The more the merrier.
I think that Ain or the nothingness is a thing that exist at a primordial level and thus it existed for eons.
However, the word AIN, based on my energy work represents a negative side of a very corruptive energy, much where the sea of Chaos originate and are the home of various demonic beings, including the primordial demons and the Goetic demons.
I prefer not to misrepresent "Ain" as anything other than what it is: pure "negation" which is extremely useful. It's age is irelevant to me, other than its necessary partnership with "everything" and that it requires some thing other than itself to sustain it.
Making it an enemy, imo, causes much more harm than good. For example, chaos serves an important purpose for natural evolution. Random mutations with survival benefits are a product of chaos. These random mutations are an important driver in evolution. Without the genetic variance, the human race would never survive. I agree that it is "corruptive", but the remedy is to understand it. Even chaos is predictable in its absolute lack of order.
The Kabalistic tree has two sides; one light and the other one dark *nightside*.
Agreed. 100%. Here is my own diagram I posted earlier which includes the "other-side". It's not perfect, but I think it does a good job of illustrating the "other-side", and it's position on the "map" surrounding the material realm. This is indicated by the dark circle surrounding the white circle in the lower 4th of the chain. The components of the "other-side", the dark tree, is included in this dark circle surrounding the white one labled "מלכות".
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It is important to take in consideration that the nightside is where all the evil originates. Demons, the nothingness, more specifically the seas of chaos, it is where the evil originates.
And to further consolidate this, I bring as proof the picture of Satan traversing the seas of Chaos (AIN):
First, I personally have no fear of demons, satan, chaos, nor evil. That fear feeds them. All of them work for me, if I ever choose to use them for a greater good. Actual evil is remarkably rare, ignorance is far more common. Individuals who do harm intentionally are most often not evil, which is why they can be rehabilitated.
Second, chaos is not "ain". Chaos has a diifferent name: It's "Tohu-vah-Vohu", lliterally "chaos-and-void", which is different than "AIN".
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If we look closely, the sea of chaos, besides containing the origin of all evils, AIN, it also contains the kabalistic sense of Chaos and nothingness.
The problem with this is: Chaos at random catche and at random releases. So, it doesn't make sense to claim that Chaos contains the origin of all evil. Kabalah would label that dark region in the picture the "other-side", the "sitra-achra", nothing more, nothing less.
Really what's needed is a proper definition of evil in order to distinguish it from darkness.
Evil is willful harm for no other purpose other than pleasure. If an individual is inspired by the idea of rape, for the sole purpose of having that experience, and if that inspiration is pleasurable for them, as opposed to discouraging, then, they are having evil thoughts. If they actualize those thoughts, (act on them) and receive pleasure by doing them, then they are an evil person. It could be that they are evil through no fault of their own, but, this does not mean that they should be permitted to act out their evil intentions, nor that their evil intentions have no consequences.
But this is not the same as an individual who is a thief because they do not think they have any other way to feed themself, and, they happen to be good at stealing, and they get a thrill from stealing at the same time. Stealing is still wrong for them, but, it's not evil. The truth is, there probably are other ways of feeding themself, but, they are deluding themself as a result of the pleasure they receive and how easy it is for them to steal.
There's other ways that the thief is able to convince themself, delude themself, that it's OK to steal, and this is the study of criminal psychology, but it is rarely evil. It's delusional and a form of ignorance. Both delusion and ignorance are products of "Ain", but they delusion and ignorance are not evil.
