JOURNAL OF JUNGIAN THEORY AND PRACTICE - CG Jung ...

Consider a further aspect of the symbolism of “six”: the many ideas inJewish thought about cycles and messianic expectation also revolve aboutthe calendar itself. We are now in the year 5766-5767 (2005-2006 C.E.),anticipating the great change expected to occur in the year 6000. Theuniverse is said to have been created at the outset of this 6000-year cycle,which can also be seen (as in the six days of creation of the world) assymbolic of larger time-scales or events. Is it not possible to consider thatthe foregoing ideas about the six might also find their culmination, not onlyin the 2000-year cycle of Christianity and of astrology, but also in the 6000-year cycle of Judaism? That the “new age” for the whole of creation couldtake place some 230 years from now is not such a bad prediction, should welisten to Jung's reflections on these processes.It may also be noteworthy that the symbolism of six involves bothduality and the triad, continuing the dynamic nature of recent history. It maybe that the wholeness suggested by the quaternity and the sphere are stillprojected into that future time, perhaps preceded by the continuingdevelopment of wholeness in individuals and, perhaps, small groups.What remains now is to consider the most recent internationalexperience of the problem of evil as evidenced in the quarrel among themonotheisms. After broiling for some time, the battle among the myths ofJudaism, Christianity, Islam, and Scientific Rationalist Materialism hascome fully into focus since the horrific image on 9/11/01 of thesuicide/homicide Muslim bombers crashing into the “Twin Towers” of NewYork, and the Pentagon. Jung had mentioned, in passing, that he felt thespirit of Islam in the military passion of the Nazis, without casting anyC. G. Jung’s Answer To Job: A Half Century Later Pg. 68 (Online Edition)by J. Marvin SpiegelmanIV