The Seba library treats Ancient Of Days in 4 passages, across 2 authors (including Edinger, Edward F., Jung, Carl Gustav).
the ‘son of man’ is no longer the prophet but a son of the ‘Ancient of Days’ in his own right, and a son whose task it is to rejuvenate the father.
Edinger, following Jung, identifies the Daniel vision as pivotal evidence that the God-image is undergoing differentiation, with the Ancient of Days requiring renewal by a humanised son-figure.
, Transformation of the God-Image: An Elucidation of Jung’s Answer to Job, 1992thesis
I beheld the Ancient of Days whose head was like white wool [it’s the same image as in Daniel] with whom was another whose countenance resembled that of man.
Edinger traces the Ancient of Days motif into the Enochian literature, showing how the image is transmitted and deepened, pairing the aged deity with a righteous Son of Man who will execute final judgment.
, Transformation of the God-Image: An Elucidation of Jung’s Answer to Job, 1992thesis
It was a bold stroke for a canon to identify the king with the ‘Ancient of Days’ from Daniel 7:9 … This verse confirms the decrepit condition of the king.
Jung reads a seventeenth-century alchemical verse as a deliberate identification of the senescent alchemical king with the Ancient of Days, connecting Danielic imagery to alchemical themes of debility and the need for generative renewal.
, Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy, 1955supporting
Ancient of Days, 84 angels, 74-75, 85-86, 106, 113, 122-123
The index entry for Edinger’s volume confirms the Ancient of Days as a distinct and catalogued term within his systematic elucidation of Jung’s Answer to Job.
, Transformation of the God-Image: An Elucidation of Jung’s Answer to Job, 1992aside