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From youth onwards, Jung rejected any institutionalized form of religion. Nevertheless, he continually pondered the question of God’s existence. A rational approach incorporating philosophical Kantism and scientific empirism convinced him that the existence of God could only be asserted as an inevitable but unprovable hypothesis. However, his emotions and inner experience gave him faith that divine Reality is the ultimate basis of the individual and the Universe. Throughout his life, Jung was aware of an inner conflict between the caution dictated by reason and the recklessness exalted by emotion.