Wednesday, January 16, 2008

On angels, creativity and imperfection

This is the 4th article on my series of Email conversations with a friend. This one is mostly about an article i wrote for a Finnish magazine and how angels by nature can not judge.

The article mostly dealt with how angles are such a force that they refuse to judge simply because they are incabable of judgement as they have no ego (no self, thus no judgement). They simply work as conduits for the creative desires of humanity and as a logical conclusion of divine love and the nature of angels even those we hate the most must be considered divine love and angels would indeed love them as much as us. Saying that hitler was indeed an angel in the sense that his desires simply helped give the resentment and desire for war in europe a chance to vent. "Cherish everyone as the precious wish fulfilling jewel" said the buddha. And in essence if that is to be realistically practiced it means that we must value the worst of humanity as the best of humanity and vice versa. Angels only give our divine self a limited ego to work with, purposefully hindering or helping depending on if they are "angels" or "fallen angels" the creative proccess simply because our power is so vast that it needs to be done to give creativity meaning.

The perfect creative self that we all are at the core level is so powerful that we need to manifest to this reality in order to learn to be humans. To learn to live with and "deal with" being flawed. The creativity where everything you do is immidiatly realised regardless of others very quickly "goes old" so we opted to be born here were we would be limited and helped all in the effort to help us work better with others and in essence, to move the instruments from the practice room into the orchestra.

So, we are here not to "return to the source" not to go up or down, left or right, we can do all those things immidiatly if we truly want to. We are here to learn and enjoy from being less than perfect. The job of angels is to help us be creative in a limited sense by both helping and hindering (as i said, depending on if they are Pre-fall or Post-fall angels.) As no action in a limited world is inherantly evil as all actions lack a center separate from the observer (no body, no mind, no physical form... etc) Judgement of those actions comes form the ego, the desire to be individuated from others, the limited creative self this universe made out to produce. So from the universal point of view, everyone is an angel simply because they help us create and produce and bring out creative self out to the fore. All actions are inherantly creative actions simply because we are "creative machines on legs" basically. So when hitler was planning to take over the world in one of his mad sprees he had angels sitting next to him, helping him plan, helping him "go nuts". But when churchill and all those who opposed him planned how to stop him they too had angels helping them. Eventually because HUMANITY wanted to, hitler failed and another form of creation was brought to the core of humanity.

We played and tested with the ideas that hitler presented and with disgust we eventually threw them aside, we wanted to experience other things.

This i believe is what angels are. A background force that helps and hinders us precicely as we are with no judgement, any action with no judgement. But we as humans still have difficulty understanding the concept of no judgement. So we cut the wings of rafael and try to force him to be close to us, to be with just as and say with us "those are the bad guys and we are the good guys". We try to force angels to be like the supportive parents. To tell us we have been doing a good job, that we are now finally worthy of divine love, to tell us that our long efforts to purge ourselfs of ourselfs. To do meditations, cleanings, exercises and go live in a monastary has finally paid off, that we have finally redeemed ourselfs for some past sin ages ago. When in reality angels cant really redeem you because simply you can redeem you. To tell people such as these that, we are all indeed worthy of divine love, all of us, hurts them deeply because to say that they have always been worthy is to say that they have no need to keep constantly punishing themselfs. When self mutilation becomes a habit of once life, and in some forms a meaning of once life and someone dares to say even the worst of us are the precious wish fulfilling jewel, not just the buddhas or jesus then they are indeed attacking the very core belief of self mutilators. That they have spent syuch a long time in their life being angry at themselfs for being the way they are because they want to, not because god wants them to.

That we are all indeed perfect in our inperfection. That we do not need to strive to be anything we dont want to, we can just sit and be and learn nothing and still be everything.

To quote what zen buddhism says enlightenement is.

Wu

Nothing

Okay, so maybe its a bit of a cheap attempt to bridge together some perhapse disagreeing things. Thats the point i made in my article.

So, comments are welcome =D Its not a word for word translation just an explanation of the idea behind the article.

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