VML-12/24/01

[Guest guest]

Think of the old crude idea of the Persians- two gods creating this

world, the good god doing everything that is good, and the bad one,

everything bad. On the very face of it, you see the absurdity, for if

it be carried out, every law of nature must have two parts, one of

which is manipulated by one god, and then he goes away and the other

god manipulates the other part. There the difficulty comes that both

are working in the same world, and these two gods keep themselves in

harmony by injuring one portion and then doing good to another. This

is a crude case, of course, the crudest way of expressing the duality

of existence.