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According to him, the visible world is a manifestation of eternal light and eternal darkness, and it is in eternal opposition that eternity has revealed itself. The fall was necessary for creation to escape its first imperfect stasis and seek a truer form. Heresy? Well, then, I am the heresiarch. The philosopher died of a bowel disease. Those who do not exist cannot suffer and are of no account to any viable ethics. If the true path to goodness is the elimination of suffering, then only those who must exist can be allowed to exist. It is the nature of life to favor existence over nonexistence, and to prefer the fertile soil to the poisoned wind. Because those who open their mouths to that wind pass from the world and leave no descendant, whether of flesh or of thought. | According to him, the visible world is a manifestation of eternal light and eternal darkness, and it is in eternal opposition that eternity has revealed itself. The fall was necessary for creation to escape its first imperfect stasis and seek a truer form. Heresy? Well, then, I am the heresiarch. The philosopher died of a bowel disease. Those who do not exist cannot suffer and are of no account to any viable ethics. If the true path to goodness is the elimination of suffering, then only those who must exist can be allowed to exist. It is the nature of life to favor existence over nonexistence, and to prefer the fertile soil to the poisoned wind. Because those who open their mouths to that wind pass from the world and leave no descendant, whether of flesh or of thought. | ||
But imagine the abomination of a world where nothing can end and no choice can be preferred to any other. Imagine the things that would suffer and never die. Imagine the lies that would flourish without context or corrective. Imagine a world without me. | But imagine the abomination of a world where nothing can end and no choice can be preferred to any other. Imagine the things that would suffer and never die. Imagine the lies that would flourish without context or corrective. Imagine a world without me. <ref>This is a reference to German philosopher and theologian, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_B%C3%B6hme Jakob Boehme's] [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x030131743?urlappend=%3Bseq=13%3Bownerid=27021597768395742-17 Six Theosophic Points], with its use popularized in the second epigraph of American writer, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy Cormac McCarthy's] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian Blood Meridian]. In its original reading and in Blood Meridian, the quote asserts that human darkness does not come from a place of sorrow, because in order to commit acts of cruelty, one must dispose of such concepts. In the text of Destiny a different reading can be taken, the [[Darkness|The Darkness]] introduces the idea that while it is inexorably linked with decay, it is not necessarily an objective force of evil, but one of lessening and ending.</ref> | ||
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