> [!info] Reading notes — Jung, *Collected Works, Volume 18* (*The Symbolic Life*). [1505] Our speaking of angels and other divine beings are anthropomorphic ideas that operate autonomously, and this ought to be laid bare for the layman to see. To speak of them as metaphysical reality is reserved for those of the faith — Jung does not belong to them. Between denial and belief of existence lies empirical facts that any sane man ought to admit to knowledge once encountered. [1507] The “God” that Jung is dealing with only concerns that which appears as a psychic factor capable of acting upon the ego. This makes him a perennelist if he was actually making a metaphysical statement about God, but he is not. In fact, I think what he refers to as God, if coincided with a Christian metaphysics, are actually angels. Angels are capable of being good (those who side with God) and evil (fallen angels, those who side with the devil). Fallen angels are not less angelic as unfallen ones, but only fallen as a narrative attribution. --- **Related:** [[Arguments for Theism]] · [[Jung V10 Notes]]