The kind of spiritual insight Jung describes below is what I hear in the United Church of Christ's statement that 'God is still speaking. Don't place a period where God has placed a comma' it says.
The Jesus story, as other authentic spirit stories, is not about returning to any history but to a non-historical (Not done like this before.)'new creation'. This is the living authentic meaning of spiritual hope in the human heart, of genuine en'courage'ment in despair, of enthusiasm( God breathed) about the nature of life and of living it.
Sadly the same mistake is usually made with the Jesus story as in other authentic religious movements. It is willfully squeezed into artificially imitating or copying some version of the symbolic historical story.
Creatively living the Jesus story is never about redoing any history but about living courageously, humbly and lovingly one's unique life as Jesus is pictured in the gospels' stories living his.
'New Creation' living, we might call it, is about anyone who hears the inner Divine voice and call, wrestles with it and decides to follow it's meaning -day by day and hour by hour.
There are many examples of this immemorial 'religious' type attitude recorded and observed. Those become history's symbolic stories. And to practice them afresh and uniquely always brings some new and needed thing into this ever evolving world.
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