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perpetrated against Job, who “Heaven’s Frown, Earth’s Force, Hell’s Fury, Calmly (and not so calmly, but in rage) Bore,”58 and ponder, too, on the aporiae, on the bizarre 2+2 is 5 lore, and on the squaring of the circle song, the Grecian heart adored. Yahweh’s shifting mood thrives, too, from plenitude to nude wrath, sharing a similitude to anthropomorphisms of the Grecian Pantheonic kind.
As an irrational being, He could not logically possibly bring forth a perfectly good creation. Grecian rational creation arguments generally posit their maxims as, “out of the same derives the same,” and “out of the good derives the good” (Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics). Yet, we know that mythically, anything is possible. It is conceivable that “out of opposites” things do come into being (Ying Yang theory, Empedocles’ Strife-Love theory), and that Yahweh’s Word may, indeed, have dominion of both good and evil realms, and thus play an eerie, perplexing dice game with us, enticing us to play up for the game, as if we were Hesse’s proverbial Magister Ludi, enthralled by his Glass Bead Game, or as if we were the poet and the secret detective in Chesterton’s A Man Who Was Thursday, despite all the Sisyphean futilities their games entail.
If Yahweh were not moved by the Ideas in-themselves, nor by visions of the things-in-themselves, but primordially by His
58 Sylvester, Joshua. Job’s Epitaph. Atwan, Robert and Wieder, Laurence. Chapters into Verse. Volume I: Genesis to Malachi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 290.
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