Sorrow-Element 8
The Spiritual Periodic Table of the elements
Sorrow
Element number 8
Of all the elements, Sorrow is the most omnipresent. It is found in some amount in every cosmic arising. In some cases the amounts are tiny, nearly immeasurable; and in others Sorrow predominates. There is of course less of it than Love, but because of its heavier weight, its total cosmological mass is roughly calculated as equivalent.
God absorbs as much Sorrow as She can, because of His quality of Mercy.
The cosmos being a reciprocal entity, it’s said by the Obdesseens that it’s the cosmological responsibility of every being in the multiverse to assist God by absorbing as much Sorrow as possible. According to them, Sorrow was produced at the moment of creation because of God's distress at the Great Contradiction.
Of course this is not possible, because sorrow, like all the other elements, ultimately still depends on love for its origins, so it must have come afterwards. Immediately, perhaps; but afterwards nonetheless.
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