"Moorcock, Michael - Behold The Man2" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moorcock Michael)

"Jung knew that the myth can also create the reality."
"Which shows what a muddled old fool he was."
He stretched his legs. In doing so, he touched hers and
he recoiled. He scratched his head. She still lay there smok-
ing, but she was smiling now.
"Come on," she said. "Let's have some stuff about Christ."
He said nothing. She handed him the stub of her cigarette
and he put it in the ashtray. He looked at his watch. It was
two o'clock in the morning.
"Why do we do it?" he said.
"Because we must." She put her hand to the back of his
head and pulled it towards her breast. "What else can we
do?"
We- Protestants must sooner or later face this question:
Are we to understand the "imitation of Christ" in the sense
that we should copy his life and, if I may use the expression,
ape his stigmata; or in the deeper sense that we are to live
our own proper lives as truly as he lived his in all its im-
plications? It is no easy matter to live a life that is modeled
on Christ's, but it is unspeakably harder to live one's own
life as truly as Christ lived his. Anyone who did this would
. . . be misjudged, derided, tortured and crucified. . . . A
neurosis is a dissociation of personality.
(Jung; Modem Man in Search of a Soul)
For a month, John the Baptist was away and Glogauer
lived with the Essenes, finding it surprisingly easy, as his
ribs mended, to join in their daily life. The Essenes' town-
ship consisted of a mixture of single-story houses, built of
limestone and clay brick, and the caves that were to be found
on both sides of the shallow valley. The Essenes shared their
goods in common and this particular sect had wives, though
many Essenes led completely monastic lives. The Essenes
were also pacifists, refusing to own or to make weapons
yet this sect plainly tolerated the warlike Baptist. Perhaps
their hatred of the Romans overcame their principles. Per-
haps they were not sure of John's entire intention. Whatever
the reason for their toleration, there was little doubt that
John the Baptist was virtually their leader.
The life of the Essenes consisted of ritual bathing three
times a day, of prayer and of work. The work was not dif-
ficult. Sometimes Glogauer guided a plough pulled by two
other members of the sect; sometimes he looked after the
goats that were allowed to graze on the hillsides. It was a
peaceful, ordered life, and even the unhealthy aspects were
so much a matter of routine that Glogauer hardly noticed
them for anything else after a while.
Tending the goats, he would lie on a hilltop, looking out
over the wilderness which was not a desert, but rocky scrub-
land sufficient to feed animals like goats or sheep. The scrub-
land was broken by low-lying bushes and a few small trees