The world as we know it is coming to an end in the very near future. … Yet Edinger believed that this terrible transition in culture (what the poet Yeats called the “rough beast, its hour come round at last) will be bearable if we understand the meaning of what is going on.

>>George F. Elder, Preface, Archetype of the Apocalypse: A Jungian Study of the

Book of Revelation, by Edward F. Edinger (1999) xiii

It is not the conscious mind of John that thinks up these fantasies, they come to him in a violent “revelation.” He is a passionately religious person with an otherwise well- ordered psyche. But he must have an intensive relationship to God which lays him open to an invasion far transcending anything personal. The purpose of the apocalyptic visions is not to tell John, as an ordinary human being, how much shadow he hides beneath his luminous nature, but to open the seer’s eye to the immensity of God.

>>CG Jung CW11, Answer to Job , para730

The Apocalypse is as evocative as it is expressive. Not only does it display attitudes and feelings; it also elicits them. It creates its effect by manipulating the thoughts, attitudes, and feelings of the hearers by the use of effective symbols and a narrative plot that invites imaginative participation. This combination of effective symbols and artful plot is the key to the power of apocalyptic rhetoric.

>>Adela Yarbro Collins Crisis and Catharsis: Power of the Apocalypse p144