I am struggling to understand the original impulse for the creation of humanity and for its struggles. From my reading, I understand the following aspects that, however, all seem to come out of some original (unelucidated) need: - Human beings were created and separated from the rest of creation in order to develop freedom, which could not exist in the presence of the Godhead. - In order to develop freedom, human beings need to be confronted by evil, so that good might be freely created by them. - In order for humans to have evil to confront (which also could not come to be spontaneously in the presence of the Godhead) otherwise perfect spiritual beings needed to be held back by God from their own evolution. - A major task (THE major task?) for human beings is to confront this evil and use it to create good, and in doing so, redeem the evil beings and assist them in their reintegration into the presence of the Godhead and the stream of cosmic evolution, and then for human beings to rejoin the spiritual cosmos and the presence of the Godhead.
My question and my struggle: this seems to be a circular process that simply ends up where it began. I don't understand what has been served by the process and particularly by the staggering and immeasurable amount of suffering that has been created and endured in this process. I sincerely hope that some one can fill in the missing piece of this puzzle, or point out to me what I am missing in my understanding.
With gratitude for the help!
