The problem of suffering.
I saw this discussion earlier and rather than making the thread longer and more complicated, decided I’d present my thoughts here. I’ve considered the question of why we suffer for a very long time. Suffering is not the same thing as evil, though it can be the result of evil. So, let us put aside the question of the problem of evil for another discussion, shall we?
All of life suffers. Great or small, powerful or weak, there is suffering in their life. One may ask why there are varying degrees of suffering. One may ask why there is no apparent justice in suffering (i.e. people who engage in acts of evil not appearing to suffer but actually profiting from said acts results). This is because suffering is morally neutral. In my study of suffering, I have learned that it is possible to suffer as much for the sake of good as it is for the sake of evil, and to suffer because of such things as well.
To live is to suffer. It is as my Beloved has said to me “The price of playing the game of life.” Beloved is not prone to deep philosophical conversation but this thought of his is actually pretty potent. When we step onto the wheel of incarnation and separate from the bliss and perfection of union with Déa, we experience suffering from this act. For suffering is the absence of pleasure, at it’s most benign manifestation. We are not alone in our suffering, for the Daughter (and the Bright Mother to some extent) suffers with us. The Daughter’s sacrifice begins in her taking on of fate, setting foot onto the wheel of incarnation. The Daughter then moves through the realms of incarnation experiencing suffering through it all. She then moves to the greatest suffering one might experience, absolute death.
It is possible to take heart in the face of all the suffering of the world, for it will come to a conclusion when Deam Mysterium (the Dark Mother or the Absolute Divine) gathers all into her embrace in the end of days. This promise is foreshadowed in the holy narrative of the Daughter and her rescue by the Bright Mother. The Daughter ascends to prepare a place of respite between incarnations (Avala) and prays for the welfare of all of existence. In the end of days, the Daughter herself will be embraced by Deam Mysterium and all shall be as it was in the beginning - the pure bliss of union with Déa and the absence of all suffering.
