John D. Brey
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The strength which this new faith derived from its source in historical truth enabled it to overcome all obstacles; in the place of the enrapturing feeling of being the chosen ones, there came now release through salvation. [The] original sin [murdering God] and salvation through sacrificial death became the basis for the new religion founded by Paul. . . After the Christian doctrine had burst the confines of Judaism. . . Only part of the Jewish people accepted the new doctrine. Those who refused to do so are still called Jews. Through this decision they are still more sharply separate from the rest of the world than they were before. They had to suffer the reproach from the new religious community---which besides Jews included Egyptians, Greeks, Syrians, Romans, and lastly also Teutons--- that they had murdered God.
In its full form this reproach would run: "They will not admit that they killed God [or that God is dead], whereas we do and are cleansed from the guilt of it." Then it is easy to understand what truth lies behind this reproach. Why the Jews were unable to participate in the progress which this confession to the murder of God betokened . . . might well be the subject of a special investigation. Through this they have, so to speak, shouldered a tragic guilt. They have been made to suffer severely for it.
Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism, p. 175-176.
In its full form this reproach would run: "They will not admit that they killed God [or that God is dead], whereas we do and are cleansed from the guilt of it." Then it is easy to understand what truth lies behind this reproach. Why the Jews were unable to participate in the progress which this confession to the murder of God betokened . . . might well be the subject of a special investigation. Through this they have, so to speak, shouldered a tragic guilt. They have been made to suffer severely for it.
Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism, p. 175-176.
Lonely, exiled, and dying, Sigmund Freud penned the words above as his last will and testament; a Gospel testament as it were. All the brilliant insight from a lifetime of precise navigation through the Sea of Lethe, never shipwrecked by the siren song coming from the shores of the collective unconscious, gave Freud the preternatural vision to pen words that will come to be seen as a door into the deepest streams flowing out of his Jewish brother John's own Gospel account.
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