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Subject: [K-list] El Collie Tribute: If There Is A God...
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent

>From: CKRESSATnospamaol.com
>Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 20:05:32 EST
>Subject: Re: [K-list] If There Is A God...
>To: revoATnospamerols.com
>CC: KundaliniATnospamList-Server.net

>In a message dated 11/19/1999 5:57:57 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>revoATnospamerols.com writes:
>
> > If there is a god, why is this earth such a hell? How could a god,
> > he-she-it, bring into being such a world where all of nature, beautiful
> > as it may be, "lives" by killing.
> >
> > And look at "great" American companies that oppress their workers,
> > making life miserable for the many at the bottom so that an evil few at
> > the top can amass more wealth than anyone could possible need...how can
> > any self respecting god allow this?
>

>Mark Twain had an answer to this which often gave me dark-humor satisfaction
>during times when my own heart wailed inconsolably at the suffering and
>atrocity in this world. Twain said, "God is a malign thug."
>
>I no longer believe this (but still find it funny). I perceive real evil in
>the world, yet I've come to understand that it serves a spiritual purpose.
>What I'll call the pastel shades of Love -- experienced as bliss, peace,
>happiness, and the utter contentment of the cosmic-uterine pre-birth, pre-ego
>oneness -- usually get shattered on this plane. Then the heart feels
>bewildered and horrified and outraged and cannot comprehend what Intelligence
>would throw sentient beings into this pit of hell. But in time it discovers
>that the vibrant colors of Love -- all the most dynamic stuff -- come into
>being here in this place of constant friction and challenge and ferocious,
>sometimes monstrous teachings.
>
>It isn't until the soul has passed through these fires that its greatest
>creative potential can unfurl, when it learns it can dance with the Darkness
>as well as rest in the blessed embrace of the Light. I don't mean this
>flippantly. The "dance" is serious and asks a great deal from you, and it
>can't be learned from a book or seminar or from reading what I'm saying here.
> But in some way you eventually come to understand that fertile/desolate,
>beautiful/hideous, yin/yang, creation/destruction are a necessary pulse that
>beats in every iota of the manifest universe.
>
>It's a living koan: an impossible, glorious, absurd, sublime, staggering,
>exquisite, incredible conundrum which can drive you up the wall until,
>eureka, it suddenly starts to make sense. (I'm just beginning to get the
>drift of it myself.)
>
>El

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