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130:4.1 The night before they left [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria Alexandria] Ganid and [[Jesus]] had a long [[visit]] with one of the [[government]] professors at the [[university]] who [[lecture]]d on the teachings of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato]. [[Jesus]] [[interpreted]] for the learned [[Greek]] teacher but injected no teaching of his own in [[refutation]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_Philosophy Greek philosophy]. Gonod was away on [[business]] that evening; so, after the professor had departed, the teacher and his [[pupil]] had a long and heart-to-heart talk about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato]'s [[doctrines]]. While Jesus gave qualified approval of some of the Greek teachings which had to do with the [[theory]] that the [[material]] [[things]] of the world are [[shadow]]y [[reflections]] of [[invisible]] but more substantial [[spiritual]] [[realities]], he sought to lay a more trustworthy [[foundation]] for the lad's [[thinking]]; so he began a long [[dissertation]] concerning the [[nature]] of [[reality]] in the [[universe]]. In substance and in [[modern]] phraseology Jesus said to Ganid:

130:4.1 The night before they left [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria Alexandria] Ganid and [[Jesus]] had a long [[visit]] with one of the [[government]] professors at the [[university]] who [[lecture]]d on the teachings of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato]. [[Jesus]] [[interpreted]] for the learned [[Greek]] teacher but injected no teaching of his own in [[refutation]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_Philosophy Greek philosophy]. Gonod was away on [[business]] that evening; so, after the professor had departed, the teacher and his [[pupil]] had a long and heart-to-heart talk about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato]'s [[doctrines]]. While Jesus gave qualified approval of some of the Greek teachings which had to do with the [[theory]] that the [[material]] [[things]] of the world are [[shadow]]y [[reflections]] of [[invisible]] but more substantial [[spiritual]] [[realities]], he sought to lay a more trustworthy [[foundation]] for the lad's [[thinking]]; so he began a long [[dissertation]] concerning the [[nature]] of [[reality]] in the [[universe]]. In substance and in [[modern]] phraseology Jesus said to Ganid:

130:4.2 The [[source]] of [[universe]] [[reality]] is the [[Infinite]]. The material [[things]] of finite [[creation]] are the [[time-space]] [[repercussions]] of the [[Paradise]] [[Pattern]] and the [[Infinite Spirit|Universal Mind]] of the eternal [[God]]. [[Causation]] in the [[physical]] world, [[self-consciousness]] in the [[intellectual]] world, and progressing [[selfhood]] in the [[spirit]] world—these realities, [[projected]] on a [[universal]] [[scale]], combined in eternal relatedness, and experienced with [[perfection]] of [[quality]] and [[divinity]] of [[value]]—constitute the reality of [[the Supreme]]. But in an ever-changing [[universe]] the [[Universal Father|Original Personality]] of [[causation]], [[intelligence]], and [[spirit]] [[experience]] is changeless, [[absolute]]. All things, even in an [[eternal]] [[universe]] of limitless [[values]] and [[divine]] qualities, may, and oftentimes do, change except [[the Absolutes]] and that which has [[attained]] the [[physical]] [[status]], [[intellectual]] [[embrace]], or [[spiritual]] [[identity]] which is [[absolute]].

130:4.2 The [[source]] of [[universe]] [[reality]] is the [[Infinite]]. The material [[things]] of finite [[creation]] are the [[time-space]] [[repercussions]] of the [[Paradise]] [[Pattern]] and the [[Infinite Spirit|Universal Mind]] of the eternal [[God]]. [[Causation]] in the [[physical]] world, [[self-consciousness]] in the [[intellectual]] world, and progressing [[selfhood]] in the [[spirit]] world—these realities, [[projected]] on a [[universal]] [[scale]], combined in eternal relatedness, and experienced with [[perfection]] of [[quality]] and [[divinity]] of [[value]]—constitute the reality of [[the Supreme]]. But in an ever-changing [[universe]] the [[Universal Father|Original Personality]] of [[causation]], [[intelligence]], and [[spirit]] [[experience]] is changeless, [[absolute]]. All things, even in an [[eternal]] [[universe]] of limitless [[values]] and [[divine]] qualities, may, and oftentimes do, change except [[the Absolutes]] and that which has [[attained]] the [[physical]] [[status]], [[intellectual]] [[embrace]], or [[spiritual]] [[identity]] which is [[absolute]].

130:4.11 [[Error]] ([[evil]]) is the [[penalty]] of imperfection. The qualities of imperfection or [[facts]] of misadaptation are disclosed on the [[material]] level by [[critical]] [[observation]] and by [[scientific]] [[analysis]]; on the [[moral]] level, by human [[experience]]. The [[presence]] of [[evil]] constitutes [[proof]] of the inaccuracies of [[mind]] and the immaturity of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:2._THE_SELF evolving self]. [[Evil]] is, therefore, also a [[measure]] of imperfection in [[universe]] [[interpretation]]. The possibility of making mistakes is [[inherent]] in the acquisition of [[wisdom]], the [[scheme]] of progressing from the partial and [[temporal]] to the complete and [[eternal]], from the [[relative]] and imperfect to the final and perfected. [[Error]] is the [[shadow]] of [[relative]] incompleteness which must of [[necessity]] fall across man's [[ascending]] universe path to [[Paradise]] [[perfection]]. Error ([[evil]]) is not an [[actual]] universe [[quality]]; it is simply the [[observation]] of a [[relativity]] in the relatedness of the imperfection of the incomplete [[finite]] to the ascending levels of the [[Supreme]] and [[Ultimate]].

130:4.11 [[Error]] ([[evil]]) is the [[penalty]] of imperfection. The qualities of imperfection or [[facts]] of misadaptation are disclosed on the [[material]] level by [[critical]] [[observation]] and by [[scientific]] [[analysis]]; on the [[moral]] level, by human [[experience]]. The [[presence]] of [[evil]] constitutes [[proof]] of the inaccuracies of [[mind]] and the immaturity of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:2._THE_SELF evolving self]. [[Evil]] is, therefore, also a [[measure]] of imperfection in [[universe]] [[interpretation]]. The possibility of making mistakes is [[inherent]] in the acquisition of [[wisdom]], the [[scheme]] of progressing from the partial and [[temporal]] to the complete and [[eternal]], from the [[relative]] and imperfect to the final and perfected. [[Error]] is the [[shadow]] of [[relative]] incompleteness which must of [[necessity]] fall across man's [[ascending]] universe path to [[Paradise]] [[perfection]]. Error ([[evil]]) is not an [[actual]] universe [[quality]]; it is simply the [[observation]] of a [[relativity]] in the relatedness of the imperfection of the incomplete [[finite]] to the ascending levels of the [[Supreme]] and [[Ultimate]].

130:4.12 Although [[Jesus]] told all this to the lad in [[language]] best suited to his [[comprehension]], at the end of the [[discussion]] Ganid was heavy of eye and was soon lost in [[slumber]]. They rose early the next morning to go aboard the boat bound for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasaea Lasea] on the island of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete]. But before they embarked, the lad had still further questions to ask about [[evil]], to which Jesus replied:

130:4.12 Although [[Jesus]] told all this to the lad in [[language]] best suited to his [[comprehension]], at the end of the [[discussion]] Ganid was heavy of eye and was soon lost in [[slumber]]. They rose early the next morning to go aboard the boat bound for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasaea Lasea] on the island of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete]. But before they embarked, the lad had still further questions to ask about [[evil]], to which Jesus replied:

130:4.13 [[Evil]] is a [[relativity]] [[concept]]. It arises out of the [[observation]] of the imperfections which appear in the [[shadow]] cast by a [[finite]] [[universe]] of [[things]] and [[beings]] as such a [[cosmos]] obscures the living [[light]] of the [[universal]] [[expression]] of the eternal [[realities]] of the Infinite One.

130:4.13 [[Evil]] is a [[relativity]] [[concept]]. It arises out of the [[observation]] of the imperfections which appear in the [[shadow]] cast by a [[finite]] [[universe]] of [[things]] and [[beings]] as such a [[cosmos]] obscures the living [[light]] of the [[universal]] [[expression]] of the eternal [[realities]] of the Infinite One.