Mortality is Divisive

Mortality is divisive and is supposed to be.  That is what it’s for.

Your first clue is that Satan’s plan was so inclusive.

One soul shall not be lost. . .

But the main reason is in the nature of mortality.

Now, its true that mortality is divisive in all sorts of ways.

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

But the only inescapable divisiveness is within yourself.  The essential point of mortality is to divide you from yourself.  What is precious about mortality and what makes it important is that you are limited in time and limited in space.  You can only do one thing at a time.  That is what makes choice possible.  Every moment that you choose you are choosing to exclude all the other options.  You are dividing the potential from the real.  Your agency creates a chasm and thousands of possibilities are left on the other side.