In Aion, Jung remarks that in the Hebrew Bible, Satan is simply one of God’s sons with a duty to fulfill. Only after Christ does the notion of an antichrist arise—turning Satan into the culmination of all that is evil and against the good which is culminated in Christ.
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This parallels the principle of mutual arising, expressed in the second chapter of Tao Te Ching:
“When everyone in the world sees beauty,
Then ugliness exists.
When everyone in the world sees good,
Then evil exists.”
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