ON EVIL...
EGO...
THE DEVIL
There is no equal and opposite force or power to the Supreme Being. Evil is merely the personal refusal to acknowledge the Supreme Being. Ego is the perpetrator of evil. The devil is your own personal ego. The evil states of consciousness result in negative (disharmonious) activities. These activities, while outwardly resembling good or not, are inevitably self-destructive at the least. This is part of the game - God's game, remember? When the individual acknowledges the Supreme Being for all things and situations, its life becomes constructive. Motivation is constructive (Divine Order), activity becomes constructive, results (manifestation) becomes constructive. One may start the acknowledgement at any time; of course one must always start right here, right now. In the beginning stages, it is usually blind acknowledgement (blind faith), (and one must be careful here not to get stuck with blind faith forever) but as one's DESIRE for KNOWLEDGE of God (or Inner True Self or Supreme Being or Divine Creator or Whatever) increases to the point of actual dis-covery or Revelation of same, acknowledgement is based in KNOWLEDGE. When one KNOWS of Divine Inner Self, one knows of the relationship of Divine Knowledge to the actual manifestation of results, and begins the careful consideration (judgement) of one's own thoughts first of all, as it is dis-covered that thought is the source of individual life-experience, (or manifestation of thought), depends upon and is the result of cultural input, with all its falsehoods and prejudices. Towns, villages, cities and countries, planets and galaxies, all have their characteristics, all determined, in the final analysis, by the individual's thought - YOUR THOUGHT. Poverty, war, famine, strife and striving of every kind, all exist because we, the people, AGREE to their existence - CREATE their existences. This agreement can be very subtle, but still powerful; one who is angrily protesting war, for example, or pesticide use, or whatever, is actually creating more HARM to life by the generation of the feeling of anger. To be genuinely useful, activities must be carried out bathed in feelings of Love and Understanding, Humility, Gratitude, and Joy.
Actual dis-covery of Inner True Self is the only experience which can give one the "feeling formula" which ensures Life-harmonious activity. The "feeling formula" is the feeling to generate moment to moment to ensure Life-harmonious activity. Any other feeling or emotion is Life-destructive. Power is neutral, and increases with numbers. Feeling determines whether power is Life-harmonious or Life-destructive. This is why it is so important for the individual to take the responsibility to discover The Truth of Life FOR THEMSELVES, and to not rest until it is done.
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