The Seba library treats Christification in 9 passages, across 3 authors (including Edinger, Edward F., Jung, Carl Gustav, Jung, C.G.).
The indwelling of the Holy Ghost, the third Divine Person, in man, brings about a Christification of many…. [In order to avoid inflation in such a s
Edinger quotes Jung’s key formulation directly, identifying Christification as the pneumatic indwelling that produces individuated persons — and immediately flags the inflation risk Jung attaches to it.
, Transformation of the God-Image: An Elucidation of Jung’s Answer to Job, 1992thesis
a further incarnation, this time in sinful man, which will bring about the ‘Christification of many’ [par. 758], which Jung says is known psychologically as individuation.
Edinger explicitly equates Jung’s Christification with individuation, locating it as the psychological translation of a second, democratized divine incarnation in fallen humanity.
, Transformation of the God-Image: An Elucidation of Jung’s Answer to Job, 1992thesis
Christification, 470
The appearance of Christification as an indexed term in Jung’s Psychology and Religion confirms its standing as a discrete technical concept within his systematic religious psychology.
, Psychology and Religion: West and East, 1958supporting
the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light
Jung articulates the condition — consciousness voluntarily engaging the unconscious — that makes Christification (individuation) possible rather than merely automatic or unconscious.
, Answer to Job, 1952supporting
a complete imitation and reestablishment of Christ in the believer would necessarily lead to such a conclusion. But this is out of the question. Were such an approximation to occur, then Christ would have re-established himself in the believer and replaced the latter’s personality.
Jung here marks the psychological boundary that Christification must not cross: full identification with the Christ-image dissolves the ego rather than integrating it, distinguishing individuation from inflation.
, Psychology and Alchemy, 1944supporting
the differentiation of consciousness can be understood as the effect of the intervention of transcendentally conditioned dynamisms. In this case it would be the archetypes that accomplish the primary transformation.
Jung grounds the transformation underlying Christification in autonomous archetypal dynamics, insisting neither consciousness alone nor the archetype alone initiates the process.
, Psychology and Religion: West and East, 1958supporting
it makes a great and vital difference to man whether or not he considers himself as the source of evil, while maintaining that all good stems from God… this fills him with satanic pride and hybris on the one side and with an abysmal feeling of inferiority on the other.
Jung identifies the psychological precondition for genuine Christification: conscious acknowledgment of one’s own shadow, without which the process collapses into one-sided inflation or self-abasement.
, Collected Works Volume 18: The Symbolic Life, 1976supporting
Such an ego is undergoing individuation and is an example of continuing incarnation.
Edinger frames the individuating ego’s willingness to confront the primordial psyche as ‘continuing incarnation,’ the experiential texture of Christification at the level of daily psychological life.
, The Creation of Consciousness Jung’s Myth for Modern Man, 1984supporting
Assumption of Mary, 112; dogma of, 159, 165-76
The index entry for the Assumption of Mary in Answer to Job signals the doctrinal event Jung reads as the symbolic precondition for the Christification of many that follows it eschatologically.
, Answer to Job, 1952aside