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Originally Posted by Tatsuko
...They have to wed in the 'chemical wedding', the 'hieros gamos', the 'wedding of the Lamb'. This wedding is done through that fire. One is reborn then after one is recomposed by that fire again and thereby resurrected again, and erected from the dead. The dead are not the buried ones, but the not through that fire reborn. So one is not resurrected from a usual grave in the ground, but the grave of the 'dead (=not reborn) body'. Religion is mythology misunderstood. That's why the Gospel according to Thomas says: the dead (not through fire reborn) are not live, and the living (the through fire reborn) will not die.
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This seems to be a mystic reinterpretation of some elements of standard Christian dogma. Christian rebirth is characterized as a spiritual rebirth (as the discussion between Jesus and Nicodemus in John 3 suggests). Christians generally interpret "fire" in rebirth contexts (like in the non-cannonical gospel of Thomas) as the Holy Spirit itself, consistent with the apparently physical display of "tongues of fire" in Acts 2.
The animus/anima connection is new to me, and I don't think I understand where it came from.
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