Dualism

Evil exists only as shadow to light. God is always destroying evil, as a ray of light stretching into boundless darkness is forever conquering new territories of night, but he can never destroy evil as such. Particlar evils are always defeated, but evil as such is necessary. Good and evil are transcended, but never reconciled. Destroy good and evil, and destroy reality. Distingfuish carefully between the transcendence of dualism, and the abolition of dualism. The first is grounded in truth, the second is the foulest of lies.

Mother Evil

Evil originates not in God the Father, but from the “nothing” out of which He “made” the world; from hydraheaded Chaos mother of illusion, who embraces all possibilities, including the imversion of God. But because the inversion proceeds from “nothing”, and is nothing, it is never actualised. There is only a push towards evil, which in us is the tendency to identify with  the things of this world. These illusions are only distinct from the demons of chaos, by the fact that God is observing them; casting his light on them. By observing us, he actualises portions of infinitude.

Joy and suffering

Man is made for joy and suffering alike. The spilling of blood is as much a piece of Eternity as the laughter of children. Pain unshackles the chains of vanity that bind men to the illusions of this world. Suffering can so overpower a man, that it awakens him to a sense of his own nothingness, and he sees God.

Mirror of Infinitude

This world is like two mirrors facing each other, one named Being and the other Nothing, casting their reflected images to infinity. Man is a distant reflection of the Original image. Hence the hierarchical structure of reality from the Divine to the Archangelic to the Angelic to the Elemental to the Imaginal to the Mental to the Material world. Man is a reflection of a higher spiritual essence, an eternal archetype “incarnated” in matter.

On religious doctrime

If man wishes to enjoy the peace and certitude of transcendence, he must follow, understand, and practice  religion. Otherwise he discerns only faint glimpses of transcendence (or pseudo-transcendence) in fleeting moments of self-forgetfulnss, as when he is contemplating a work of art; or enraptured by the beauties of nature; or entranced by a glimmer of that Edenic timelessness that some associate with déjà vu: but inevitably he returns to the vanities and the illusions of this world, a prisoner of his own mind.

While god is transcendent, utterly beyond conceptualisation, one must be ‘oriented’ towards god in order to see god; consequently, one must have correct doctrine, rooted in religious orthodoxy, and assimilated into oneself by orthopraxis. Correct practice builds and maintains the seaworthy vessel, but correct doctrine ensures sound navigation. Lacking this prrequisite, no man will magically “experience” god (except in relatively uncommon cases as when god seems to take the initiative and reveals himself to the suffering individual who has no means of escape, but in these cases there is an antecedent period of intense pain in which the soul opens itself to God, which religion achieves by doctrine and practice).

On debating

Stop debating. It diverts both sides from the essentials, and flatters intellectual vanity. When the debate is concluded, one feels a lot of time has been squandered on an activity that benefited no one, and will be forgotten by everyone.

Do not challenge anyone to an argument. Ask questions; see if the opinion is worthy of further consideration. It is best to find the truth in oneself. All real knowledge stems from intuition.

If one cannot find the truth in oneself, then ask the person for clarification, so that it can be found. If he cannot clarify the idea, he does not understand it himself, and so his opinion cannot be taken as authoritative. If he can clarify it to the understanding, intuition will immediately perceive if it is right or wrong. Intuition is infallible.

Debating is only justified when essential principles are at stake, and then only when other methods have been exhausted or are of no avail. Not all games are harmless amusements. Some are dangerous diversions that detract people from everything that is essential.