Good time to everyone, I am a Newbie and feel rather uncertain, but I felt like this thread would be a good place for one of the questions I have regarding ideas of Fosforos. (I will have to add some information which might seem unnecessary, but will aid in showing the path of my thoughts)
As far as I understood the text, it states there there exist no pure good and evil. And while I see that there indeed is no absolute goodness (which was actually the reason why I sought for satanism and was a LaVeyan kind of thinker for a while), I still cannot understand how there can be no absolute evil.
Now, reading such spiritual books as Fosforos is always a challenge: for it is a challenge to live on afterwards. For (let me insert a true, yet humorous example from my life) once, after finishing reading "Faust" by Goethe and being deep within the heavenly thoughts, I eventually realized that this whole time my eyes were blindly staring at someone's but* while I was standing in the subway train... (that contrast was simultaneously horrific and brought sardonic laughter to me)
And Fosforos feels like yet another example of such wonderful book, such glass ledder, or bridge, which is alluring and reaches far above, but very fragile and desctructable when applied here. For human perception won't manage to exist on such heights for long and eventually falls.
So in order to check how fragile the Fosforos was, from the very start of the chapters that spoke of relativity of good and evil, I kept thinking of yet one thing that I NEVER managed to justify as something that can be "not necessarily evil" (have a grain of goodness in it) to see if the book had a direct answer, or at least a misty trail for my own thoughts that could really prove that there is no total evil in it. And I could not find such justification ...
That is why I am eager to ask about it here, where I could have the possibility to know the ideas of the author himself, and of his close colleagues. (Now this topic does not relate to me or any person close to me, but here it is...)
What is, ahem, rape, if not the total and unjastifiable evil? For there can sometimes be found a reason for murder, or any other deed that is considered evil in general, and is basically immoral, and such deeds may even lead to something good simultaneously. (let's say, a murder of a serial killer by their victim) Moreover, such thing as murder can be a brutal lesson to the rest (which is still one of purposes of death penalties) and ,just as it brings pain it simultaneously ends it for it ends with death of body and its senses. But rape is not a lesson to others, and it doesn't end itself as does death, and victims of such deed may actually wish for death and its comfort...
the only 'good' essence I see in it is the fact that victims may overcome their experience, but as I understand, this victory is never actually finished, or maybe the terrible experience just alters the victim's personality. (and we cannot know if such alteration was for good or for bad for them, so 'chance' of goodness gets ever lower, though it still exists). Therefore,
that feels like too big of a price for a 'lesson', and what would it teach if not that people can act in evil and unjastifiable ways?
I address you with this awful topic to see the opinion of (sorry, I don't know how to call this philosophical-religious group) followers, and to realise its attitude towards concepts of good and evil correctly. Thank you for attention! I am looking forward to reading your answers/continuing the discussion.