So, if we stop thinking of the things of the world as ours and stop trying to attend to them as though they belong to us, and instead attend to what is ours we can attain that perfect Good and from our perfected vantage evil will no longer be found.

The upshot is that evil is something perceived by us, or particular creatures, who see everything from a relative perspective. We see the world in terms of this thing and that thing. Since these things are relative to each other and the relation of one thing to another in the closed system of the two things is often detrimental for one or the other, we perceive the detriment as evil.

However, from the true vantage point, the vantage point of the One, which is the only truly real vantage point, everything is working nicely and all is Good. Of course The One is naturally omnipotent or all powerful and all powerful is an absolute.

People often discuss omnipotence, or all powerfulness, as though that means that God is more powerful than anything else or God is so powerful he can do anything, but these are not what All Powerful is.

All Powerful means that God has all power absolutely, from the light of all the Suns in the Universe to the fleeting thought of a chipmunk, everything that can be said to participate of power in any way is God's. Not only is all power Gods, God is All. God is absolutely self-subsistent, absolutely non-contingent.

We perceive evil because we, "see through a glass darkly." We see a thing from a relative perspective, so evil is very real to us, but when our vision is resonant with the vision of the One, there will be no evil to be found, and therein we will find perfect Peace, The Good, The Beautiful.

Homage to my blessed teachers, Epictetus, Eriugena, Seneca, Cassian and Columcille.

Written by James McKinnon