The first passage of Brahma refers to if people believe other people's
judgments, then it is impossible to make a sound
correct judgment about someone or something.
Emerson compares opposites through a series of paradoxes such as
stating "Shadow and sunlight are the same" or "The vanished gods to me appear."
All these paradoxes lead to the ultimate paradox of good and evil.
But after reading the paradoxes which Emerson expresses,
the reader can see the big picture of the comparison of heaven and
hell. The poem's narrator portrays himself as an entity of both heaven and hell, Satan
and God, and good and evil, by saying in the final line, "Find me, and turn thy back on
heaven."
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