Jesus – who was he?
Jill Allum ponders the question
Recently, I have been reading A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes. It is the weirdest book I have ever read. Rebecca West calls it: ‘A hot draught of mad, primal fantasy and poetry’. One experience is of children witnessing an adult showing his anger and the comment is: ‘In exact opposition to the witnesses at the transfiguration, they felt it would have been good for them to be almost anywhere but here.’ Like TS Eliot, it is presumed that everyone understands references to the transfiguration or the annunciation. These are in our archetypal unconscious, a deep part of our corporateness.
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