19.17

[APeacefulWarrior]

I honestly think that phrase may just boil down to a questionable choice of wording on Ra's part. He spoke in pure metaphor, for a change, probably because the limitations on his contact method meant he couldn't talk about negative topics in much detail. I'd say "perversion of nature" was simply shorthand for "any activities a strongly positive-polarized being would find highly objectionable."

So I have to disagree with Jade on this. To say that Earth or our lives on it are perversions of nature is to say parts of the Creator are perversions of nature, and I consider that to be an utterly contradictory idea. How could the Creator be a perversion of itself?

I say there's no such real thing as a "perversion of nature" because nature and\or the Creator simply is what it is. That which is possible is therefore permitted because the Creator seeks all possible experiences within itself. It's merely up to each individual entity to decide which forms of experience they will find attractive, and which they will find repulsive. Ultimately all are equally playing out their own roles in the theater of infinity.

After all, both Ra and Q'uo repeatedly emphasize the ultimate perfect unity of creation, and perfection is incompatible with the concept of perversion: "[A]ll things are one, there is no polarity, no right or wrong, no disharmony, but only identity. All is one, and that one is love/light, light/love, the Infinite Creator." (4.20)