Undoubtedly. That's what freedom is all about.Soul_of_Shu wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 8:37 pm Freedom to create entails freedom to destroy, as one can't be apart from the other.
(warning! poetry ahead )
We can image a much more harmonic Cosmic scenario, where we go through existence as a child through amusement park - everything is safe, everything is harmonious - we flow in a blissful state.
But what if the beings of the Cosmos decide to "crank it up a notch"? Why walk only within the railings? Why put on the safety belts? And... accidents begin to happen. Pain and death - never before known - appear in the theme park. After much experiences, we learn the difference between having a safety belt and not, walking where it's safe and not.
Now we are free. We do the good not because it is part of the blissful program of the park but because we have experienced reality in much, much greater resolution than it would otherwise be possible. We have experienced a Cosmic perspective of unprecedented depth. It is like pulling apart the living Cosmos to the verge of falling apart in oblivion.
I'm free not when I do whatever I want. In that case I'm not free because I don't know why I want the things that I want. I'm only free when I have knowledge of myself and the Cosmos - only in this way I can now the alternative paths. If I know only the world and its demise - I'm not free, I'm simply falling with it. If I only know God's will as something external, as commandments - I'm not free. I'm free when I'm standing within the world and have knowledge of the consequences of the path I take. No one forces me to go one way or the other. I go to the one that I Love - Love in the sense of the most intimate expression of creatively-causative activity. I become what I Love.
So there I am. A world falling apart or a world that is being healed and resurrected?
Everyone is free to choose. That's what freedom is all about.
If I want proof, if I want something - God, science - to tell me which is the right path - I don't understand freedom, I'm acting because the scriptures or the sensory world have forced me to.
I understand freedom when I choose what I would Love to become. But before I choose I must know. I cannot choose what I don't know exists. Man can only know what the alternatives are if he knows what he is and how he embeds into the Cosmos. I'm free if I know the deeds of the Gods and out Love choose to work with them.
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