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| that he or she has to be an evil person. No, it is enough if such people | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| appear as truth, truth as untruth, good as evil, evil as good. And so humans get confused | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| as truth, truth as untruth, good as evil, evil as good. And so humans get confused -- | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| that Lucifer, who is the worst of all evil spirits, does not seem to suffer? Is this | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| he himself will be tortured by his fellow evil spirits. And he who finds himself in extreme | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| of spiritual law and fight with them. No evil spirit, be it the most powerful, can do | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| another part of the personality wants what is evil and false -- yet this evil or falsehood | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| what is evil and false -- yet this evil or falsehood does not have to be of | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| only two kingdoms, heaven and earth, good and evil, but three. According to this concept the earth | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| right. For Lucifer's underlings are the spirits of evil, hate, murder, envy, prideful arrogance and other vices | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| evolve simultaneously -- then the worst of the evil spirits have no access to him. Even if | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| who, although no longer capable of base and evil actions and therefore not available to serve the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| Lucifer indirectly, through matter. These are not necessarily evil people -- for those Lucifer doesn't need his | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| you can fight it. If the germ of evil lay dormant, if it had no opportunity to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| perfection, to true bliss. BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL. Here, too, the same truth applies. The evil | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| EVIL. Here, too, the same truth applies. The evil is in you. If it existed only outside | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| temptation, so that you can deliver yourself from evil. Only you yourself can do it, with the | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| nothing much is gained. As long as an evil is not torn out by its roots it | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| to look at them. After a while the evil will sink into the subconscious where it will | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the wrong inner reaction that has created this evil should be cleared away. Whenever anything is repressed | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| reason of existence on earth, the reason for evil, and answers to other questions are necessary for | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| generating from our particular sphere. Some people make evil spirits responsible when their lower self takes over | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| not to blame. This is not so. Certainly, evil spirits can and do influence you, but only | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| more you are free of very wicked or evil trends, the higher your development evidently is. Therefore | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| doing worse, or by putting the blame on evil spirits whose influence on them, they like to | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| a criminal or a really sinful soul, very evil spirits will keep away, for they could not | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| beyond and the spirit-creatures to say that an evil spirit influenced them. When they say this, and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| their best, the spheres of darkness and disharmony, evil and envy, hatred and prejudice, war and greed | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| does that, he must himself be a very evil spirit. As far as the spirits of truth | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| would really try much harder. And not only evil spirits are affected by your victory, but also | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| that much stronger compared to the forces of evil, for each evil thought is added to that | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| compared to the forces of evil, for each evil thought is added to that reservoir and furnishes | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| an understanding of the coming into existence of evil, darkness, and cruelty -- in short, the fall | 18 FREE WILL |
| how a god of love could have created evil. But God did not create evil. As you | 18 FREE WILL |
| have created evil. But God did not create evil. As you may understand now, He gave each | 18 FREE WILL |
| caused the coming into existence of disharmony and evil. Certainly, no one who had such a thought | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| germ of the Fall and the germ of evil. In what way has Jesus Christ saved humanity | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| times barring all divine protection, and resisting all evil and all temptation out of his own free | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| each individual and even the very forces of evil could find the way back to God. God | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| the more this pull of temptation proceeded. Thus evil came into existence. Once I explained that the | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| came into an equal state of disharmony and evil. The degree was very individual and different. Thus | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| dear friends. Last time I talked about how evil came into existence. This question has bothered many | 21 THE FALL |
| God of love could permit the existence of evil. For those friends who are here for the | 21 THE FALL |
| like, Why has God not done away with evil?, need not come up any more in your | 21 THE FALL |
| strength always outweighs and outlasts the influence of evil. However, especially during the early times, a great | 21 THE FALL |
| humanity. Even though the pure spirits had no evil in them, the material shell of a body | 21 THE FALL |
| will could now be developed to overcome the evil impulses of their lower nature. The change that | 21 THE FALL |
| universe must work alike for good or for evil, or for the many stages in-between. It is | 22 SALVATION |
| once came from God in perfection and the evil current that was accumulated during and after the | 22 SALVATION |
| currents and attitudes in the soul, too many evil desires and too much blindness to fulfill the | 22 SALVATION |
| good are infinitely stronger than the forces of evil, perhaps twenty to one. If you have one | 22 SALVATION |
| from committing sins again. As long as the evil root is not torn out, it must again | 22 SALVATION |
| you can tear out the roots of your evil. Therefore, that was not the reason Christ suffered | 22 SALVATION |
| but also as a necessary means for development. Evil has to be tasted to the brim in | 22 SALVATION |
| that can be used for good or for evil. This creative power, this life force, can be | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| That is a different variation. They certainly represent evil. They may not represent Lucifer himself, but the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| They may not represent Lucifer himself, but the evil forces. So there is a part of that | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the good, but the discrepancy between good and evil in them is much more extreme than in | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| laws of God is indeed immune to all evil -- Hell will not prevail -- and will | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| love, happiness, and complete inner security where nothing evil can ever touch you or throw you off | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| it is said that God created good and evil. Did God create the evil forces and the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| created good and evil. Did God create the evil forces and the Luciferic powers too? ANSWER: That | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is technically correct to say that God created evil, but it would be more correct to say | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| to say that God created the possibility for evil if with their free will people -- or | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| but that does not mean that God created evil. There is a great difference between creating evil | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| evil. There is a great difference between creating evil, or giving free will and power to God's | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| wrong use of the power ultimately led to evil through a slow process, even if it did | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| slow process, even if it did not become evil at the first deviation. I have explained all | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| a wrong translation -- that the Lord created evil. In other words, He gives the possibility for | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| a sentence. If instead of saying God created evil, it had said, God created the possibility of | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| it had said, God created the possibility of evil, the meaning would have been correct. QUESTION: How | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| anyone by simply refraining from the more obvious evil deeds. As long as there is fear in | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| a time, and often quite strongly. To fight evil in the other fellow, as well as in | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| when to stand up and fight against something evil, whether or not it touches your life. To | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| country. Even if all people refused to fight, evil would not be eliminated. War may be temporarily | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| War may be temporarily eliminated, but certainly not evil. War is only one of many other expressions | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is only one of many other expressions of evil. War is not the cause: it is only | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| them. He must defend those he loves and evil has to be fought against. In your present | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| war often is still your means of fighting evil. As spiritual development grows, you will learn to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| the roots of the problems and fight against evil in better ways. As it stands now, humanity | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| eliminate this wrong, then war is the lesser evil. You know from the spiritual point of view | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| he selects the wrong means to oust an evil. Refusing to go to war could not be | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| as just said, it can be used for evil purposes as well. However, it is certain that | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| You become so paralyzed by the forces of evil you have drawn toward you that you cannot | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| whether they are used for good or for evil, selfish, destructive purposes. In the latter case, material | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| who are not necessarily bad, as well as evil ones. But do not ever forget that the | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| similarities, even though the degree of good or evil may vary widely and be quite different from | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| stage of development. So you may have an evil spirit around you although you are not an | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| spirit around you although you are not an evil person. But certain currents in you are of | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| are of the same basic texture as the evil spirit attaching to you. The same applies to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| something good for you. They may not be evil at all. But the regular guardian has to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| is done outwardly but one harbors selfish and evil thoughts quite consciously and knowingly. When confronted with | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to rationalize, justify, and self-righteously explain harboring such evil or unkind desires, while seeking self-justification in the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| refusing to go to the root of the evil, or of mustering up courage, approaching the problem | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| are tempted to look at the symptoms of evil, rather than the cause, because of their unconscious | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| idea of the existence of the forces of evil, even more than they smile at the idea | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Why they do is hard to say, for evil or the anti-divine is, unfortunately, a reality in | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| is unreasonable. Of course, when you look for evil outside of yourself, you will easily recognize its | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| it. So the only place to seek either evil or the Divine is within yourself. When you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| is within yourself. When you hear the word evil or the satanic forces, you automatically picture something | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the category of the forces of darkness or evil. It is not only all the manifest cruelty | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of knowledge and mature insight, the forces of evil could take a hold on you without any | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| deliberate intention on your part of being bad. Evil and destruction can work in you through the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| dissolve all the destructiveness of the forces of evil that rage in you due to your ignorance | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| committed out of malice; or because you wish evil on other people. All faults, every kind of | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| This is, perhaps, the most powerful weapon of evil. Complete untruth is not dangerous. But when something | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| an inflexible rule, that is the danger of evil. The truth and meaning of any concept or | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| choose between obvious right and wrong, good and evil, white and black. Decisions can hurt people. Realize | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| force, no principle as such can ever be evil or sinful in itself. It always depends on | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| people's personal lives. In order to eliminate an evil, one first has to see what wrong brought | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| has to see what wrong brought on this evil. For it cannot be otherwise. Evil can only | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on this evil. For it cannot be otherwise. Evil can only be created out of evil. It | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| otherwise. Evil can only be created out of evil. It cannot be created out of good. One | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| task it is to lead nations. The greatest evil of earth life is always the individual's overemphasis | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your own soul. Negative does not necessarily mean evil or wicked. It can be self-destructive, life-defeating; it | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| operate in such a way as to make evil defeat itself, the fallen spirits could never return | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| love is infinitely stronger than the power of evil and ignorance. Others do not only learn from | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| realizes that there is no such thing as evil, badness, sin, malice. All this prevails only as | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| state of error, you will see that all evil on this plane is nothing but a defensive | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| opposite effect. Once you understand the motive of evil and sin, you no longer fear it, you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| sin, if you want to use this expression. Evil and sin are products of an illusory world | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| because you still live in the illusion of evil and sin, in error and misconception. But no | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| is actually about being helplessly exposed to an evil force and not so much about pain and | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| field. Eccl. 5:13: There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| a person's choice of choosing the road of evil, that is rejecting the road of self-development. ANSWER | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| I say unto you, that you resist not evil. ANSWER: Yes. Understanding the real meaning of the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| path, you are bound to see that all evil is self-created, and thus it is your lesson | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| liberate yourself from the responsible inner factors. Resisting evil, translated into terms of your personal life and | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to failure to understand life's real meaning. Resisting evil means all that. As long as you resent | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the present, the root that has caused an evil. So this saying of Jesus is no contradiction | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I say unto you that you resist not evil; but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| choose it out of compromise, as a lesser evil. On the one hand, I would have to | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| It is true that this constitutes a lesser evil, but in terms of the maximum potential of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| choosing one merely because it seems the lesser evil. That such a situation creates tension, anxiety, hostility | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| religious or spiritual terms is called sinful or evil. I explained to you why we avoided the | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the other, make of the terms sin and evil too much of an obstacle to facing the | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| neuroses -- exist, there is also sin and evil, for neurosis always means a character defect. You | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| it become important not to stress sin and evil as much in order to discourage contempt and | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| that there is no death, there is no evil, there is no pain, you accept what we | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| it is lust, but it is no more evil than the lust for power, for money, for | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| remains the same. Jesus spoke of not resisting evil. This is what he meant: If you resist | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| This is what he meant: If you resist evil, the confusion and the distortions, you only drive | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| you have the basic prerequisite to outgrow the evil and be reborn into your real self. Cutting | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| The answer is not a lazy acceptance of evil. But neither is the answer a rebellion against | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| But neither is the answer a rebellion against evil. You cannot transform it when you rebel. You | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| an equally wrong opposite -- and so become evil all over again. The productive approach would be | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| one can in order to eliminate wrong or evil. Only, you should understand what is really necessary | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| evaporate, or to end up in an equally evil extreme on the other side of the scale | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| the other, in the attempt to eliminate an evil, is exactly what happens in the individual soul | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| may appear to be the very opposite of evil. Even if you have recognized that such submissiveness | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| remedies are often more destructive than the original evil, as are, for example, the pseudo-solutions. The false | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| rules were, at least, directed to the real evil, they would emphasize all forms of self-centeredness as | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| stream. Humans often accuse this stream of being evil, because they arbitrarily divide it into acceptable and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| not in the sense that it is itself evil, manifest in the scheme of creation as an | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| not a disciplinarian; God is beyond good or evil. People often cannot conceive of God, because they | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| downward movement. This does not mean that another, evil power is at work: it is the same | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| peace, be in God! 134. THE CONCEPT OF EVIL Greetings, my dearest friends. May this lecture prove | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| far, touched upon only indirectly: the concept of evil. Traditional religion postulates that evil is a separate | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| the concept of evil. Traditional religion postulates that evil is a separate force. According to this concept | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| cope with making the decision between good and evil. Some philosophies postulate that there is no such | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| that there is no such a thing as evil: it is only an illusion and in reality | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| of this philosophy. The denial of manifestations of evil is as illusory as the belief that evil | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| evil is as illusory as the belief that evil represents a separate aspect in the universe. In | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| would like to present a deeper understanding of evil, which will be extremely helpful for all my | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| are deeply involved in the processes of self-finding. Evil is, or results from, numbness and a confusion | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| confusion about the execution of control. Why is evil numbness? When you think of the defense mechanisms | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| the human psyche, the connection between numbness and evil becomes quite clear. Children who feel hurt, rejected | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| in the smallest measure, is the beginning of evil; this is how evil is born. Numbness and | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| is the beginning of evil; this is how evil is born. Numbness and insensitivity toward one's own | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| without feeling discomfort oneself. Much of the world's evil is caused by this state of soul. Because | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| open detection. Indifference may not be as actively evil as cruelty acted out, but it is just | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| In these instances, all harm, all destructiveness, all evil results from denying the spontaneous real self, and | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| numbness and one's approach or attitude toward the evil aspects of life. Some may be overly burdened | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| overly tough and indifferent toward the existence of evil. Any such overreaction must be connected with the | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| it was unwittingly maintained. The second facet of evil relates to control. We have discussed the importance | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| pain, pain causes numbness, and numbness leads to evil, it becomes clear that imbalance and lack of | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| and lack of control are also connected with evil. On a broader scale, helplessness is one of | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| negativity or a destructive attitude, this combination creates evil. Real destructiveness is, therefore, not only a distortion | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| principle were not involved and inadvertently used, then evil, or destructiveness, would be of very short duration | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| Jesus Christ explained when he said, resist not evil. When the struggle is too fierce on all | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| It is not limitless in its possibilities for evil, for the limit is set when life ceases | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| in an artificial duality that presupposes they are evil and regards them as the opposites of divine | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| at the moment. Sometimes annihilation seems a lesser evil than the strange sense of shame and the | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| same principle with the words, Do not resist evil. This sentence can, like everything else, be easily | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| like everything else, be easily misinterpreted and distorted. Evil is nothing but the consequence of deeply lodged | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| good and wise. It is also destructive, vicious, evil and stupid. This does not make it any | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| It is just as much error, misconception and evil wishes as it is truth, reality and love | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| I want to face the cause of the evil in my life, that which causes my suffering | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| coming back home into inner reality. What is evil, my friends -- all the evil that is | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| What is evil, my friends -- all the evil that is so deplored? Evil is all the | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| -- all the evil that is so deplored? Evil is all the error and confusion on the | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| feelings which are truly destructive and are called evil. They blur out the spiritual light of oneness | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| the spiritual light of oneness. The existence of evil is the blind drive of not knowing, the | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| to ever hate anyone, or believe in the evil nature of certain human beings. You will then | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| such hate is senseless. You can hate the evil of error and the error of evil, you | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| the evil of error and the error of evil, you can hate the effect of the error | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| Even the most destructive attitudes result not from evil but from sheer misunderstanding. When one fully understands | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the working of creation at its best. Since evil results from misunderstanding, and since the processes are | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| processes are equally wonderful in and by themselves, evil can truly be eliminated only when you learn | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| they are hardly ever the cause of the evil, merely one of the effects. You can see | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| as good and battle against the other as evil. These examples should make you sense that in | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| good and right, the other as bad and evil. Thus you inevitably get lost in confusion. You | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| feelings, selfishness, and often the most violent and evil reactions toward the world and others. At the | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| or slumbering as potentials. Since destructive tendencies and evil are not verities in themselves but only distortions | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| depriving others. The whole concept of good and evil stems from this arbitrary, unnecessary, and mistaken concept | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| need to be denied in order to avoid evil. Indeed, it should not be denied, for doing | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| life every bit as much as the feared evil itself. Only within the deep core of the | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| between God and the devil, between good and evil, between life and death. It does not matter | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| take this direction? Religion calls it sin or evil. Psychology calls it neurosis or psychosis, among other | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| a limited degree. People often ask, How does evil come into existence? Why did God put evil | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| evil come into existence? Why did God put evil into us? -- as though someone else had | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| simpler terms, the struggle is between good and evil. All religious philosophies of all times have postulated | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| are unified, however temporarily and precariously, in their evil state. This negative unification must be split asunder | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| and power is put in the service of evil, but the total personality rejects evil. Thus a | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| service of evil, but the total personality rejects evil. Thus a compromise has been found in using | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| are reconciled to rooting out every vestige of evil, of negativity, of destructiveness in feeling and behavior | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| you reconcile the right way of fighting your evil and the right way of accepting it. The | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| blessed, be in peace. 184. THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE Greetings, blessings to all my | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| comes exclusively from one's own destructiveness, negativity, or evil -- whatever name you give it. The great | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| opposed to a destructive one: good opposed to evil. The moment you become involved in duality you | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| damaging results. Thus your guilt compounds because the evil you hoped to eliminate only increases when it | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| a dualistic approach to the great question of evil, seeing it as a force opposed to good | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| hand, there are also philosophies which postulate that evil just does not exist; it is an illusion | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| its religious opposite, which recognizes the danger of evil, its life-defeating power, and the unhappiness and suffering | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| unhappiness and suffering it brings. The postulate that evil is an illusion is true in the sense | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| ultimately renders their truth untrue. The denial of evil as a reality leads to wishful thinking, further | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| present state of humankind. I recapitulate. To deny evil on humanity's present plane of consciousness is as | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| two separate forces exist: one good and one evil. Such a belief implies that the evil force | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| one evil. Such a belief implies that the evil force must be destroyed or whisked away, as | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| an attempt to help you. Both views of evil lead to repression; yet acknowledging evil also leads | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| views of evil lead to repression; yet acknowledging evil also leads to the possibility of further destructiveness | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| try to reconcile these two general approaches to evil. You have all experienced how threatened, anxious, and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| serve to protect you not only from the evil of others, but primarily from your own. If | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| last analysis, you are apprehensive of your own evil, regardless of how threatening another person or an | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| me, you can then confront your attitude toward evil in a much better way. For the evil | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| evil in a much better way. For the evil itself is not half as damaging as your | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| is precisely the knowing and acceptance of the evil. The word acceptance has been used a great | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| when acceptance occurs in the right way can evil be incorporated and re-formed in the truest sense | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| The price of recognizing and accepting the destructive, evil aspect of the self seems high, but it | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| step must be applying the theory that destructiveness, evil, is not a final separate force. You must | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| duality. You will see that by denying the evil in you, you do greater harm to the | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| happen on the level of mind first, when evil is understood to be intrinsically a divine energy | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| in you that are already free of distortion, evil, and destructiveness, that are really liberated and clear | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| as you deny, ignore, fail to experience the evil in you. You distort your concept of yourself | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| form. The essential key to totally integrating the evil is understanding its original nature and the indwelling | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| as you try to become good by denying evil, by forcing yourself to be what you cannot | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| dimmed, when awareness is blocked. Awareness of the evil must be blocked off when it is viewed | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| totally unacceptable, when you fail to realize that evil is only a distortion of a divine creative | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| that these three traits are more responsible for evil than the evil traits themselves, including spite, cruelty | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| traits are more responsible for evil than the evil traits themselves, including spite, cruelty, envy, hostility, and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| The overtly destructive attitudes are never the real evil. If you truly acknowledge them, you remain in | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and self-righteously act out destructiveness, you do express evil. By denying its existence, you stagnate vital creative | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| which putrefies in you. By squarely recognizing the evil, you neither act it out, nor deny it | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| experienced how true this is: To the degree evil is properly faced, self-acceptance, self-liking, new energy and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you give up the pride that hides the evil. Evil does not overwhelm and take you over | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| give up the pride that hides the evil. Evil does not overwhelm and take you over when | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| things in me that I feel are wrong, evil. Yet I enjoy them; they feel pleasurable. But | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| know about and are in contact with the evil of their previously hidden destructive side. Conversely, if | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| here that mutuality is not absent because the evil aspects are still there, but because awareness of | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| that they must first eradicate the still existing evil, for otherwise they are undeserving of the bliss | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| of the bliss that comes from mutuality. The evil is too frightening to be acknowledged, so that | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| gap between the conscious good and the unconscious evil! How much struggle everyone puts up, and how | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| and yourself is absent when you reject the evil within you. Rejecting evil, you ignore and deny | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| when you reject the evil within you. Rejecting evil, you ignore and deny the vital, original creative | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| original creative energy that is contained in all evil. This energy must be made available to you | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| or the lack of them. No matter how evil and unacceptable any specific traits in you may | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| the same token, if you cannot accept the evil in you, thinking, in effect, I must first | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| that this does not happen because you are evil and do not deserve the bliss, but because | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| self-knowledge almost more than the actual destructiveness and evil itself. Part of the resistance is based on | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| open, flowing attitude, so that negation and negativity, evil and destructiveness, seem protective devices. Whatever you must | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| need to deny, project, and defend against this evil part, when you can clearly acknowledge it, then | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| primitive destructive self is more destructive than the evil part itself. You must accept this part of | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| this path, focus on others' actual or imaginary evil so as to deny your own. You distort | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| case against others may include elements of actual evil in them, but they are not responsible for | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |