In this paper I briefly survey the importance that Jung placed on the religious instinct, his life long engagement with Christianity, as well as his interest in Gnosticism, his encounter with the East, and his discovery of the Grail tradition and alchemy. I also look at Jung’s observations on Nazism, his realization of the living God and concept of the unus mundus. Jung saw Christianity as an ailing religion in need of healing. From his studies of the East, he gained much supportive knowledge that affirmed his own empirical findings and personal experiences. While he was in India he realized that his mission was to provide healing for the Western soul, which he later understood to require compensatory truths for its Christian worldview that he particularly discovered in Gnosticism, medieval alchemy, and the Grail tradition.
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