Symbols of Transformation

Everyone who has his eyes and wits about him can see that the world is dead, cold, and unending. Never yet has he beheld a God, or been compelled to require the existence of such a God from the evidence of his senses. On the contrary, it needed the strongest inner compulsion, which can be only be explained by the irrational force of existence, for man to invent those religious beliefs whose absurdity was long since pointed out by Tertullian. C.J. Jung Symbols of Transformation Paragraph 30

Ramses II on the left with God Horus seated on the right.

Who is this God? An idea that has forced itself upon mankind in all parts of the earth and in all ages and always in similar form: an otherworldly power which has us at its mercy, which begets and kills - an image of all the necesseties and inevitableness of life. Since, psychologically speaking, the God-image is a complex of ideas of an archetypal nature, it must necessarily be regarded as representing a certin sum of energy (libido) which appears in projection. C.J. Jung Symbols and Tranformation Paragraph 89