The Book of Greys 👁 In(tro)duction
Between Light and Darkness these is something. Or somewhere. It is where Light tries to understand Darkness and Darkness tries to understand Light. Where God tries to see himself by crafting mirrors.
Such a mirror is Sentient Life endowed with Language.
When looking out of this mirror, Light seems split into Colors. They may fight so hard they end up twisting themselves into Darkness. And Darkness can set itself on fire, burning out into Light again. Can all of one originate from the other? Or are there pieces of unchangeable “pure light” and “pure darkness”?
Words break meaning into shareable packets that can be passed from one mind to another. Big words, like “good”, or “evil” (or “God”), can try to wrap all of Darkness or all of Light, or all of everything. Small words are less ambitious. But do any ever succeed?
Why is it that “the knowledge of good and evil” seems to require the presence of all the three ingredients? Life, Sentience and Language. Is is maybe about the informational “phase change” that makes memes so qualitatively different from genes?
Does having a piece of God inside of you implies having a piece of True Evil too? (Is it because True Evil is also part of God?) Is Darkness just “twisted Light” that always hold the hope of getting “untwisted”? Or is Light just a small piece of the infinite Darkness?
The nature of what humans call True Evil is the starting point of The Book of Greys. But all the other questions will be touched too, by necessity or by mere sideways curiosity.
A note to readers too attached to scientific positivism or other unfairly optimistic views of the world though: Some types of understanding are “dangerous”, or one may say they induce irreversible transformations of the soul. Some knowledge cannot be un-known after you arrive at it. By necessity, when you truly understand It, It also understands you.
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