There are many historical works on the rise of the modern State and the origins of its power. Many of them trace the development of the modern state from the end of the Medieval all the way up through the present day, drawing attention to how particular national and global crises – mostly wars and economic collapses – have resulted in the growth of the power of the centralized state as a solution to these problems.

As with all history, understanding these facts is very important to understanding how we got to where we are today. But in answering how they all too often neglect the why things are the way they are today.

Why is it that people have turned to the State for temporal and material salvation?

Why is it that men and women lavish religious levels of adoration and faith upon the State and its operatives?

Why is it that people have given it so much power?

What about humans and the way we think has convinced us, seemingly en masse, to turn to the State for salvation?

Using the writings of eminent psychologist Dr. Carl Jung, I try here to answer these questions; I answer not how the God-State came to be, but why humans have created the God-State in the first place.