IMO, the Earth is incapable of being good or evil as it is a ball of dirt unable to desern between either. On the other hand, if the Earth was created from the dead but dreaming Chtulhu (to me the Nec seems to indicate that Chtulhu is at least an evil form of Tiamat), then the Earth has consciousness - in order to dream it has to have the capacity to do so. Therefore, it is not the body, but the mind of the Earth that is evil. - or at least created from evil.
This brings me to evil itself. What is evil other than a word that means the opposite of good? What is Good? In the eye of the beholder exactly what either mean differs from person to person. We all have our donnatative and connatative interpritations. But on the scale of reality - the universe created by God, this all perfect being - the Earth having a mind of evil is not an ultimately bad thing. It may cause destruction and harm to many but in the end it brings about a postive result. Perhaps Chtulhu rising really only marks the assent of humanity into its next form.
I think its important to understand the balance of good and evil, both subjective, seem logically flawed beause they atempt to express the nature of something that is all perfect, and objective - God - from an imperfect, human, perspective. Its the very reason why no religion can logically be the *only* right one because they all are derived from the same fundamentally flawed premise - God is perfect. Even polytheism draws along similar lines. Its not that God cannot be perfect, its that there is no way, in any form God may be, humans can totally, individually, comprehend its perfection. At least not yet.
When I galnce at my Nec and try to find Elohim I see that God changes. Enki granted Marduk the power over magick to defeat the anceint ones and then Marduk used his powers to create the earth and sky, as well as humans, from his enemies. If I remember correctly wasn't it the blood of KINGU that Marduk used to create humanity? So perhaps the parallels between Summerian Gods and the Jewish YHWH really should be Marduk = YHWH, Enki = Elohim.
This post has been edited by Acid09: Feb 5 2007, 05:05 PM
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