Tonight I'm going to start with ¶625 [of _Answer to Job_] in which he says that Sophia -
Sophia ...in ¶623
we were talking about the fact that even
Job longs for Wisdom to appear, and God hasn't remembered Sophia yet.
And so ¶625, the approach of Sophia
betokens a new creation. God intends to
change His own nature, and mankind is not
to be destroyed but saved. Now this is
this is after he's been whipping
up on Job pretty bad. Right? [Laughter] It
just can't go on. We'll talk about
in a minute, in one of these later chapters.
But anyway, so the 2nd Adam so the
2nd Adam who is Christ, shall not like
the 1st proceed directly from the hand
of the Creator, but shall be born of a
human woman. So this time priority falls
to the 2nd Eve, not only in a temporal
sense, but in a material sense as well.
"The woman and her seed" are thought of as
the human pair; as a human pair. So that's
why it's a Virgin Birth. Her and so I
have here in red, "Her independence of the
male is emphasized by her
virginity as the Sine Qua Non [essential condition, a thing that is absolutely necessary]  of the
process. She is the daughter of God who,
as later Dogma will establish, is
distinguished at the outset
by the privilege of an
Immaculate Conception, and is thus free
from the pain of Original Sin."
That's the point. The point of it is
that in order for Christ to be the Son
of God, God has to have a Feminine
side, whose both [Voice] Naive and inexperienced.  Or, you know,  she's both half human and half
Godlike, because God gives her
this privilege of conception without
without the Original Sin.
She therefore belongs to
a state before the Fall. She not only
bears the image of God in undiminished
purity, but, as the bride of God, is also
the incarnation of her prototype namely
Sophia. So Sophia was the equal side by
side with Yahweh. [Proverbs 8:12-36] Right? Except Yahweh
forgets Sophia for like millions of
years, and he only gets around to it with
with Job, and by the time 
he's working on Job, you know, this is all
Masculine stuff. "I can do this; and I
can do this; and I can do this!" [Voice] You can't forget about Satan.
Well, so Satan is the "Light Bringer".
Satan is "Lucifer", and so Satan is
bringing the idea is bringing the idea
that there ought to be Morality in the
world. And that comes from that
constellates in Job.  And so Job sees that
Yahweh is only an amoral Force of
Nature; no Morality there. But that
amoral Force of Nature should have within
it a Feminine side, a Moral side, Wisdom
side. Right?! As Bill points out;
as Bill pointed out, this is when
Philosophy started. Right? Because,
wasn't
Socrates around 500 BC also? 
Socrates was about ... [Voice] He was the last one before
they turned to literacy.  
Turned illiterate? [Voice] Literate. He was ... everything was oral.
Everything was oral up until.. up to Socrates.
So anyway humans around the world around
wherever we know about in Western world...
This is Western history, Not Chinese or
Indian history, of course, but in Western
history about 500 BC, but it happens it's
also at the same time as the Buddha. 
...is that human beings starting to get a
little Wisdom. Right? And start to see
this, you know, what
Jung described as the Feminine side,
So what Jung is saying here is the
like Sophia, she, Mary, is a mediatrix,
who leads the way to God, and assures man
immortality. Her "Assumption" is therefore
the prototype of man's bodily
Resurrection. As the Bride of God and
Queen of Heaven, she holds the place of
the Old Testament Sophia. So she
becomes the Feminine principle. [Voice] Is this the Old Testament? Oh yes!
I read the things from Psalms [actually Proverbs 8:12-26]
where she's describing herself. Yeah. You know,
where she says, you know, "I was right
there at the beginning. Whenever He did X,
you know, I was the workman ["artisan"--Proverbs 8:30] [Voice] She made her
way into things in the Greek culture, right?
Through Philosophy ["Lovers of Sophia"], yes, but she's
also she's also now appearing in the
Jewish tradition.[Voice] From
the Greek tradition.  Who knows where it came from,
the idea? I mean, because these all these
things were interconnecting. I mean they
weren't far apart. [Voice] They were trading. [Voice] There are like a thousand versions of  Christianity when it started. I'm sure! A lot of it was taken from the Gnostics, and the Gnostics basically...It's so interesting to read the Gnostics
and read this Fathers of this Church edited version.  Look at what they
Canonized and canibalized.  But Jung's point is
that these things are in the Pleroma; they're
in the Collective Unconscious. They start
to emerge from, you know, at first artists;
people who are writers and
people were making statues. Remember at
the time of Christ people were making
statues of Diana, and it was Paul that had the
big attack in Ephesus on the guys [Demetrius] who
were making statues of Diana [Acts 19: 23-40], because the Greeks were in Ephesus, and they were you
know they were following the Greek
goddess Diana. That's Acts
19, or something like that.
[inaudible]
Actually attacked a ...well,
here's the thing. He went to the
Roman Clerk and said, "Give me an order to
force them to stop.  And the clerk
wouldn't do it. [Correction: It was the artisans who petitioned against Paul.] So here's the ...
sort of the first example of Freedom of
Religion almost, appearing in Acts 19.
Okay, let's go back to ¶626. So
there are precautions around Mary. 
She's got an Immaculate Conception, she's
had the extirpation of the taint of
Original Sin;
she has everlasting virginity. She's
obviously... she's obviously protected from
all Satan's tricks. Both Mother and Son
are not real human beings at all, but
God's. Yikes no wonder the
theologians went crazy over this! When,
you know, because the theologians hated
_Answer to Job_, but one of the reasons
is he's saying stuff like this. Right? 
So ¶627, Mary is Masculinized
quote-unquote, "Mary is Masculized." Now keep in mind she represents Sophia, which is
the pure Feminine. Right? But what's
happened is
What's happened is, she's been made
Perfect, not Whole. She's Perfect
because she's virgin.
Right? She's perfect because she's virgin,
she's you know everlasting virginity. and
so Jung's point is that this is ... this is
injurious of the Feminine
Principle of imperfection or
Completeness. So I mean this is a bit of
a Patriarchal way of putting this, I think.
But, because I don't know how you would
do it. We can think of another way,
because it's this idea of Masculine goes
for Perfection and Feminine goes for
Wholeness, not Perfection. You know, 
that's a little Patriarchal in itself it
seems to me, because [Voice] No, because he faults them both
equally, as well. [Voice] Well, Wholeness
isn't the word I've heard. Completion is sort of a gathering in, whereas Perfection is sort of an isolating input.
Well, yeah, it's discernment versus, you know, cutting things apart, rather than
gathering things together. [Voice] What do you mean by discernment though, in that case?
Well discernment would be finding, you
know, splitting hairs so it's
Masculine to make to make Mary
Perfect, in other words, to make her
virgin. Okay? That's a 
Masculine thing to do, because, you know,
If any man touched her. [Voice] Well one of is rational thought and one of 'em is intuition. Right. [Voice] But discernment goes on the Wholeness side?
No it's on the thinking side. Wholeness [inaudible]
Discernment 
splitting goes up. No. Discernment is
Masculine. It's the sword. Right?[Inaudible]
[Voice]...  dividing things up ... whereas Completeness ...
there's gathering things together. Right.
[Inaudible]
So the fact that I'm leading this Group
every week is a Feminine activity. And
also the production of these videos is a
Feminine activity. Okay? It's not a
Masculine... you know, because, if I
was if I was doing a Masculine activity,
I wouldn't need any of you. I'd just go
write books or something.
Right? But I need this Group
to bring Wholeness to my thinking,
because I know how flawed it is.
