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We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. (He is already on the way; he is like Mohammed. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with a wild god.)

— Carl Jung The Symbolic Life — in The Collected Works: The Symbolic Life. Miscellaneous Writings (1977)

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