Answer to Job

"Job answers Yahweh thus:
     Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee?
          I lay my hand on my mouth.
     I have spoken once, and I will not answer; 
          twice, but I will proceed no further.*

And indeed, in the immediate presence of the infinite power of creation, this is the only possible answer for a witness who is still trembling in every limb with the terror of almost total annihilation. What else could a half-crushed human worm, grovelling in the dust, reasonably answer in the circumstances?"

*Job 40: 4-5

So Jung sets the tone in Chapter I for his little book (compared to his other works) and what will develop through Chapter XX.

In a concluding thought, Jung summarizes his work in this paragraph:

"Since the Apocalypse we now know again that God is not only to be loved, but also to be feared. He fills us with evil as well as with good, otherwise he would not need to be feared; and because he wants to become man, the uniting of his antinomy must take place in man. This involves man in a new responsibility. He can no longer wriggle out of it on the plea of his littleness and nothingness, for the dark God has slipped the atom bomb and chemical weapons into his hands and given him the power to empty out the apocalyptic vials of wrath on his fellow creatures. Since he has been granted an almost godlike power, he can no longer remain blind and unconscious. He must know something of God's nature and of metaphysical processes if he is to understand himself and thereby achieve gnosis of the Divine."