C of L49 "dark face of the word"

[Mark Kohut]

p. 90 Shadow side (again) of the religious word, "Word". Is it (part of) the unconscious? 
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."---Jung

Somebody named Robin might have said this best:
"Tend to think of religion in CoL49 as cast in a negative light, what we see are religion's shadows. The tales of the Tristero has numerous suggestions of black magic and bad karma, doubtless kin to the disinherited of the novel. The Courier's Tragedy, with it's theater of cruelty depictions of the church fits, as does the final scene of the novel, set up to echo with church ritual."