very good
On Sep 29, 9:28 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 29 Sep, 10:18, Pat <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On 28 Sep, 18:09, Lonlaz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Ahh, Hitler. Does this mean that while you think God is only
> > > subjectively good or bad, he/she is ultimately trying to achieve some
> > > other type of ultimate goodness?
>
> > Yes. This, too, is in Genesis. After the fullness of creation, i.e.,
> > after the sixth day, God saw 'that it was VERY GOOD.' So we must take
> > from that, that when we perceive 'evil', it is perceived by us in
> > order to produce a greater good. Whether or not we recognise that or
> > not, or realise that or not, it is so, even if that recognition/
> > realisation is made by others years later.
>
> I just thought I'd add this rather kabbalistic exegesis here to help
> (!) explain a few things:
>
> On the second day, God created the right (Chesed) and the left
> (Geburah). From the right issues mercy, kindness and the basis for
> ‘good’; from the left issues justice, cruelty and the basis for
> ‘evil’. These are balanced in beauty (Tiphareth), the heart and soul
> of God. In beauty, all things are joined and, because this is where
> all things are joined, it is called the heart of God. Because all
> consciousness derives from this beauty, it is called the soul of God.
> Our spirit/soul is but a portion of that soul of God that stems from
> beauty, which is why both left and right are present in us.
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