No Mystery

It is no mystery to this writer that humans are complex creatures of mixed motives, good intentions interwoven with their bad intentions, their noble impulses entangled inextricably with their hateful urges. Indeed, to seek to separate them would smash a soul into cosmic dust, and kill the human as a living animal.

We are half angel and half beast, and the beast or devil within us is the stronger, more feisty, more vibrant animating force in us. We are basically beasts, in an evil world run by Satan and Lera, a world of injustice, corruption, despotism, wanton cruelty, ignorance, superstition, poverty, sickness, violence, lawlessness and exposure to brutal natural forces.

Is there any hope? Of course, like Prager I have always believed that life is tragic, but the moderate love of truth in me, makes me qualify that proclamation immediately. Life is tragic naturally, immediately, and socially but it need not be that way or stay that way.

We are part angel: if we admit that we are wicked, are beasts, are sinful and nasty creatures out to harm others and ourselves, then we have found the key to unlock the gate into the garden of Eden in this world, and its golden staircase up to heaven to the New Jerusalem on the hill, on the cloud, where the mansion of the Father and Mother having thousands of rooms for us to reside in after death.

There is then great potential for happiness and moral and spiritual victory for humanity as private persons and en masse in this world and in the next, if we recognize what we are, what we are up against, and ascertain the steps required to ameliorate our sorry state, and then act upon what God has taught us and revealed to us.