"The Pueblo Indians.. are sons of the sun, children of the light, and a great deal of their natural firmness and dignity comes from this fact. For one cannot help feeling like that when one has such a conviction. If we were really convinced that we were children of God, that our father was that all-powerful being in heaven, we would have the dignity of at least semidivine beings and whatever we did would be dignified. We would be courageous and stand for our convictions, knowing that our way was the way of the sun and should not be interfered with.
But we are far from that; our way is the way of the herd, and no wonder, because no such conviction exists in us. Those Christian people who call themselves the children of God are filled with unspeakable fear, they collapse if Mrs. So-and-So says anything queer about them, they say: "For God's sake, if she says such things we are lost," and they begin to tremble and their knees are like water."
C.G. Jung, Visions, p. 1119
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