{The Spirit; Doing Good; and the Shape of the Circle [continued (4)]}[24th August 1990]

[Redbook7:234][19900824:2328f]{The Spirit; Doing Good; and the Shape of the Circle [continued (4)]}[24th August 1990]

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The implication* is that as +C† moves towards the Centre – the Spirit – he becomes less good, which sounds astonishing: nevertheless, if you compare the Jesus Christ of the Synoptic Gospels** with the Archetypal Christ of St. John’s Gospels, and especially with the risen Christ and the Christ of the Last Judgement in European painting, it becomes clear that goodness is a matter of human manifestation, what we in fact now often call humanity: when we say to our children: ‘Be good’, we actually mean: Do good; or at least, do not do wrong.

Is it actually possible to ‘Be good’? And is it meaningful to describe God as good?*** God – the Spirit – is: God is not anything, it just is. God the Creator – the Soul of the Spirit – does, but it would I suspect be an irrelevance if not an impertinence to say that God the Creator does good.

*[See last 3 previous entries, [Redbook7:233-235][19900824:2328c]{The Spirit; Doing Good; and the Shape of the Circle}[24th August 1990]ff]

**[Matthew, Mark, Luke]

***[As in [Redbook5:103-104][19880320:1650]{Signs of God}[20th March 1988], where it is possibly defined simply by being of God]

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