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Archetypes

True 'person knowing' exists in knowing the archetypes, both directly, and through the sacraments
of their outward form.

In God's economy, the stuff of the sensory realm and the realm of the soul, receive their reality from the realm of the spirit.
This necessitates a paradigm shift from any materialistic, humanistic understanding of reality (- i.e a paradigm that excludes a Creator), where one would only understand the 'archetypes', or things of the spirit, as merely human constructs. (e.g. the virtues and the feminine).
Christianity posits 'the Fall' as the reason for such 'Outside' paradigms as being 'common sense'. Modern western intellectual disciplines merely codify the reality of the effects of the Fall, as law, without having awareness of the resolution.
In the paradigm shift required to reverse the order (of body to soul to spirit), it is helpful to understand the either/or 'wiring' inherent in Western European language and thinking (See Whorf on Socio-linguistics). We can be trapped into spending too much time on arguing in the dualistic realm of soul and body - i.e 'nature or nurture', and miss the third and most important realm of the spirit, the realm of the archetypes.
"Moses was admonished by God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, he said, that you make everything according to the pattern I shewed you in the mount."
Hebrews 8 v 5
'When you painted on earth - at least in your earlier days - it was because you caught glimpses of heaven in the earthly landscape. The success of your painting was that it enabled others to see the glimpses too. But here you are having the thing itself. It is from here that the messages came. There is no good telling us about this country, for we see it already. In fact we see it better than you do.'
'Then there's never going to be any point in painting here?'
'I don't say that. When you've grown into a person (its alright, we all had to do it) there'll be some things which you'll see better than anyone else. One of the things you'll want to do will be to tell us about them. But not yet. At present your business is to see. Come and see. He is endless. Come and feed.'
C S Lewis 'The great Divorce'
See also metaphor and the discussion on the archetypes of Berkeley.

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