XI. DO 'ALL GOOD THINGS COME FROM ABOVE'?


Participants in Judaeo-Christian culture commonly perceive a beneficent God who invisibly resides somewhere above (viz, in 'Heaven') the Earth.

From above, He (sometimes also now referenced as 'She' in gender-neutral parlance) is reputed as providing everything that is good on Earth and in the cosmos.

Explicitly or implicitly, a hierarchy ('chain) of power, good intention and beneficence is conceptualized whereby God provides good things for the church, the church provides good things for the Government, the Government provides good things for social institutions, institutions provide good things for professionals, men provide good things for women and parents provide good things for children.

While it is obvious that a new-b0rn baby seems to need everything done for him/her, this blogger submits that in addition to providing emotional resources and a sense of well-being for those around him/her, the baby has 'spiritual' and virtually 'magical' power that provides a beneficial reality/environment for all concerned.

In a more complex manner, adults continue to be beneficiaries of what maturing children provide; but the former commonly fail to respect, constructively use and appreciate this - leading to emotional distress, misbehavior and drug use in the younger generation.

Similarly, while it is commonly perceived that a woman is dependent on the emotional resources and reality/environment that a man provides, this blogger believe that the situation is covertly very much the inverse. Drawing on the power of her existential affinity with Nature, she provides a 'universe' of time, space and events for him - the best possible in accordance with how the man has 'impregnated' (i.e., effected, informed, defined) her psychologically, socially and 'spiritually' (see earlier Posts).

In summary, this blogger submits that 'all good things come from BELOW' and that, in fact, everyone and everything in the universe loves and takes care of God. And the latter has no existence that is independent of that provided for Him by the cosmos - especially human beings.

Sorry, 'Virginia' and 'Virginio', there is no Santa Clause; and God has no 'free-standing' existence or capacity to love, provide for or take care of anything or anyone.