From Jung’s Symbols of Transformation, page 66:

It is a psychological fact that an archetype can seize hold of the ego and even compel it to act as it - the archetype - wills. A man can then take on archetypal dimensions and exercise corresponding effects; he can appear in the place of God, so that it is not only possible, but quite sensible, for other men to act towards him as they act towards God. We know that in the Catholic Church, this possiblity has become an institution whose psychological efficacy cannot be doubted. From this intimate relationship there arises a community of an archetypal order which is distinguished from all other communities by the fact that its aim or purpose is not immanent in mankind and not directed to utilitarian ends, but is a transcendantal symbol whose nature corresponds to the peculiarity of the ruling archetype.