stellauk
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The evil that comes as a result of choosing good is an indirect consequence. It happens because evil exists. Evil is a dichotomy. It makes what is good evil and what is evil good. We nonetheless have to find our way through this twisted forest.
There's two types of evil, internal (affecting one's relationship with oneself) and external (affecting relationships between people) and both can be seen to be polar in nature.
Internal evil is symbolized by Ahriman, the positive qualities of such evil being a denial of one's spirituality, a preoccupation with the material, physical, carnal, with obtaining gratification, over-indulgence, sloth, laziness, delusions, self-deception, and wilful ignorance. Negative qualities of such evil include the pursuit of learning and the development of one's intellect, developing one's interest in living, culture, people, technology, developing one's spirituality, and acquiring wisdom and insight.
External evil, that affecting relationships between people, is symbolized by Lucifer, and the positive qualities include delusions of divinity, piousness, arrogance, deceit, dishonesty, hypocrisy, inhumanity, cruelty, bigotry, hatred, incitement of fear and hatred, enmity, aggression and violence. Negative Lucifer qualities include humility, kindness, spirituality, creativity, courage, empathy, compassion, acceptance of others, tolerance, friendship and unconditional love.
Life is the coming together of the spiritual or metaphysical and the physical or natural. Christ, who can be taken to be the central figure of religious thinking understood that living existence can draw people towards both positive poles of evil and his message - advocating individuality and non-conformity in all spiritual and moral thinking - carried a special significance for human evolution which was embraced and adopted by almost all religions.
You see if you take the negative qualities of Ahriman evil, namely the pursuit of learning and the development of one's intellect, developing one's interest in living, culture, people, technology, developing one's spirituality, and acquiring wisdom and insight, and then add the negative Lucifer qualities, namely humility, kindness, spirituality, creativity, courage, empathy, compassion, acceptance of others, tolerance, friendship and unconditional love, you should arrive at the core message of the Gospel, Christ's teachings, and also the basic, fundamental teachings of most other religions.
Furthermore you will gain a basic understanding and insight into human morality. This is basic, so basic you can find such qualities found and expressed in the thoughts, words and actions of almost anyone you come across.
This isn't any battle with dark forces, no personification of Christ, Buddha, or any other figure. No special wisdom or insight has been shared here. I have seen here nothing but narcissism, nothing but a lonely male dom clinging to the past and trying to make it all about him, all the time, and in desperate need of attention.
That attention is here, together with whatever else which can be wished for. But first one needs to step down from that pedestal, overcome one's issues with other people, and make a better attempt at making one's own individual reality something relative to that of other people.
You can find a basic dichotomy in anything you care to think about, and that what is evil, and that what is good, depends on nothing other than your own individual perception.
Rather than trying to force one's own moral and spiritual values on other people (and no, this is not a church) wouldn't it be much better to embrace the same moral and spiritual values yourself and express them through your speech, behaviour and actions, and leave other people to work it out for themselves?
< Message edited by stellauk -- 3/6/2011 4:01:26 AM >
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