There is a god about whom you know nothing
Central to the whole enterprise which we know as The Red Book is the creation of a new cosmology. It is in the text that Jung called The Seven Sermons to the Dead that this new vision of the microcosm and macrocosm is fully stated. The revelation of this forgotten god is deeply challenging as it contradicts the familiar certainties of the Judeo-Christion deity. It certainly challenged the Dead- the ancestral collective who had demanded enlightenment- as, on hearing about this new being, Here the dead howled and raved greatly, for they were still incomplete ones. Some effort will be made to understand this powerful, contradictory entity, although his essence lies in the realm of the non-rational. At the same time as Jung wrote The Seven Sermons, he painted a mandala and found a place for Abraxas at the nadir of the circle, labelling him dominus mundi, lord of the world!
