" As a symbol of the all-encompassing unconscious, the godhead is appropriately androgynous rather than exclusively male or female.59 For Jungians, the initially androgynous godhead ordinarily becomes a female god, whose bearing of a son symbolizes the emergence of the ego out of the primordial unconscious.60 The emergence of matter alongside the immaterial godhead symbolizes the beginning, but just the beginning, of the emergence of the ego out of the unconscious. Inert matter itself does not symbolize the ego, which "

― C.G. Jung , The Gnostic Jung