the few things the apostle Paul has to say about the angelic hosts, we find that when Satan and his cohorts rebel it is not against God per se, but the divine proposal of creation. The moment God sets his in-Spirited Word forth as creation, the incarnation of God begins. That God intends, as scripture has it, that the Word not go forth without accomplishing its end, the divine intention is patent. The act of creation is teleological and not simply causal. God wills his incarnation into the created to the end that it will reach a pivotal point wherefrom it will turn, and proceed back into God. The moment of first light, the Fait Lux [Let there be light] aims toward its manifestation as Lux-mundi [Light of the world], the God-man. It is in the Lux-mundi that creation begins to apprehend the truth of its origins and purpose, and so is empowered to turn toward that moment when sun and moon are no longer givers of light, but when the Lux-mundi becomes before all enthroned within the Godhead from whom than proceeds all light. This is both the resolution of the divine incarnation that began with Fiat Lux and its superseding, the new creation, the new heaven and earth.[i]

Attempts

The unconscious is a reservoir of the experiences of terrestrial life. It, in a sense, remembers everything from the dawn of life to the present. In it resonates all that was and, as the power of life, all that wants to be. It is a formidable force. As a type of living archive it has a structure, or more accurately, a format for communicating itself forward. Its forms for forward movement are akin to those Kantian a priori forms the rational mind has to move itself forward into the world: the notions of time, space, substantiality, relation, etc. that organize the field of sensations in order to make them workable bits of information creating a navigable world. The “forms” the unconscious applies are symbols. The prime symbols of our existence are the arche-types. The unconscious constantly reaches out to the conscious mind to direct it toward pragmatic positivity and integrity of self and world. When its the attempts are ignored or frustrated, it counteracts. It forces forward frustrations that command attention be paid it. It wants to challenge into growth, but it also seeks balance.[i]