To understand division, let's look to ourselves as people of division for the truth of our being lies within ourselves. Expression of our Truth can often be found in our ancient stories and myths. There are two ancient mythological accounts that are applicable here. The ancient biblical/mythological story of the battle in the heavens (the story as found in ancient Jewish literature and referred to in the biblical Book of Daniel,) between the good angels and the bad angels, points out the division between good and evil. The division extends to and is amplified in our present day world as we become more fragmented and diversified people. The division is startling and is depicted as a battle. Each side has its leader who then becomes leader for the totality of existence including our present time. The leader of the 'good' side comes to be known as the Creator God who leads the legions of good angels. The leader of the 'evil' side is noted as Lucifer, as Satan, as Devil, leading the so-called bad angels. These bad angels or devils are very much a part of today's world and have become remodeled into the cute and the cartoon, even into 'naughty' instead of evil. (the glamour side of evil). In these creation stories, God is equated with light while Lucifer becomes known as the Prince of Darkness. Here the process of division is seen at work. As God divided the waters, the light that divided the darkness also divided. Here we see the division of good from evil. In our time this division inverts and re-aligns...darkness becoming confused with light and light becoming confused with darkness. All just adding to the chaos. Early in the story, that which would come to be called evil, divided from that which would become called good. Evil became evil in the division, in the choice to divide. Evil made 'evil' evil and 'good' good. The battle expresses the division that issued from the choice of Lucifer and followers who were dissatisfied with who or what they were. The whole gist of the story rests on the fact that Archangel Lucifer wanted to become God. Lucifer attempted to destroy the 'Other'/the Reality that he would assume the Other's identity. Interestingly, it seems that Lucifer needed help. He needed to bring in other angels. He needed to create division. For the plan to work, violence was necessary. Violence was necessary to obliterate that which stood in the way to claiming the other's identity for one's own. Wanting to assume another's identity signifies the absence of identity in the first place.
The story depicts the loss of identity that characterises those who perpetrate violence as a solution to their loss. The division is further depicted as causing a separation, a division of heaven and from creation. Creation becomes the vehicle for the division of evil from good. Basically, creation becomes the vehicle for the creation of evil and good. Creation, here, separates itself out and becomes known as 'evil'. It calls the 'other' 'good'. Not necessarily with the best of connotations but as something 'other' than itself. The division, the need to create a space apart, actually causes creation to come about. We now have a division of forces so powerful that it is described as a battle. As creation itself is a constant moving and changing about of its basic elements so also the battle of precreation continually rages, becoming more intense and more subtle at each increment of history. The story unfolds, our story, becoming more violent at each passing phase of Time.
The division of forces further divides and appoints, and continues to divide and appoint, leaders, (God and Satan) which have over the centuries acquired many more names and designations. The division continues into the need to remove a side from what is now the 'other side' and the creation of many more 'other sides'. With it the terms 'good', 'bad', 'evil', 'holy'. We have, above all, now established sin. The reason given for the battle was that archangel Lucifer desired to become God.
There lies deep within humanity the desire to become God. This desire touches all aspects and phases of created life. The desire to become God is behind all choices and determinations and is the very basis of human thoughts, dreams, and aspirations. It establishes life cycles, patterns, customs, alliances; the very structures of created life. The desire to become God determines human behavior. The desire is rooted in human consciousness and unconsciousness. Every phase, every level, every step, is a piece of the unfolding of the movement to become God as is every stage of evolution. The desire is the force of, and the actuality for, the perpetual search for perfection. Humanity as Intelligence, sough and seeks Perfection. But what is Perfection anyway, but being God? God and Perfection are One.
(The second story to follow)
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