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I would like, in conclusion, to mention the peculiar theory of world creation in the Clementine Homilies. In God, pneuma and soma are one. When they separate, pneuma appears as the Son and βarchon of the future Aeon,β but soma, actual substance (ΞΏΟΞΏΞ―Ξ±) or matter , divides into four, corresponding to the four elements (which were always solemnly invoked at initiations). From the mixing of the four parts there arose the devil, the βarchon of this Aeon,β and the psyche of this world. Soma had become psychized (): βGod rules this world as much through the devil as through the Son, for both are in his hands.β97 God unfolds himself in the world in the form of syzygies (paired opposites), such as heaven/earth, day/night, male/female, etc. The last term of the first series is the Adam/Eve syzygy. At the end of this fragmentation process there follows the return to the beginning, the consummation of the universe () through purification and annihilation
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C.G. Jung (Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self (Collected Works, Vol 9ii))