“The effects of mystic union are logical and coherent; a second quality of the acts of the order of grace is the positive character of the contribution, the increase which they bring to the psychic life of those who benefit by them.... The idea of God, the divine presence, or any other form of inspiration, is no more strange to the mind of the religious man than is for the _savant_ the sudden conception of a solution long sought for, or for the artist the vision of the work which he meditates and of which he pursues the construction with patience and tenacity.... Neither the invasion of the soul by God, nor the ‘return’ of the mystics, has any resemblance to mental disintegration.” It is not easy to get rid of God. Will you read what Jung says on this subject in the “Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology,” edited by Dr. Constance E. Long: “The concept of God is simply a necessary psychological function.... The _concensus gentium_ has spoken of gods for æons past, and will be speaking of them in æons to come. Beautiful and perfect as man may think his reason, he may nevertheless assure himself that it is only one of the possible mental functions, coinciding merely with the corresponding side of the phenomena of the universe. All around is the irrational, that which is not congruous with reason. And this irrationalism is likewise a psychological function, namely the absolute unconscious; whilst the function of consciousness is essentially rational.... Heraclitus, the ancient, that really very wise man, discovered the most wonderful of all psychological laws, namely, the _regulating function of antithesis_. He termed this enantiodromia’ (clashing together) by which he meant that at some time everything meets with its opposite.... Man may not _identify_ himself with reason, for he is not wholly a rational being, and never can or ever will become one. That is a fact of which every pedant of civilization should take note. What is irrational cannot and may not be stamped out. The gods cannot and may not die. Woe betide those men who have disinfected heaven with rationalism; God-Almightiness has entered into them, because they would not admit God as an absolute function.... Only he escapes from the cruel law of enantiodromia who knows how to separate himself from the unconscious--not by repressing it, for then it seizes him from behind--_but by presenting it visibly to himself as something that is totally different from him_.... He must learn to differentiate in his thoughts between what is the ego and what is the non-ego. The latter is the collective psyche or absolute unconscious.... In order to differentiate the psychological ego from the psychological non-ego, man must necessarily stand _upon firm feet_ in his ego-function....