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So I think that the Beast, the False Prophet, and the Dragon are also the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. That is, they are three kinds of sin, viz. the final offenses. The early Christian theorists did, if faintly here, recognize the existence of this problem...
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Also, the Leviathan is the Beast from the Sea, the Behemoth from Land, so the battle in Revelation is in eternity itself, not necessarily a specific time in history.
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I might be able to tie Immanuel Kant's description of three layers of radical evil, to the final offenses. Now technically it would seem as if all three are parts of transcendental delusion itself (known under the heading of axiomatic perversity, which is specifically the corruption of moral evidence [evidence for moral propositions] though it easily follows from general intellectual error, that one would misjudge particular matters of ethical intellection). Moreover, the entanglement theorem is a description for an illusion, more or less: because, again, the final offenses are not an actual "Unholy Trinity" but a profane image of the Divine Trinity.
So, even supposing romantic injustice and recursive disgrace are interpolated with TD/AP, it would not be immediately necessary to deduce, here, that the corruption of our predispositions to animality and humanity are equivalent to RI and RD. Rather, we might say that axiomatic perversity is the corrupted propensity of personality intellectually, whereas the violation of animality is equivalent to corruption of empirical knowledge and the violation of humanity (rationality, really) is equivalent to corruption of transcendental (theoretical) knowledge, with AP the corruption of practical, not theoretical, reason, thus.
Nevertheless, if the three layers of radical evil could be assigned counterpartitions with the final offenses, I would indeed suggest that (A) violate* animality = romantic injustice, (B) violate rationality = transcendental delusion, and (C) violate personality = recursive disgrace. This would even fit to Kant's interpretation of violated rationality as the actual entrypoint (so to say) for radical evil, since TD is that which pollutes the maxims of the will (ultimately).
*[The word is used here as an adjective, as in the contrary "inviolate."]
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Also, the three temptations in the desert should correspond: the stone-bread problem to transcendental delusion (trusting "empirical" words alone over the a priori Word of God, so to say?), the kingdoms-of-the-world to recursive disgrace (via retributive tyranny), and suicide-attempt-to-prove-God's-love to romantic injustice.
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