There is something about such a serene creature propelled into space where it flutters high above the earth that is calming. With all the horrible news in the world from wars until famines where great nations like America have been crippled by inadequate leadership while the world shudders from fear of instability.
The Cabala explains the soul is inside the body to refine our environment through our actions on this physical plane. The opposite of refinement is exploitation reducing life down to metal–the coin of the kingdom; refining means taking the good and bringing it to a higher purpose.
Much of the precious refined metal needed to launch the butterfly into heaven polluted vast acreage of land in rural China where it is mined. Progress has comes with a heavy expense in the environment of the people who live on the land and in disease perpetuated in the flesh and of the soul.
The Torah defines progress as being better people, taking care of the poor, helping those who need help; from helping people will naturally evolve into helping the environment–then the world will be full of butterflies.
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