It suddenly occurred to me that both good and evil people are all sublime. Of course, a villain (an evil person) cannot be sublime in and of themselves. The things they do in secret chambers are truly so appalling that one is left speechless. I am only saying that “as a result,” their existence inevitably functions as something with a sublime character. If that is really the case, we may no longer have reason to hate or curse anyone.
In today’s world, anyone who lives without a single shameful act when looking up at the sky would be considered sublime, but it is easy to be puzzled as to how an evil person can even be associated with the word “sublime.” But in human history, who exactly created those rare “saints”? Wasn’t it the villains who lurked around them and tormented them?
The distinction between the good and the bad is made because there are evil people who lure people with sweet bait, deceive them with lies, and use power to make them unable to resist, stealing, destroying, and killing people’s precious things. Of course, in the process, many people suffer, are broken, and die. When faced with such things, there is a strong temptation to conclude that there is no justice in this world and that only money and power are everything. Quite a few people succumb to this bittersweet temptation and choose to stand on the side of the evil people rather than become victims.
However, the few people who deeply refuse to become hypocrites or evil and struggle to the end eventually gain the ability to refuse even a small lie, even if they are given all the money in the world. They gain the power to choose to give up their lives rather than damage their conscience. The birth of a saint. In order to create one such sublime saint, the roles of many evil people are essential: the tempting villain, the stealing villain, the lying villain, the villain who suppresses with power. They are like exam proctors who test the saint in each subject. If they pass all their tests, one saint is born. Just as Jesus passed Satan’s three temptations in the wilderness after 40 days of fasting in the Bible.
Assuming that no one is born evil, all the many evil people in the world must be people who succumbed to temptation somewhere in their lives. Those who have succumbed, fearing to admit their own sins, beat down their conscience. After that, they can do things they could never have imagined as their former selves without any qualms. The birth of an exam proctor, or the birth of Satan.
If heaven and hell really exist, then the evil people are throwing their own bodies into the flames of hell and producing saints who go to heaven. What a sublime self-sacrifice that is. What is given to them in return for their role as exam proctors for others, even enduring the pain of eternally burning hellfire, is only the fleeting thrill they can feel when committing sins. How many people, justifying themselves with various reasons, volunteer to be exam proctors? Truly, it cannot be said that this world is not full of sublime human beings.
Gaining this perspective makes the world feel completely different from before. Although the world appears cruel, absurd, and sad, if you look into the deepest bottom of the inner self, it becomes possible to interpret that “everything in the world, beautiful, ugly, good, and evil, is turning only for the consistent and beautiful purpose of ‘producing saints.’” In a world turning with such a clear and beautiful purpose, there are only two kinds of people: villains and saints. And until the last breath is cut off, a small door is open for all villains to become saints. But only a very small number of villains can pass through that narrow door.
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