Though I haven't concluded my thesis, which is to compare the actions of Hyo Jin and Nansook from a Cain/Abel perspective, I am trying to help members to see the very different actions of these people from this perspective to understand Abel can be a sob and still not fail god as miserably as Cain, though Cain may have been provoked beyond endurance by Abel.

Members are dismayed that father is blessing Hyo Jin, perceiving this as some betrayal of principle. Father may be reblessing Hyo Jin, not so much for his sake as to protect the 2nd generation, whom Hyo Jin may be in the CF position to, not as a person, as much as the eldest son of the messiah. The difference of these 2 aspects of Hyo Jin and the position he finds himself him are terribly significant.

Father may be loving the 2nd generation more and his son less in this action than we can realize. Father might prefer to just set his son aside away from providential responsibility, but to do so may mean the 2nd generation would be burdened with the indemnity of that failure, a burden beyond their present capacity to handle. It might require the wholesale sacrifice of a generation, similar to the Jews who suffered under Hitler. Blessing Hyo Jin, even to an innocent, may be father's great sacrifice to provide some foundation from which to reclaim the failure first of Hyo Jin, and more importantly, the failure of Nansook, the Cain/first eve of the 2nd generation.

While I am not saying I am right in all I suggest, I think we are far from understanding DP, father and god as method and as players in the restoration. I think this lack of understanding, rather than a lack of faith, is the foundation for all the upheaval members are experiencing these days. My real purpose is to pose alternative ways of thinking to open our minds, and then our hearts, to maybe looking for god in all this, rather than reacting to father, and people such as Hyo Jin. Camus, trying to understand the heart of Cain, and the rebel, understood the pain Cain felt at the hands of evil Abel, and in idealizing his deepest impulses, provided a beacon of thinking to guide Cain away from murder, even for the sake of some notion of justice. To only perceive Cain as the one with the problem, and Abel always as the agent of god is to miss the truth of history. Cain has as much a side of good as Abel does. But he had to face the failures of Satan and overcome and restore them. So, the problems he faced had to be real, personal, intense, overwhelming, and seemingly hopeless. All feelings that Satan experienced as he progressed to the point of betraying the trust given him by god. Even Lucifer's feelings as he approached the fall had a sad component to them. But the fall removed him from the place where we could feel sorry for him. That is in part why Abel is always so hard on Cain. Cains responsibility is unfair. He is a true victim, of history, his brother, God, Adam, Eve, Lucifer, and history. But the significance of his actions, for good or evil, far out-shadow any feelings we might want to entertain about his situation. That is the dilemma of Nansook. The burden. Never of choice, never ready, never prepared, never fair. But real. And always personal, else it is only symbolic, and restoration, while it may have symbolic components, is always personal and real first.

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