The Idea of Evil’s grand plan

When you see "Fantasia" manifest itself, it is literally the content of the human imagination in so far as myths and legends go, becoming flesh before the eyes of those unable to sense their existence prior to the event.

Myths and legends, cautionary fairy tales, etc., are also born from the desire of humans to understand the world; from a time when they had yet to grasp the concepts that would emerge from science, mathematics, philosophy, etc., that slowly pushed these fantastical beings further away from feeling real and tangible, relegating them to the realm of psychological archetypes.

So it makes sense that these beings, along with the powers of magic/sorcery that allow humans to interact with them, would be a natural antagonist to the IoE.

What's yet to be revealed with 100% certainty is when the IoE reached the level of potency required to bring the God Hand into the world for the very first time. Was Gaiseric's empire the necessary catalyst? I'm not familiar with the history of the rise of the Holy See Religious Order, and whether or not it came to prominence in Gaiseric's timeline. If so it would fit quite well, given you have a popularized monotheistic view of the world, where good and evil become singular oppositions. This would be a perfect time for the IoE to start to gain whatever spiritual power it needed to finally see it's will done upon the Earth.

You could argue that this collective unconscious desire for an explanation for human suffering could be as old as mankind itself. It may have just taken a long time for it to actually create a entity like the IoE.
 

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When you see "Fantasia" manifest itself, it is literally the content of the human imagination in so far as myths and legends go, becoming flesh before the eyes of those unable to sense their existence prior to the event.

Myths and legends, cautionary fairy tales, etc., are also born from the desire of humans to understand the world; from a time when they had yet to grasp the concepts that would emerge from science, mathematics, philosophy, etc., that slowly pushed these fantastical beings further away from feeling real and tangible, relegating them to the realm of psychological archetypes.

The denizens of the astral world aren't merely products of people's imagination. It has been made clear in the story that the corporeal and astral worlds were in a similar state long ago, and that they were split and then kept apart by magic users through forests of spiritual trees, which acted like parasites on the World Spiral Tree and prevented its branches from extending too far. What you're saying here directly goes against our current understanding of how the world of Berserk works. Furthermore, what you say about science and mathematics versus fantastical notions seems like an attempt to equate Berserk's world to our own, which would be misguided. In the world of Berserk, the equivalent of scientists are magic users, i.e. people who seek to understand how the world works.

I'm not familiar with the history of the rise of the Holy See Religious Order, and whether or not it came to prominence in Gaiseric's timeline.

We don't know how the Holy See was created at this point.

If so it would fit quite well, given you have a popularized monotheistic view of the world, where good and evil become singular oppositions. This would be a perfect time for the IoE to start to gain whatever spiritual power it needed to finally see it's will done upon the Earth.

You could argue that this collective unconscious desire for an explanation for human suffering could be as old as mankind itself. It may have just taken a long time for it to actually create a entity like the IoE.

What we know of the Idea of Evil from episode 83 (but bearing in mind that it was removed from the story) is that it's the consciousness, the ego of the dark side of the great ocean of souls. As such, it is a part of all humans, and it doesn't need to gain "spiritual power" through a cult or anything of the sort.
 
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