Read carefully the following description from Ujheley on states of pre-Oedipal consciousness. She maps the same phenomenology of consciousness as Friedrich Nietzsche does, with his portrayal of Jesus in The Antichrist (see the second excerpt that follows Ujheley's).
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Ujheley:
In other words, the reality of the magical level of consciousness is that of one's vision of perfection. Objective reality, though perceived, is not acknowledged as being real but judged for falling short of true reality. [...]
On the magical level of consciousness the symbol is concrete reality. Hence, words do not denote objects but stand for the object itself. Also, once a word is uttered it can never be taken back or rectified. It has a concrete reality of its own and implies command to or judgment of other or self.
**********From section 34
Nietzsche:
If I understand anything at all about this great symbolist, it is this: that he regarded only subjective realities as realities, as “truths” —that he saw everything else, everything natural, temporal, spatial and historical, merely as signs, as materials for parables. The concept of “the Son of God” does not connote a concrete person in history, an isolated and definite individual, but an “eternal” fact, a psychological symbol set free from the concept of time. The same thing is true, and in the highest sense, of the God of this typical symbolist, of the “kingdom of God,” and of the “sonship of God.” [...] the word “Son” expresses entrance into the feeling that there is a general transformation of all things (beatitude), and “Father” expresses that feeling itself—the sensation of eternity and of perfection.—
---Nietzsche, The Antichrist
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