ABSTRACT
The self is an imago Dei, in Jung's account, in the sense that it conforms to the architecture inherent in the Ground of Being. Traditional deities in the world's great and small religions have been the product of projections of archetypal psychological forces that reflect potential images inherent in the self. The term self refers to a hypothetical psychic domain that encompasses all aspects of the ego complex and the surrounding penumbra of actual and potential consciousness. The ultimate God-image of the monotheistic religions expresses the archetype of the self as the central archetype of order. Jung studied the mystery of the self continuously in the later decades of his life. Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis is a late literary and theoretical work on the self. Divinity is the ontological ground of the self as it takes shape in individuals' psychic structures and of all instances of the self in human beings generally.
