ABSTRACT

This chapter attempts to establish a parallel with the opposition between Immanuel Kant and Emanuel Swedenborg in the eighteenth century and that of C. G. Jung and Albrecht Ritschl one century later, where religion, science, and philosophy find various ways to co-exist. Science had rid religion of the supernatural life of Jesus. Instead, the exemplary moral life of Jesus had to be taught and followed by Christians. For Jung, in contrast, everything that was supernatural in the character as well as in the life of Jesus was inseparable from Jesus and was the core of the Christian religion. In 1897, Jung had written of the danger of a religion devoid of the supernatural. When Jung titled the last chapter of Occult Phenomena "Heightened unconscious performance" and ended his work by evoking his cousin's most intuitive achievement, he applied the same formula to call attention to another form of intuition.