ABSTRACT
God has set doors and gates to contain the waters and separated death from life and darkness from the light. The word that is used to describe the renunciation of divinity as occurs with Christ in the incarnation is kenosis. It comes from the Greek word meaning emptying, which connects it with the void, and implies the relinquishing of God-likeness and indeed even the knowledge of God. For one who has felt glorious in the presence and knowledge of God it is experienced as a collapsing down into an abyss of despair, the pain of separation from God, the Dark Night of the Soul. The yearning after the light comes from our deepest parts, and the experience of light after an experience of darkness is usually numinous. Techniques of active imagination help connect the Self with the ego, enhancing thus the ego–Self axis. Active imagination is a purposeful but not a goal-directed activity.
