Theos-Talk Archives (October 1997 Message tt00062)

> (1) World is imperfect, but (with our help) it will be perfect.
>
> Ok! It is not direct answer but it is interesting.  It implies
> two possible notions of perfection.  One, let's call it
> perfection limited in time, which say that world which consist of
> perfect things from one moment is perfect, and second which
> require that world is perfect in any place and time to be perfect
> as whole, and I will call it simple perfection.

No, I don't think you get my gist.  What I am suggesting is that
perfection and imperfection exist in a cycle.  We come from
perfection (God).  We enter a cycle of physical manifestation as
perfection, only through our human efforts at living by our own
will do we muddle this perfection and create imperfection.
Finally the imperfection accumulates enough that we are forced to
stop our cycle and must succumb to a higher will (which can also
be viewed as perfection).  This phase of the cycle is ordinary
and common.  There is nothing shameful or repulsive about it.  We
simply exist as a being in need of being raised, resurrected, or
ascended.  This is done for us as it is for all manifested life
by the next kingdom of nature coming into its cycle of
manifestation.

> For the first it may be better to find another word, (maybe it is
> better not to connect perfection with limitations) although one
> have not real reason for missunderstanding: it is the problem of
> terminology.
>
> (2) Isn't your question only relevant on an intellectual level?
>
> Quite possible, I do not know.

I only mention this because once I was very concerned over the
disharmony in mythology vs.  monotheism, until a "guru" friend of
mine told me that the danger I was sensing was only present in me
at a mental level.  And this was true.  I never actually saw or
felt a physical "struggle" between these two opposing forces, so
I decided to stop being so concerned.  Was I premature, do you
think?