Word: satanic
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...unconscious mind. Jung also noted that the myths and religious symbols of widely differing peoples and epochs had certain marked similarities, and were apt to include the same cast of characters. Among these characters he discerned a primordial image called "the shadow," which was usually embodied in figures like Satan. Others were the "anima" (the "woman in man," i.e., the female component of the masculine psyche, represented concretely in images ranging from Helen of Troy to the modern pin-up girl), the "animus" (corresponding male image, in the female psyche), the "great earth mother" (representing the material aspects of nature...
...pitted himself against opponents even more formidable than Milton Berle -Darwin, Freud, Marx and Satan. He gives hell to democrats for not being democratic, to capitalists for being greedy, to all the West for giving Communism an opening by not living up to its own Christian faith. He has harangued statesmen about war & peace and young brides about their sex life. He has announced that he prays every morning for Joseph Stalin, and he has approvingly quoted a heretic (Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr) on the Catholic Hour. His influence as a preacher is incalculably great...
...upright judge in a grim, real-life morality play. On one hand, aggressive little Rudolph Halley shrilled and barked at the forces of evil. On the other, Costello (only his hands), Greasy Thumb Guzik, Jim Moran and Anthony Anastasia defended themselves with all the genius and resources of Satan. In the background, New Hampshire's Charles Tobey wailed like a Greek chorus singing its lines from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. And right in the middle of the scene, calm, judicial, and unruffled, Estes Kefauver meted out justice-or at least soft words...
Nowadays, there are few cases of Satan's direct "interference" in human affairs. The rite of exorcism is still authorized (in the Greek Orthodox as well as the Roman Catholic Church) for the purpose of driving out the Devil from a possessed person. But almost no cases of a real "possession" occur. Contributor Joseph de Tonquedec, S.J., designated as the Grand Exorcist of the Archdiocese of Paris, has not come across a case of pure possession in 20 years...
Louvre Curator Germain Bazin adds his own comment on Satan in the 20th century: "Never before has Satan had such powerful means at his disposal: he now has his death factories, laboratories of suffering in which human nature can be tortured, disfigured and degraded . . . Dispossessed of nature, his former kingdom, Lucifer now seems to have installed himself at the very center of human intelligence, which has been far too ready to put itself on a level with God, playing with the forces it has mastered without having the humility to admit that the total chain of cause and effect must...