Jungian Psychiatry and Christianity

By

Anthony J. Fejfar, B.A., J.D., Esq., Coif

© Copyright 2009 by Anthony J. Fejfar

Jung states that Meditation is an aspect of the Alchemical Process whereby the

Conscious Mind starts interfacing with the Unconscious Mind in an Internal Dialogue.

(Jung, p. 274, 275). As Jung puts it, the Internal Dialogue with the Unconscious or Soul

can involve “himself, God, or a good angel.” Jung states further that the Internal

Dialogue is not a hallucination, but instead is a coming into contact with the reality of the

Soul which interfaces between the material and spiritual worlds, where the spiritual

begins to manifest in the material world, materially. (Jung p. 274) The foregoing process

of Meditation or Internally Dialoging involves the reality of the Imagination which is

made manifest, non-locally, in the material world. Thus, it is clear that such

Disassociative Internal Dialoging does not really involve psychopathy, but instead is a

positive part of the Alchemical Process and Spiritual Development.

In his book, “Alchemy and Psychology” Carl Jung describes the Alchemical

Process of the transformation of Consciousness into the Philosopher’s Stone, or the

Perfect Philosophy which give the person Personal and Spiritual Power. Jung states that

the Alchemist typically starts with Three or Four Magic, or Elemental Colors, and then

proceeds toward the Integration of Consciousness. (Jung p.228). Now, Jung states that

the Alchemist must start with the Magic Color of Black, or Black Magic in the process of

melanosis, which leads one to the Prima Materia or Substance or Chaos of the Holy

Spirit, which is Black Substance. While Jung describes the substance of Gold as the
Primary Substance or Symbol for Substance, as as such, I prefer the use of a Cube of

Black Jello. Then the process of leucosis or Whitening takes place, and moves the

Alchemist into the Union of Opposites, where the the Magic Color of Black, (Black

Magic) and the Magic Color of White (White Magic) are merged into the Magic Color of

Gray, or Gray Magic. (Jung 230, 231) Gray Magic is then used to construct the Magic

System experimentally, and then, the Final Stage is where the Magic System is locked in

using White Magic. The Wisdom acquired along the Way of Gray Magic is what

enables the Alchemist or Wizard to undertake White Magic, which is relatively

permanent.

Now, in terms of Christian Theology, it is apparent that the Three Magic Colors

correspond to the Three Persons of the Christian Trinity:

1. God the Father White Magic Reason

2. God the Son (Jesus Christ) Gray Magic Male Wisdom

3. God the Holy Spirit Black Magic FeminineWisdom

While I have argued previously, that Jesus is the Logos or Reason, once

integration is reached there is a shift in the Divine Attributes. The Reason of God the

Father is more linear than the Reason of Jesus Christ which can be described as Celibate

Male Wisdom. Jesus Christ, with the Wisdom of Gray Magic, characterized by

Moderate Relativism, then becomes the Mediating Principle in the Trinity. The Holy

Spirit is the Relational Principle in the Trinity which is Neuter Feminine Wisdom (Not

Mother)..
 Bibliography

Fejfar, “Disassociation, Jungian Psychiatry and the Soul”

Fejfar, “Jungian Alchemy, Magic, and Metaphysics”