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I wonder if the biblical Lazarus had such a beard |
I found most notable a concept presented in The Alternative Factor episode towards the end of the first season. In it an (apparent) madman named Lazarus crash lands on a dead planet after the entire universe "winks out" for a brief second. In essence, the entirety of existence ceased to be for a only a moment. Lazarus is hunting a "thing", a "beast in humanoid form" that seeks to undo everything. In reality he is struggling against himself, but it is the Lazarus of another dimension, a different universe. They wrestle in the gateway between our two universes and if one should pass into the next, and the two meet in real space, it's the end of everything, like universal nuclear fission.
It's intriguing pseudoscience, but what a spiritual application! Here is a man struggling against the "beast" that is himself, the same man as him but different, a creature looking to undo everything. It's our dead selves, the sin Christ buried when He went to hades, refusing to stay dead. It's the thorn in all our sides, but played out on a galactic scale. It's Lazarus, but it's not.
Moreover, it's the end of everything.
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The struggle is real |
In the final act, the "antimatter" Lazarus agrees to remain trapped in the gateway in an eternal battle with his counterpart to keep both universes in tact. It's mythical in its way, and the point at which the application departs. Ours is not an eternal war, thank God, only a temporary one that foreshadows things to come. In the end it's all we have control over, the only thing that matters. Thankfully our inner struggles do not summon the end of the universe!
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