EVIL
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"I feel that the Shylocks, the Judases, and even the Devil, are broken spokes in the great wheel of good which shall in due time be made whole."
The Story of My Life
(Helen Keller)
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"In every evil we must seek out the elements that allow us to transform it into good."
How To Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation
(Rudolf Steiner)
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"Unawareness is the root of all evil." Anonymous Egyptian monk
The Spirituality of Imperfection: Modern Wisdom from Classic Stories
(Ernest Kurtz & Katherine Ketcham)
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"The Hebrew Bible, including Daniel, the last-written of its twenty books, knows nothing of an evil principle independent of God. Satan in the Book of Job is an authorized accuser, sanctioned by Yahweh, and not a devil or a being who can operate of his own will, or for his own purposes."
Omens of Millennium
(Harold Bloom)
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"Our job is not to set up a battleground to eradicate evil, but to search out its spark of holiness. Our task is not to destroy but to build, not to hate but to find a place of yielding, not to polarize but to discover the points of commonality so that we can work together. Learn this lesson, dear friends, it will serve you well."
God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism
(Rabbi David A. Cooper)
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“It is not a question of ‘killing’ or destroying evil, but rather of recognizing it, in order to reequilibrate it and transmute it into the good by harnessing its energies: one can say, of ultimately redeeming it.”
Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity
(Peter Roche deCoppens)
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"We need to realize more deeply that the whole process is a divine one, and that evil, so called, is but an illusion and an inherent part of duality, giving place in time and out of time to a divine reality. Evil is due to wrong perception and erroneous interpretation of that which is perceived."
A Treatise on White Magic
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"Many point their fingers critically at other people, not realizing that the pointed finger itself is the source of all evil. It is the concept of enemy that is our greatest enemy of all."
The Gift of Change, Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life
(Marianne Williamson)
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"In the long run, the good triumphs over the evil."
The City of God
(St. Augustine)
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"In Cosmic Consciousness there is no condemnation, no sin, no evil, no death. This may be a hard saying, but it is true."
Cosmic Consciousness
(Richard M Bucke)
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"No creature is evil by nature."
An Introduction to Philosophy
(Jacques Maritain)
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"In the presence of him who has perfected harmlessness, all enmity ceases."
The Light of the Soul
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"The word goes forth from soul to form. 'Both sides are one. There is no war, no difference and no isolation. The warring forces seem to war from the point at which you stand. Move on a pace. See truly with the opened eye of inner vision and you will find, not two but one; not war but peace; not isolation but a heart which rests upon the center. Thus shall the beauty of the Lord shine forth. The hour is now.'"
Esoteric Psychology II
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"In the perfection of All, there isn't a single real evil. God is all and only."
The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics
(William Samuel)
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"Oh, God, what's it all about? In my view, even blackness and despair has been designed into God's system. You may not completely believe or even remember this in this moment, but on some level, a part of you has actually created all of it." Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., 'The Soul and Quantum Physics'
Experiencing the Soul
(Eliot Jay Rosen, editor)
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"There is no evil that cannot be turned to the good that is in us all."
Duncton Found
(William Horwood)
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"Good encompasses evil and transmutes it, showing its place in the total scheme of things."
The Way Things Are
(Huston Smith, edited by Phil Cousineau)
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"Evil originates in divine thought, which eliminates waste before emanating goodness. The demonic is rooted in the divine."
Essential Kabbalah, The Heart of Jewish Mysticism
(Daniel C. Matt)
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"According to the Jewish Kabbalah teachings, evil occurs when the function of discrimination or judgment (Gevurah) is separated from its natural complement – loving kindness or mercy (Hesed). The implication is that discriminative judgment must be integrated with kindness or compassion for this opposition to be transformed. A similar moral attitude is implied by the Buddhist teachings that advocate a balanced integration of discriminative wisdom and compassion."
The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience
(Ralph Metzner)
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"Good does not destroy evil if a man does not think about the evils in himself, and actually repent of them." Emanuel Swedenborg
A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg
(Samuel M. Warren, compiler)
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"If we were privy to the whole spectrum of reality, we would then see that, yes, even what looks like unmitigated evil to us has its place in the scheme of things entire."
The Way Things Are
(Huston Smith, edited by Phil Cousineau)
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"Good and evil are the light and shade of the same thing."
Duncton Found
(William Horwood)
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"One of the toughest roots of all evil is unconsciousness, and I could wish that the saying of Jesus, 'Man, if thou knowest what thou doest, thou art blessed, but if thou knowest not, thou art accursed, and a transgressor of the law,' were still in the gospels….It might well be the motto for a new morality."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"What is called good is perfect, and what is called bad is just as perfect.' Walt Whitman
Varieties of Religious Experience, The
(William James)
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"The only palliative to the evils of life is union and harmony – a Brotherhood in action, and altrusism not simply in name."
The Secret Doctrine
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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