It is inherently impossible to love evil. This is true by definition, since evil is the exact opposite of love. But true knowledge of something is only possible by virtue of love for that thing. To love something is to experience it in the measure of its full reality (as opposed to experiencing it through your own projected preconceptions or short-hand descriptions). To experience something in the measure of its full reality is the same as to know it fully. That’s why it makes sense to associate evil with non-being. Evil has a certain reality, but because it’s unknowable, it doesn’t participate in being, which is inherently knowable in principle - being is the intelligible. Nevertheless, evil can be described from the outside in a provisional way. To turn from the philosophic to the religious register, we can propose that evil is that which is created out of chaos by humans, and which ultimately turns around and enslaves the one who created it. To say this is to make a distinction between two aspects of evil that may not really be there, but which at least appear to be there from the outside (which is, again, the closest we can get). On the one hand, an abyss of non-meaning (which I call variously the ‘hyperborean sun’ or the ‘haptic void’, or by other names, depending on the mode in which it appears); on the other, a chain of meaning in the social, psychodynamic or spiritual field that is not authorized by God to exist, because it was created by a human who was not truly awakened - created out of urgency, fear, greed or resentment. Because the chain of meaning is not part of God’s plan, it withers the spirit of everyone who comes into contact with it.