I think this duality notion might be the thing to try and drill into? If you’ll forgive what im sure will be a tangled mess of thoughts.

when it comes to reconciliation, whatever is false is obliterated. They do not merge together say... or integrate.

Yes, duality is an epiphenomenon of finite, misaligned perception encountering a unified reality. It is experientially real, but not ontologically fundamental.

I agree with this, regarding what is false - but I don’t believe duality is false. Let me ask how you integrate the following (which you’re surely familiar with) into your beliefs:

> I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

That strikes me as indicating that “Creation” (as we, in our finitude, can know it) is a dualistic place via design. I’ve infact raised this in the c/Christianity community, seeking an answer that made more sense than this. Yes, yes, I know some men, very important men, labeled these ideas “Heresy”, but these discussions to me are about making an appeal to our God-given gift of reason, not an appeal to “authority”. Forgive the tangent lol. It’s all to say, the best argument I found was based on the notion of Creation being, well, created, ”all good”. And, to cut a long story short, while that sentence can be the Truth in isolation, I don’t find it convincing wholistically, I find it to be a “pushing off of responsibility”. If an omniscient being comes up with a plan to create Creation, He knows what that entails. He thus creates both Good, and Evil, and existence is all the richer for it (as I believe can be read in the Bible, and as I believe the HH/LoO stuff just kind of…updates for our time the same divine wisdom) and trying to skeeve the existence of evil off onto “Satan”, Adam, Eve, the Nephilim, you, me, whoever! just does a disservice to the true majesty of God’s creation. It’s a simplifying of the story for children. We all have a role to play, including those “vessels meant for destruction”

The garden always had choice.

Did it though? Without “knowledge of Good and Evil”, what kind of choices could even be made? - “What should I eat right now?” “What should I call this animal?” - I see the choices we are capable of in a state of innocence are far more restricted than the state that came after, don’t you? They were like perfect Children at that point, babes…your baby doesn’t know right from wrong, and no parent would punish a baby for their choice made in innocent ignorance

Anyway, think I can cut myself off there, hopefully enough of that gets through lol. I’ll just say, i quite appreciate this conversation. If I ever come across combatively, it’s just because of how important I actually think the subject is. Cheers