The patient learned that in the dream, the narrow path in the dark night represented his constraining insecurity and the lack of meaning in life that he felt; the precipice and the wild beasts stood for sin and hell, while the child and the light referred to Jesus guiding him to a recovered belief in the Church, the house of God.
The Christ symbol is of recent origin and exclusive to Christians; it cannot be inherited. In other words, it is not yet archetypal --it does not form part of images that are present in the unconscious --except, perhaps, in a protomorphic (father-son) manner.

The following was the last dream of the analysis. It was the last because it actually indicated that the analysis had come to its end.
"I am like in a circus. A woman is tied to a pole. A bull is about to charge toward her. I jump into the ring, and seizing the bull by the horns, make it tumble. I proceed to untie the woman --and then I march to Rome."

"When did you read 'Quo Vadis?'? asked Jake. He was stunned to hear that the patient did not know that novel. Jake explained that the bull represented his atheism, the woman the religious beliefs that he had rejected. He was now ready to return to Rome,i.e., to accept Catholicism back.
The patient wrote a letter to Jake some time later. It arrived one day before we got married. He wanted to thank Jake for having shown him the light, for having freed him from the ropes of ignorance and for helping him recover his faith. He was now able to understand and --for the first time-- feel love for his dead father.

Jake had also learned through this person the meaning of the scene of Ursus fighting the bull in "Quo Vadis?". It represented the victory of early Christianity over Roman paganism. But...why had Sienkiewicz and the patient used the same image? There was, most probably, an archetypal element involved. The bull must have played an important role in man's life during the millennia. Minoan history and the persisting cruel bullfighting perhaps attest to such a role. Still, proof of the existence of archetipes was still forthcoming...