Then the Sea told the rudder, the rudder told the sailor,
The sailor put it into song, then the neighbor heard it,
Then the priest heard it and told my mother,
From her the father heard it, he got in a burning anger,
They quarrelled with me and commanded me and they have forbidden me
Ever to go to the door, ever to go to the window.
And yet I will go to the window as if to my flowers,
And never will I rest till my beloved is mine.
20Job xli: 13 (Leviathan).
"21. His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
"22. In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
"24. His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
"25. When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
"33. Upon earth there is not his like who is made without fear.
"34. He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride."
Chapter xlii.
"1. Then Job answered the Lord, and said,
"2. I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from thee."
21 The theriomorphic attributes are lacking in the Christian religion except as remnants, such as the Dove, the Fish and the Lamb. The latter is also represented as a Ram in the drawings in the Catacombs. Here belong the animals associated with the Evangelists which particularly need historical explanation. The Eagle and the Lion were definite degrees of initiation in the Mithraic mysteries. The worshippers of Dionysus called themselves βόες because the god was represented as a bull; likewise the ἄρκτοι of Artemis, conceived of as a she-bear. The Angel might correspond to the ἡλιόδρομοι of the Mithras mysteries. It is indeed an exquisite invention of the Christian phantasy that the animal coupled with St. Anthony is the pig, for the good saint was one of those who were subjected to the devil's most evil temptations.
22 Compare Pfister's notable article: "Die Frömmigkeit des Grafen Ludwig von Zinzendorf." Wien 1910.
23 The Book of Job, originating at a later period under non-Jewish influences, is a striking presentation of individual projection psychology.
24 "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us" (I John i:8).
25 "Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows" (Isaiah liii:4).
26 "Bear ye one another's burdens" (Galatians vi:2).
27 God is Love, corresponding to the platonic "Eros" which unites humanity with the transcendental.
28 Compare Reitzenstein ("Die hellenistischen Mysterienreligionen," Leipzig and Berlin 1910, p. 20): "Among the various forms with which a primitive people have represented the highest religious consecration, union with God, belongs necessarily that of the sexual union, in which man attributes to his semen the innermost nature and power of God.