Judgment

Judgment XX

Divinatory Meanings: Legal matters, court cases, being sued or suing someone. Also: resolving an issue with an arbiter as a Judge. Finaltiy. Being judged or judging someone.

Yes or No: No.

Numerical Value: 20

I chose the figure of Kalki, the last Avatar of Visnu in this age of Kali-Yuga as the principal figure of Judgment because he represents the Judgment of God against the sinners at the end of the age. The Hindu religion is incredibly more compassionate in it’s profound teachings than any of the western religions. When Kalki slays a demon or sinner, that sinner or deamon is immediately freed from the bonds of his or her Karma.

Meaning: if God comes down and kicks your ass, it is seriously kicked.

Kalki is the ultimate cleansing, the utter result of perfect, Divine Justice. Neither the living nor the dead can excape this ultimate judgment. In a sense, it is what we all pray for when we pray for a God that is Good: chastisement of the wicked.

It is important to understand that we are the wicked. There is only one person we can really be ashamed of: ourselves. Judging others is strickly verboten by the Bible and by many other sacred texts, sine we never can really understand the profound motivations of anyone other than our selves. Therefore, if we spend our time judging others, we are incuring the judgment of God. I am certain the good folks at the Supreme Court understand this little dilema – and they still choose to act as Pharises and Saducces and judge folks. But then, there must be some perks worth the risk.

What to do when someone trespasses against us?

Well, the Biblical response is: turn the other cheek. Forgive and forget. But what if someone murdered all our family and raped our pets? How can we forgive that! In fact, we can’t, can we? So.. Laws are made necessary – and where there are laws, there are judges and juries. Folks who will use those laws to determine who is right and who is wrong.
These thrid party-judges are humans who will commit errors. I wonder how many innocent men are on death-row for murder. One thing is certain: there are over 300,000 prisoners for smoking pot or weed-related offences in the USA. In certain Islamic countries, being a homosexual (Sodomite to you Christian fundies) is punishable by death. Jews used to stone adulterers. Europeans burt midwives as witches.

There is a great deal of mis-judgment by human beings on human beings. History is the record of stupid decisions by stupid judges. Some day, the Judgments at Nurnberg will be known as utter infamy. Some day, Charlie Manson might be found innocent. In the camp of Law and Order, nothing is certain except one thing: people do terrible things to each other and many times, they use Laws to do it.

So, the Final Judgment is not man’s but God’s.

Woe to they who have not learned to forgive.