The Divine Organisation of History

given the opportunity to make proper use of his freedom in order to become a successful member of the heavenly society. On the basis of this plan of creation, it becomes clear that both the human and the non-human worlds will have a different standard of judgement. That is to say, man should be judged individually whereas the non-human world should be judged at the collective level. Both man and the rest of the universe are masterpieces of creation in themselves, but the standard of judgement is different in each case. The common denominator of those who have a negative view of human history is that they form their opinion by looking at the whole human race. Their presumption that there is nothing but evil in the human world is based on their wish to find their desired ideal world at the collective level. Whereas they should rather say that although evil did exist at the collective level, there is an enormous goodness available at the individual level. The negative thinking has produced the concept of evil which has influenced the thinking of contemporary scholars. The goal to build an ideal society, with all human beings practising the ideal at a collective level, entails cancellation of human freedom. The reason is that the root cause of all evil in human society is