Anne Maguire

Seven Deadly Sins

The Dark Companions of the Soul

308 pages, ISBN 978-3-85630-402-7

Pride, anger, jealousy, sloth, lust, avarice and gluttony are as old as mankind itself. However in the sense in which they were originally understood, interest in the seven sins has withered with the elapse of time.

Ideas about sin and evil as taught by the theologians of the early church now seem dated and alien. However, when thought of as psychic representations of the dark side of human nature as C.G. Jung defined it, the Seven Deadly Sins acquire relevant new meaning.

“The old question posed by the Gnostics, ‘Whence comes evil?’ has been given no answer by the Christian world, . . . today we are compelled to meet that question, but we stand empty-handed, bewildered, perplexed and cannot get it into our heads that no myth will come to our aid although we have such an urgent need for one.” C.G. Jung