Projection is the mechanism whereby we represent the soul as to be outside, what we do not recognize objectively living or existing with it. At the superficial level, we project upon other people’s motives and attitudes which we are unwilling to recognize ourselves. At a deeper level, we project certain basic processes of the soul into dreams and myths and into those universal mythological symbols. At the deepest level, deeper than the soul itself, we project the very self externally into the symbol of an objective and outside God. Watts adds that God is infinite in the strict sense. The terms “objective” and “outside” are inapplicable to him.
Christianity does not think of God as uniform but as one in three, the trinity. The eternal Father as the subject, the eternal Son as the object, and the eternal Holy Spirit as the beloved one. This ambiguity does not render God meaningless. The Son is said to be begotten of the Father, and the Holy Spirit is said to proceed from the Father and/ or through His Son.