„When a person has inwardly struggled with his anima or with her animus for a sufficiently long time and has reached the point where he or she is no longer identified with it in an unconscious fashion, the unconscious once again takes on a new symbolic form in relating with the ego. They all still have tales which show that man never invented any craft or skill, but that it was revealed to him, that it is the Gods who produced the knowledge which man now uses if he does anything practical. If we look at the folklore and mythology of the different crafts in more primitive societies, we see that they have a much more adequate view of it. He feels that his skill is a man-made possession, which he owns. Nowadays if you watch a carpenter or a smith, he is in a position to feel himself as a human being with independent consciousness, who has acquired from his teacher a traditional skill with which he handles dead material. Naturally we must correct this viewpoint by putting it into its right context, namely, that the craftsman in primitive societies never imagined himself to be doing the work himself. It also already shows a definite separation between subject and object God is the subject of the creation and the world, and its material is the dead objects with which he deals. But upon making a general survey of creation myths, we see that this type of God mirrors a rare and specific situation it mirrors a state where consciousness has already markedly withdrawn, as an independent entity, out of the unconscious and therefore can turn toward the rest of the material as if it were its dead object. Context: Our whole tradition has trained us to think always of God as being outside the world and shaping its dead material in some form.
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