the parts that are there as a test.
there is a psalm that's really a kind of curse.
if you read it you are doing it to yourself.
I suppose you are supposed toknow that. I guess maybe it's a test for the intitate. If they don't question what this says . . . then they are not using their moral capacity?
and such a thing might be there and it's there as a test of sorts.
It's not saying "think this". It is giving out a bad idea.
and what is the purpose of such a thing?
as a gate keeper function? If they don't react correctly to that passage and feel revulsion they don't get to go to the next part of the training without review of older material?
we can't really know.
but a book as old and as complex, and written in a foreign language, isn't really easy to interpret 1200 years later.
people don't really know anything, and yet they are ready to say that they do.
just the idea of something as horrible as that ought to be enough for you to understand that anyone who studies that isn't going to come to the same conclusions.
or you have an intentionally wrong translation.
you need to flip the card around the other way?