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Evil ::: A perspective based on acute and egregious violations of a moral code. From a deeper philosophical viewpoint there is only evil where this is a separate sense of an observer (i.e. duality). Most processes and phenomena that humanity might find "evil" or "bad" are necessary for the maintenance of the Universe: consider the Martial process of destruction and the Saturnian phenomenon of death.
Evil: (AS. yfel) Negation of the extrinsic elections of things. In practice, the positive effects of such negation. The morally bad. Hostility to the welfare of anything. Absence of the good. Opposite of goodness. See Ethics. -- J.K.F.
Evil eye: The power of fascination (q.v.) or of harming others by a look.
Evil Good and evil are attributes of relativity in nature as cognized by the minds of percipient beings. “Esoteric philosophy admits neither good nor evil per se as existing independently in nature. The cause for both is found, as regards the Kosmos, in the necessity of contraries or contrasts, and with respect to man, in his human nature, his ignorance and passions. There is no devil or the utterly depraved, as there are no Angels absolutely perfect, though there may be spirits of Light and of Darkness . . .” (SD 2:162).
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Evil spirit: According to spiritualistic philosophy, the spirit of a bad man inhabiting the lower spheres from which it can reach a medium, and may even oust the control (q.v.) of an unwilling medium.
Evil Spirits A vague expression, often applied by theological misinterpretation to the Fallen Angels — the cosmic spirits who form or produce the lower worlds; or to the powers of the matter side of nature. Again, it may designate any of a numerous class of nonphysical beings, such as elementals, nature spirits, ghosts, or astral entities generated by human thoughts, all known in Christianity under the generalizing term Devil.
Evil, suggests that Belphegor is the counterpart
evil ::: a. --> Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.
Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or
evil and rude ::: Both evil and rude, but with the additional connotation that the rudeness was due to malice rather than incompetence. Thus, for example: Microsoft's Windows to lock hapless customers and developers into the Microsoft way. Hackish evil and rude is close to the mainstream sense of evil.[Jargon File] (1994-12-12)
evil angel summoned in incantation rites against
evil archangel, in control of hidden things.
evil, are not named). In Goethe’s Faust it is
evil ::: As used by a hacker, implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of dealing with. with. TECO is neat, but it can be pretty evil if you're prone to typos. Often pronounced with the first syllable lengthened, as /eeee'vil/.Compare evil and rude.[Jargon File] (1994-12-12)
evil, but Eleazar of Worms (13th-century sage)
evil decrees. The word Gzrel is part of a 42-letter
evil demon who is the prince of this world are the
evil-eyed ::: a. --> Possessed of the supposed evil eye; also, looking with envy, jealousy, or bad design; malicious.
evil eye. [Rf. Schrire, Hebrew Amulets.]
evil eye. [Rf Schrire, Hebrew Amulets; Trachten-
evil eye ::: --> See Evil eye under Evil, a.
evil-favored ::: a. --> Having a bad countenance or appearance; ill-favored; blemished; deformed.
evil genius of jealousy. [Rf. The Testament of
evil; he was among those who wedded human
evil. In Bar-Khonai, The Book of Scholia, Samiel
EVIL. ::: In God's providence there is no evil, but only good or its preparation.
evilly ::: adv. --> In an evil manner; not well; ill.
evil-minded ::: a. --> Having evil dispositions or intentions; disposed to mischief or sin; malicious; malignant; wicked.
evil ::: n. 1. Morally bad or wrong; wicked, sinful, as opposed to good. 2. Anything causing injury or harm. Evil, evil"s, Evil"s. adj. 3. Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous; disastrous. 4. Harmful; injurious. 5. Boding ill.
evilness ::: n. --> The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.
evil; only so in a causative sense. They were among
evil or a fallen angel. He remains at all times a
evil or an opponent of God—-just as, when Abraham and Job "put God to the question, ’ they were not, on that
EVIL PERSONA. ::: A person greatly endowed for the work has, always or almost alway's, — pwrhaps one ought not to make a too rigid universal rule about these things — a being attached to him, sometimes appearing like a part of him, which is just the contradiction of the thing he centrally represents in the work to be done. Or, if it is not there at first, not bound to his per- sonality, a force of this kind enters into his environment as soon as he begins his movement to realise. Its business seems to be to oppose, to create stumblings and wrong conditions, in a word, to set before him the whole problem of the w’ork he has started to do. It would seem as if the problem could not, in the occult
evil. [Rf. Schrire, Hebrew Amulets .]
evil spirits through the application of incense and
evil. This may or may not work out to his advantage; more often than not it has proved his
evil ::: “… wrong will and falsehood of the steps, . . . separative egoism inflicting by its ignorance and separate contrary will harm on oneself or harm on others, self-driven to a wrong dealing with one’s own soul, mind, life or body or a wrong dealing with the soul, mind, life, body of others, . . . is the practical sense of all human evil.” The Life Divine
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1. Causing misfortune or trouble (to oneself or others). 2. Unfortunate, unlucky, ill-fated, sad; miserable in lot or circumstances. Also, in later use, wretched in mind. 3. Of places: Subject to, suffering from, misfortunes or evils.
1. Fiendishly evil. 2. A mythical watchdog of hell.
1. Unsatisfactorily; poorly. 2. Evil. 3. Harm or injury. ill-armed, ill-fitting, ill-heard, ill-lighted, ill-lit, ill-poised, ill-served, ill-shaped, ill-trained, ill-understood.
abominable ::: a. --> Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive.
abuse ::: v. t. --> To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one&
abusion ::: v. t. --> Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat.
accumulation ::: n. --> The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.
The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
accurse ::: v. t. --> To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.
"Action is a resultant of the energy of the being, but this energy is not of one sole kind; the Consciousness-Force of the Spirit manifests itself in many kinds of energies: there are inner activities of mind, activities of life, of desire, passion, impulse, character, activities of the senses and the body, a pursuit of truth and knowledge, a pursuit of beauty, a pursuit of ethical good or evil, a pursuit of power, love, joy, happiness, fortune, success, pleasure, life-satisfactions of all kinds, life-enlargement, a pursuit of individual or collective objects, a pursuit of the health, strength, capacity, satisfaction of the body.” The Life Divine*
“Action is a resultant of the energy of the being, but this energy is not of one sole kind; the Consciousness-Force of the Spirit manifests itself in many kinds of energies: there are inner activities of mind, activities of life, of desire, passion, impulse, character, activities of the senses and the body, a pursuit of truth and knowledge, a pursuit of beauty, a pursuit of ethical good or evil, a pursuit of power, love, joy, happiness, fortune, success, pleasure, life-satisfactions of all kinds, life-enlargement, a pursuit of individual or collective objects, a pursuit of the health, strength, capacity, satisfaction of the body.” The Life Divine
afreet ::: n. --> Same as Afrit.
A powerful evil jinnee, demon, or monstrous giant.
aggravation ::: n. --> The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
Exaggerated representation.
An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
Provocation; irritation.
“Agni is the leader of the sacrifice and protects it in the great journey against the powers of darkness. The knowledge and purpose of this divine Puissance can be entirely trusted; he is the friend and lover of the soul and will not betray it to evil gods. Even for the man sitting far off in the night, enveloped by the darkness of the human ignorance, this flame[Agni] is a light which, when it is perfectly kindled and in proportion as it mounts higher and higher, enlarges itself into the vast light of the Truth. Flaming upward to heaven to meet the divine Dawn, it rises through the vital or nervous mid-world and through our mental skies and enters at last the Paradise of Light, its own supreme home above where joyous for ever in the eternal Truth that is the foundation of the sempiternal Bliss the shining Immortals sit in their celestial sessions and drink the wine of the infinite beatitude.” The Secret of the Veda
*[Agni]. Sri Aurobindo: "Agni is the leader of the sacrifice and protects it in the great journey against the powers of darkness. The knowledge and purpose of this divine Puissance can be entirely trusted; he is the friend and lover of the soul and will not betray it to evil gods. Even for the man sitting far off in the night, enveloped by the darkness of the human ignorance, this flame[Agni] is a light which, when it is perfectly kindled and in proportion as it mounts higher and higher, enlarges itself into the vast light of the Truth. Flaming upward to heaven to meet the divine Dawn, it rises through the vital or nervous mid-world and through our mental skies and enters at last the Paradise of Light, its own supreme home above where joyous for ever in the eternal Truth that is the foundation of the sempiternal Bliss the shining Immortals sit in their celestial sessions and drink the wine of the infinite beatitude.” *The Secret of the Veda
aham tva sarvapapebhyo moksayisyami ma sucah ::: I will deliver thee from all sin and evil, do not grieve. [Gita 18.66]
ahriman ::: n. --> The Evil Principle or Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light.
aid ::: v. t. --> To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.
Help; succor; assistance; relief.
The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant.
A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan.
akalyan.a ::: misfortune, adversity; evil. akalyana
alas ::: interj. --> An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.
". . . a limited consciousness growing out of nescience is the source of error, a personal attachment to the limitation and the error born of it the source of falsity, a wrong consciousness governed by the life-ego the source of evil. But it is evident that their relative existence is only a phenomenon thrown up by the cosmic Force in its drive towards evolutionary self-expression.” The Life Divine
“… a limited consciousness growing out of nescience is the source of error, a personal attachment to the limitation and the error born of it the source of falsity, a wrong consciousness governed by the life-ego the source of evil. But it is evident that their relative existence is only a phenomenon thrown up by the cosmic Force in its drive towards evolutionary self-expression.” The Life Divine
"All disease is a means towards some new joy of health, all evil & pain a tuning of Nature for some more intense bliss & good, all death an opening on widest immortality. Why and how this should be so, is God"s secret which only the soul purified of egoism can penetrate.” Essays Divine and Human
“All disease is a means towards some new joy of health, all evil & pain a tuning of Nature for some more intense bliss & good, all death an opening on widest immortality. Why and how this should be so, is God’s secret which only the soul purified of egoism can penetrate.” Essays Divine and Human
"All ethics is a construction of good in a Nature which has been smitten with evil by the powers of darkness born of the Ignorance, . . . .” The Life Divine
“All ethics is a construction of good in a Nature which has been smitten with evil by the powers of darkness born of the Ignorance, …” The Life Divine
alloy ::: 1. A substance composed of two or more metals, or of a metal or metals with a nonmetal, intimately mixed, as by fusion or electrodeposition; a less costly metal mixed with a more valuable one, such as that which is added to gold and silver coinage. 2. Admixture, as with good with evil.
all-possessed ::: a. --> Controlled by an evil spirit or by evil passions; wild. html{color:
amhoh ::: out of the narrow existence, the narrowness full of suffering and evil, i.e., the unenlightened state of our limited mentality. [RV 5.65.4]
a monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil.
amulet ::: n. --> An ornament, gem, or scroll, or a package containing a relic, etc., worn as a charm or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters. [Also used figuratively.]
anarch ::: “The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.” Essays Divine and Human
anartha. ::: unhappiness; worthless; evil
And again, in Book II, Canto VIII, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,
angel ::: n. --> A messenger.
A spiritual, celestial being, superior to man in power and intelligence. In the Scriptures the angels appear as God&
antidote ::: n. --> A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.
Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce. ::: v. t.
apapaviddham ::: unpierced by evil; pure. [Isa 8]
apocalypse ::: 1. Any revelation or prophecy. 2. A prophetic revelation, esp. concerning a cataclysm in which the forces of good permanently triumph over the forces of evil.
apprehensive ::: a. --> Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning.
Knowing; conscious; cognizant.
Relating to the faculty of apprehension.
Anticipative of something unfavorable&
as ::: adv. & conj. --> Denoting equality or likeness in kind, degree, or manner; like; similar to; in the same manner with or in which; in accordance with; in proportion to; to the extent or degree in which or to which; equally; no less than; as, ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil; you will reap as you sow; do as you are bidden.
In the idea, character, or condition of, -- limiting the view to certain attributes or relations; as, virtue considered as virtue; this actor will appear as Hamlet.
asiva (ashiva) ::: inauspicious, evil. asiva
asivam ::: evil.
"As long as we live in the ignorant seeming, we are the ego and are subject to the modes of Nature. Enslaved to appearances, bound to the dualities, tossed between good and evil, sin and virtue, grief and joy, pain and pleasure, good fortune and ill fortune, success and failure, we follow helplessly the iron or gilt and iron round of the wheel of Maya.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
“As long as we live in the ignorant seeming, we are the ego and are subject to the modes of Nature. Enslaved to appearances, bound to the dualities, tossed between good and evil, sin and virtue, grief and joy, pain and pleasure, good fortune and ill fortune, success and failure, we follow helplessly the iron or gilt and iron round of the wheel of Maya.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“As there are Powers of Knowledge or Forces of the Light, so there are Powers of Ignorance and tenebrous Forces of the Darkness whose work is to prolong the reign of Ignorance and Inconscience. As there are Forces of Truth, so there are Forces that live by the Falsehood and support it and work for its victory; as there are powers whose life is intimately bound up with the existence, the idea and the impulse of Good, so there are Forces whose life is bound up with the existence and the idea and the impulse of Evil. It is this truth of the cosmic Invisible that was symbolised in the ancient belief of a struggle between the powers of Light and Darkness, Good and Evil for the possession of the world and the government of the life of man;—this was the significance of the contest between the Vedic Gods and their opponents, sons of Darkness and Division, figured in a later tradition as Titan and Giant and Demon, Asura, Rakshasa, Pisacha; the same tradition is found in the Zoroastrian Double Principle and the later Semitic opposition of God and his Angels on the one side and Satan and his hosts on the other,—invisible Personalities and Powers that draw man to the divine Light and Truth and Good or lure him into subjection to the undivine principle of Darkness and Falsehood and Evil.” The Life Divine
astray ::: 1. Away from the correct path or direction. 2. Away from the right or good, as in thought or behaviour; straying to or into wrong or evil ways.
asubham ::: evil, defect.
ASURA. ::: Titan; a being of ignorant egoism as opposed to the Deva or god, who is a being of Light; sons of Darkness and Division.
Asuras are really the dark side of the mental, or more strictly, of the vital mind plane. This mind is the very field of the Asuras. Their main characteristic is egoistic strength and struggle, which refuse the higher law. The Asura has self-control, tapas, and intelligence, but all that for the sake of his ego.
There are no Asuras on the higher planes where the Truth prevails, except in the Vedic sense -“ the Divine in its strength “. The mental and vital Asuras are only a deviation of that power.
There are two kinds of Asuras - one kind were divine in their origin but have fallen from their divinity by self-will and opposition to the intention of the Divine; they are spoken in the Hindu scriptures as the former or earlier gods; these can be converted and their conversion is indeed necessary for the ultimate purpose of the universe. But the ordinary Asura is not of this character, is not an evolutionary but a typal being and represents a fixed principle of the creation which does not evolve or change and is not intended to do so. These Asuras, as also the other hostile beings, Rakshasas, Pishachas and others resemble the devils of the Christian tradition and oppose the divine intention and the evolutionary purpose in the human being; they don’t change the purpose in them for which they exist which is evil, but have to be destroyed like the evil. The Asura has no soul, no psychic being which has to evolve to a higher state; he has only an ego and usually a very powerful ego; he has a mind, sometimes even a highly intellectual mind; but the basis of his thinking and feeling is vital and not mental, at the service of his desire and not truth. He is a formation assumed by the life-principle for a particular kind of work and not a divine formation or soul.
Some kinds of Asuras are very religious, very fanatical about their religion, very strict about rules of ethical conduct. There are others who use spiritual ideas without believing in them to give them a perverted twist and delude the sadhaka.
asuric. :::diabolical; evil
A symbol of force, very often a hostile or evil force of the vital plane.
attendant ::: v. t. --> Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting.
Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; consequent; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils.
Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir.
augment ::: v. t. --> To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.
To add an augment to. ::: v. i. --> To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense;
aureole ::: n. --> A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.
The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.
A halo, actual or figurative.
See Areola, 2.
avenge ::: v. t. --> To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on. ::: v. i. --> To take vengeance.
babel ::: “The legend of the Tower of Babel speaks of the diversity of tongues as a curse laid on the race; but whatever its disadvantages, and they tend more and more to be minimised by the growth of civilisation and increasing intercourse, it has been rather a blessing than a curse, a gift to mankind rather than a disability laid upon it. The purposeless exaggeration of anything is always an evil, and an excessive pullulation of varying tongues that serve no purpose in the expression of a real diversity of spirit and culture is certainly a stumbling-block rather than a help: but this excess, though it existed in the past, is hardly a possibility of the future. The tendency is rather in the opposite direction. In former times diversity of language helped to create a barrier to knowledge and sympathy, was often made the pretext even of an actual antipathy and tended to a too rigid division. The lack of sufficient interpenetration kept up both a passive want of understanding and a fruitful crop of active misunderstandings. But this was an inevitable evil of a particular stage of growth, an exaggeration of the necessity that then existed for the vigorous development of strongly individualised group-souls in the human race. These disadvantages have not yet been abolished, but with closer intercourse and the growing desire of men and nations for the knowledge of each other’s thought and spirit and personality, they have diminished and tend to diminish more and more and there is no reason why in the end they should not become inoperative.” The Human Cycle
babel ::: "The reference is to the mythological story of the construction of the Tower of Babel, which appears to be an attempt to explain the diversity of human languages. According to Genesis, the Babylonians wanted to make a name for themselves by building a mighty city and tower ‘with its top in the heavens". God disrupted the work by so confusing the language of the workers that they could no longer understand one another. The tower was never completed and the people were dispersed over the face of the earth.” (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works Sri Aurobindo: "The legend of the Tower of Babel speaks of the diversity of tongues as a curse laid on the race; but whatever its disadvantages, and they tend more and more to be minimised by the growth of civilisation and increasing intercourse, it has been rather a blessing than a curse, a gift to mankind rather than a disability laid upon it. The purposeless exaggeration of anything is always an evil, and an excessive pullulation of varying tongues that serve no purpose in the expression of a real diversity of spirit and culture is certainly a stumbling-block rather than a help: but this excess, though it existed in the past, is hardly a possibility of the future. The tendency is rather in the opposite direction. In former times diversity of language helped to create a barrier to knowledge and sympathy, was often made the pretext even of an actual antipathy and tended to a too rigid division. The lack of sufficient interpenetration kept up both a passive want of understanding and a fruitful crop of active misunderstandings. But this was an inevitable evil of a particular stage of growth, an exaggeration of the necessity that then existed for the vigorous development of strongly individualised group-souls in the human race. These disadvantages have not yet been abolished, but with closer intercourse and the growing desire of men and nations for the knowledge of each other"s thought and spirit and personality, they have diminished and tend to diminish more and more and there is no reason why in the end they should not become inoperative.” The Human Cycle
backbite ::: v. i. --> To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
To censure or revile the absent.
bad ::: imp. --> Bade. ::: superl. --> Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad
bale ::: 1. Evil. 2. Woe, suffering, pain; 3. Mental suffering, anguish.
bale ::: n. --> A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw / hay, etc., put up compactly for transportation.
Misery; calamity; misfortune; sorrow.
Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great injury. ::: v. t.
beast ::: 1. An animal other than a human, especially a large four-footed mammal. 2. Fig. Animal nature as opposed to intellect or spirit. 3. A large wild animal. 4. A domesticated animal used by man. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) beast"s, Beast"s, beasts, wild-beast. ::: —the Beast. Applied to the devil and evil spirits.
bedeviling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Bedevil
bedevilled ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Bedevil
bedevilling ::: --> of Bedevil
bedevilment ::: n. --> The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble.
bedevil ::: v. t. --> To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.
To spoil; to corrupt.
beelzebub ::: n. --> The title of a heathen deity to whom the Jews ascribed the sovereignty of the evil spirits; hence, the Devil or a devil. See Baal.
belial ::: n. --> An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil.
bermuda grass ::: --> A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.
beviled ::: a. --> Alt. of Bevilled
bevile ::: n. --> A chief broken or opening like a carpenter&
bevilled ::: a. --> Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter&
billbug ::: n. --> A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio.
blaspheme ::: v. --> To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
Figuratively, of persons and things not religiously sacred, but held in high honor: To calumniate; to revile; to abuse. ::: v. i. --> To utter blasphemy.
blasphemy ::: n. --> An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.
Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification.
blue ::: superl. --> Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets.
Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.
Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
boud ::: n. --> A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.
breviloquence ::: n. --> A brief and pertinent mode of speaking.
cacodemon ::: n. --> An evil spirit; a devil or demon.
The nightmare.
calamity ::: n. --> Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals.
A state or time of distress or misfortune; misery.
calumniate ::: v. t. --> To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel. ::: v. i. --> To propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another; to make purposely false charges of some offense or crime.
caution ::: n. --> A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness.
Security; guaranty; bail.
Precept or warning against evil of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction. ::: v. t.
cephaloptera ::: n. --> One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.
charmed ::: 1. Delighted or fascinated. 2. Marked by good fortune or privilege. 3. Protected from evil and harm as by a magical power vested in an amulet, etc. 4. Filled with wonder and delight.
choose ::: v. t. --> To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.
To wish; to desire; to prefer. ::: v. i. --> To make a selection; to decide.
circumspectness ::: n. --> Vigilance in guarding against evil from every quarter; caution.
Citragupta (Chitragupta) ::: [the name of an attendant of Yama who records the good and evil deeds of each man].
clandestine ::: a. --> Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage.
clapperclaw ::: v. t. --> To fight and scratch.
To abuse with the tongue; to revile; to scold.
cloven hoof ::: 1. A divided or cleft hoof, as in deer or cattle. 2. Evil or Satan, often depicted as a figure with cleft hooves.
coleoptera ::: n. pl. --> An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillae) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils.
collogue ::: v. i. --> To talk or confer secretly and confidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief.
combatable ::: a. --> Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments.
complot ::: n. --> A plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy. ::: v. t. & i. --> To plot or plan together; to conspire; to join in a secret design.
concupiscible ::: a. --> Exciting to, or liable to be affected by, concupiscence; provoking lustful desires.
Exciting desire, good or evil.
conspiracies ::: evil, unlawful, treacherous or surreptitious plans formulated in secret by two or more persons; plots.
conspiracy ::: n. --> A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.
A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement.
An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy.
craftily ::: done skillfully in underhand or evil schemes; cunningly; deceitfully; slyly.
crime ::: an evil act; serious offense, especially one in violation of morality or law. crimes.
croaker ::: n. --> One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil.
A small American fish (Micropogon undulatus), of the Atlantic coast.
An American fresh-water fish (Aplodinotus grunniens); -- called also drum.
The surf fish of California.
croak ::: v. i. --> To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.
To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually. ::: v. t. --> To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking;
crying ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Cry ::: a. --> Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil.
curculionidous ::: a. --> Pertaining to the Curculionideae, or weevil tribe.
curculio ::: n. --> One of a large group of beetles (Rhynchophora) of many genera; -- called also weevils, snout beetles, billbeetles, and billbugs. Many of the species are very destructive, as the plum curculio, the corn, grain, and rice weevils, etc.
curse ::: n. 1. The expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc. 2. A formula or charm intended to cause such misfortune to another. 3. An evil brought or inflicted upon one. 4. The cause of evil, misfortune, or trouble. 5. A profane or obscene expression or oath. curses. v. 6. To wish harm upon; invoke evil upon. 7. To invoke supernatural powers to bring harm to (someone or something). cursed.
dabchick ::: n. --> A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.
danger ::: n. --> Authority; jurisdiction; control.
Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.
Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.
Difficulty; sparingness.
Coyness; disdainful behavior. ::: v. t.
dare-devil ::: n. --> A reckless fellow. Also used adjectively; as, dare-devil excitement.
dare-deviltries ::: pl. --> of Dare-deviltry
dare-deviltry ::: n --> Reckless mischief; the action of a dare-devil.
dark ::: adj. 1. Lacking or having very little light. 2. Concealed or secret; mysterious. 3. Difficult to understand; obscure. 4. Characterized by gloom; dismal. 5. Fig. Sinister; evil; absent moral or spiritual values. 6. (used of color) Having a dark hue; almost black. 7. Showing a brooding ill humor. 8. Having a complexion that is not fair; swarthy. darker, darkest, dark-browed, dark-robed.* n. 9. Absence of light; dark state or condition; darkness, esp. that of night. 10. A dark place: a place of darkness. 11. The condition of being hidden from view, obscure, or unknown; obscurity. *in the dark: in concealment or secrecy.
darkness ::: 1. Absence of light or illumination. 2. Fig. Absence of moral or spiritual values. 3. Obscurity; lack of knowledge or enlightenment; an unenlightened state. 4. A condition of secrecy, mystery, characterized by things hidden. 5. Wickedness or evil. Darkness, darkness", darknesses.
davy jones ::: --> The spirit of the sea; sea devil; -- a term used by sailors.
defame ::: v. t. --> To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.
To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.
To charge; to accuse. ::: n.
default ::: n. --> A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the governor&
deil ::: n. --> Devil; -- spelt also deel.
deliver ::: v. t. --> To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.
To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of; to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; -- often with up or over, to or into.
To make over to the knowledge of another; to
demidevil ::: n. --> A half devil.
demogorgon ::: n. --> A mysterious, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon.
demon ::: an evil spirit; devil or fiend. **demon"s, demons.
demoniac ::: a. --> Alt. of Demoniacal ::: n. --> A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon.
One of a sect of Anabaptists who maintain that the demons or devils will finally be saved.
demoniacal ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a demon or evil spirit; devilish; as, a demoniac being; demoniacal practices.
Influenced or produced by a demon or evil spirit; as, demoniac or demoniacal power.
demoniac ::: v. 1. Possessed, produced, or influenced by a demon. 2. Of, resembling, or suggestive of a devil; fiendish. n. 3. One who is or seems to be possessed by a demon.
demon ::: n. --> A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.
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demonomania ::: n. --> A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils.
denounce ::: v. t. --> To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).
To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.
To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.
denunciation ::: n. --> Proclamation; announcement; a publishing.
The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment.
That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment.
denunciator ::: n. --> One who denounces, publishes, or proclaims, especially intended or coming evil; one who threatens or accuses.
deplorable ::: a. --> Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life&
deprave ::: n. t. --> To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.
To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.
deprecate ::: v. t. --> To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly.
deprecation ::: n. --> The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation.
Entreaty for pardon; petitioning.
An imprecation or curse.
deprecatory ::: a. --> Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.
deservedly ::: adv. --> According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.
deserve ::: v. t. --> To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise.
To serve; to treat; to benefit. ::: v. i. --> To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with
destruction ::: “Destruction in itself is neither good nor evil. It is a fact of Nature, a necessity in the play of forces, as things are in this world. The Light destroys the Darkness and the Powers of Darkness, and that is not a movement of Ignorance!” Letters on Yoga
destructive ::: a. --> Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth. ::: n.
detest ::: v. t. --> To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
To hate intensely; to abhor; to abominate; to loathe; as, we detest what is contemptible or evil.
deuced ::: a. --> Devilish; excessive; extreme.
deuce ::: n. --> Two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts.
A condition of the score beginning whenever each side has won three strokes in the same game (also reckoned "40 all"), and reverted to as often as a tie is made until one of the sides secures two successive strokes following a tie or deuce, which decides the game.
The devil; a demon.
devil bird ::: n. --> A small water bird. See Dabchick.
devil-diver ::: n. --> Alt. of Devil bird
deviled ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Devil
deviless ::: n. --> A she-devil.
devilet ::: n. --> A little devil.
devilfish ::: n. --> A huge ray (Manta birostris / Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera.
A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of Octopus and Architeuthis. See Octopus.
The gray whale of the Pacific coast. See Gray whale.
The goosefish or angler (Lophius), and other allied fishes. See Angler.
deviling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Devil ::: n. --> A young devil.
devilish ::: a. --> Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme.
Extreme; excessive.
devilism ::: n. --> The state of the devil or of devils; doctrine of the devil or of devils.
devilize ::: v. t. --> To make a devil of.
devilkin ::: n. --> A little devil; a devilet.
devilled ::: --> of Devil
devilling ::: --> of Devil
devilment ::: n. --> Deviltry.
devil ::: n. --> The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.
An evil spirit; a demon.
A very wicked person; hence, any great evil.
An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation.
A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
devilries ::: pl. --> of Devilry
devilry ::: n. --> Conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry.
The whole body of evil spirits.
devilship ::: n. --> The character or person of a devil or the devil.
deviltries ::: pl. --> of Deviltry
deviltry ::: n. --> Diabolical conduct; malignant mischief; devilry.
devilwood ::: n. --> A kind of tree (Osmanthus Americanus), allied to the European olive.
devote ::: v. t. --> To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames.
To execrate; to curse.
To give up wholly; to addict; to direct the attention of wholly or compound; to attach; -- often with a reflexive pronoun; as, to devote one&
diabley ::: n. --> Devilry; sorcery or incantation; a diabolical deed; mischief.
diabolical ::: a. --> Pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or act.
diabolify ::: v. t. --> To ascribed diabolical qualities to; to change into, or to represent as, a devil.
diabolism ::: n. --> Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil.
Possession by the devil.
dickens ::: n. / interj. --> The devil.
diffame ::: n. --> Evil name; bad reputation; defamation.
dilemma ::: n. --> An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses.
A state of things in which evils or obstacles present themselves on every side, and it is difficult to determine what course to pursue; a vexatious alternative or predicament; a difficult choice or position.
dire ::: superl. --> Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.
Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
discreet ::: superl. --> Possessed of discernment, especially in avoiding error or evil, and in the adaptation of means to ends; prudent; sagacious; judicious; not rash or heedless; cautious.
Differing; distinct.
dispensation ::: n. --> The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.
That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed
A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations.
ditheism ::: n. --> The doctrine of those who maintain the existence of two gods or of two original principles (as in Manicheism), one good and one evil; dualism.
dolus ::: n. --> Evil intent, embracing both malice and fraud. See Culpa.
drevil ::: n. --> A fool; a drudge. See Drivel.
dualism ::: n. --> State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction
A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit.
A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil.
The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the
dushsvapnyam ::: the evil dream (the false consciousness of that which is not the rtam). [RV 5.82.4]
eblis ::: n. --> The prince of the evil spirits; Satan.
emancipate ::: v. t. --> To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.
To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
energumen ::: n. --> One possessed by an evil spirit; a demoniac.
enticement ::: n. --> The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.
That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin.
enticer ::: n. --> One who entices; one who incites or allures to evil.
entice ::: v. t. --> To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to listen.
entrap ::: v. t. --> To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men.
epidemical ::: a. --> Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.
Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil.
eradicative ::: a. --> Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil. ::: n. --> A medicine that effects a radical cure.
evil ::: a. --> Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.
Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or
evil-eyed ::: a. --> Possessed of the supposed evil eye; also, looking with envy, jealousy, or bad design; malicious.
evil eye ::: --> See Evil eye under Evil, a.
evil-favored ::: a. --> Having a bad countenance or appearance; ill-favored; blemished; deformed.
EVIL. ::: In God's providence there is no evil, but only good or its preparation.
". . . evil is the fruit of a spiritual ignorance and it will disappear only by the growth of a spiritual consciousness and the light of spiritual knowledge.” The Life Divine
“… evil is the fruit of a spiritual ignorance and it will disappear only by the growth of a spiritual consciousness and the light of spiritual knowledge.” The Life Divine
evilly ::: adv. --> In an evil manner; not well; ill.
evil-minded ::: a. --> Having evil dispositions or intentions; disposed to mischief or sin; malicious; malignant; wicked.
evil ::: n. 1. Morally bad or wrong; wicked, sinful, as opposed to good. 2. Anything causing injury or harm. Evil, evil"s, Evil"s. adj. 3. Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous; disastrous. 4. Harmful; injurious. 5. Boding ill.
evilness ::: n. --> The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.
EVIL PERSONA. ::: A person greatly endowed for the work has, always or almost alway's, — pwrhaps one ought not to make a too rigid universal rule about these things — a being attached to him, sometimes appearing like a part of him, which is just the contradiction of the thing he centrally represents in the work to be done. Or, if it is not there at first, not bound to his per- sonality, a force of this kind enters into his environment as soon as he begins his movement to realise. Its business seems to be to oppose, to create stumblings and wrong conditions, in a word, to set before him the whole problem of the w’ork he has started to do. It would seem as if the problem could not, in the occult
evil ::: “… wrong will and falsehood of the steps, . . . separative egoism inflicting by its ignorance and separate contrary will harm on oneself or harm on others, self-driven to a wrong dealing with one’s own soul, mind, life or body or a wrong dealing with the soul, mind, life, body of others, . . . is the practical sense of all human evil.” The Life Divine
execrate ::: v. t. --> To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.
exemption ::: n. --> The act of exempting; the state of being exempt; freedom from any charge, burden, evil, etc., to which others are subject; immunity; privilege; as, exemption of certain articles from seizure; exemption from military service; exemption from anxiety, suffering, etc.
exist ::: v. i. --> To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.
To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.
exorcise ::: v. t. --> To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (a demon) to depart out of a person possessed by one.
To deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon.
exorcism ::: n. --> The act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used.
Conjuration for raising spirits.
exorcist ::: n. --> One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.
A conjurer who can raise spirits.
expect ::: v. t. --> To wait for; to await.
To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that); as, I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated.
To wait; to stay.
extirpation ::: n. --> The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy.
extraordinary ::: a. --> Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies.
Exceeding the common degree, measure. or condition; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful; as, extraordinary talents or grandeur.
Employed or sent upon an unusual or special service; as, an ambassador extraordinary.
fairy ::: n. --> Enchantment; illusion.
The country of the fays; land of illusions.
An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon.
An enchantress.
faitour ::: n. --> A doer or actor; particularly, an evil doer; a scoundrel.
fear ::: n. 1. A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. v. 2. To regard with fear; be afraid of. 3. To have reverential awe of.** fear"s, fears, feared, fearing, fear-filled.
fear ::: n. --> A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.
A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.
Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God&
fiendish ::: a. --> Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish.
fiendly ::: a. --> Fiendlike; monstrous; devilish.
fiend ::: n. --> An implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon.
flee ::: v. i. --> To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive.
flight ::: n. --> The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.
Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds
foreboding ("s) ::: n. **1. A strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil, etc.; presentiment. adj. 2.** Foretelling or predicting; indicating beforehand; portending.
"For good is all that helps the individual and the world towards their divine fullness, and evil is all that retards or breaks up that increasing perfection.” The Synthesis of Yoga ::: *goodness.
“For good is all that helps the individual and the world towards their divine fullness, and evil is all that retards or breaks up that increasing perfection.” The Synthesis of Yoga
genii ::: 1. A rendering of Arab., jinn, the collective name of a class of spirits (some good, some evil) supposed to interfere powerfully in human affairs. 2. Spirits, often appearing in human form, that when summoned carry out the wishes of the summoner.
genius ::: n. --> A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man&
ghoul ::: An evil spirit or demon in Muslim folklore believed to plunder graves and feed on corpses.
ghoul ::: an evil spirit or demon in Muslim folklore believed to plunder graves and feed on corpses.
ghoul ::: n. --> An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies.
goblin ::: n. --> An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome.
goety ::: n. --> Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft.
good ::: superl. --> Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; admirable; commendable; not bad, corrupt, evil, noxious, offensive, or troublesome, etc.
Possessing moral excellence or virtue; virtuous; pious; religious; -- said of persons or actions.
Kind; benevolent; humane; merciful; gracious; polite; propitious; friendly; well-disposed; -- often followed by to or toward,
grassation ::: n. --> A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting.
hate ::: n. --> To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one&
hatred ::: n. --> Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil.
hell-haunted ::: a. --> Haunted by devils; hellish.
hell ::: the abode of condemned souls and devils in some religions; the place of eternal punishment for the wicked after death. hell"s, hells.
hell ::: v. t. --> The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.
The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish.
A place where outcast persons or things are gathered
A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
A gambling house.
hermogenian ::: n. --> A disciple of Hermogenes, an heretical teacher who lived in Africa near the close of the second century. He held matter to be the fountain of all evil, and that souls and spirits are formed of corrupt matter.
hydra ::: n. --> A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster.
Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort.
Any small fresh-water hydroid of the genus Hydra, usually found attached to sticks, stones, etc., by a basal sucker.
hylism ::: n. --> A theory which regards matter as the original principle of evil.
“I am here with thee in thy chariot of battle revealed as the Master of Existence within and without thee and I repeat the absolute assurance, the infallible promise that I will lead thee to myself through and beyond all sorrow and evil. Whatever difficulties and perplexities arise, be sure of this that I am leading thee to a complete divine life in the universal and an immortal existence in the transcendent Spirit.” Essays on the Gita
ill ::: a. --> Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable.
Contrary to good, in a moral sense; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitious; naughtly; bad; improper.
Sick; indisposed; unwell; diseased; disordered; as, ill of a fever.
Not according with rule, fitness, or propriety; incorrect;
ill-boding ::: a. --> Boding evil; inauspicious; ill-omened.
illness ::: n. --> The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness.
Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness.
Wrong moral conduct; wickedness.
imminence ::: n. --> The condition or quality of being imminent; a threatening, as of something about to happen. The imminence of any danger or distress.
That which is imminent; impending evil or danger.
imp ::: n. --> A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft.
An offspring; progeny; child; scion.
A young or inferior devil; a little, malignant spirit; a puny demon; a contemptible evil worker.
Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line.
To graft; to insert as a scion.
imprecate ::: v. t. --> To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
To invoke evil upon; to curse; to swear at.
imprecation ::: n. --> The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one; a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one; a curse.
imprecatory ::: a. --> Of the nature of, or containing, imprecation; invoking evil; as, the imprecatory psalms.
Imps ::: Small demons or devils; mischievous sprites.
imps ::: small demons or devils; mischievous sprites.
imputation ::: --> The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription; also, anything imputed or charged.
Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ.
Opinion; intimation; hint.
incapable ::: a. --> Wanting in ability or qualification for the purpose or end in view; not large enough to contain or hold; deficient in physical strength, mental or moral power, etc.; not capable; as, incapable of holding a certain quantity of liquid; incapable of endurance, of comprehension, of perseverance, of reform, etc.
Not capable of being brought to do or perform, because morally strong or well disposed; -- used with reference to some evil; as, incapable of wrong, dishonesty, or falsehood.
incurable ::: a. --> Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease.
Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils. ::: n. --> A person diseased beyond cure.
"In fact ethics is not in its essence a calculation of good and evil in the action or a laboured effort to be blameless according to the standards of the world, — those are only crude appearances, — it is an attempt to grow into the divine nature.” The Human Cycle
“In fact ethics is not in its essence a calculation of good and evil in the action or a laboured effort to be blameless according to the standards of the world,—those are only crude appearances,—it is an attempt to grow into the divine nature.” The Human Cycle
infralapsarian ::: n. --> One of that class of Calvinists who consider the decree of election as contemplating the apostasy as past and the elect as being at the time of election in a fallen and guilty state; -- opposed to Supralapsarian. The former considered the election of grace as a remedy for an existing evil; the latter regarded the fall as a part of God&
"In God"s providence there is no evil, but only good or its preparation.” Essays Divine and Human
“In God’s providence there is no evil, but only good or its preparation.” Essays Divine and Human
injury ::: a. --> Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character.
innocence ::: freedom from sin, moral wrong, or guilt through lack of knowledge of evil.
innocent ::: 1. Uncorrupted by evil, malice, or wrongdoing; sinless. 2. Not dangerous or harmful; innocuous.
insalutary ::: a. --> Not salutary or wholesome; unfavorable to health.
Not tending to safety; productive of evil.
instigate ::: v. t. --> To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as to instigate one to a crime.
instigation ::: n. --> The act of instigating, or the state of being instigated; incitement; esp. to evil or wickedness.
intestine ::: a. --> Internal; inward; -- opposed to external.
Internal with regard to a state or country; domestic; not foreign; -- applied usually to that which is evil; as, intestine disorders, calamities, etc.
Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective.
Shut up; inclosed.
That part of the alimentary canal between the stomach
inveigle ::: v. t. --> To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle.
irremediable ::: a. --> Not to be remedied, corrected, or redressed; incurable; as, an irremediable disease or evil.
"It is He that has gone abroad — That which is bright, bodi-less, without scar of imperfection, without sinews, pure, unpierced by evil. The Seer, the Thinker,(1) the One who becomes everywhere, the Self-existent has ordered objects perfectly according to their nature from years sempiternal.” The Upanishads
“It is He that has gone abroad—That which is bright, bodi-less, without scar of imperfection, without sinews, pure, unpierced by evil. The Seer, the Thinker,(1) the One who becomes everywhere, the Self-existent has ordered objects perfectly according to their nature from years sempiternal.” The Upanishads
izedi ::: n. --> One of an Oriental religious sect which worships Satan or the Devil.
janardana. ::: the Lord of the universe; another name of Vishnu, or God; He who inflicts suffering on evil men; He to whom all devotees pray for worldly success and liberation
Jhumur: “Awe inspiring fear. It is through fear that these forces rule, not through love, not through grace, not through compassion but through terror. There is a very strong tendency in man to regard these dark forces as superior beings. There has long been a vital attraction for them, devil worship, etc. because they give you power, they seem to give you power, power to the ego and Mother says that power will be one of the last things to accept the change. Man’s lust for power is not easily relinquished– he doesn’t feel like giving that up.”
jinnee ::: n. --> A genius or demon; one of the fabled genii, good and evil spirits, supposed to be the children of fire, and to have the power of assuming various forms.
Kamsa ::: the evil uncle of Krsna, who was killed by Krsna].
kingdom ::: 1. A territory, state, people, or community ruled or reigned over by a king or queen. 2. Fig. The eternal spiritual sovereignty of God; the realm of this sovereignty. 3. A realm or sphere in which one thing is dominant or supreme. 4. Anything conceived as constituting a realm or sphere of independent action or control. 5. A realm or province of nature, especially one of the three broad divisions of natural objects: the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms. 6. Rarely, in reference to the realm and rule of evil forces. kingdom"s, kingdoms.
knell ::: n. --> The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything.
To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen. ::: v. t.
ksipamyajasram asubhan asurisveva yonisu ::: [I cast the evil ones continually into Asuric births]. [Gita 16.19]
laminaria ::: n. --> A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil&
lasting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Last ::: a. --> Existing or continuing a long while; enduring; as, a lasting good or evil; a lasting color. ::: n.
loki ::: n. --> The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the African of the Persians.
luciferian ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Lucifer; having the pride of Lucifer; satanic; devilish.
Of or pertaining to the Luciferians or their leader. ::: n. --> One of the followers of Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, in the fourth century, who separated from the orthodox churches because
machinate ::: v. i. --> To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot. ::: v. t. --> To contrive, as a plot; to plot; as, to machinate evil.
machinator ::: n. --> One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
maharshi. ::: a great sage; the sage who rejoices in his own Self and who knows he does not gain anything by doing any action &
mahound ::: n. --> A contemptuous name for Mohammed; hence, an evil spirit; a devil.
mala ::: n. --> Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law. ::: pl. --> of Malum
mal- ::: --> A prefix in composition denoting ill,or evil, F. male, adv., fr. malus, bad, ill. In some words it has the form male-, as in malediction, malevolent. See Malice.
male ::: a. --> Evil; wicked; bad. ::: n. --> Same as Mail, a bag.
An animal of the male sex.
A plant bearing only staminate flowers.
maledicency ::: n. --> Evil speaking.
malediction ::: n. --> A proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction.
malefaction ::: n. --> A crime; an offense; an evil deed.
malefactor ::: n. --> An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.
One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal.
malefic ::: a. --> Doing mischief; causing harm or evil; nefarious; hurtful.
malefice ::: an evil deed; artifice; enchantment.
malefice ::: n. --> An evil deed; artifice; enchantment.
maleficence ::: n. --> Evil doing, esp. to others.
maleficent ::: a. --> Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.
maleficience ::: n. --> The doing of evil, harm, or mischief.
maleficient ::: a. --> Doing evil, harm, or mischief.
malengine ::: n. --> Evil machination; guile; deceit.
malevolence ::: n. --> The quality or state of being malevolent; evil disposition toward another; inclination to injure others; ill will. See Synonym of Malice.
malevolent ::: a. --> Wishing evil; disposed to injure others; rejoicing in another&
malfeasance ::: n. --> The doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed.
malice ::: n. --> Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of evil.
Any wicked or mischievous intention of the mind; a depraved inclination to mischief; an intention to vex, annoy, or injure another person, or to do a wrongful act without just cause or cause or excuse; a wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others; willfulness.
malign ::: a. --> Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.
Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.
Malignant; as, a malign ulcer.
To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure.
To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander;
malignancy ::: n. --> The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.
Unfavorableness; evil nature.
Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.
The state of being a malignant.
malignancy ::: the quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will.
malignant ::: 1. Showing great malevolence; disposed to do evil. 2. Very dangerous or harmful in influence or effect.
malignant ::: a. --> Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.
Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.
Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. ::: n.
malignity ::: n. --> The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.
Virulence; deadly quality.
Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud.
malpractice ::: n. --> Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
malum ::: n. --> An evil. See Mala.
malversation ::: n. --> Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office.
Manichean ::: Manicheans or their doctrines; i.e. adherents of the dualistic religious system of Manes, a combination of Gnostic Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and various other elements, with a basic doctrine of a conflict between light and dark, matter being regarded as dark and evil.
manichean ::: manicheans or their doctrines; i.e. adherents of the dualistic religious system of Manes, a combination of Gnostic Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and various other elements, with a basic doctrine of a conflict between light and dark, matter being regarded as dark and evil.
manichee ::: n. --> A believer in the doctrines of Manes, a Persian of the third century A. D., who taught a dualism in which Light is regarded as the source of Good, and Darkness as the source of Evil.
manitu ::: n. --> A name given by tribes of American Indians to a great spirit, whether good or evil, or to any object of worship.
mannite ::: n. --> A white crystalline substance of a sweet taste obtained from a so-called manna, the dried sap of the flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus); -- called also mannitol, and hydroxy hexane. Cf. Dulcite.
A sweet white efflorescence from dried fronds of kelp, especially from those of the Laminaria saccharina, or devil&
manta ::: n. --> See Coleoptera and Sea devil.
Mara ::: [in Buddhism: the Destroyer, the Evil One (who tempts man to indulge his passions and is the great enemy of the Buddha and of his religion)], conscious devil or self-existent principle of evil.
mara ::: n. --> The principal or ruling evil spirit.
A female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions.
The Patagonian cavy (Dolichotis Patagonicus).
mara. ::: the embodiment of the power of cosmic evil and delusion
marcionite ::: n. --> A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation.
master of Existence ::: Sri Aurobindo: "I am here with thee in thy chariot of battle revealed as the Master of Existence within and without thee and I repeat the absolute assurance, the infallible promise that I will lead thee to myself through and beyond all sorrow and evil. Whatever difficulties and perplexities arise, be sure of this that I am leading thee to a complete divine life in the universal and an immortal existence in the transcendent Spirit.” Essays on the Gita
“Material Nature is not ethical; the law which governs it is a co-ordination of fixed habits which take no cognisance of good and evil, but only of force that creates, force that arranges and preserves, force that disturbs and destroys impartially, non-ethically, according to the secret Will in it, according to the mute satisfaction of that Will in its own self-formations and self-dissolutions.” The Life Divine
menace ::: n. --> The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war.
To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
mephistophelian ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, "a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend;" devilish; crafty.
misaffection ::: n. --> An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected.
miscarriage ::: n. --> Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination.
Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous.
The act of bringing forth before the time; premature birth.
mischief ::: n. --> Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by thoughtlessness, or in sport.
Cause of trouble or vexation; trouble. ::: v. t.
mischievous ::: a. --> Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child.
misdeed ::: n. --> An evil deed; a wicked action.
misdeeds ::: wicked or evil deeds; wrong actions.
misdemeanor ::: n. --> Ill behavior; evil conduct; fault.
A crime less than a felony.
misdread ::: n. --> Dread of evil.
misfeign ::: v. i. --> To feign with an evil design.
misfortune ::: n. --> Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance. ::: v. i. --> To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail.
misgiving ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Misgive ::: n. --> Evil premonition; doubt; distrust.
mishap ::: n. --> Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance. ::: v. i. --> To happen unluckily; -- used impersonally.
missay ::: v. t. --> To say wrongly.
To speak evil of; to slander. ::: v. i. --> To speak ill.
missuggestion ::: n. --> Wrong or evil suggestion.
mistide ::: v. i. --> To happen or come to pass unfortunately; also, to suffer evil fortune.
morose ::: a. --> Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe.
Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
mungo ::: n. --> A fibrous material obtained by deviling rags or the remnants of woolen goods.
nick ::: n. --> An evil spirit of the waters.
A notch cut into something
A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick;
nirvana ::: n. --> In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
obsess ::: to haunt like a ghost; trouble; beset like an evil being or force.
obstinacy ::: n. --> A fixedness in will, opinion, or resolution that can not be shaken at all, or only with great difficulty; firm and usually unreasonable adherence to an opinion, purpose, or system; unyielding disposition; stubborness; pertinacity; persistency; contumacy.
The quality or state of being difficult to remedy, relieve, or subdue; as, the obstinacy of a disease or evil.
octopus ::: n. --> A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous species, some of them of large size. See Devilfish,
Old forms of evil cling to the world’s soul:
ominous ::: 1. Of or being an omen, especially an evil one. 2. Foreboding evil.
ominous ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
"Our sins are the misdirected steps of a seeking Power that aims, not at sin, but at perfection, at something that we might call a divine virtue. Often they are the veils of a quality that has to be transformed and delivered out of this ugly disguise: otherwise, in the perfect providence of things, they would not have been suffered to exist or to continue. The Master of our works is neither a blunderer nor an indifferent witness nor a dallier with the luxury of unneeded evils. He is wiser than our reason and wiser than our virtue.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“Our sins are the misdirected steps of a seeking Power that aims, not at sin, but at perfection, at something that we might call a divine virtue. Often they are the veils of a quality that has to be transformed and delivered out of this ugly disguise: otherwise, in the perfect providence of things, they would not have been suffered to exist or to continue. The Master of our works is neither a blunderer nor an indifferent witness nor a dallier with the luxury of unneeded evils. He is wiser than our reason and wiser than our virtue.” The Synthesis of Yoga
pain ::: n. --> Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.
Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
palindrome ::: n. --> A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.
pandemonium ::: n. --> The great hall or council chamber of demons or evil spirits.
An utterly lawless, riotous place or assemblage.
pander ::: n. --> A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.
Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another. ::: v. t. --> To play the pander for.
patience ::: n. --> The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.
The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.
Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
Sufferance; permission.
A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America
pejorative ::: a. --> Implying or imputing evil; depreciatory; disparaging; unfavorable.
perpetration ::: n. --> The act of perpetrating; a doing; -- commonly used of doing something wrong, as a crime.
The thing perpetrated; an evil action.
pessimism ::: n. --> The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; -- opposed to optimism.
A disposition to take the least hopeful view of things.
plague ::: n. --> That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague. ::: v. t.
pliant ::: v. --> Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
Favorable to pliancy.
plotted ::: conceived and arranged the action and incidents of; laid plans for. Now always in evil sense.
poison ::: n. --> Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.
That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.
To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink.
To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.
portent ::: n. --> That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign.
precaution ::: n. --> Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution.
A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act; as, to take precautions against accident. ::: v. t.
preeminence ::: n. --> The quality or state of being preeminent; superiority in prominence or in excellence; distinction above others in quality, rank, etc.; rarely, in a bad sense, superiority or notoriety in evil; as, preeminence in honor.
preeminent ::: a. --> Eminent above others; prominent among those who are eminent; superior in excellence; surpassing, or taking precedence of, others; rarely, surpassing others in evil, or in bad qualities; as, preeminent in guilt.
presentiment ::: n. --> Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.
preserve ::: v. t. --> To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.
To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, as sugar, salt, etc.; to season and prepare for remaining in a good state, as fruits, meat, etc.; as, to preserve peaches or grapes.
To maintain throughout; to keep intact; as, to preserve appearances; to preserve silence.
preventer ::: n. --> One who goes before; one who forestalls or anticipates another.
One who prevents or obstructs; a hinderer; that which hinders; as, a preventer of evils or of disease.
An auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast.
privilege ::: n. --> A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.
See Call, Put, Spread, etc. ::: v. t.
prognosticate ::: v. t. --> To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.
prolific ::: a. --> Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.
Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.
Proliferous.
propensity ::: n. --> The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency.
protector ::: n. --> One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.
One having the care of the kingdom during the king&
prove ::: v. t. --> To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.
To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.
To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by
quade ::: a. --> Evil; bad; baffling; as, a quade wind.
quietly ::: adv. --> In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly.
Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly.
Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion; patiently; as, to submit quietly to unavoidable evils.
Noiselessly; silently; without remark or violent movement; in a manner to attract little or no observation; as, he
quitch ::: n. --> Same as Quitch grass.
Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil.
radical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root.
Hence: Of or pertaining to the root or origin; reaching to the center, to the foundation, to the ultimate sources, to the principles, or the like; original; fundamental; thorough-going; unsparing; extreme; as, radical evils; radical reform; a radical party.
Belonging to, or proceeding from, the root of a plant; as, radical tubers or hairs.
rakshasa. ::: unrighteous spirit; evil spirit; demon; can even have the appearance of a spiritual guide
relief ::: n. --> The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained; succor; alleviation; comfort; ease; redress.
Release from a post, or from the performance of duty, by the intervention of others, by discharge, or by relay; as, a relief of a sentry.
That which removes or lessens evil, pain, discomfort,
Religion does that to man in the name of the Divine, in the name of God. The worst possible evil is enacted and that is because people sincerely believe they are instruments of light when they have actually become instruments of darkness.”
"Religion is the first attempt of man to get beyond himself and beyond the obvious and material facts of his existence. Its first essential work is to confirm and make real to him his subjective sense of an Infinite on which his material and mental being depends and the aspiration of his soul to come into its presence and live in contact with it. Its function is to assure him too of that possibility of which he has always dreamed, but of which his ordinary life gives him no assurance, the possibility of transcending himself and growing out of bodily life and mortality into the joy of immortal life and spiritual existence. It also confirms in him the sense that there are worlds or planes of existence other than that in which his lot is now cast, worlds in which this mortality and this subjection to evil and suffering are not the natural state, but rather bliss of immortality is the eternal condition. Incidentally, it gives him a rule of mortal life by which he shall prepare himself for immortality. He is a soul and not a body and his earthly life is a means by which he determines the future conditions of his spiritual being.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“Religion is the first attempt of man to get beyond himself and beyond the obvious and material facts of his existence. Its first essential work is to confirm and make real to him his subjective sense of an Infinite on which his material and mental being depends and the aspiration of his soul to come into its presence and live in contact with it. Its function is to assure him too of that possibility of which he has always dreamed, but of which his ordinary life gives him no assurance, the possibility of transcending himself and growing out of bodily life and mortality into the joy of immortal life and spiritual existence. It also confirms in him the sense that there are worlds or planes of existence other than that in which his lot is now cast, worlds in which this mortality and this subjection to evil and suffering are not the natural state, but rather bliss of immortality is the eternal condition. Incidentally, it gives him a rule of mortal life by which he shall prepare himself for immortality. He is a soul and not a body and his earthly life is a means by which he determines the future conditions of his spiritual being.” The Synthesis of Yoga
remedial ::: a. --> Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment.
remedy ::: n. --> That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for the gout.
That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; a corrective; a counteractive; reparation; cure; -- followed by for or against, formerly by to.
The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong.
remedy ::: something that removes or corrects an evil, fault, or error or disorder.
repression ::: n. --> The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.
That which represses; check; restraint.
requital ::: n. --> The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds.
requite ::: v. t. --> To repay; in a good sense, to recompense; to return (an equivalent) in good; to reward; in a bad sense, to retaliate; to return (evil) for evil; to punish.
rescue ::: v. t. --> To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction. ::: v. --> The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence,
result ::: v. i. --> To leap back; to rebound.
To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; -- followed by in; as, this measure will result in good or in evil.
To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor.
retaliate ::: v. t. --> To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.] ::: v. i. --> To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.
retaliation ::: n. --> The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
retribution ::: n. --> The act of retributing; repayment.
That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly, condign punishment for evil or wrong.
Specifically, reward and punishment, as distributed at the general judgment.
retribution ::: punishment for wrong or evil done.
retrieve ::: v. t. --> To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one&
reviled ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Revile
revilement ::: n. --> The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse.
reviler ::: n. --> One who reviles.
revile ::: v. t. & i. --> To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach. ::: n. --> Reproach; reviling.
reviling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Revile ::: n. --> Reproach; abuse; vilification. ::: a.
reward ::: v. t. --> To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. ::: n. --> Regard; respect; consideration.
That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some
rhynchophora ::: n. pl. --> A group of Coleoptera having a snoutlike head; the snout beetles, curculios, or weevils.
safely ::: adv. --> In a safe manner; danger, injury, loss, or evil consequences.
sain ::: p. p. --> Said. ::: v. t. --> To sanctify; to bless so as to protect from evil influence.
saint-simonian ::: n. --> A follower of the Count de St. Simon, who died in 1825, and who maintained that the principle of property held in common, and the just division of the fruits of common labor among the members of society, are the true remedy for the social evils which exist.
salvation ::: 1. The act of delivering from sin or saving the soul from evil. 2. Preservation from harm, unpleasantness, etc. salvation"s.
sarvapapam ::: all evil. [Kaivalya 1]
satanical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Satan; having the qualities of Satan; resembling Satan; extremely malicious or wicked; devilish; infernal.
satanism ::: n. --> The evil and malicious disposition of Satan; a diabolical spirit.
satan ::: n. --> The grand adversary of man; the Devil, or Prince of darkness; the chief of the fallen angels; the archfiend.
save ::: n. --> The herb sage, or salvia. ::: a. --> To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames.
Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue
scelestic ::: a. --> Evil; wicked; atrocious.
sea devil ::: --> Any very large ray, especially any species of the genus Manta or Cepholoptera, some of which become more than twenty feet across and weigh several tons. See also Ox ray, under Ox.
Any large cephalopod, as a large Octopus, or a giant squid (Architeuthis). See Devilfish.
The angler.
seduce ::: v. t. --> To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner; to entice to evil; to lead astray; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt.
Specifically, to induce to surrender chastity; to debauch by means of solicitation.
shamanism ::: n. --> The type of religion which once prevalied among all the Ural-Altaic peoples (Tungusic, Mongol, and Turkish), and which still survives in various parts of Northern Asia. The Shaman, or wizard priest, deals with good as well as with evil spirits, especially the good spirits of ancestors.
shardhatah) ::: "may we cast out the passion of him of evil impulse when he putteth forth his force." [R . g Veda 2.23.12]
shend ::: n. --> To injure, mar, spoil, or harm.
To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame.
shoddy ::: v. t. --> A fibrous material obtained by "deviling," or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo.
A fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a large amount of, shoddy. ::: a.
shrewd ::: superl. --> Inclining to shrew; disposing to curse or scold; hence, vicious; malicious; evil; wicked; mischievous; vexatious; rough; unfair; shrewish.
Artful; wily; cunning; arch.
Able or clever in practical affairs; sharp in business; astute; sharp-witted; sagacious; keen; as, a shrewd observer; a shrewd design; a shrewd reply.
Shruti: “Occult signs which attract evil, such as the swastika tilted; attractive signs which hide a devilish intention.”
sinister ::: 1. Corrupt, wicked, evil, base. 2. Threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous.
sinister ::: a. --> On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.
Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.
Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.
Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger;
smart ::: v. i. --> To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.
To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the
snout ::: n. --> The long, projecting nose of a beast, as of swine.
The nose of a man; -- in contempt.
The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; -- called also rostrum.
The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles.
socinianism ::: n. --> The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin was the imitation of Adam&
solicitous ::: v. t. --> Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful.
solicitude ::: n. --> The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety.
sorcery ::: n. --> Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment.
sorrow ::: n. --> The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness.
To feel pain of mind in consequence of evil experienced, feared, or done; to grieve; to be sad; to be sorry.
sorry ::: a. --> Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; -- now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling.
Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.
spinster ::: n. --> A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin.
A man who spins.
An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname.
A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.
Sri Aurobindo: "As there are Powers of Knowledge or Forces of the Light, so there are Powers of Ignorance and tenebrous Forces of the Darkness whose work is to prolong the reign of Ignorance and Inconscience. As there are Forces of Truth, so there are Forces that live by the Falsehood and support it and work for its victory; as there are powers whose life is intimately bound up with the existence, the idea and the impulse of Good, so there are Forces whose life is bound up with the existence and the idea and the impulse of Evil. It is this truth of the cosmic Invisible that was symbolised in the ancient belief of a struggle between the powers of Light and Darkness, Good and Evil for the possession of the world and the government of the life of man; — this was the significance of the contest between the Vedic Gods and their opponents, sons of Darkness and Division, figured in a later tradition as Titan and Giant and Demon, Asura, Rakshasa, Pisacha; the same tradition is found in the Zoroastrian Double Principle and the later Semitic opposition of God and his Angels on the one side and Satan and his hosts on the other, — invisible Personalities and Powers that draw man to the divine Light and Truth and Good or lure him into subjection to the undivine principle of Darkness and Falsehood and Evil.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "Destruction in itself is neither good nor evil. It is a fact of Nature, a necessity in the play of forces, as things are in this world. The Light destroys the Darkness and the Powers of Darkness, and that is not a movement of Ignorance!” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Material Nature is not ethical; the law which governs it is a co-ordination of fixed habits which take no cognisance of good and evil, but only of force that creates, force that arranges and preserves, force that disturbs and destroys impartially, non-ethically, according to the secret Will in it, according to the mute satisfaction of that Will in its own self-formations and self-dissolutions.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.” Essays Divine and Human*
Sri Aurobindo: “The legend of the Tower of Babel speaks of the diversity of tongues as a curse laid on the race; but whatever its disadvantages, and they tend more and more to be minimised by the growth of civilisation and increasing intercourse, it has been rather a blessing than a curse, a gift to mankind rather than a disability laid upon it. The purposeless exaggeration of anything is always an evil, and an excessive pullulation of varying tongues that serve no purpose in the expression of a real diversity of spirit and culture is certainly a stumbling-block rather than a help: but this excess, though it existed in the past, is hardly a possibility of the future. The tendency is rather in the opposite direction. In former times diversity of language helped to create a barrier to knowledge and sympathy, was often made the pretext even of an actual antipathy and tended to a too rigid division. The lack of sufficient interpenetration kept up both a passive want of understanding and a fruitful crop of active misunderstandings. But this was an inevitable evil of a particular stage of growth, an exaggeration of the necessity that then existed for the vigorous development of strongly individualised group-souls in the human race. These disadvantages have not yet been abolished, but with closer intercourse and the growing desire of men and nations for the knowledge of each other’s thought and spirit and personality, they have diminished and tend to diminish more and more and there is no reason why in the end they should not become inoperative.” The Human Cycle. Babel-builders’.
Sri Aurobindo: ". . . wrong will and falsehood of the steps, . . . separative egoism inflicting by its ignorance and separate contrary will harm on oneself or harm on others, self-driven to a wrong dealing with one"s own soul, mind, life or body or a wrong dealing with the soul, mind, life, body of others, . . . is the practical sense of all human evil.” *The Life Divine
stag-evil ::: n. --> A kind of palsy affecting the jaw of a horse.
stratagem ::: n. --> An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.
subheccha. ::: good desire for enlightenment; longing for the Truth; noble wish or desire which arises in the heart of one who aspires to cross samsara; when the individual having come to the consciousness of the evils of the earthly living aspires to transcend it; the first stage in the path of Self-knowledge
talismanical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or preservative against evils by occult influence; magical.
talisman ::: n. --> A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence.
Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman
tamas. ::: qualities of darkness, dullness, error, ignorance, delusion, inactivity, sluggishness, heaviness, inertia, folly and evil; last and lowest of the three qualities
taranis ::: n. --> A Celtic divinity, regarded as the evil principle, but confounded by the Romans with Jupiter.
taunt ::: a. --> Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts. ::: v. t. --> To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid; to jeer at; to flout. ::: n.
Tehmi: “The symbol of the evil forces.”
tempt ::: 1. To attract, appeal strongly to, or invite. 2. Disposed to do something. 3. To try, endeavour; attempt. 4. To entice or allure to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong, immoral or evil. tempts, tempted.
temptation ::: n. --> The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction.
The state of being tempted, or enticed to evil.
That which tempts; an inducement; an allurement, especially to something evil.
tempter ::: n. --> One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil.
tempt ::: v. t. --> To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.
To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to entice to what is wrong; to seduce.
To endeavor to persuade; to induce; to invite; to incite; to provoke; to instigate.
To endeavor to accomplish or reach; to attempt.
"The evil forces are perversions of the Truth by the Ignorance — in any complete transformation they must disappear and the Truth behind them be delivered.” Letters on Yoga
“The evil forces are perversions of the Truth by the Ignorance—in any complete transformation they must disappear and the Truth behind them be delivered.” Letters on Yoga
``The first step on this free, this equal, this divine way of action is to put from you attachment to fruit and recompense and to labour only for the sake of the work itself that has to be done. For you must deeply feel that the fruits belong not to you but to the Master of the world. Consecrate your labour and leave its returns to the Spirit who manifests and fulfils himself in the universal movement. The outcome of your action is determined by his will alone and whatever it be, good or evil fortune, success or failure, it is turned by him to the accomplishment of his world purpose.” Essays on the Gita*
``The first step on this free, this equal, this divine way of action is to put from you attachment to fruit and recompense and to labour only for the sake of the work itself that has to be done. For you must deeply feel that the fruits belong not to you but to the Master of the world. Consecrate your labour and leave its returns to the Spirit who manifests and fulfils himself in the universal movement. The outcome of your action is determined by his will alone and whatever it be, good or evil fortune, success or failure, it is turned by him to the accomplishment of his world purpose.” Essays on the Gita
theodicies ::: systems of the vindication of God"s goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil.
theodicy ::: n. --> A vindication of the justice of God in ordaining or permitting natural and moral evil.
That department of philosophy which treats of the being, perfections, and government of God, and the immortality of the soul.
"The serpent is a symbol of force, very often a hostile or evil force of the vital plane.” Letters on Yoga
“The serpent is a symbol of force, very often a hostile or evil force of the vital plane.” Letters on Yoga
threat ::: 1. A person or thing that threatens. 2. An indication or warning of probable trouble or impending evil. threats.
threatening ::: 1. That foreshadows evil or tragic developments. 2. Causing alarm, as by being imminent; ominous; sinister.
threaten ::: v. t. --> To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn.
To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death. ::: v. i.
threat ::: n. --> The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation.
To threaten.
tions; but here there comes in the Overmind law of each Force working out its own possibilities. The natural possibilities of a world in which an original Inconscience and a division of consciousness are the main principles, would be the emergence of Forces of Darkness impelled to maintain the Ignorance by which they live, an ignorant struggle to know originative of falsehood and error, an ignorant struggle to live engendering wrong and evil, an egoistic struggle to enjoy, parent of fragmentary joys and pains and sufferings; these are therefore the inevitable first-imprinted characters, though not the sole possibilities of our evolutionary existence. Still, because the Non-Existence is a concealed Existence, the Inconscience a concealed Consciousness, the insensibility a masked and dormant Ananda, these secret realities must emerge; the hidden Overmind and Supermind too must in the end fulfil themselves in this apparently opposite organisation from a dark Infinite. …
turk ::: n. --> A member of any of numerous Tartar tribes of Central Asia, etc.; esp., one of the dominant race in Turkey.
A native or inhabitant of Turkey.
A Mohammedan; esp., one living in Turkey.
The plum weevil. See Curculio, and Plum weevil, under Plum.
twilly ::: n. --> A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy or willying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. See Devil, n., 6, and Willy.
twit ::: v. t. --> To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood.
ubhe sukrtaduskrte ::: both good doing and evil doing.[Gita 2.50]
undevil ::: v. t. --> To free from possession by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise.
unhappy ::: a. --> Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn.
In a degree miserable or wretched; not happy; sad; sorrowful; as, children render their parents unhappy by misconduct.
Marked by infelicity; evil; calamitous; as, an unhappy day.
Mischievous; wanton; wicked.
unrighteous ::: a. --> Not righteous; evil; wicked; sinful; as, an unrighteous man.
Contrary to law and equity; unjust; as, an unrighteous decree or sentence.
vaidika dharma. ::: a diverse body of religion, philosophy, and cultural practice native to and predominant in India, characterised by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal Truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils
vaudeville ::: n. --> A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.
A theatrical piece, usually a comedy, the dialogue of which is intermingled with light or satirical songs, set to familiar airs.
venom ::: n. --> Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and communicate by thing or stinging.
Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. Chaucer.
To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
vice ::: 1. An immoral or evil habit or practice. 2. Immoral conduct; depraved or degrading behaviour. 3. A flaw or imperfection; a defect. 4. Sexual immorality or depravity.
villanize ::: v. t. --> To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to revile.
wariness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness.
warn ::: v. t. --> To refuse.
To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house.
To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may prove injurious.
To ward off.
water devil ::: --> The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.
weeviled ::: a. --> Infested by weevils; as, weeviled grain.
weevil ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under Pine). See
weevily ::: a. --> Having weevils; weeviled.
welfare ::: n. --> Well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness.
wevil ::: n. --> See Weevil.
whirlwind ::: n. 1. A rapidly rotating, generally vertical column of air, such as a tornado, dust devil, or waterspout. Hence, anything resembling a whirlwind as in violent action or destructive force. adj. 2. Like a whirlwind, as in speed or force.
wicked ::: a. --> Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.
Evil in principle or practice; deviating from morality; contrary to the moral or divine law; addicted to vice or sin; sinful; immoral; profligate; -- said of persons and things; as, a wicked king; a wicked woman; a wicked deed; wicked designs.
Cursed; baneful; hurtful; bad; pernicious; dangerous.
Ludicrously or sportively mischievous; disposed to
wicked ::: evil or morally bad in principle or practice; sinful; iniquitous; malicious. wickedness.
wickedness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness.
A wicked thing or act; crime; sin; iniquity.
wisecraft ::: Jhumur: “– Instead of saying witchcraft he says wisecraft. It is an interesting thing because witch, the word comes from ‘wit’ and that I think originally is the same root as wisdom. It has associations of evil and so here he uses the idea of magic but it is something that is magic beyond our comprehension which it is why it is some kind of wisecraft. It is wisdom beyond our understanding which is what we call ‘magic’.”
witchcraft ::: n. --> The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits.
Power more than natural; irresistible influence.
witch ::: n. --> A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.
An ugly old woman; a hag.
One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a
worse ::: compar. --> Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical and moral sense. ::: n. --> Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the
worst ::: a. --> Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in a physical or moral sense. See Worse.
To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit. ::: n. --> That which is most bad or evil; the most severe, pernicious,
wrongdoing ::: n. --> Evil or wicked behavior or action.
YOGIC POWERS. ::: The idea that yogins do not or ought not to use these powers I regard as an ascetic superstition. I believe that all yogins who have these powers do use them whenever they find that that they are called from within to do so. They may refrain if they think the use in a particular case is contrary to the Divine Will or see that prevcofing one evil may-be open- ing the door to worse or for any other veiled reason, but not
yo vetti asammudhah sa martyesu sarvapapaih pramucyate ::: who knows (Me) , he, unbewildered among mortals, is delivered from all sin and evil. [Gita 10.3]
yvel ::: a. & adv. --> Evil; ill.
zoroastrianism ::: n. --> The religious system of Zoroaster, the legislator and prophet of the ancient Persians, which was the national faith of Persia; mazdeism. The system presupposes a good spirit (Ormuzd) and an opposing evil spirit (Ahriman). Cf. Fire worship, under Fire, and Parsee.
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1 Bulleh Shah
1 Buddhist Scriptures from the Chinese
1 Buddhist Maxims
1 Buddha
1 Bonaventure
1 Blaise Pascal
1 Bhagavad Gita. II- 50
1 Attar of Nishapur
1 Athanasius
1 Arthur Schopenhauer
1 Anguttara Nikaya
1 Alfred North Whitehead
1 Alexis de Tocqueville
1 Aldous Huxley
1 The Mother
1 Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
1 Kabir
1 Jetsun Milarepa
1 Homer
1 Dogen Zenji
1 Confucius
1 Aleister Crowley
1 Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr
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29 Neville Goddard
29 Anonymous
23 William Shakespeare
18 Alexis de Tocqueville
12 Stephen King
12 Plato
12 C S Lewis
12 China Mieville
11 Sophocles
11 Claude de Malleville
10 George Herbert
9 Socrates
9 Martin Luther
9 Aaron Neville
8 Tom Waits
8 Ray Bradbury
8 C L Bevill
8 Anne Rice
8 Aesop
7 Voltaire
1:And empty words are evil. ~ Homer, #KEYS
2:Before you think good or evil, who are you? ~ Huineng, #KEYS
3:Evil is that which makes for separateness." ~ Aldous Huxley, #KEYS
4:Let a man conquer anger by love, let him subdue evil by good. ~ Buddha, #KEYS
5:Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil. ~ Plato, #KEYS
6:There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
~ Socrates,#KEYS
7:The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. ~ Cicero, #KEYS
8:All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley,#KEYS
9:Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
10:What is evil? Whatever springs from weakness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, #KEYS
11:You must conceal your good deeds as you conceal your evil deeds ~ Rabia al-Adawiyya, #KEYS
12:Think no evil thoughts. ~ Kun Yu, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
13:Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die. ~ Sappho, #KEYS
14:Sorrow is a form of Evil. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
15:An evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground... to rule over the ashes. ~ Sun Tzu, #KEYS
16:Sorrow is the daughter of evil. ~ Dhammapada, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
17:Turn ye from your evil ways. ~ Ezekiel XXXIII, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
18:We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it. ~ C S Lewis, #KEYS
19:Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, #KEYS
20:The evil of the soul is ignorance. ~ Hermes, "The Key", the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
21:[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #KEYS
22:Whatever a man does, good or evil, comes back to him someday. And he pays for everything. ~ Valmiki Jayanti, #KEYS
23:Do not hate the evil-hearted, the jealous and the selfish. It is they who promote your Mok ~ Swami Sivananda, #KEYS
24:Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." ~ Blaise Pascal, #KEYS
25:There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #KEYS
26:or out of the heart proceed evil thoughts. ~ Matthew XV. 19, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
27:I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. ~ Charles Dickens, #KEYS
28:The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil ment
~ Plato,#KEYS
29:The perfection of evil is to be ignorant of the Divine. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
30:To do evil belongs pre-eminently to unhappiness ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.109.2)., #KEYS
31:Evil is non-being, the good is being, since it has come into being from the existing God. ~ Athanasius, On the Incarnation, #KEYS
32:Three roots of evil: desire, disliking and ignorance. ~ Buddhist Texts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
33:Depart from evil and do good and dwell for evermore. ~ Psalms XXXVII. 27, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
34:The only evil is inattention. It is the father of stupidity and the grandfather of the twins, suffering and sorrow. ~ Wu Hsin, #KEYS
35:The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
~ Mencius,#KEYS
36:Why analyze and see the evil? Move toward the Lord! Through His grace you will be freed from all passions. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
37:Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
38:Ignorance is also most always on the point of doing evil. ~ Chinese Proverb, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
39:all of these and their like are evil in themselves ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (In 2 NE, lect. 7)., #KEYS
40:The sinner sins against himself, for he makes himself evil. ~ Marcus Aurelias, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
41:Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from speaking guile. ~ Psalms XXXIV. 13, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
42:All evil is in travail of the eternal good. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine and the Undivine, #KEYS
43:All evil shall perforce change itself into good. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Gnosis and Ananda, #KEYS
44:Anger is the appetite of another's evil for the sake of revenge ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 1.89)., #KEYS
45:Never out of evil one plucked good: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night, #KEYS
46:Abstain from evil;
become established in piety;
purify your mind —
this is the Teaching of the Buddhas.
~ Dhammapada, 183#KEYS
47:Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue.
~ Franz Kafka,#KEYS
48:He who does no evil to any is as if the father and mother of all beings. ~ Madharata, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
49:It is easier today to triumph over evil habits than it will be tomorrow. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
50:Render to God the sole worship which is fitting towards Him, not to be evil. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
51:Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either." ~ Bodhidharma, #KEYS
52:Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
~ Bodhidharma,#KEYS
53:I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, 45:7,#KEYS
54:Let a man make haste towards good, let him turn away his thought from evil. ~ Dhammapada, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
55:Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one. ~ Miyamoto Musashi, #KEYS
56:You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise." ~ Michael Ende, #KEYS
57:An evil thought is the most dangerous of all thieves. ~ Buddhist Scriptures from the Chinese, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
58:Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry." ~ Saint Francis de Sales, #KEYS
59:In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one. ~ Saint Paul, (Eph. 6:16), #KEYS
60:Kali the Mother, is the killer of darkness, the punisher of evil-doers. She represents the necessary moral vigour and courage. ~ SISTER NIVEDITA, #KEYS
61:Repeat your mantra several thousand times a day. That will give you strength. If evil thoughts appear be indifferent to them. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
62:No matter how much evil be multiplied, it can never wholly destroy the good ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 3.12)., #KEYS
63:See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil. ~ Deuteronomy XIII. 15, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
64:Evil has no existence, except when we give it existence through our actions. ~ Diadochus of Photice, 'One Hundred Texts' (Philokalia vol. I p. 253), #KEYS
65:The imagination is like a knife which may be used for good or evil purposes.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
66:Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. ~ Psalms XXIII, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
67:The purpose of philosophy is to turn you inward. If you know your Self, no evil can come to you. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
68:How shouldst thou not profit by thy age of strength to issue from the evil terrain? ~ Kin-yuan-li-sao, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
69:There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us
~ Edgar Cayce,#KEYS
70:Aid each other in practising that which is good, but aid not each other in evil and injustice. ~ Koran, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
71:Apparent evil is often the shortest way to the good. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, The Strength of Stillness, #KEYS
72:So we ought to be accurate, brethren, about our salvation, in case the evil one sneaks in some error and slings us out from our life. ~ Letter of Barnabas, #KEYS
73:It is by gentleness that one must conquer wrath, it is by good that one must conquer evil. ~ Dhammapada, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
74:Return ye now every one from his evil way and make your ways and your doings good. ~ Jeremiah XVIII. II, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
75:As righteousness tendeth to life, so he that pursueth evil, pursueth it to his own death. ~ Proverbs XI.19, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
76:I account it a greater good to be reproved than to reprove, inasmuch as it is more excellent to free oneself from evil than to free another. ~ Saint Methodius, #KEYS
77:Labour to purify thy thoughts. If thou hast no evil thoughts, thou shalt commit no evil deeds. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
78:Moral evil is in reality a form of mental disease or ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Delight of Existence, The Problem, #KEYS
79:The outward form of one who has touched the feet of God remains unchanged, although they no longer do any evil. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
80:Good and evil cannot bind him who has realised the oneness of nature and self with the Eternal. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
81:Samsara is the tendency to find fault with others, an unbearable fire-bowl, a dungeon dark, a deep swamp of three poisons, a fearful wave of evil lives. ~ Naropa, #KEYS
82:Wherefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisy and envy and all evil speaking. ~ l Peter II. I, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
83:But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Genesis, 2:17, #KEYS
84:As for ourselves, let each one of us dig down after the root of evil which is within one and let one pluck it out of one's heart from the root.
~ Gospel of Thomas,#KEYS
85:His good and evil, sin and virtue, till
He bids thee leave. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Rishi,#KEYS
86:However evil-minded other people may appear to you, it is not proper to hate or depise them. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Words of Grace, #KEYS
87:Evil deforms and disguises good. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Integral Knowledge and the Aim of Life; Four Theories of Existence, #KEYS
88:Remember that it is not feeling of guilt that constitutes sin but the consent to sin. Only the free will is capable of good or evil. ~ Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, #KEYS
89:An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, #KEYS
90:Purify thyself and thou shalt see God. Transform thy body into a temple, cast from thee evil thoughts and contemplate God with the eye of thy conscious soul. ~ Vemana, #KEYS
91:It belongs to great pride that persons prefer their own opinion to divinely revealed truth ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (On evil 8.1ad7)., #KEYS
92:The 'work,' whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have created it. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good & Evil, #KEYS
93:By not doing evil to creatures and mastering one's senses...one arrives here below at the supreme goal. ~ Laws of Manu, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
94:Liberation means entire freedom—freedom from the bondage of good, as well as from the bondage of evil. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. I. 55), #KEYS
95:A mental control can only be a control, not a cure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #KEYS
96:God being Supreme Wisdom uses everything for His supreme purposes and out of evil cometh good. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin, Opinion and Comments, #KEYS
97:The most powerful way to resist evil is to sit with good friends who have turned their faces to God. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
98:There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~ Jorge Luis Borge, #KEYS
99:Keep thyself from all evil in thought, in word, in act. If thou transgress not these three frontiers of wisdom, thou shalt find the way pursued by the saints. ~ Magghima Nikaya, #KEYS
100:We shall be blessed with clear vision if we keep our eyes fixed on Christ, for he, as Paul teaches, is our head, and there is in him no shadow of evil. ~ Saint Gregory of Nyssa, #KEYS
101:When my Lord is not playing His flute, He dances. And all that He does He does so beautifully. But in subduing evil, my Lord is at His most beautiful.
~ सर्वदास,#KEYS
102:A shy horse does not go straight unless his eyes are covered by blinders. Thus prevent yourself from looking about to evil paths. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
103:That which is good and pure in you is God. That which is evil in you is your ego. The more you think of Him, the more He will increase and you will decrease. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
104:Evil forces can always attack in moments of unconsciousness or half-consciousness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Dealing with Hostile Attacks, #KEYS
105:It is knowledge that purifies, it is truth that liberates. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #KEYS
106:So long as one has not seen the divine vision, so long there must remain the illusion: "I am the doer. I have done evil and good." ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
107:Recite Quran until it prohibits you to do evil deeds. If it does not prohibit you, it will not be considered recitation. ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, #KEYS
108:Wrong will engenders wrong action of all these instruments. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #KEYS
109:Hell has not been created by any one, but when a man does evil, he lights the fires of hell and burns in his own fire. ~ Mahomed, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
110:All possibilities push towards actuality until they reach it. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #KEYS
111:And the Name, foundation of eternity, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #KEYS
112:Good and evil are relative terms. There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego. Trace the source of the ego. It ends in the Self. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
113:This is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He should allow evil to exist, and out of it produce good ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.2.3ad1). #KEYS
114:Whether it seem good or evil to men's eyes,
Only for good the secret Will can work.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
115:This is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He should allow evil to exist, and out of it produce good ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.2.3ad1)., #KEYS
116:When the clay of evil tendencies is washed away by the continued pouring of tears of Bhakti, immediately the Atman attracted the jiva. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
117:Desire is the profoundest root of all evil; it is from desire that there has arisen the world of life and sorrow. ~ Pali Canonymous, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
118:Fraternal correction is likewise an act of charity, since through it we repel our brother's evil, namely, sin ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.33.1)., #KEYS
119:If the mind makes a practice of rectitude in its thinking, there is no evil that can make entrance into it. ~ Fo-sho.hing-tsan-king, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
120:Some wish to avoid evil by oppressing those under them; the Lord says, "Blessed are the merciful" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Matthew 5)., #KEYS
121:Through the spirit we come to the root of action and existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #KEYS
122:An evil environment worsened evil souls: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #KEYS
123:An evil prelate should not be honored because of who he is, but because of the one whose position he holds ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Quodlibet 8.4.2)., #KEYS
124:Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 23:4,#KEYS
125:Resist not evil by doing evil in return, but make a show of resistance with a view to self-defense. This is the Dharma of a householder. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
126:Division ceased to be, for God was there. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #KEYS
127:In spite of death and evil circumstance
A will to live persists, a joy to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
128:Intuition is an edge of light thrust out by the secret supermind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #KEYS
129:Sin is being committed more and more, it is no longer acknowledged as an evil, it is sought out, it is consciously willed and it is no longer confessed." ~ Our Lady to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, #KEYS
130:Then, accomplished in knowledge, he shakes from him good and evil, and, stainless, reaches that supreme Equality. ~ Mundaka Upanishad, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
131:The wisdom and love of God in turning our evil into His good does not absolve us of our moral responsibility. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin, Facts and Opinions, #KEYS
132:There is a self-law of supreme Truth which is above all standards. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #KEYS
133:The true call upon us is the call of the Infinite and the Supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #KEYS
134:Even Good she makes a hook to drag to Hell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #KEYS
135:Look upon all women as your own mother. Never look at the face of a woman, but look towards her feet. All evil thoughts will then fly away. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
136:Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
137:Do no evil and evil shall not come upon thee; be far from the unjust and sin shall be far from thee. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ecclesiastes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
138:The evolutionary intention acts through the evil as through the good. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #KEYS
139:The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Everyone is divine and strong in their real nature. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
140:Even though thou shouldst be of all sinners the most sinful, yet by the raft of knowledge thou shalt cross utterly beyond all evil. ~ id. 36, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
141:Abandon all dharmas and take refuge in Me alone; I will deliver thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, (Gita 18:66), [T5}, #KEYS
142:He whose mind is utterly pure from all evil as the Sun is pure of stain and the moon of soil, him indeed I call a man of religion. ~ Udanavagga, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
143:My child, do not give way to evil desire, for it leads to fornication. And do not use obscene language, or let your eye wander, for from all these come adulteries. ~ Didache of the Twelve Apostles, #KEYS
144:None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #KEYS
145:No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed. ~ Sigmund Freud, #KEYS
146:A momentary Evil's almightiness
Has straddled the straight path of Nature's acts. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
147:To take pleasure in another's evil belongs to hatred, which is contrary to the charity whereby we are bound to love all men. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.108.1)., #KEYS
148:It is impossible to maintain friendship with an evil person without becoming somewhat like him in evil ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Nichomachean Ethics 9)., #KEYS
149:Clerics should abstain not only from things that are evil in themselves, but even from those that have an appearance of evil ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.77.4ad3)., #KEYS
150:Loving oneself for the sake of God as the object of supernatural happiness and the author of grace is an act of charity ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (On Evil, a. 4 ad 15)., #KEYS
151:The good acts we do today, our own progress will show to us tomorrow as an evil, because we shall have acquired a greater light. ~ Antoine the Healer, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
152:A great wicked joy Glad of one's own and others' calamity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #KEYS
153:Imaginary evil is romantic and varied, real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. ~ Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace 62-63, #KEYS
154:Unless therefore the Magician be first anointed with this Oil, all his work will be wasted and evil.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Book 4, Magick, Part II, The Holy Oil,#KEYS
155:When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
156:Oneness with others is not enough by itself, if it is a oneness with their ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #KEYS
157:Take no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. ~ Matthew VI. 34, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
158:Only one who has surmounted by wisdom that which the world calls good and evil and who lives in a clear light, can be truly called an ascetic ~ Dhammapada, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
159:A fatal seed was sown in life's false start
When evil twinned with good on earthly soil. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
160:That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil: in this the Vedanta and Heraclitus are my predecessors. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Quoted in Johannes Klein, Die Dichtung Nietzsches (Munich, 1936), p. 225, #KEYS
161:Whether on earth or in the abodes of the gods, all beings are upon three evil paths; they are in thepower of existence, desire and ignorance. ~ Latita Vistara, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
162:For the good that I would do, I do not; but the evil that I would not, that I do.. I find then a law that, when I would dogood, evil is present with me. ~ Pascal, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
163:To do no evil to any being, neither by action, nor by thought, nor by word; to will the good and to practise it: such is the eternal law of the good. ~ Madharata, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
164:What are the roots of evil? Desire, disliking, ignorance. And what then are the roots of good? Liberation from desire, disliking and ignorance. ~ Magghima Nikaya, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
165:Let no evil communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good that it may minister grace unto the hearers. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ephesians, IV. 29, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
166:There is nowhere in this world, nor in the air, nor in the midst of the ocean any place where we can disembarrass ourselves of the evil we have done. ~ Dhainmapada, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
167:Destruction in itself is neither good nor evil. It is a fact of Nature, a necessity in the play of forces as things are in this world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I, Morality and Yoga, #KEYS
168:Free me from evil passions and cleanse my heart of all disorderly affection so that, healed and purified within, I may be fit to love, strong to suffer, and firm to persevere. ~ Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, #KEYS
169:Purify thyself and thou shalt see God. Transform thy body into a temple, cast from thee evil thoughts and contemplate God with the eye of thy conscious soul. ~ Vemana, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
170:The phantom of a dark and evil start
Ghostlike pursues all that we dream and do. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
171:You must ask God to give you power to fight against the sin of pride which is your greatest enemy—the root of all that is evil, and the failure of all that is good. For God resists the proud." ~ Saint Vincent de Paul, #KEYS
172:At times because of one man's evil, ten thousand people suffer. So you kill that one man to let the tens of thousands live. Here, truly, the blade that deals death becomes the sword that saves lives. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo, #KEYS
173:Avoid the society of evil friends and men of vulgar minds; have pleasure in that of the giants of wisdom and take as thy friends those who practice justice. ~ Dhammapada, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
174:We have the choice; it depends on us to choose the good or the evil by our own will. The choice of evil draws us to our physical nature and subjects us to fate. ~ Horace, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
175:If I regard myself as a martyr, I must think too of myself as that martyr's executioner; for we suffer only by the imagination of evil which is in us. ~ Antoine the Healer, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
176:Once the Ananda, the divine delight in all things is attained, it sets right all the distortions, all the evil of the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, To Bhaga Savitri, the Enjoyer, #KEYS
177:If any during this life are changed out of fear of God and pass from an evil life to a good one, they pass from death to life and later they shall be transformed from a shameful state to a glorious one. ~ Fulgentius of Ruspe, #KEYS
178:The dry gnarled trees stood up like dying men
Stiffened into a pose of agony, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
179:Being collapsed into a pointless void
That yet was a zero parent of the worlds ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
180:Evil cannot possibly be intended by anyone for its own sake, but it can be intended for the sake of avoiding another evil, or obtaining another good ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.78.1ad2)., #KEYS
181:Let us be on our guard in case, if we relax on the grounds that we have been called, we may go to sleep over our sins and the evil ruler take power over us and drive us out from the king dom ofthe Lord. ~ Letter of Barnabas, #KEYS
182:All human perceptions, wherever they come from, include good and evil. It is necessary to know how to determine and assimilate all the good and offer it to God, and to eliminate all the evil. " ~ Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, #KEYS
183:A monstrous birth prepared its cosmic form
In Nature's titan embryo, Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
184:Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. ~ Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences, #KEYS
185:he man whose understanding is in union with the Spirit, casts from him both good doing and evil doing; get this union, it is the perfect skill in works. ~ Bhagavad Gita. II- 50, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
186:Keep thyself from all evil in thought, in word, in act. If thou transgress not these three frontiers of wisdom, thou shalt find the way pursued by the saints. ~ Magghima Nikaya, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
187:Met the hounds of bale who hunt men's hearts
Baying across the veldts of Destiny, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
188:There in the slumber of the cosmic Will
He saw the secret key of Nature's change. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
189:The sombre flowers of falsehood and suffering and evil have their root in the black soil of the Inconscient. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #KEYS
190:Watch with care over your heart and give not way to heedlessness; practise conscientiously every virtue and let not there be born in you any evil inclination. ~ Buddhist Maxims, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
191:We cannot affirm our being rightly without sacrifice or without self-giving to something larger than our ego. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #KEYS
192:I am the owner of my actions (kamma), inheritor of my actions, born of my actions, created by my actions, and have my own actions as my judge! Whatever I do, good or evil, I will feel the resulting effects of that … ~ The Buddha, #KEYS
193:When Christ came, he banished the devil from our hearts, in order to build in them a temple for himself. Let us therefore do what we can with his help, so that our evil deeds will not deface that temple. ~ Saint Caesarius of Arles, #KEYS
194:The boundless Nescience of the unconscious depths
Covered eternity with nothingness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
195:In destruction felt creation's hasty pace,
Knew loss as the price of a celestial gain ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
196:Of rapturous Love,
The bright epiphany whom we name God,
Towards whom we drove
In spite of weakness, evil, grief and pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Rishi,#KEYS
197:Go and preach the necessity of penance and conversion, of return to the Lord along the way of prayer and repentance, of renunciation of Satan and all his wiles, of evil and the tyranny of the passions." ~ Our Lady to Fr. Stefano Gobbi, #KEYS
198:Knew death for a cellar of the house of life,
In destruction felt creation's hasty pace. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
199:Through the sacrament of baptism you have become a temple of the Holy Spirit. Do not drive away so great a guest by evil conduct and become again a slave to the devil, for your liberty was bought by the blood of Christ. ~ Leo the Great, #KEYS
200:We must be prepared to leave behind on the path not only that which we stigmatise as evil, but that which seems to us to be good, yet is not the one good. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Renunciation, #KEYS
201:Disapproval of that which threatens and hurts us, approval of that which flatters and satisfies refine into the conception of good and evil. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Delight of Existence, The Problem, #KEYS
202:You alone can undo the evil you have created. Your own callous selfishness is at the root of it. Put first your own house in order and you will see that your work is done. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
203:Ignorant like men born blind who know not light,
They could equate worst ill with highest good, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
204:I strive not against the world, but it is the world which strives against me.-It is better to perish in the battle against evil than to be conquered by it and remain living. ~ Buddhist Texts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
205:You shall no more carry in yourselves the root of evil; disease and infirmity no more shall make war against you and corruption shall flee from you for ever into oblivion. ~ Esdras IV. 8. 33, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
206:His knowledge he disguised as Ignorance,
His Good he sowed in Evil's monstrous bed,
Made error a door by which Truth could enter in. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
207:One who has not ceased from evil living or is without peace or without concentration or whose mind has not been tranquillised, cannot attain to Him by the intelligence. ~ Katha Upanishad II.24, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
208:He whose thought spills not itself to this side or' that, whose mind is not tormented, who is not anxious any more about good than about evil, for him there is no fear, for he watches. ~ Dhammapada, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
209:The individual ego is a pragmatic and effective fiction, a translation of the secret self into the terms of surface consciousness ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #KEYS
210:None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.
This too the traveller of the worlds must dare.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
211:Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #KEYS
212:What is the root of evil? Greed, disliking and delusion are the roots of evil. And what then are the roots of good? To be free from greed and disliking and delusion is the root of good. ~ Sangiti Sutta, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
213:Exactly the same technology can be used for good and for evil. It is as if there were a God who said to us, I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you. ~ Carl Sagan, #KEYS
214:Altruism taken as a rule of life does not deliver us; it is a potent instrument for self-enlargement and for correction of the narrower ego. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #KEYS
215:If someone fails to be angry at the things he should, he does not grieve for them and so does not feel they are evil. This pertains to a lack of wisdom ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Nicomachean Ethics 4, lecture 13)., #KEYS
216:A light was with him, an invisible hand
Was laid upon the error and the pain
Till it became a quivering ecstasy,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
217:The latter times will be more evil and corrupt in the eyes of God. Children of God will be persecuted by the most hateful means in the eyes of God. Almost immediately after the death of the Monarch comes Antichrist…" ~ Saint Hildegard of Bingen, (1098- 1179 AD), #KEYS
218:To refrain from all evil, to speak always the truth, to abstain from all theft, to be pure and control the senses, that in sum constitutes the duty which theManu has prescribed for the four classes. ~ Laws of Manu, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
219:The fact that children and brute animals seek pleasures does not prove that all pleasures are evil, for there is in them from God a natural appetite moved by that which is congenial to them ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.34.1ad2)., #KEYS
220:A fateful prison wall
Where men condemned wake through the creeping hours
Counted by the tollings of an ominous bell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
221:It was a world of sorrow and of hate,
Sorrow with hatred for its lonely joy,
Hatred with others' sorrow as its feast; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
222:God did not make evil, nor is He at all in any way the author of evil; but whatever failed to keep the law, which He in all justice ordained, after being made by Him with the faculty of free-will, for the purpose of guarding and keeping it, is called evil. ~ Methodius, #KEYS
223:A Nature that denied the eternal Truth
In the vain braggart freedom of its thought
Hoped to abolish God and reign alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
224:Evil is the fruit of a spiritual ignorance and it will disappear only by the growth of a spiritual consciousness and the light of spiritual knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #KEYS
225:Holy sorrow comes from contemplating one's own sins and the sins of others. It does not weep at the actions of divine justice but at the sins committed by human wickedness. It is the one who does evil who is to be pitied here, not the one who suffers it. ~ Leo the Great, #KEYS
226:The absolute is not in itself a thing of magnitude; it is beyond measure, not in the sole sense of vastness, but in the freedom of its essential being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #KEYS
227:The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
228:With the littlest ones, I am attaining each day my victory over Satan and his powerful army of evil, over the satanic and masonic forces organized against God, because I am leading my children along the road of heroic faith, of sure hope and of perfect love." ~ Our Lady , #KEYS
229:God did not make evil, nor is He at all in any way the author of evil; but whatever failed to keep the law, which He in all justice ordained, after being made by Him with the faculty of free-will, for the purpose of guarding and keeping it, is called evil. ~ Saint Methodius, #KEYS
230:Opponents of the Highest they have come
Out of their world of soulless thought and power
To serve by enmity the cosmic scheme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
231:To be ourselves liberated from ego and realise our true selves is the first necessity; all else can be achieved as a luminous result, a necessary consequence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #KEYS
232:I devote my very rare free moments to... the metaphysical sense and mystery of the person. The evil of our times consists in the first place in a kind of degradation, indeed in a pulverization, of the fundamental uniqueness of each human person. ~ Karol Wojtyla to Henri de Lubac, #KEYS
233:I sit enthroned,
Allah's Vicegerent, to put down all evil
And pluck the virtuous out of danger's hand.
Fit work for Kings! not merely the high crown
And marching armies and superber ease. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories, Act V,#KEYS
234:What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
235:Something they forge there sitting unknown in the silence eternal,
Whether of evil or good it is they who shall choose who are masters
Calm, unopposed; they are gods and they work out their iron caprices. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, Ilion,#KEYS
236:Your will & your values you set upon the river of becoming. Now the river carries your skiff along. The river is not your danger & the end of your good & evil, you wisest ones; but this will itself, the will to power - the unexhausted begetting will of life. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #KEYS
237:He was asked "What is evil and what is the worst evil?" The Master replied, "Evil is 'thou': and the worst evil is ' thou', when thou knowest it not." ~ Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr, (967 - 1049), Famous Persian Sufi and poet who contributed extensively to the Sufi tradition, Wikipedia., #KEYS
238:If you do not train a child's will, in order not only to please you-its parents-but to bend before the holy will of Him, who is the only just rewarder of good and evil, then you are a failure as a Christian. Where there is no discipline, there is no constancy. ~ Sebastian Dabovich, #KEYS
239:Our lighted candles are a sign of the divine splendor of one who expels the dark shadows of evil and makes the whole universe radiant with the brilliance of His eternal light. Our candles also show how bright our souls should be when we go to meet Christ. ~ Sophronius of Jerusalem, #KEYS
240:The surest defense against evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even eccentricity. Evil is a sucker for solidarity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balance sheets. ~ Joseph Brodsky, #KEYS
241:Inner Change (Effect)
This is the tragedy of the inner death
When forfeited is the divine element
And only a mind and body live to die. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
242:One on another we prey and one by another are mighty.
This is the world and we have not made it; if it is evil,
Blame first the gods; but for us, we must live by its laws or we perish. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ilion,#KEYS
243:Repression of passions is bad. Unless the mind is directed toward a high ideal, they will find expression through other channels. Place your mind in God, then all evil will fall away by itself. That is what is meant by self-control; it arises from devotion to the Lord ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
244:Stick to God ! Who cares what comes to the body or to anything else. Through the terrors of evil, say -- my God, my love ! Through the pangs of death, say -- my God, my love ! Through all the evils under the sun, say -- my God, my love. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
245:We utter the name of the Lord superficially, too superficially. We say, 'I am Thy servant; Thou art my Master; Thou art my Lord; I have renounced all for Thee; I call Thee, Lord, come unto me.' But we harbor withal all sorts of evil thoughts in the mind. This won't do ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
246:There meet and clasp the eternal opposites,
There pain becomes a violent fiery joy;
Evil turns back to its original good,
And sorrow lies upon the breasts of Bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
247:Whether for Heaven or Hell they must wage war:
Warriors of Good, they serve a shining cause
Or are Evil's soldiers in the pay of Sin. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
248:This evil Nature housed in human hearts,
A foreign inhabitant, a dangerous guest:
The soul that harbours it it can dislodge,
Expel the householder, possess the house. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
249:In every way evil company should be abandoned, because it gives occasion to passion, wrath, folly, dissipation, loss of decision, loss of energy. These propensities are at first a bubbling froth, but they become as if oceans. ~ Narada Sutra, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
250:Beware, O traveller on the path to truth, that the blind do not lead the blind. Your sight should be so keen that you are able to distinguish the smallest particle of good from the smallest particle of evil. ~ Shaykh Abd Al Qadir Al Jilani, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
251:That virtue of the soul, which is called Patience, is so great a gift of God, that even in Him who bestows the same upon us, whereby He waits for evil men that they may amend, is set forth by the name of Patience ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, On Patience 1)., #KEYS
252:Meditation is not an easy thing. Eat a bit more & your mind will not settle that day. When lust, anger, greed & the whole host of evil passions are kept under control, then alone does meditation become possible. If any one of these asserts itself, meditation will be impossible.~ Swami Brahmananda, #KEYS
253:Scared for their pathetic little lives, they would agree to be injected with literally anything. ~ For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a evil net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ecclesiastes, 9:12, #KEYS
254:To man's righteousness this is his cosmic crime,
Almighty beyond good and evil to dwell
Leaving the good to their fate in a wicked world
And evil to reign in this enormous scene. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
255:The Truth-light in the cavern heart
That burns unwitnessed in the altar crypt
Behind the still velamen's secrecy
Companioning the Godhead of the shrine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
256:Be firm, steady, & steadfast. People will mock at you; be silent. People will insult you; be silent. People will spread evil rumours about you; be silent. Stick to the spiritual path. Do not swerve. Seek the truth wherever it may lead you to, & whatever be the cost and sacrifice ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
257:Do not test ur spiritual strength & purity when u are a beginner on the spiritual path. Do not rush into evil associations when u are a spiritual neophyte to show that u have the courage to face sin & impurity. It will be a serious mistake. You will be running into a grave danger~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
258:The kings of evil and the kings of good,
Appellants at the reason's judgment seat,
Proclaimed the gospel of their opposites,
And all believed themselves spokesmen of God: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
259:This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
260:Thus was the dire antagonist Energy born
Who mimes the eternal Mother's mighty shape
And mocks her luminous infinity
With a grey distorted silhouette in the Night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
261:To love, one must have no reservation, but be prepared to cast oneself into the flame and to give up into it a hundred worlds...In this path there is no difference between good and evil ; indeed with love neither good nor evil exists any longer. ~ Attar of Nishapur, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
262:Hate was the black archangel of that realm;
It glowed, a sombre jewel in the heart
Burning the soul with its malignant rays,
And wallowed in its fell abysm of might. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
263:Nude, unashamed, exulting she upraised.
Her evil face of perilous beauty and charm.
And, drawing panic to a shuddering kiss.
Twixt the magnificence of her fatal breasts.
Allured to their abyss the spirit's f ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
264:280. If thy heart is troubled within thee, if for long seasons thou makest no progress, if thy strength faint and repine, remember always the eternal word of our Lover and Master, 'I will free thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve.'
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Karma, [T1],#KEYS
265:Stifled in the Inconscient's hollow dusk,
He sounded the mystery dark and bottomless
Of the enormous and unmeaning deeps
Whence struggling life in a dead universe rose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
266:There Good, a faithless gardener of God,
Watered with virtue the world's upas-tree
And, careful of the outward word and act,
Engrafted his hypocrite blooms on native ill. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
267:Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule. ~ Jetsun Milarepa, #KEYS
268:All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages;
Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure;
Goal seems there none for the ball that is chased throughout Time by the Fate-teams;
Evil once ended renews and no issue co ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, Ilion,#KEYS
269:We cannot prevent birds from flying over our heads but we can prevent them from making their nests there. So we cannot prevent evil thoughts from traversing the mind, but we have the power not to let them make their nest in it so as to hatch and engender evil actions. ~ Luther, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
270:I know nothing which engenders evil and weakens good so much as carelessness; in the uncaring evil appears at once and effaces good. I know nothing which engenders good and weakens evil so much as energy; in the energetic good at once appears and evil vanishes. ~ Buddhist Texts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
271:In vague tremendous passages of Doom
He heard the goblin Voice that guides to slay,
And faced the enchantments of the demon Sign,
And traversed the ambush of the opponent Snake. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
272:Whatever tends to lighten one's burden must be examined carefully. For although such alleviation is sometimes justified and reasonable, it is most often a deceitful prescription of the evil inclination, and must, therefore, be subjected to much analysis and investigation. ~ Rabbi Moses Luzzatto, Path of the Just, Mesillat Yesharim, #KEYS
273:A dire administration's penal code
Making of grief and pain the common law,
Decreeing universal joylessness
Had changed life into a stoic sacrament
And torture into a daily festival. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
274:What are the four mighty combats? The battle to keep from waking the evil which yet is not; thebattle to repel the evil that is already in existence; the battle to awaken the good which yet is not; the battle to preserve and develop the good that is al-' ready in existence. ~ Sankhya Karika, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
275: know not anything, O my brothers, which so much gives birth to good, leads to the supreme happiness and destroys evil as vigilance, energy, moderation, contentment, wise reflection, a clear conscience, the friendship of the just, seeking after good and aversion from evil. ~ Anguttara Nikaya, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
276:The great teachers say that forgetfulness is the root of all evil, and is death for those who seek release;10 so one should rest the mind in one's Self and should never forget the Self: this is the aim. If the mind is controlled, all else can be controlled. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Self-Enquiry, 34, [T5], #KEYS
277:Human souls which have not the intelligence for their guide, are even as animals without reason. Intelligence abandons them to the passions which draw them by the lure of desire; their wraths and their appetites are equally blind and push them towards evil without ever finding satiety. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
278:Ignorance of oneself is then an evil in all respects, whether ignoring the greatness and dignity of the inner man one lowers one's divine principle or ignoring the natural baseness of the external man one commits the fault of glorifying oneself. ~ Porphyry, "Treatise on the Precept, Know Thyself", the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
279:Always we must repeat to the doubting intellect the promise of the Master, 'I will deliver thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve.' At the end, the flickerings of faith will cease; for we shall see his face and feel always the Divine Presence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Master of the Work, 245, [T3],#KEYS
280:hen a man is delivered from all the dispositions of his heart which turn towards evil and not towards good and which can be extinguished, let him uproot them like the stock of a palm-tree, so that they shall be destroyed and have no power to sprout again. That I call a true repentance. ~ Mahavagga, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
281:God is our wise and perfect friend, because he knows when to smite and when to fondle; when to slay us no less then when to save and to succour... There must be faith in the love and wisdom of God,... working out all for our good even when it is apparently veiled in evil. ~ Sri Aurobindo, 1984 Ashram Diary, July 3 and Augst 22, #KEYS
282:Man who has towered
Out of the plasm and struggled by thought to Divinity's level,
Man, this miniature second creator of good and of evil,
He too was only a compost of Matter made living, organic,
Forged as her thinking tool by an Energy blind and ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ahana,#KEYS
283:Evil is worked, not justice, when into the mould of our thinkings
God we would force and enchain to the throb of our hearts the immortals,—
Justice and Virtue, her sister,—for where is justice mid creatures
Perfectly? Even the gods are betrayed by o ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ilion,#KEYS
284:It was a no man's land of evil air,
A crowded neighbourhood without one home,
A borderland between the world and hell.
There unreality was Nature's lord:
It was a space where nothing could be true,
For nothing was what it had claimed to be:
A h ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night#KEYS
285:Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ephesians, 6:11-12,#KEYS
286:Is stronger than Reason, profounder than the Pit,
And the malignancy of hostile Powers
Puts craftily back the clock of destiny
And mightier seems than the eternal Will.
The cosmic evil is too deep to un ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
287:Offspring of the gulfs, agents of the shadowy Force,
Haters of light, intolerant of peace,
Aping to the thought the shining Friend and Guide,
Opposing in the heart the eternal Will,
They veil the occult uplifting Harmonist. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
288:Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; may God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl through the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen. ~ Pope Leo XIII, Leonine Prayers, Prayer to Saint Michael, #KEYS
289:Alarmed for her rule and full of fear and rage
She prowls around each light that gleams through the dark
Casting its ray from the spirit's lonely tent,
Hoping to enter with fierce stealthy tread
And in the cradle slay the divine Child. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
290:He should sanctify his soul, for it is there that there sits the eternal Beloved; he should deliver his mind from all that is the water and mire of things without reality, vain shadows, so as to keep in himself no trace of love or hatred; for love may lead into the evil way and hatred prevents us from following the good path. ~ Bahu-ullah, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
291:We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out,-and having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil. ~ Timothy VI.7, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
292:Always the dark Adventurers seem to win;
Nature they fill with evil's institutes,
Turn into defeats the victories of Truth,
Proclaim as falsehoods the eternal laws,
And load the dice of Doom with wizard lies;
The world's shrines they have occupied, usurpe ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
293:And I have found still four other kinds of men in the world and what are they? Men who do only the actions that are good; men who do only the actions that are evil; men who do actions that are in part good and in part evil; and men who do actions neither good nor evil, they who consecrate themselves to a work that leads to cessation of works. ~ Anguttara Nikaya, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
294:for God all things are good and right and just, but for man some things are right and others are not. When you are a man, you are in the field of time and decisions. One of the problems of life is to live with the realization of both terms, to say, "I know the center, and I know that good and evil are simply temporal aberrations and that, in God's view, there is no difference." ~ Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, #KEYS
295:Sometimes it's a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say, 'Now I have reached the bottom of the pit, now I can fall no further,' and it is almost a pleasure to wallow in the darkness. The trouble is, it's not true. There is no end to the evil in ourselves, just as there is no end to the good. It's a matter of choice. We struggle to climb, or we struggle to fall. The thing is to discover which way we're going. ~ Daphne du Maurier, #KEYS
296:If there come into your assembly a man with a gold ring in goodly apparel and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment, and ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing and say unto him, "Sit thou here in a good place," and say to the poor man, "Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool," are ye not then partial in yourselves and become judges of evil thoughts ? ~ James II. 1-4, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
297:I looked whence the voice came, and was then ware of a shining shape, with bright wings, who diffused much light. As I looked the shape dilated more and more; he waved his hands; the roof of my study opened; he ascended into heaven; he stood in the sun, and, beckoning to me, moved the universe. An angel of evil could not have done that - it was the archangel Gabriel! ~ John Bunyan, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 31, 1875 [William Blake], #KEYS
298:That man who is without darkness, exempt from evil, absolutely pure, although-of all things which are in the world of the ten regions since unbeginning time till today, he knows none, has seen none, has heard of none, has not in a word any knowledge of them however small, yet has he the high knowledge of omniscience. It is in speaking of him that one can use the word enlightenment. ~ Sutra in 40 articles, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
299:Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible. ~ C S Lewis, #KEYS
300:fundamentally, all pain and suffering are the result of an insufficient consciousness-force in the surface being which makes it unable to deal rightly with self and Nature or unable to assimilate and to harmonise itself with the contacts of the universal Energy; they would not exist if in us there were an integral presence of the luminous Consciousness and the divine Force of an integral Being.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Origin of Falsehood and Evil [623],#KEYS
301:A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 23:1-6, #KEYS
302:Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, 'What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.' Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope. ~ Vincent van Gogh, #KEYS
303:377. God made the infinite world by Self-knowledge which in its works is Will-Force self-fulfilling. He used ignorance to limit His infinity; but fear, weariness, depression, self-distrust and assent to weakness are the instruments by which He destroys what He created. When these things are turned on what is evil or harmful & ill-regulated within thee, then it is well; but if they attack thy very sources of life & strength, then seize & expel them or thou diest.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human,#KEYS
304:It sullies with its mire heaven's messengers:
Its thorns of fallen nature are the defence
It turns against the saviour hands of Grace;
It meets the sons of God with death and pain.
A glory of lightnings traversing the earth-scene,
Their sun-thoughts fading, darkened by ignorant minds,
Their work betrayed, their good to evil turned,
The cross their payment for the crown they gave,
Only they leave behind a splendid Name.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, A Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
305:We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien #KEYS
306:What is the sign of a man settled in the fixity of his soul and his understanding? When he casts from him all desires that come to the mind, satisfied in himself and with himself, when his mind is undisturbed in pain and without desire in pleasure, when liking and fear and wrath have passed away from him, then a man is fixed in his understanding. He who is unaffected in all things by good or by evil happening, neither rejoices in them nor hates, in him wisdom is established. ~ Bhagavad Gita, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
307:If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps. ~ Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno, [T6], #KEYS
308:Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruit. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Matthew, 7:15-20 (KJV): #KEYS
309:How many nights have you remained awake repeating science and poring over books, and have denied yourself sleep. I do not know what the purpose of it was. If it was attaining worldly ends and securing its vanities, and acquiring its dignities, and surpassing your contemporaries, and such like, woe to you and again woe; but if your purpose in it was the vitalizing of the Law of the Prophet, and the training of your character, and breaking the soul commanding to evil, then blessed are you and again blessed. ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, #KEYS
310:States of consciousness there are in which Death is only a change in immortal Life, pain a violent backwash of the waters of universal delight, limitation a turning of the Infinite upon itself, evil a circling of the good around its own perfection; and this not in abstract conception only, but in actual vision and in constant and substantial experience. To arrive at such states of consciousness may, for the individual, be one of the most important and indispensable steps of his progress towards self-perfection.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,#KEYS
311:I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor - even President, it seemed. And for the first time in the history of mankind, something new, called an astronaut. But like so many kids brought up on a steady diet of Westerns, I always wanted to be the avenging cowboy hero - that lone voice in the wilderness, fighting corruption and evil wherever I found it, and standing for freedom, truth and justice. And in my heart of hearts I still track the remnants of that dream wherever I go, in my endless ride into the setting sun. ~ Bill Hicks, #KEYS
312:When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician ~ make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor ~ make good art. IRS on your trail ~ make good art. Cat exploded ~ make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before ~ make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and that doesn't even matter. Do what only you can do best: Make good art. Make it on the bad days, make it on the good days, too., #KEYS
313:Who truly travels beyond the Illusion? He who renounces evil associations, who keeps company with lofty spirits; who has no longer the sense of possession; who frequents solitary places; who wrests himself out of slavery to the world, passes beyond the three qualities and abandons all anxiety about his existence; renounces the fruits of works, renounces his works and becomes free from the opposites; who renounces even the Vedas and aids others to travel beyond; he truly travels beyond and helps others to make the voyage. ~ Narada Sutra, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
314:System Shock states the percentage chance a character has to survive magical effects that reshape or age his body: petrification (and reversing petrification), polymorph, magical aging, etc. It can also be used to see if the character retains consciousness in particularly difficult situations. For example, an evil wizard polymorphs his dim-witted hireling into a crow. The hireling, whose Constitution score is 13, has an 85% chance to survive the change. Assuming he survives, he must successfully roll for system shock again when he is changed back to his original form or else he will die. ~ AD&D, #KEYS
315:Who really crosses over the Illusion? One who has renounced evil company, associates with men of noble mind, has put away the idea of property, frequents solitary places, tears himself away from the servitude of the world, transcends the qualities of Nature and abandons all anxiety for his existence, renounces the fruit of his works, renounces works, is freed from the dualities, renounces even the Vedas, and helps others to the passage, such is the one who crosses over the Illusion; he indeed traverses it and he helps others to pass. ~ Anguttara Nikaya, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
316:Evil will never cease to exist until selfishness and greed are overcome as factors in dictating the attitudes of men. It is the common thing for the concrete mind to sacrifice the eternal to the temporal. Man, concentrating upon the limited area of the known, loses sight of the effect of his actions upon the limitless area of the unknown. Shortsightedness, consequently, is the cause of endless misery. Moral shortsightedness results in vice, philosophical shortsightedness in materialism, religious shortsightedness in bigotry, rational short-sightedness in fanaticism. ~ Manly P Hall, Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics, #KEYS
317:It is the devil's greatest triumph when he can deprive us of the joy of the Spirit. He carries fine dust with him in little boxes and scatters it through the cracks in our conscience in order to dim the soul's pure impulses and its luster. But the joy that fills the heart of the spiritual person destroys the deadly poison of the serpent. But if any are gloomy and think that they are abandoned in their sorrow, gloominess will continuously tear at them or else they will waste away in empty diversions. When gloominess takes root, evil grows. If it is not dissolved by tears, permanent damage is done. ~ Saint Francis of Assisi, #KEYS
318:The simple fact is that we live in a world of conflict and opposites because we live in a world of boundaries. Since every boundary line is also a battle line, here is the human predicament: the firmer one's boundaries, the more entrenched are one's battles. The more I hold onto pleasure, the more I necessarily fear pain. The more I pursue goodness, the more I am obsessed with evil. The more I seek success, the more I must dread failure. The harder I cling to life, the more terrifying death becomes. The more I value anything, the more obsessed I become with its loss. Most of our problems, in other words, are problems of boundaries ~ ?, #KEYS
319:Four kinds of men have I found in the world, and what are the four? Men who are their own torturers, but cause no suffering to others; men who prepare suffering for others, but not for themselves; men who do evil both to themselves and to others men who are the cause of pain neither to others nor to themselves. And I have found still four other kinds of men in the world, and what are the four? Men who think only of themselves and not of others men who think of others and not of themselves; men who think of others as much as of themselves; men who think neither of themselves nor of others. ~ Anguttara Nikaya, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
320:The Magician should devise for himself a definite technique for destroying 'evil.' The essence of such a practice will consist in training the mind and the body to confront things which cause fear, pain, disgust, shame and the like. He must learn to endure them, then to become indifferent to them, then to analyze them until they give pleasure and instruction, and finally to appreciate them for their own sake, as aspects of Truth. When this has been done, he should abandon them, if they are really harmful in relation to health and comfort.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Book 4, Magick, APPENDIX VI: A FEW PRINCIPAL RITUALS, [311-312],#KEYS
321:By what is man impelled to act sin, though not willing it, as if brought to it by force? It is desire it is wrath born of the principle of passion, a mighty and devouring and evil thing; know this for the enemy. Eternal enemy of the sage, in the form of desire it obscures his knowledge and is an insatiable fire. The senses are supreme in the body, above the senses is the mind, higher than the mind is the understanding and higher than the understanding the spiritual Self. Know then that which is higher than the understanding, by the self control thyself and slay this difficult enemy, desire. ~ Bhagavad Gita III. 36. 37. 39. 42. 43, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
322: But we now come to speak of the holy and sacred Pentacles and Sigils. Now these pentacles, are as it were certain holy signes preserving us from evil chances and events, and helping and assisting us to binde, exterminate, and drive away evil spirits, and alluring the good spirits, and reconciling them unto us. And these pentacles do consist either of Characters of the good spirits of the superiour order, or of sacred pictures of holy letters or revelations, with apt and fit versicles, which are composed either of Geometrical figures and holy names of God, according to the course and maner of many of them; or they are compounded of all of them, or very many of them mixt. ~ Agrippa, A Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, #KEYS
323:People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain. ~ Jim Morrison, #KEYS
324:Trump himself is a nothing, an empty vessel for cosmic forces to work through. Even on The Apprentice (which I used to enjoy) I remember he gave the guy who won a tour of his apartment, it was the tackiest thing you'd ever seen. Cluttered with gold furnishings so there was no space anywhere. The guy, who obviously worshipped Trump, asked who inspired him. So there he was, looking up to wait to hear some pearl of wisdom. And the Orange Clown just made some meaningless narcissistic comment about himself. It actually felt embarrassing (but not to Trump who simply isn't conscious of such things). It proves that even before his dementia he always was empty and vacuous. His ghost writer said Trump was the most evil human being he'd ever met. ~ M Alan Kazlev, FB, #KEYS
325:Jordan Peterson's Book List
1. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
2. 1984 - George Orwell
3. Road To Wigan Pier - George Orwell
4. Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. Beyond Good And Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
7. Ordinary Men - Christopher Browning
8. The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
9. The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang
10. Gulag Archipelago (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, & Vol. 3) - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
11. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
12. Modern Man in Search of A Soul - Carl Jung
13. Maps Of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief - Jordan B. Peterson
14. A History of Religious Ideas (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3) - Mircea Eliade
15. Affective Neuroscience - Jaak Panksepp ~ Jordan Peterson,#KEYS
326:And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 Pray then like this:
"Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Matthew, 6:7-14,#KEYS
327:But in what circumstances does our reason teach us that there is vice or virtue? How does this continual mystery work? Tell me, inhabitants of the Malay Archipelago, Africans, Canadians and you, Plato, Cicero, Epictetus! You all feel equally that it is better to give away the superfluity of your bread, your rice or your manioc to the indigent than to kill him or tear out his eyes. It is evident to all on earth that an act of benevolence is better than an outrage, that gentleness is preferable to wrath. We have merely to use our Reason in order to discern the shades which distinguish right and wrong. Good and evil are often close neighbours and our passions confuse them. Who will enlighten us? We ourselves when we are calm. ~ Voltaire, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
328:It is true that the root of all this evil is the ego-sense and that the seat of the conscious ego-sense is the mind itself; but in reality the conscious mind only reflects an ego already created in the subconscious mind in things, the dumb soul in the stone and the plant which is present in all body and life and only finally delivered into voicefulness and wakefulness but not originally created by the conscious mind. And in this upward procession it is the life-energy which has become the obstinate knot of the ego, it is the desire-mind which refuses to relax the knot even when the intellect and the heart have discovered the cause of their ills and would be glad enough to remove it; for the Prana in them is the Animal who revolts and who obscures and deceives their knowledge and coerces their will by his refusal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Release from the Heart and the Mind, #KEYS
329:And He will judge and will forgive all, the good and the evil, the wise and the meek . . . And when He has done with all of them, then He will summon us. 'You too come forth,' He will say, 'Come forth ye drunkards, come forth, ye weak ones, come forth, ye children of shame!' And we shall all come forth, without shame and shall stand before him. And He will say unto us, 'Ye are swine, made in the Image of the Beast and with his mark; but come ye also!' And the wise ones and those of understanding will say, 'Oh Lord, why dost Thou receive these men?' And He will say, 'This is why I receive them, oh ye wise, this is why I receive them, oh ye of understanding, that not one of them believed himself to be worthy of this.' And He will hold out His hands to us and we shall fall down before him . . . and we shall weep . . . and we shall understand all things! Then we shall understand everything! . . . and all will understand ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #KEYS
330:Though I speak with the tongues of men and of an- gels and have not charity, I am as a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not ; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up doth not behave itself unseemly seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinlceth no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth...And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity. Follow after charity. ~ I. Corinthians. 1. 8. 13-XIV. 8, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
331:There is nothing unintelligible in what I say about strength and Grace. Strength has a value for spiritual realisation, but to say that it can be done by strength only and by no other means is a violent exaggeration. Grace is not an invention, it is a face of spiritual experience. Many who would be considered as mere nothings by the wise and strong have attained by Grace; illiterate, without mental power or training, without "strength" of character or will, they have yet aspired and suddenly or rapidly grown into spiritual realisation, because they had faith or because they were sincere. ...
Strength, if it is spiritual, is a power for spiritual realisation; a greater power is sincerity; the greatest power of all is Grace. I have said times without number that if a man is sincere, he will go through in spite of long delay and overwhelming difficulties. I have repeatedly spoken of the Divine Grace. I have referred any number of times to the line of the Gita:
"I will deliver thee from all sin and evil, do not grieve." ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
332:Oi, Pampaw," Diogo said as the door to the public hall slid open. "You hear that Eros started talking?"
Miller lifted himself to one elbow.
"Sí," Diogo said. "Whatever that shit is, it started broadcasting. There's even words and shit. I've got a feed. You want a listen?"
No, Miller thought. No, I have seen those corridors. What's happened to those people almost happened to me. I don't want anything to do with that abomination.
"Sure," he said.
Diogo scooped up his own hand terminal and keyed in something. Miller's terminal chimed that it had received the new feed route. "Chica perdída in ops been mixing a bunch of it to bhangra," Diogo said, making a shifting dance move with his hips. "Hard-core, eh?"
Diogo and the other OPA irregulars had breached a high-value research station, faced down one of the most powerful and evil corporations in a history of power and evil. And now they were making music from the screams of the dying. Of the dead. They were dancing to it in the low-rent clubs. What it must be like, Miller thought, to be young and soulless. ~ James S A Corey, Leviathan Wakes,#KEYS
333:The lessening of evil breeds abstinence from evil; and
abstinence from evil is the beginning of repentance; and
the beginning of repentance is the beginning of salvation; and
the beginning of salvation is a good resolve; and
a good resolve is the mother of labors. And
the beginning of labors is the virtues; and
the beginning of the virtues is a flowering, and
the flowering of virtue is the beginning of activity. And
the offspring of virtue is perseverance; and
the fruit and offspring of persevering practice is habit, and
the child of habit is character. And
good character is the mother of fear; and
fear gives birth to the keeping of commandments in which I include both Heavenly and earthly. And
the keeping of the commandments is a sign of love; and
the beginning of love is an abundance of humility; and
an abundance of humility is the daughter of dispassion; and
the acquisition of the latter is the fullness of love, that is to say, the perfect indwelling of God in those who through dispassion are pure in heart, for they shall see God.
And to Him the glory for all eternity. Amen" ~ Saint John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent,#KEYS
334:And now what methods may be employed to safeguard the worker in the field of the world? What can be done to ensure his safety in the present strife, and in the greater strife of the coming centuries? 1. A realisation that purity of all the vehicles is the prime essential. If a Dark Brother gains control over any man, it but shows that that man has in his life some weak spot.... 2. The elimination of all fear. The forces of evolution vibrate more rapidly than those of involution, and in this fact lies a recognisable security. Fear causes weakness; weakness causes a disintegration; the weak spot breaks and a gap appears, and through that gap evil force may enter.... 3. A standing firm and unmoved, no matter what occurs. Your feet may be bathed in the mud of earth, but your head may be bathed in the sunshine of the higher regions... 4. A recognition of the use of common-sense, and the application of this common-sense to the matter in hand. Sleep much, and in sleeping, learn to render the body positive; keep busy on the emotional plane, and achieve the inner calm. Do naught to overtire the body physical, and play whenever possible. In hours of relaxation comes the adjustment that obviates later tension. ~ Alice A. Bailey, Letters on Occult Meditation p. 137/8, (1922) #KEYS
335:So what is Rifts? It is a post-apocalyptic roleplaying game set hundreds of years into the future which combines big robots, magic, psionics, and bruising combat on an incredible scale. It is a roleplaying game in which Glitter Boys piloting big mecha suits, chemically enhanced Juicers, psionic Cyber-Knights, ley-commanding Ley Walkers, Techno-Wizards, Dragons, psionic Mind Melters, and more combat the 'Dead Boy' soldiers in their deaths head armour, Spider-Skull Walkers, and Sky Cycles of the evil Coalition States as well as supernatural monsters, D-Bees (Dimensional beings), and the instectoid Xiticix from other dimensions. It is a future in which a golden age was destroyed by nuclear conflagration as billions died, their Potential Psychic Energy-or P.P.E.-was unleashed as surges into the Earth's many, long forgotten ley lines, coming together at nexus points and causing rifts in time and space to be ripped open. As the planet buckled under the psychic onslaught, millions more died and fed more energy into the now pulsing ley lines, causing a feedback loop which would grow and grow. The oceans were driven from their beds to wash over the lands, Atlantis rose again after millennia, alien beings flooded through the rifts, and magic returned to the planet. " ~ Unknown, #KEYS
336:Our highest insights must - and should! - sound like stupidities, or possibly crimes, when they come without permission to people whose ears have no affinity for them and were not predestined for them. The distinction between the exoteric and the esoteric, once made by philosophers, was found among the Indians as well as among Greeks, Persians, and Muslims. Basically, it was found everywhere that people believed in an order of rank and not in equality and equal rights. The difference between these terms is not that the exoteric stands outside and sees, values, measures, and judges from this external position rather than from some internal one.What is more essential is that the exoteric sees things up from below - while the esoteric sees them down from above! There are heights of the soul from whose vantage point even tragedy stops having tragic effects; and who would dare to decide whether the collective sight of the world's many woes would necessarily compel and seduce us into a feeling of pity, a feeling that would only serve to double these woes?... What helps feed or nourish the higher type of man must be almost poisonous to a very different and lesser type. The virtues of a base man could indicate vices and weaknesses in a philosopher. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, The Free Spirit, #KEYS
337:From above to below, the sefirot depict the drama of emanation, the transition from Ein Sof to creation. In the words of Azriel of Gerona, "They constitute the process by which all things come into being and pass away." From below to above, the sefirot constitute a ladder of ascent back to the One. The union of Tif'eret and Shekhinah gives birth to the human soul, and the mystical journey begins with the awareness of this spiritual fact of life. Shekhinah is the opening to the divine: "One who enters must enter through this gate." Once inside, the sefirot are no longer an abstract theological system; they become a map of consciousness. The mystic climbs and probes, discovering dimensions of being. Spiritual and psychological wholeness is achieved by meditating on the qualities of each sefirah, by imitating and integrating the attributes of God. "When you cleave to the sefirot, the divine holy spirit enters into you, into every sensation and every movement." But the path is not easy. Divine will can be harsh: Abraham was commanded to sacrifice Isaac in order to balance love with rigor. From the Other Side, demonic forces threaten and seduce. [The demonic is rooted in the divine]. Contemplatively and psychologically, evil must be encountered, not evaded. By knowing and withstanding the dark underside of wisdom, the spiritual seeker is refined.~ Daniel C Matt, The Essential Kabbalah, 10, #KEYS
338:On a thousand bridges and paths they shall throng to the future, and ever more war and inequality shall divide them: thus does my great love make me speak.
In their hostilities they shall become inventors of images and ghosts, and with their images and ghosts they shall yet fight the highest fight against one another. Good and evil, and rich and poor, and high and low, and all the names of values-arms shall they be and clattering signs that life must overcome itself again and again.
Life wants to build itself up into the heights with pillars and steps; it wants to look into vast distances and out toward stirring beauties: therefore it requires height. And because it requires height, it requires steps and contradiction among the steps and the climbers.
Life wants to climb and to overcome itself climbing.
And behold, my friends: here where the tarantula has its hole, the ruins of an ancient temple rise; behold it with enlightened eyes Verily, the man who once piled his thoughts to the sky in these stones-he, like the wisest, knew the secret of all life. That struggle and inequality are present even in beauty, and also war for power and more power: that is what he teaches us here in the plainest parable. How divinely vault and arches break through each other in a wrestling match; how they strive against each other with light and shade, the godlike strivers-with such assurance and beauty let us be enemies too, my friends Let us strive against one another like gods. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. Fred Kaufmann,#KEYS
339:The sign of the immersion of the embodied soul in Prakriti is the limitation of consciousness to the ego. The vivid stamp of this limited consciousness can be seen in a constant inequality of the mind and heart and a confused conflict and disharmony in their varied reactions to the touches of experience. The human reactions sway perpetually between the dualities created by the soul's subjection to Nature and by its often intense but narrow struggle for mastery and enjoyment, a struggle for the most part ineffective. The soul circles in an unending round of Nature's alluring and distressing opposites, success and failure, good fortune and ill fortune, good and evil, sin and virtue, joy and grief, pain and pleasure. It is only when, awaking from its immersion in Prakriti, it perceives its oneness with the One and its oneness with all existences that it can become free from these things and found its right relation to this executive world-Nature. Then it becomes indifferent to her inferior modes, equal-minded to her dualities, capable of mastery and freedom; it is seated above her as the high-throned knower and witness filled with the calm intense unalloyed delight of his own eternal existence. The embodied spirit continues to express its powers in action, but it is no longer involved in ignorance, no longer bound by its works; its actions have no longer a consequence within it, but only a consequence outside in Prakriti. The whole movement of Nature becomes to its experience a rising and falling of waves on the surface that make no difference to its own unfathomable peace, its wide delight, its vast universal equality or its boundless God-existence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
340:We have all a ruling defect, which is for our soul as the umbilical cord of its birth in sin, and it is by this that the enemy can always lay hold upon us: for some it is vanity, for others idleness, for the majority egotism. Let a wicked and crafty mind avail itself of this means and we are lost; we may not go mad or turn idiots, but we become positively alienated, in all the force of the expression - that is, we are subjected to a foreign suggestion. In such a state one dreads instinctively everything that might bring us back to reason, and will not even listen to representations that are opposed to our obsession. Here is one of the most dangerous disorders which can affect the moral nature. The sole remedy for such a bewitchment is to make use of folly itself in order to cure folly, to provide the sufferer with imaginary satisfactions in the opposite order to that wherein he is now lost. Endeavour, for example, to cure an ambitious person by making him desire the glories of heaven - mystic remedy; cure one who is dissolute by true love - natural remedy; obtain honourable successes for a vain person; exhibit unselfishness to the avaricious and procure for them legitimate profit by honourable participation in generous enterprises, etc. Acting in this way upon the moral nature, we may succeed in curing a number of physical maladies, for the moral affects the physical in virtue of the magical axiom: "That which is above is like unto that which is below." This is why the Master said, when speaking of the paralyzed woman: "Satan has bound her." A disease invariably originates in a deficiency or an excess, and ever at the root of a physical evil we shall find a moral disorder. This is an unchanging law of Nature. ~ Eliphas Levi, Transcendental Magic, #KEYS
341:Humanity is a peculiar class of life which, in some degree, determines its own destinies; therefore in practical life words and ideas become facts-facts, moreover, which bring about important practical consequences. For instance, many millions of human beings have defined a stroke of lightning as being the "punishment of God" of evil men; other millions have defined it as a "natural, casual, periodical phenomenon"; yet other millions have defined it as an "electric spark." What has been the result of these "non-important" definitions in practical life? In the case of the first definition, when lightning struck a house, the population naturally made no attempt to save the house or anything in it, because to do so would be against the "definition" which proclaims the phenomenon to be a "punishment for evil," any attempt to prevent or check the destruction would be an impious act; the sinner would be guilty of "resisting the supreme law" and would deserve to be punished by death.
Now in the second instance, a stricken building is treated just as any tree overturned by storm; the people save what they can and try to extinguish the fire. In both instances, the behavior of the populace is the same in one respect; if caught in the open by a storm they take refuge under a tree-a means of safety involving maximum danger but the people do not know it.
Now in the third instance, in which the population have a scientifically correct definition of lightning, they provide their houses with lightning rods; and if they are caught by a storm in the open they neither run nor hide under a tree; but when the storm is directly over their heads, they put themselves in a position of minimum exposure by lying flat on the ground until the storm has passed. ~ Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity,#KEYS
342:Here lies the whole importance of the part of the Yoga of Knowledge which we are now considering, the knowledges of those essential principles of Being, those essential modes of self-existence on which the absolute Divine has based its self-manifestation. If the truth of our being is an infinite unity in which alone there is perfect wideness, light, knowledge, power, bliss, and if all our subjection to darkness, ignorance, weakness, sorrow, limitation comes of our viewing existence as a clash of infinitely multiple separate existences, then obviously it is the most practical and concrete and utilitarian as well as the most lofty and philosophical wisdom to find a means by which we can get away from the error and learn to live in the truth. So also, if that One is in its nature a freedom from bondage to this play of qualities which constitute our psychology and if from subjection to that play are born the struggle and discord in which we live, floundering eternally between the two poles of good and evil, virtue and sin, satisfaction and failure, joy and grief, pleasure and pain, then to get beyond the qualities and take our foundation in the settled peace of that which is always beyond them is the only practical wisdom. If attachment to mutable personality is the cause of our self-ignorance, of our discord and quarrel with ourself and with life and with others, and if there is an impersonal One in which no such discord and ignorance and vain and noisy effort exist because it is in eternal identity and harmony with itself, then to arrive in our souls at that impersonality and untroubled oneness of being is the one line and object of human effort to which our reason can consent to give the name of practicality.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
343:Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me. ~ Bertrand Russell,#KEYS
344:THE PSYCHOLOGY OF YOGA
Initial Definitions and Descriptions
Yoga has four powers and objects, purity, liberty, beatitude and perfection. Whosoever has consummated these four mightinesses in the being of the transcendental, universal, lilamaya and individual God is the complete and absolute Yogin.
All manifestations of God are manifestations of the absolute Parabrahman.
The Absolute Parabrahman is unknowable to us, not because It is the nothingness of all that we are, for rather whatever we are in truth or in seeming is nothing but Parabrahman, but because It is pre-existent & supra-existent to even the highest & purest methods and the most potent & illimitable instruments of which soul in the body is capable.
In Parabrahman knowledge ceases to be knowledge and becomes an inexpressible identity. Become Parabrahman, if thou wilt and if That will suffer thee, but strive not to know It; for thou shalt not succeed with these instruments and in this body.
In reality thou art Parabrahman already and ever wast and ever will be. To become Parabrahman in any other sense, thou must depart utterly out of world manifestation and out even of world transcendence.
Why shouldst thou hunger after departure from manifestation as if the world were an evil? Has not That manifested itself in thee & in the world and art thou wiser & purer & better than the Absolute, O mind-deceived soul in the mortal? When That withdraws thee, then thy going hence is inevitable; until Its force is laid on thee, thy going is impossible, cry thy mind never so fiercely & wailingly for departure. Therefore neither desire nor shun the world, but seek the bliss & purity & freedom & greatness of God in whatsoever state or experience or environment.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human,#KEYS
345:Response To A Logician :::
I bow at the feet of my teacher Marpa.
And sing this song in response to you.
Listen, pay heed to what I say,
forget your critique for a while.
The best seeing is the way of "nonseeing"
the radiance of the mind itself.
The best prize is what cannot be looked for
the priceless treasure of the mind itself.
The most nourishing food is "noneating"
the transcendent food of samadhi.
The most thirst-quenching drink is "nondrinking"
the nectar of heartfelt compassion.
Oh, this self-realizing awareness
is beyond words and description!
The mind is not the world of children,
nor is it that of logicians.
Attaining the truth of "nonattainment,"
you receive the highest initiation.
Perceiving the void of high and low,
you reach the sublime stage.
Approaching the truth of "nonmovement,"
you follow the supreme path.
Knowing the end of birth and death,
the ultimate purpose is fulfilled.
Seeing the emptiness of reason,
supreme logic is perfected.
When you know that great and small are groundless,
you have entered the highest gateway.
Comprehending beyond good and evil
opens the way to perfect skill.
Experiencing the dissolution of duality,
you embrace the highest view.
Observing the truth of "nonobservation"
opens the way to meditating.
Comprehending beyond "ought" and "oughtn't"
opens the way to perfect action.
When you realize the truth of "noneffort,"
you are approaching the highest fruition.
Ignorant are those who lack this truth:
arrogant teachers inflated by learning,
scholars bewitched by mere words,
and yogis seduced by prejudice.
For though they yearn for freedom,
they find only enslavement. ~ Jetsun Milarepa,#KEYS
346:Man's refusal of the Divine Grace has been depicted very beautifully and graphically in a perfect dramatic form by Sri Aurobindo in Savitri. The refusal comes one by one from the three constituent parts of the human being. First of all man is a material being, a bodily creature, as such he is a being of ignorance and misery, of brutish blindness . He does not know that there is something other than his present state of misfortune and dark fate. He is not even aware that there may be anything higher or nobler than the ugliness he is steeped in. He lives on earth-life with an earth-consciousness, moves mechanically and helplessly through vicissitudes over which he has no control. Even so the material life is not a mere despicable thing; behind its darkness, behind its sadness, behind all its infirmities, the Divine Mother is there upholding it and infusing into it her grace and beauty. Indeed, she is one with this world of sorrows, she has in effect become it in her infinite pity and love so that this material body of hers may become conscious of its divine substance and manifest her true form. But the human being individualised and separated in egoistic consciousness has lost the sense of its inner reality and is vocal only in regard to its outward formulation. It is natural for physical man therefore to reject and deny the physical Godhead in him, he even curses it and wants to continue as he is.
He yells therefore in ignorance and anguish:
I am the Man of Sorrows, I am he
Who is nailed on the wide cross of the Universe . . .
I toil like the animal, like the animal die.
I am man the rebel, man the helpless serf...
I know my fate will ever be the same.
It is my Nature' s work that cannot change . . .
I was made for evil, evil is my lot;
Evil I must be and by evil live;
Nought other can I do but be myself;
What Nature made, that I must remain.2' ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, On Savitri, 13,#KEYS
347:As Korzybski and the general semanticists have pointed out, our words, symbols, signs, thoughts and ideas are merely maps of reality, not reality itself, because "the map is not the territory." The word "water" won't satisfy your thirst.
But we live in the world of maps and words as if it were the real world. Following in the footsteps of Adam, we have become totally lost in a world of purely fantasy maps and boundaries. And these illusory boundaries, with the opposites they create, have become our impassioned battles.
Most of our "problems of living," then, are based on the illusion that the opposites can and should be separated and isolated from one another. But since all opposites are actually aspects of one underlying reality, this is like trying to totally separate the two ends of a single rubber band. All you can do is pull harder and harder-until something violently snaps. Thus we might be able to understand that, in all the mystical traditions the world over, one who sees through the illusion of the opposites is called "liberated." Because he is "freed from the pairs" of opposites, he is freed in this life from the fundamentally nonsensical problems and conflicts involved in the war of opposites. He no longer manipulates the opposites one against the other in his search for peace, but instead transcends them both. Not good vs. evil but beyond good and evil. Not life against death but a center of awareness that transcends both. The point is not to separate the opposites and make "positive progress," but rather to unify and harmonize the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses them both. And that ground, as we will soon see, is unity consciousness itself. In the meantime, let us note, as does the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita, that liberation is not freedom from the negative, but freedom from the pairs altogether:
Content with getting what arrives of itself
Passed beyond the pairs, free from envy,
Not attached to success nor failure,
Even acting, he is not bound.
He is to be recognized as eternally free
Who neither loathes nor craves;
For he that is freed from the pairs,
Is easily freed from conflict.
~ Ken Wilber, No Boundary,#KEYS
348:One thing is needful. -- To "give style" to one's character-- a great and rare art! It is practiced by those who survey all the strengths and weaknesses of their nature and then fit them into an artistic plan until every one of them appears as art and reason and even weaknesses delight the eye. Here a large mass of second nature has been added; there a piece of original nature has been removed -- both times through long practice and daily work at it. Here the ugly that could not be removed is concealed; there it has been reinterpreted and made sublime. Much that is vague and resisted shaping has been saved and exploited for distant views; it is meant to beckon toward the far and immeasurable. In the end, when the work is finished, it becomes evident how the constraint of a single taste governed and formed everything large and small. Whether this taste was good or bad is less important than one might suppose, if only it was a single taste!
It will be the strong and domineering natures that enjoy their finest gaiety in such constraint and perfection under a law of their own; the passion of their tremendous will relaxes in the face of all stylized nature, of all conquered and serving nature. Even when they have to build palaces and design gardens they demur at giving nature freedom.
Conversely, it is the weak characters without power over themselves that hate the constraint of style. They feel that if this bitter and evil constraint were imposed upon them they would be demeaned; they become slaves as soon as they serve; they hate to serve. Such spirits -- and they may be of the first rank -- are always out to shape and interpret their environment as free nature: wild, arbitrary, fantastic, disorderly, and surprising. And they are well advised because it is only in this way that they can give pleasure to themselves. For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of what is ugly makes one bad and gloomy. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, mod trans. Walter Kaufmann,#KEYS
349:I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is just this faith of mine that they laugh at. But how can I help believing it? I have seen the truth ~ it is not as though I had invented it with my mind, I have seen it, seen it, and the living image of it has filled my soul for ever. I have seen it in such full perfection that I cannot believe that it is impossible for people to have it. And so how can I go wrong? I shall make some slips no doubt, and shall perhaps talk in second-hand language, but not for long: the living image of what I saw will always be with me and will always correct and guide me. Oh, I am full of courage and freshness, and I will go on and on if it were for a thousand years! Do you know, at first I meant to conceal the fact that I corrupted them, but that was a mistake ~ that was my first mistake! But truth whispered to me that I was lying, and preserved me and corrected me. But how establish paradise ~ I don't know, because I do not know how to put it into words. After my dream I lost command of words. All the chief words, anyway, the most necessary ones. But never mind, I shall go and I shall keep talking, I won't leave off, for anyway I have seen it with my own eyes, though I cannot describe what I saw. But the scoffers do not understand that. It was a dream, they say, delirium, hallucination. Oh! As though that meant so much! And they are so proud! A dream! What is a dream? And is not our life a dream? I will say more. Suppose that this paradise will never come to pass (that I understand), yet I shall go on preaching it. And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted ~ you will find out at once how to arrange it all. And yet it's an old truth which has been told and retold a billion times ~ but it has not formed part of our lives! The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness ~ that is what one must contend against. And I shall. If only everyone wants it, it can be arranged at once. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky in The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, #KEYS
350:34
D: What are the eight limbs of knowledge (jnana ashtanga)?
M: The eight limbs are those which have been already mentioned, viz., yama, niyama etc., but differently defined:
(1) Yama: This is controlling the aggregate of sense-organs, realizing the defects that are present in the world consisting of the body, etc.
(2) Niyama: This is maintaining a stream of mental modes that relate to the Self and rejecting the contrary modes. In other words, it means love that arises uninterruptedly for the Supreme Self.
(3) Asana: That with the help of which constant meditation on Brahman is made possible with ease is asana.
(4) Pranayama: Rechaka (exhalation) is removing the two unreal aspects of name and form from the objects constituting the world, the body etc., puraka (inhalation) is grasping the three real aspects, existence, consciousness and bliss, which are constant in those objects, and kumbhaka is retaining those aspects thus grasped.
(5) Pratyahara: This is preventing name and form which have been removed from re-entering the mind.
(6) Dharana: This is making the mind stay in the Heart, without straying outward, and realizing that one is the Self itself which is Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.
(7) Dhyana: This is meditation of the form 'I am only pure consciousness'. That is, after leaving aside the body which consists of five sheaths, one enquires 'Who am I?', and as a result of that, one stays as 'I' which shines as the Self.
(8) Samadhi: When the 'I-manifestation' also ceases, there is (subtle) direct experience. This is samadhi.
For pranayama, etc., detailed here, the disciplines such as asana, etc., mentioned in connection with yoga are not necessary.
The limbs of knowledge may be practised at all places and at all times. Of yoga and knowledge, one may follow whichever is pleasing to one, or both, according to circumstances. The great teachers say that forgetfulness is the root of all evil, and is death for those who seek release,10 so one should rest the mind in one's Self and should never forget the Self: this is the aim. If the mind is controlled, all else can be controlled. The distinction between yoga with eight limbs and knowledge with eight limbs has been set forth elaborately in the sacred texts; so only the substance of this teaching has been given here. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Self-Enquiry, 34,#KEYS
351:Daemons
A daemon is a process that runs in the background, not connecting to any controlling terminal. Daemons are normally started at boot time, are run as root or some
other special user (such as apache or postfix), and handle system-level tasks. As a
convention, the name of a daemon often ends in d (as in crond and sshd), but this is
not required, or even universal.
The name derives from Maxwell's demon, an 1867 thought experiment by the physicist James Maxwell. Daemons are also supernatural beings in Greek mythology,
existing somewhere between humans and the gods and gifted with powers and divine
knowledge. Unlike the demons of Judeo-Christian lore, the Greek daemon need not
be evil. Indeed, the daemons of mythology tended to be aides to the gods, performing
tasks that the denizens of Mount Olympus found themselves unwilling to do-much
as Unix daemons perform tasks that foreground users would rather avoid.
A daemon has two general requirements: it must run as a child of init, and it must
not be connected to a terminal.
In general, a program performs the following steps to become a daemon:
1. Call fork( ). This creates a new process, which will become the daemon.
2. In the parent, call exit( ). This ensures that the original parent (the daemon's
grandparent) is satisfied that its child terminated, that the daemon's parent is no
longer running, and that the daemon is not a process group leader. This last
point is a requirement for the successful completion of the next step.
3. Call setsid( ), giving the daemon a new process group and session, both of
which have it as leader. This also ensures that the process has no associated controlling terminal (as the process just created a new session, and will not assign
one).
4. Change the working directory to the root directory via chdir( ). This is done
because the inherited working directory can be anywhere on the filesystem. Daemons tend to run for the duration of the system's uptime, and you don't want to
keep some random directory open, and thus prevent an administrator from
unmounting the filesystem containing that directory.
5. Close all file descriptors. You do not want to inherit open file descriptors, and,
unaware, hold them open.
6. Open file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 (standard in, standard out, and standard error)
and redirect them to /dev/null.
Following these rules, here is a program that daemonizes itself:
~ OReilly Linux System Programming,#KEYS
352:O Death, thou lookst on an unfinished world
Assailed by thee and of its road unsure,
Peopled by imperfect minds and ignorant lives,
And sayest God is not and all is vain.
How shall the child already be the man?
Because he is infant, shall he never grow?
Because he is ignorant, shall he never learn?
In a small fragile seed a great tree lurks,
In a tiny gene a thinking being is shut;
A little element in a little sperm,
It grows and is a conqueror and a sage.
Then wilt thou spew out, Death, God's mystic truth,
Deny the occult spiritual miracle?
Still wilt thou say there is no spirit, no God?
A mute material Nature wakes and sees;
She has invented speech, unveiled a will.
Something there waits beyond towards which she strives,
Something surrounds her into which she grows:
To uncover the spirit, to change back into God,
To exceed herself is her transcendent task.
In God concealed the world began to be,
Tardily it travels towards manifest God:
Our imperfection towards perfection toils,
The body is the chrysalis of a soul:
The infinite holds the finite in its arms,
Time travels towards revealed eternity.
A miracle structure of the eternal Mage,
Matter its mystery hides from its own eyes,
A scripture written out in cryptic signs,
An occult document of the All-Wonderful's art.
All here bears witness to his secret might,
In all we feel his presence and his power.
A blaze of his sovereign glory is the sun,
A glory is the gold and glimmering moon,
A glory is his dream of purple sky.
A march of his greatness are the wheeling stars.
His laughter of beauty breaks out in green trees,
His moments of beauty triumph in a flower;
The blue sea's chant, the rivulet's wandering voice
Are murmurs falling from the Eternal's harp.
This world is God fulfilled in outwardness.
His ways challenge our reason and our sense;
By blind brute movements of an ignorant Force,
By means we slight as small, obscure or base,
A greatness founded upon little things,
He has built a world in the unknowing Void.
His forms he has massed from infinitesimal dust;
His marvels are built from insignificant things.
If mind is crippled, life untaught and crude,
If brutal masks are there and evil acts,
They are incidents of his vast and varied plot,
His great and dangerous drama's needed steps;
He makes with these and all his passion-play,
A play and yet no play but the deep scheme
Of a transcendent Wisdom finding ways
To meet her Lord in the shadow and the Night:
Above her is the vigil of the stars;
Watched by a solitary Infinitude
She embodies in dumb Matter the Divine,
In symbol minds and lives the Absolute.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
353:Sweet Mother, there's a flower you have named "The Creative Word".
Yes.
What does that mean?
It is the word which creates.
There are all kinds of old traditions, old Hindu traditions, old Chaldean traditions in which the Divine, in the form of the Creator, that is, in His aspect as Creator, pronounces a word which has the power to create. So it is this... And it is the origin of the mantra. The mantra is the spoken word which has a creative power. An invocation is made and there is an answer to the invocation; or one makes a prayer and the prayer is granted. This is the Word, the Word which, in its sound... it is not only the idea, it is in the sound that there's a power of creation. It is the origin, you see, of the mantra.
In Indian mythology the creator God is Brahma, and I think that it was precisely his power which has been symbolised by this flower, "The Creative Word". And when one is in contact with it, the words spoken have a power of evocation or creation or formation or transformation; the words... sound always has a power; it has much more power than men think. It may be a good power and it may be a bad power. It creates vibrations which have an undeniable effect. It is not so much the idea as the sound; the idea too has its own power, but in its own domain - whereas the sound has a power in the material world.
I think I have explained this to you once; I told you, for example, that words spoken casually, usually without any re- flection and without attaching any importance to them, can be used to do something very good. I think I spoke to you about "Bonjour", "Good Day", didn't I? When people meet and say "Bonjour", they do so mechanically and without thinking. But if you put a will into it, an aspiration to indeed wish someone a good day, well, there is a way of saying "Good Day" which is very effective, much more effective than if simply meeting someone you thought: "Ah! I hope he has a good day", without saying anything. If with this hope in your thought you say to him in a certain way, "Good Day", you make it more concrete and more effective.
It's the same thing, by the way, with curses, or when one gets angry and says bad things to people. This can do them as much harm - more harm sometimes - than if you were to give them a slap. With very sensitive people it can put their stomach out of order or give them palpitation, because you put into it an evil force which has a power of destruction.
It is not at all ineffective to speak. Naturally it depends a great deal on each one's inner power. People who have no strength and no consciousness can't do very much - unless they employ material means. But to the extent that you are strong, especially when you have a powerful vital, you must have a great control on what you say, otherwise you can do much harm. Without wanting to, without knowing it; through ignorance.
Anything? No? Nothing?
Another question?... Everything's over? ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955, 347-349,#KEYS
354:If the Divine that is all love is the source of the creation, whence have come all the evils abounding upon earth?"
"All is from the Divine; but the One Consciousness, the Supreme has not created the world directly out of itself; a Power has gone out of it and has descended through many gradations of its workings and passed through many agents. There are many creators or rather 'formateurs', form-makers, who have presided over the creation of the world. They are intermediary agents and I prefer to call them 'Formateurs' and not 'Creators'; for what they have done is to give the form and turn and nature to matter. There have been many, and some have formed things harmonious and benignant and some have shaped things mischievous and evil. And some too have been distorters rather than builders, for they have interfered and spoiled what was begun well by others." - Questions and Answers 1929 - 1931 (30 June 1929)
You say, "Many creators or rather 'formateurs', formmakers, have presided over the creation of the world." Who are these 'formateurs'?
That depends. They have been given many names. All has been done by gradations and through individual beings of all kinds. Each state of being is inhabited by entities, individualities and personalities and each one has created a world around him or has contributed to the formation of certain beings upon earth. The last creators are those of the vital world, but there are beings of the Overmind (Sri Aurobindo calls this plane the Overmind), who have created, given forms, sent out emanations, and these emanations again had their emanations and so on. What I meant is that it is not the Divine Will that acted directly on Matter to give to the world the required form, it is by passing through layers, so to say, planes of the world, as for example, the mental plane - there are so many beings on the mental plane who are form-makers, who have taken part in the formation of some beings who have incarnated upon earth. On the vital plane also the same thing happens.
For example, there is a tradition which says that the whole world of insects is the outcome of the form-makers of the vital world, and that this is why they take such absolutely diabolical shapes when they are magnified under the microscope. You saw the other day, when you were shown the microbes in water? Naturally the pictures were made to amuse, to strike the imagination, but they are based on real forms, so magnified, however, that they look like monsters. Almost the whole world of insects is a world of microscopic monsters which, had they been larger in size, would have been quite terrifying. So it is said these are entities of the vital world, beings of the vital who created that for fun and amused themselves forming all these impossible beasts which make human life altogether unpleasant.
Did these intermediaries also come out of the Divine Power?
Through intermediaries, yes, not directly. These beings are not in direct contact with the Divine (there are exceptions, I mean as a general rule), they are beings who are in relation with other beings, who are again in relation with others, and these with still others, and so on, in a hierarchy, up to the Supreme.(to be continued....) ~ The Mother, Question and Answers,#KEYS
355:Evil
Hasten towards the good, leave behind all evil thoughts, for to do good without enthusiasm is to have a mind which delights in evil.
If one does an evil action, he should not persist in it, he should not delight in it. For full of suffering is the accumulation of evil.
If one does a good action, he should persist in it and take delight in it. Full of happiness is the accumulation of good.
As long as his evil action has not yet ripened, an evildoer may experience contentment. But when it ripens, the wrong-doer knows unhappiness.
As long as his good action has not yet ripened, one who does good may experience unhappiness. But when it ripens, the good man knows happiness.
Do not treat evil lightly, saying, "That will not touch me." A jar is filled drop by drop; even so the fool fills himself little by little with wickedness.
Do not treat good lightly, saying, "That will not touch me." A jar is filled drop by drop; even so the sage fills himself little by little with goodness.
The merchant who is carrying many precious goods and who has but few companions, avoids dangerous roads; and a man who loves his life is wary of poison. Even so should one act regarding evil.
A hand that has no wound can carry poison with impunity; act likewise, for evil cannot touch the righteous man.
If you offend one who is pure, innocent and defenceless, the insult will fall back on you, as if you threw dust against the wind.
Some are reborn here on earth, evil-doers go to the worlds of Niraya,1 the just go to the heavenly worlds, but those who have freed themselves from all desire attain Nirvana.
Neither in the skies, nor in the depths of the ocean, nor in the rocky caves, nowhere upon earth does there exist a place where a man can find refuge from his evil actions.
Neither in the skies, nor in the depths of the ocean, nor in the rocky caves, nowhere upon earth does there exist a place where a man can hide from death.
People have the habit of dealing lightly with thoughts that come. And the atmosphere is full of thoughts of all kinds which do not in fact belong to anybody in particular, which move perpetually from one person to another, very freely, much too freely, because there are very few people who can keep their thoughts under control.
When you take up the Buddhist discipline to learn how to control your thoughts, you make very interesting discoveries. You try to observe your thoughts. Instead of letting them pass freely, sometimes even letting them enter your head and establish themselves in a quite inopportune way, you look at them, observe them and you realise with stupefaction that in the space of a few seconds there passes through the head a series of absolutely improbable thoughts that are altogether harmful.
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Conversion of the aim of life from the ego to the Divine: instead of seeking one's own satisfaction, to have the service of the Divine as the aim of life.
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What you must know is exactly the thing you want to do in life. The time needed to learn it does not matter at all. For those who wish to live according to Truth, there is always something to learn and some progress to make. 2 October 1969 ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
356:On that spring day in the park I saw a young woman who attracted me. She was tall and slender, elegantly dressed, and had an intelligent and boyish face. I liked her at once. She was my type and began to fill my imagination. She probably was not much older than I but seemed far more mature, well-defined, a full-grown woman, but with a touch of exuberance and boyishness in her face, and this was what I liked above all .
I had never managed to approach a girl with whom I had fallen in love, nor did I manage in this case. But the impression she made on me was deeper than any previous one had been and the infatuation had a profound influence on my life.
Suddenly a new image had risen up before me, a lofty and cherished image. And no need, no urge was as deep or as fervent within me as the craving to worship and admire. I gave her the name Beatrice, for, even though I had not read Dante, I knew about Beatrice from an English painting of which I owned a reproduction. It showed a young pre-Raphaelite woman, long-limbed and slender, with long head and etherealized hands and features. My beautiful young woman did not quite resemble her, even though she, too, revealed that slender and boyish figure which I loved, and something of the ethereal, soulful quality of her face.
Although I never addressed a single word to Beatrice, she exerted a profound influence on me at that time. She raised her image before me, she gave me access to a holy shrine, she transformed me into a worshiper in a temple.
From one day to the next I stayed clear of all bars and nocturnal exploits. I could be alone with myself again and enjoyed reading and going for long walks.
My sudden conversion drew a good deal of mockery in its wake. But now I had something I loved and venerated, I had an ideal again, life was rich with intimations of mystery and a feeling of dawn that made me immune to all taunts. I had come home again to myself, even if only as the slave and servant of a cherished image.
I find it difficult to think back to that time without a certain fondness. Once more I was trying most strenuously to construct an intimate "world of light" for myself out of the shambles of a period of devastation; once more I sacrificed everything within me to the aim of banishing darkness and evil from myself. And, furthermore, this present "world of light" was to some extent my own creation; it was no longer an escape, no crawling back to -nether and the safety of irresponsibility; it was a new duty, one I had invented and desired on my own, with responsibility and self-control. My sexuality, a torment from which I was in constant flight, was to be transfigured nto spirituality and devotion by this holy fire. Everything :brk and hateful was to be banished, there were to be no more tortured nights, no excitement before lascivious picures, no eavesdropping at forbidden doors, no lust. In place of all this I raised my altar to the image of Beatrice, :.. and by consecrating myself to her I consecrated myself to the spirit and to the gods, sacrificing that part of life which I withdrew from the forces of darkness to those of light. My goal was not joy but purity, not happiness but beauty, and spirituality.
This cult of Beatrice completely changed my life.
~ Hermann Hesse, Demian,#KEYS
357:It is natural from the point of view of the Yoga to divide into two categories the activities of the human mind in its pursuit of knowledge. There is the supreme supra-intellectual knowledge which concentrates itself on the discovery of the One and Infinite in its transcendence or tries to penetrate by intuition, contemplation, direct inner contact into the ultimate truths behind the appearances of Nature; there is the lower science which diffuses itself in an outward knowledge of phenomena, the disguises of the One and Infinite as it appears to us in or through the more exterior forms of the world-manifestation around us. These two, an upper and a lower hemisphere, in the form of them constructed or conceived by men within the mind's ignorant limits, have even there separated themselves, as they developed, with some sharpness.... Philosophy, sometimes spiritual or at least intuitive, sometimes abstract and intellectual, sometimes intellectualising spiritual experience or supporting with a logical apparatus the discoveries of the spirit, has claimed always to take the fixation of ultimate Truth as its province. But even when it did not separate itself on rarefied metaphysical heights from the knowledge that belongs to the practical world and the pursuit of ephemeral objects, intellectual Philosophy by its habit of abstraction has seldom been a power for life. It has been sometimes powerful for high speculation, pursuing mental Truth for its own sake without any ulterior utility or object, sometimes for a subtle gymnastic of the mind in a mistily bright cloud-land of words and ideas, but it has walked or acrobatised far from the more tangible realities of existence. Ancient Philosophy in Europe was more dynamic, but only for the few; in India in its more spiritualised forms, it strongly influenced but without transforming the life of the race.... Religion did not attempt, like Philosophy, to live alone on the heights; its aim was rather to take hold of man's parts of life even more than his parts of mind and draw them Godwards; it professed to build a bridge between spiritual Truth and the vital and material human existence; it strove to subordinate and reconcile the lower to the higher, make life serviceable to God, Earth obedient to Heaven. It has to be admitted that too often this necessary effort had the opposite result of making Heaven a sanction for Earth's desires; for, continually, the religious idea has been turned into an excuse for the worship and service of the human ego. Religion, leaving constantly its little shining core of spiritual experience, has lost itself in the obscure mass of its ever extending ambiguous compromises with life: in attempting to satisfy the thinking mind, it more often succeeded in oppressing or fettering it with a mass of theological dogmas; while seeking to net the human heart, it fell itself into pits of pietistic emotionalism and sensationalism; in the act of annexing the vital nature of man to dominate it, it grew itself vitiated and fell a prey to all the fanaticism, homicidal fury, savage or harsh turn for oppression, pullulating falsehood, obstinate attachment to ignorance to which that vital nature is prone; its desire to draw the physical in man towards God betrayed it into chaining itself to ecclesiastic mechanism, hollow ceremony and lifeless ritual. The corruption of the best produced the worst by that strange chemistry of the power of life which generates evil out of good even as it can also generate good out of evil. At the same time in a vain effort at self-defence against this downward gravitation, Religion was driven to cut existence into two by a division of knowledge, works, art, life itself into two opposite categories, the spiritual and the worldly, religious and mundane, sacred and profane; but this defensive distinction itself became conventional and artificial and aggravated rather than healed the disease.... On their side Science and Art and the knowledge of Life, although at first they served or lived in the shadow of Religion, ended by emancipating themselves, became estranged or hostile, or have even recoiled with indifference, contempt or scepticism from what seem to them the cold, barren and distant or unsubstantial and illusory heights of unreality to which metaphysical Philosophy and Religion aspire. For a time the divorce has been as complete as the one-sided intolerance of the human mind could make it and threatened even to end in a complete extinction of all attempt at a higher or a more spiritual knowledge. Yet even in the earthward life a higher knowledge is indeed the one thing that is throughout needful, and without it the lower sciences and pursuits, however fruitful, however rich, free, miraculous in the abundance of their results, become easily a sacrifice offered without due order and to false gods; corrupting, hardening in the end the heart of man, limiting his mind's horizons, they confine in a stony material imprisonment or lead to a final baffling incertitude and disillusionment. A sterile agnosticism awaits us above the brilliant phosphorescence of a half-knowledge that is still the Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 1, #KEYS
358:To what gods shall the sacrifice be offered? Who shall be invoked to manifest and protect in the human being this increasing godhead?
Agni first, for without him the sacrificial flame cannot burn on the altar of the soul. That flame of Agni is the seven-tongued power of the Will, a Force of God instinct with Knowledge. This conscious and forceful will is the immortal guest in our mortality, a pure priest and a divine worker, the mediator between earth and heaven. It carries what we offer to the higher Powers and brings back in return their force and light and joy into our humanity.
Indra, the Puissant next, who is the power of pure Existence self-manifested as the Divine Mind. As Agni is one pole of Force instinct with knowledge that sends its current upward from earth to heaven, so Indra is the other pole of Light instinct with force which descends from heaven to earth. He comes down into our world as the Hero with the shining horses and slays darkness and division with his lightnings, pours down the life-giving heavenly waters, finds in the trace of the hound, Intuition, the lost or hidden illuminations, makes the Sun of Truth mount high in the heaven of our mentality.
Surya, the Sun, is the master of that supreme Truth, - truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of process and act and movement and functioning. He is therefore the creator or rather the manifester of all things - for creation is out-bringing, expression by the Truth and Will - and the father, fosterer, enlightener of our souls. The illuminations we seek are the herds of this Sun who comes to us in the track of the divine Dawn and releases and reveals in us night-hidden world after world up to the highest Beatitude.
Of that beatitude Soma is the representative deity. The wine of his ecstasy is concealed in the growths of earth, in the waters of existence; even here in our physical being are his immortalising juices and they have to be pressed out and offered to all the gods; for in that strength these shall increase and conquer.
Each of these primary deities has others associated with him who fulfil functions that arise from his own. For if the truth of Surya is to be established firmly in our mortal nature, there are previous conditions that are indispensable; a vast purity and clear wideness destructive of all sin and crooked falsehood, - and this is Varuna; a luminous power of love and comprehension leading and forming into harmony all our thoughts, acts and impulses, - this is Mitra; an immortal puissance of clear-discerning aspiration and endeavour, - this is Aryaman; a happy spontaneity of the right enjoyment of all things dispelling the evil dream of sin and error and suffering, - this is Bhaga. These four are powers of the Truth of Surya. For the whole bliss of Soma to be established perfectly in our nature a happy and enlightened and unmaimed condition of mind, vitality and body are necessary. This condition is given to us by the twin Ashwins; wedded to the daughter of Light, drinkers of honey, bringers of perfect satisfactions, healers of maim and malady they occupy our parts of knowledge and parts of action and prepare our mental, vital and physical being for an easy and victorious ascension.
Indra, the Divine Mind, as the shaper of mental forms has for his assistants, his artisans, the Ribhus, human powers who by the work of sacrifice and their brilliant ascension to the high dwelling-place of the Sun have attained to immortality and help mankind to repeat their achievement. They shape by the mind Indra's horses, the chariot of the Ashwins, the weapons of the Gods, all the means of the journey and the battle. But as giver of the Light of Truth and as Vritra-slayer Indra is aided by the Maruts, who are powers of will and nervous or vital Force that have attained to the light of thought and the voice of self-expression. They are behind all thought and speech as its impellers and they battle towards the Light, Truth and Bliss of the supreme Consciousness.
There are also female energies; for the Deva is both Male and Female and the gods also are either activising souls or passively executive and methodising energies. Aditi, infinite Mother of the Gods, comes first; and there are besides five powers of the Truthconsciousness, - Mahi or Bharati, the vast Word that brings us all things out of the divine source; Ila, the strong primal word of the Truth who gives us its active vision; Saraswati, its streaming current and the word of its inspiration; Sarama, the Intuition, hound of heaven who descends into the cavern of the subconscient and finds there the concealed illuminations; Dakshina, whose function is to discern rightly, dispose the action and the offering and distribute in the sacrifice to each godhead its portion. Each god, too, has his female energy.
All this action and struggle and ascension is supported by Heaven our Father and Earth our Mother Parents of the Gods, who sustain respectively the purely mental and psychic and the physical consciousness. Their large and free scope is the condition of our achievement. Vayu, master of life, links them together by the mid-air, the region of vital force. And there are other deities, - Parjanya, giver of the rain of heaven; Dadhikravan, the divine war-horse, a power of Agni; the mystic Dragon of the Foundations; Trita Aptya who on the third plane of existence consummates our triple being; and more besides.
The development of all these godheads is necessary to our perfection. And that perfection must be attained on all our levels, - in the wideness of earth, our physical being and consciousness; in the full force of vital speed and action and enjoyment and nervous vibration, typified as the Horse which must be brought forward to upbear our endeavour; in the perfect gladness of the heart of emotion and a brilliant heat and clarity of the mind throughout our intellectual and psychical being; in the coming of the supramental Light, the Dawn and the Sun and the shining Mother of the herds, to transform all our existence; for so comes to us the possession of the Truth, by the Truth the admirable surge of the Bliss, in the Bliss infinite Consciousness of absolute being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns to the Mystic Fire, The Doctrine of the Mystics,#KEYS
359:One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, was drawn by 'Miss Alice Havers.' I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) wonderful pictures, that his name should stand there alone.
The descriptions, of Sunday as spent by children of the last generation, are quoted verbatim from a speech made to me by a child-friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend.
The Chapters, headed 'Fairy Sylvie' and 'Bruno's Revenge,' are a reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for 'Aunt Judy's Magazine,' which she was then editing.
It was in 1874, I believe, that the idea first occurred to me of making it the nucleus of a longer story.
As the years went on, I jotted down, at odd moments, all sorts of odd ideas, and fragments of dialogue, that occurred to me--who knows how?--with a transitory suddenness that left me no choice but either to record them then and there, or to abandon them to oblivion. Sometimes one could trace to their source these random flashes of thought--as being suggested by the book one was reading, or struck out from the 'flint' of one's own mind by the 'steel' of a friend's chance remark but they had also a way of their own, of occurring, a propos of nothing --specimens of that hopelessly illogical phenomenon, 'an effect without a cause.' Such, for example, was the last line of 'The Hunting of the Snark,' which came into my head (as I have already related in 'The Theatre' for April, 1887) quite suddenly, during a solitary walk: and such, again, have been passages which occurred in dreams, and which I cannot trace to any antecedent cause whatever. There are at least two instances of such dream-suggestions in this book--one, my Lady's remark, 'it often runs in families, just as a love for pastry does', the other, Eric Lindon's badinage about having been in domestic service.
And thus it came to pass that I found myself at last in possession of a huge unwieldy mass of litterature--if the reader will kindly excuse the spelling --which only needed stringing together, upon the thread of a consecutive story, to constitute the book I hoped to write. Only! The task, at first, seemed absolutely hopeless, and gave me a far clearer idea, than I ever had before, of the meaning of the word 'chaos': and I think it must have been ten years, or more, before I had succeeded in classifying these odds-and-ends sufficiently to see what sort of a story they indicated: for the story had to grow out of the incidents, not the incidents out of the story I am telling all this, in no spirit of egoism, but because I really believe that some of my readers will be interested in these details of the 'genesis' of a book, which looks so simple and straight-forward a matter, when completed, that they might suppose it to have been written straight off, page by page, as one would write a letter, beginning at the beginning; and ending at the end.
It is, no doubt, possible to write a story in that way: and, if it be not vanity to say so, I believe that I could, myself,--if I were in the unfortunate position (for I do hold it to be a real misfortune) of being obliged to produce a given amount of fiction in a given time,--that I could 'fulfil my task,' and produce my 'tale of bricks,' as other slaves have done. One thing, at any rate, I could guarantee as to the story so produced--that it should be utterly commonplace, should contain no new ideas whatever, and should be very very weary reading!
This species of literature has received the very appropriate name of 'padding' which might fitly be defined as 'that which all can write and none can read.' That the present volume contains no such writing I dare not avow: sometimes, in order to bring a picture into its proper place, it has been necessary to eke out a page with two or three extra lines : but I can honestly say I have put in no more than I was absolutely compelled to do.
My readers may perhaps like to amuse themselves by trying to detect, in a given passage, the one piece of 'padding' it contains. While arranging the 'slips' into pages, I found that the passage was 3 lines too short. I supplied the deficiency, not by interpolating a word here and a word there, but by writing in 3 consecutive lines. Now can my readers guess which they are?
A harder puzzle if a harder be desired would be to determine, as to the Gardener's Song, in which cases (if any) the stanza was adapted to the surrounding text, and in which (if any) the text was adapted to the stanza.
Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature--at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it come's is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune. I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story--I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it--but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen storybooks have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'--is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.
Hence it is that, in 'Sylvie and Bruno,' I have striven with I know not what success to strike out yet another new path: be it bad or good, it is the best I can do. It is written, not for money, and not for fame, but in the hope of supplying, for the children whom I love, some thoughts that may suit those hours of innocent merriment which are the very life of Childhood; and also in the hope of suggesting, to them and to others, some thoughts that may prove, I would fain hope, not wholly out of harmony with the graver cadences of Life.
If I have not already exhausted the patience of my readers, I would like to seize this opportunity perhaps the last I shall have of addressing so many friends at once of putting on record some ideas that have occurred to me, as to books desirable to be written--which I should much like to attempt, but may not ever have the time or power to carry through--in the hope that, if I should fail (and the years are gliding away very fast) to finish the task I have set myself, other hands may take it up.
First, a Child's Bible. The only real essentials of this would be, carefully selected passages, suitable for a child's reading, and pictures. One principle of selection, which I would adopt, would be that Religion should be put before a child as a revelation of love--no need to pain and puzzle the young mind with the history of crime and punishment. (On such a principle I should, for example, omit the history of the Flood.) The supplying of the pictures would involve no great difficulty: no new ones would be needed : hundreds of excellent pictures already exist, the copyright of which has long ago expired, and which simply need photo-zincography, or some similar process, for their successful reproduction. The book should be handy in size with a pretty attractive looking cover--in a clear legible type--and, above all, with abundance of pictures, pictures, pictures!
Secondly, a book of pieces selected from the Bible--not single texts, but passages of from 10 to 20 verses each--to be committed to memory. Such passages would be found useful, to repeat to one's self and to ponder over, on many occasions when reading is difficult, if not impossible: for instance, when lying awake at night--on a railway-journey --when taking a solitary walk-in old age, when eyesight is failing or wholly lost--and, best of all, when illness, while incapacitating us for reading or any other occupation, condemns us to lie awake through many weary silent hours: at such a time how keenly one may realise the truth of David's rapturous cry "O how sweet are thy words unto my throat: yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!"
I have said 'passages,' rather than single texts, because we have no means of recalling single texts: memory needs links, and here are none: one may have a hundred texts stored in the memory, and not be able to recall, at will, more than half-a-dozen--and those by mere chance: whereas, once get hold of any portion of a chapter that has been committed to memory, and the whole can be recovered: all hangs together.
Thirdly, a collection of passages, both prose and verse, from books other than the Bible. There is not perhaps much, in what is called 'un-inspired' literature (a misnomer, I hold: if Shakespeare was not inspired, one may well doubt if any man ever was), that will bear the process of being pondered over, a hundred times: still there are such passages--enough, I think, to make a goodly store for the memory.
These two books of sacred, and secular, passages for memory--will serve other good purposes besides merely occupying vacant hours: they will help to keep at bay many anxious thoughts, worrying thoughts, uncharitable thoughts, unholy thoughts. Let me say this, in better words than my own, by copying a passage from that most interesting book, Robertson's Lectures on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Lecture XLIX. "If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps."
Fourthly, a "Shakespeare" for girls: that is, an edition in which everything, not suitable for the perusal of girls of (say) from 10 to 17, should be omitted. Few children under 10 would be likely to understand or enjoy the greatest of poets: and those, who have passed out of girlhood, may safely be left to read Shakespeare, in any edition, 'expurgated' or not, that they may prefer: but it seems a pity that so many children, in the intermediate stage, should be debarred from a great pleasure for want of an edition suitable to them. Neither Bowdler's, Chambers's, Brandram's, nor Cundell's 'Boudoir' Shakespeare, seems to me to meet the want: they are not sufficiently 'expurgated.' Bowdler's is the most extraordinary of all: looking through it, I am filled with a deep sense of wonder, considering what he has left in, that he should have cut anything out! Besides relentlessly erasing all that is unsuitable on the score of reverence or decency, I should be inclined to omit also all that seems too difficult, or not likely to interest young readers. The resulting book might be slightly fragmentary: but it would be a real treasure to all British maidens who have any taste for poetry.
If it be needful to apologize to any one for the new departure I have taken in this story--by introducing, along with what will, I hope, prove to be acceptable nonsense for children, some of the graver thoughts of human life--it must be to one who has learned the Art of keeping such thoughts wholly at a distance in hours of mirth and careless ease. To him such a mixture will seem, no doubt, ill-judged and repulsive. And that such an Art exists I do not dispute: with youth, good health, and sufficient money, it seems quite possible to lead, for years together, a life of unmixed gaiety--with the exception of one solemn fact, with which we are liable to be confronted at any moment, even in the midst of the most brilliant company or the most sparkling entertainment. A man may fix his own times for admitting serious thought, for attending public worship, for prayer, for reading the Bible: all such matters he can defer to that 'convenient season', which is so apt never to occur at all: but he cannot defer, for one single moment, the necessity of attending to a message, which may come before he has finished reading this page,' this night shalt thy soul be required of thee.'
The ever-present sense of this grim possibility has been, in all ages, 1 an incubus that men have striven to shake off. Few more interesting subjects of enquiry could be found, by a student of history, than the various weapons that have been used against this shadowy foe. Saddest of all must have been the thoughts of those who saw indeed an existence beyond the grave, but an existence far more terrible than annihilation--an existence as filmy, impalpable, all but invisible spectres, drifting about, through endless ages, in a world of shadows, with nothing to do, nothing to hope for, nothing to love! In the midst of the gay verses of that genial 'bon vivant' Horace, there stands one dreary word whose utter sadness goes to one's heart. It is the word 'exilium' in the well-known passage
Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium
Versatur urna serius ocius
Sors exitura et nos in aeternum
Exilium impositura cymbae.
Yes, to him this present life--spite of all its weariness and all its sorrow--was the only life worth having: all else was 'exile'! Does it not seem almost incredible that one, holding such a creed, should ever have smiled?
And many in this day, I fear, even though believing in an existence beyond the grave far more real than Horace ever dreamed of, yet regard it as a sort of 'exile' from all the joys of life, and so adopt Horace's theory, and say 'let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.'
We go to entertainments, such as the theatre--I say 'we', for I also go to the play, whenever I get a chance of seeing a really good one and keep at arm's length, if possible, the thought that we may not return alive. Yet how do you know--dear friend, whose patience has carried you through this garrulous preface that it may not be your lot, when mirth is fastest and most furious, to feel the sharp pang, or the deadly faintness, which heralds the final crisis--to see, with vague wonder, anxious friends bending over you to hear their troubled whispers perhaps yourself to shape the question, with trembling lips, "Is it serious?", and to be told "Yes: the end is near" (and oh, how different all Life will look when those words are said!)--how do you know, I say, that all this may not happen to you, this night?
And dare you, knowing this, say to yourself "Well, perhaps it is an immoral play: perhaps the situations are a little too 'risky', the dialogue a little too strong, the 'business' a little too suggestive.
I don't say that conscience is quite easy: but the piece is so clever, I must see it this once! I'll begin a stricter life to-morrow." To-morrow, and to-morrow, and tomorrow!
"Who sins in hope, who, sinning, says,
'Sorrow for sin God's judgement stays!'
Against God's Spirit he lies; quite stops Mercy with insult; dares, and drops,
Like a scorch'd fly, that spins in vain
Upon the axis of its pain,
Then takes its doom, to limp and crawl,
Blind and forgot, from fall to fall."
Let me pause for a moment to say that I believe this thought, of the possibility of death--if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life--that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds'--but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man--and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
One other matter may perhaps seem to call for apology--that I should have treated with such entire want of sympathy the British passion for 'Sport', which no doubt has been in by-gone days, and is still, in some forms of it, an excellent school for hardihood and for coolness in moments of danger.
But I am not entirely without sympathy for genuine 'Sport': I can heartily admire the courage of the man who, with severe bodily toil, and at the risk of his life, hunts down some 'man-eating' tiger: and I can heartily sympathize with him when he exults in the glorious excitement of the chase and the hand-to-hand struggle with the monster brought to bay. But I can but look with deep wonder and sorrow on the hunter who, at his ease and in safety, can find pleasure in what involves, for some defenceless creature, wild terror and a death of agony: deeper, if the hunter be one who has pledged himself to preach to men the Religion of universal Love: deepest of all, if it be one of those 'tender and delicate' beings, whose very name serves as a symbol of Love--'thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women'--whose mission here is surely to help and comfort all that are in pain or sorrow!
'Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.' ~ Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:The end excuses any evil. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 2:Evil counsel travels fast. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 3:An evil life is a kind of death. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 4:Ill-gotten gains work evil. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 5:Evil is whatever distracts. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 6:Evil gains work their punishment. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 7:Government is a necessary evil ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 8:No one who errs unwillingly is evil. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 9:All evil is good become cancerous. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 10:Evil is the starry sky of the Good. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 11:Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 12:Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove 13:Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 14:Only a madman would give good for evil ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 15:There is no greater evil than anarchy. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 16:Evil to some is always good to others ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 17:Evil companions bring more hurt than profit. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove 18:Evil requires the sanction of the victim. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 19:There is no evil as terrible as a woman. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 20:Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 21:Evil is easy, and has infinite forms. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 22:Evil succeeds when good men do nothing ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 23:For nothing is evil in the beginning. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 24:Seek for good, but expect evil. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 25:A canter is the cure for all evil. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 26:Evil prevails when good men fail to act. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 27:Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove 28:If the gods do evil then they are not gods. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 29:The lack of money is the root of all evil. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 30:Active Evil is better than Passive Good. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 31:Evil is that which one believes of others. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 32:The canter is a cure for every evil. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 33:Evil is only good perverted. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 34:The snake stood up for evil in the Garden. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 35:Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead." ~ diogenes, @wisdomtrove 36:Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 37:Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 38:Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove 39:To live without evil belongs only to the gods. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 40:Well! Evil to some is always good to others. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 41:All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 42:Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove 43:Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 44:Return good for good; return evil with justice. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 45:There is nothing good or evil save in the will. ~ epictetus, @wisdomtrove 46:Being against evil doesn't make you good. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 47:I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 48:It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 49:Lack of money is the root of all evil. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove 50:Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 51:Evil is real - but so is God's power and love. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 52:Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 53:Good and evil both increase at compound interest. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 54:Not one false man but doth uncountable evil. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 55:The only thing evil can't stand is forgiveness. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 56:To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 57:War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 58:Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 59:Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 60:Nothing is evil which is according to nature. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 61:The past is one evil less and one memory more. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 62:Where there's music there can be no evil. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 63:All this wealth excludes but one evil, poverty. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 64:Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 65:The world is evil only when you become its slave. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 66:Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove 67:Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 68:Still we love the evil we do, until we suffer it. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 69:The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove 70:Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 71:Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 72:... Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 73:Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 74:One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 75:I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 76:Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 77:Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 78:There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 79:To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 80:The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. ~ socrates, @wisdomtrove 81:Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 82:Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 83:Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 84:There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 85:No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove 86:Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 87:The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 88:He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 89:Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 90:I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 91:I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 92:There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove 93:There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 94:Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 95:In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.] ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 96:The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 97:There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 98:There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 99:Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 100:Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 101:Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 102:If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 103:In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 104:There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 105:All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 106:Hard times always uncover the basic goodness and evil of the day. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 107:What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 108:All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 109:Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 110:When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 111:Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 112:I would rather be a little nobody, than to be a evil somebody. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove 113:The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 114:You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 115:Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 116:One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 117:Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 118:There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 119:If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 120:It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 121:Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 122:One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 123:They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 124:“We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.” ~ william-james, @wisdomtrove 125:What problems?" "Well for starters.. you're an evil duck killer. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 126:When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 127:Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 128:I tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 129:Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 130:Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 131:No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 132:You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 133:Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 134:In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 135:The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 136:The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 137:There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 138:The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 139:Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 140:Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 141:If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good? ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 142:It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove 143:It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 144:Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 145:Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit. ~ bodhidharma, @wisdomtrove 146:The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 147:All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 148:Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 149:In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 150:All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 151:Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove 152:We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 153:Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 154:By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove 155:It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 156:Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 157:Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 158:The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 159:A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 160:Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 161:& 162:No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 163:The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 164:According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 165:Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 166:Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 167:I do not believe in a God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 168:There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 169:All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 170:All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 171:There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 172:Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 173:He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 174:Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove 175:It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 176:I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 177:The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away. ~ immanuel-kant, @wisdomtrove 178:The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 179:There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 180:To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 181:All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 182:Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 183:I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 184:It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 185:I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 186:The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 187:This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 188:Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 189:Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 190:The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil... ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 191:We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 192:When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 193:All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 194:God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 195:What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 196:Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 197:Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 198:There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 199:We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 200:By the fruit the tree is to be known. An evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove 201:Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 202:No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 203:The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 204:The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 205:The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 206:Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 207:Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove 208:It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 209:Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 210:The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 211:When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 212:Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 213:I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 214:If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 215:Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove 216:Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 217:Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 218:Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 219:According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings. ~ bodhidharma, @wisdomtrove 220:Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 221:Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten. ~ bette-davis, @wisdomtrove 222:I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil. ~ voltaire, @wisdomtrove 223:Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 224:The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 225:The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 226:Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 227:Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 228:Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 229:Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 230:There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 231:Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 232:Conquer anger by love, evil by good; conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth. ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove 233:Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 234:The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 235:There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 236:However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 237:Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 238:Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 239:Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 240:Endued with evenness of mind, one casts off, in this very life, both good deeds and evil deeds. ~ adi-shankara, @wisdomtrove 241:Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity. ~ reinhold-niebuhr, @wisdomtrove 242:I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 243:Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove 244:So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 245:The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 246:This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 247:Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. ~ bodhidharma, @wisdomtrove 248:It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 249:Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 250:The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 251:The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 252:There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 253:We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us. ~ barack-obama, @wisdomtrove 254:We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 255:A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 256:God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 257:My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 258:The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 259:There is no source of evil. There is only a Stream of Well-Being, which you are allowing, or not. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 260:The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 261:The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 262:He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 263:The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 264:The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 265:We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 266:But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents. ~ immanuel-kant, @wisdomtrove 267:I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 268:The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove 269:The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 270:A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 271:Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 272:Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 273:I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 274:No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 275:The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 276:The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 277:We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 278:All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 279:May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 280:People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 281:The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 282:It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 283:How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 284:I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 285:Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 286:Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 287:Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 288:A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 289:I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 290:There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 291:Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 292:You are a serial killer. You wake up and find it was a dream. Or a virtual reality. Are you guilty of evil? ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 293:Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 294:Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 295:Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 296:Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 297:It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 298:Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 299:Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 300:All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 301:Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 302:Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 303:To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 304:Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 305:Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 306:It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 307:Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 308:As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know? ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 309:There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove 310:Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 311:What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 312:What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 313:Evil cannot be overcome by more evil. Evil can only be overcome by good. It is the lesson of the way of love. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 314:It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest. ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 315:People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies. ~ don-miguel-ruiz, @wisdomtrove 316:You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 317:And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove 318:A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 319:Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 320:I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 321:The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 322:This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 323:In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 324:Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil. ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove 325:To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 326:We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 327:What an immense mass of evil must result... from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 328:In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 329:In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 330:The egg is white though the hen is black as coal... Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 331:The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove 332:The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 333:Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 334:Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 335:Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 336:How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 337:Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 338:Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove 339:Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 340:And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 341:It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible. ~ reinhold-niebuhr, @wisdomtrove 342:Lo, how to conquer evil thoughts?Easy! One thing, just try -Imagine you are the ocean vast,You are the boundless sky. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 343:Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important nonevil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove 344:I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it dose is permanent. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 345:We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 346:We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 347:We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 348:Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 349:Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 350:Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 351:The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 352:There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 353:Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 354:Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 355:For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 356:Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 357:Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 358:Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 359:God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 360:Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 361:Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 362:So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 363:The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 364:What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 365:Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove 366:At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 367:God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 368:The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 369:The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 370:You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 371:All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 372:As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 373:Celebrity is no different from any other energy. It's a force for good or evil. It's no different from money. It's power. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 374:In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 375:The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 376:Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side, ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 377:Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 378:Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 379:Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 380:O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 381:The Bible teaches us that God does not cause pain, but that He uses pain and evil to advance His cause and shape His servants. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 382:The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 383:You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 384:Evil can be helped to fade away more quickly if we remain in obedience to the Law of Love - evil must be overcome with good. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 385:It is your thinking yourself to be separate from it that creates disorder. Selfishness is the source of all evil. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 386:The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 387:Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 388:As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 389:Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 390:evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 391:One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 392:Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 393:A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 394:Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 395:The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 396:War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 397:I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 398:Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 399:No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove 400:The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 401:The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 402:If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove 403:Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 404:the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 405:Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply. ~ reinhold-niebuhr, @wisdomtrove 406:... love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 407:Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 408:Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 409:Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 410:This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 411:God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 412:I just wanted to create things that I could be proud of. Money was just an evil byproduct to pay the bills at the end of the year. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 413:Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 414:Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 415:The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 416:The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 417:Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 418:Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 419:Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 420:When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 421:A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 422:Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that. ~ anthony-de-mello, @wisdomtrove 423:Dollars aren't the root of happiness, but they are not the root of evil either. They are the result of how somebody lines up the Energy. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 424:Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 425:I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 426:It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 427:The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 428:For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 429:For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 430:Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 431:There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 432:An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove 433:The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 434:Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 435:The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 436:The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 437:Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove 438:Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 439:Perhaps, the good and the beautiful are the same, and must be investigated by one and the same process; and in like manner the base and the evil. ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove 440:War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 441:All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 442:Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 443:In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 444:This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 445:Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 446:In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 447:It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill! ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 448:One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 449:Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 450:The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 451:Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 452:A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 453:Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 454:Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 455:Money is not evil. There is no scarcity, except in our mind and attitudes. And what we believe we deserve will be about what we shall receive. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 456:To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 457:We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 458:Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 459:I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 460:If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 461:In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 462:Of all evils of war, the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 463:To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 464:But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 465:It's our responsibility to see to it that the good outweighs the evil and I am convinced beyond a doubt that today's Americans will do exactly that! ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 466:There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 467:The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 468:Try to make others happy, and don't despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 469:Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 470:Imagined orders are not evil conspiracies or useless mirages. Rather, they are the only way large numbers of humans can cooperate effectively. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 471:We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 472:When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 473:Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 474:Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 475:Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 476:Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 477:Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: & 478:Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 479:Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 480:Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 481:Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 482:A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 483:If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 484:It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 485:The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 486:When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 487:Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 488:Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years . ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 489:The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one another. ~ barbara-marx-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 490:An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 491:There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 492:If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 493:Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. ~ paul-davies, @wisdomtrove 494:Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 495:I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 496:It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove 497:There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 498:To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove 499:Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 500:When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:And empty words are evil. ~ Homer, #NFDB
2:Weakness begets evil ~ Jo Goodman, #NFDB
3:And empty words are evil. ~ Homer, #NFDB
4:Sorrow is a form of Evil. ~ Hermes, #NFDB
5:Nobody is born evil. ~ Alice Miller, #NFDB
6:Root of All Evil? ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
7:Evil, be thou my good. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
8:Evil draws men together. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
9:Evil is a point of view. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
10:Good necessitates evil. ~ Ann Leckie, #NFDB
11:I am an evil Giraffe. ~ Eddie Izzard, #NFDB
12:In an evil hour, I ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
13:Evil brings men together. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
14:Sin is a measure of evil, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
15:The end excuses any evil. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
16:but z he who pursues evil ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
17:Evil counsel travels fast. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
18:Evil knows no holiday. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
19:Good to evil seems evil ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
20:Honesty, by evil fortune tried, ~ Ovid, #NFDB
21:An evil life is a kind of death. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
22:As for his evil tidings, ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
23:Every evil begets some good. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
24:Evil turns upon itself. ~ Margaret Weis, #NFDB
25:Good comes out of evil. ~ Thomas Kempis, #NFDB
26:Good to evil seems evil. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
27:Ill-gotten gains work evil. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
28:Rats live on no evil star ~ Anne Sexton, #NFDB
29:Evil has an ordinary face. ~ James Comey, #NFDB
30:Evil is ignorance. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
31:Evil is just a point of view ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
32:Good to evil seems evil a ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
33:Ignorance: the root of all evil. ~ Plato, #NFDB
34:The evil that we know is best. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
35:The human is evil. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
36:Blood? Lava? Evil ketchup? ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
37:Evil is its own undoing. ~ Veronica Rossi, #NFDB
38:Evil is maybe lying to God. ~ Anne Sexton, #NFDB
39:Evil is whatever distracts. ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
40:Evil man make me kill you. ~ Jimi Hendrix, #NFDB
41:He’s evil in a can. ~ John Jackson Miller, #NFDB
42:Moms were psychic and evil. ~ Gwenda Bond, #NFDB
43:Evil Is Not Born. Evil Is Made ~ V F Mason, #NFDB
44:Evil requires no reason. ~ Alberto Manguel, #NFDB
45:In war, all choices are evil. ~ David Hair, #NFDB
46:Ms. Sophia was evil bananas. ~ Lauren Kate, #NFDB
47:Time to die. -Evil Angel ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
48:You get used to being evil. ~ Nancy Farmer, #NFDB
49:Evil changes everybody! ~ Vincent D Onofrio, #NFDB
50:Evil doesn't just go away. ~ Heather Graham, #NFDB
51:Evil lurks in this castle. ~ MaryLu Tyndall, #NFDB
52:evil, too, can be instructive. ~ Ay e Kulin, #NFDB
53:Evil tries to hide, like God. ~ John Draper, #NFDB
54:Genius does not excuse evil. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
55:Google’s motto—“Don’t be evil ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
56:Love me...I am not evil. ~ Christopher Pike, #NFDB
57:Not doing evil is happiness. ~ Gil Fronsdal, #NFDB
58:Pchem is the root of all evil. ~ Daniel Lee, #NFDB
59:The non-doing of any evil, ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
60:We are free, but no to be evil ~ Jose Marti, #NFDB
61:Who isn't fascinated by evil? ~ Marvin Gaye, #NFDB
62:Everything evil is revenge. ~ Otto Weininger, #NFDB
63:Evil is done by the living. ~ Heather Graham, #NFDB
64:Evil is movement towards void. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
65:Evil is stupidity with intent. ~ Neel Burton, #NFDB
66:inverse of the word live is evil. ~ Ben Okri, #NFDB
67:Pain, thou art not an evil ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
68:Sorrow is the daughter of evil. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
69:There is but one evil, ignorance. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
70:The very face of evil was love. ~ Kyle Minor, #NFDB
71:An evil gain equals a loss. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
72:An evil word it is/ This Love. ~ Amiri Baraka, #NFDB
73:Differences doesn't mean evil. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
74:Don't be evil is a load of crap. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB
75:Evil Be He Who Thinketh Evil ~ Rebecca Maizel, #NFDB
76:Evil gains work their punishment. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
77:Evil is the absence of God. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
78:Expectations are an evil thing. ~ Skylar Grey, #NFDB
79:Good always wins over evil. ~ Christy Barritt, #NFDB
80:Good cannot come from evil. ~ Lloyd Alexander, #NFDB
81:Good. Evil. They're just words. ~ Lauren Kate, #NFDB
82:Government is a necessary evil ~ Thomas Paine, #NFDB
83:If you try to cure evil with evil ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
84:My heart is pure. Pure evil! ~ Akira Toriyama, #NFDB
85:nuns. Their evil design against ~ Helen Bryan, #NFDB
86:Pain, thou art not an evil. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
87:Power is neither good nor evil. ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB
88:To me, a 'brand' sounds evil. ~ Steven Moffat, #NFDB
89:Turn ye from your evil ways. ~ Ezekiel XXXIII, #NFDB
90:Well, that's an evil smile. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
91:Woman is the root of all evil. ~ Saint Jerome, #NFDB
92:22Abstain from every form of evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
93:A great book is like great evil. ~ Callimachus, #NFDB
94:Dialogue is a necessary evil. ~ Fred Zinnemann, #NFDB
95:Do not resist the one who is evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
96:Evil be he who thinketh evil. ~ Rebecca Maizel, #NFDB
97:Evil is a form of incompetence. ~ Alan Bullock, #NFDB
98:Evil is more famous than goodness. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
99:Fighting evil, it's hard work. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
100:For good is simple, evil manifold. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
101:Good and evil lay side by side. ~ Jimi Hendrix, #NFDB
102:Goodness is stronger than evil. ~ Desmond Tutu, #NFDB
103:Kindness is thrown away upon the evil. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
104:Let Us Do Evil That Good May Come! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
105:love must master good and evil. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
106:The food of evil is so good. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
107:Where liberty dies, evil grows. ~ Hamid Karzai, #NFDB
108:All the best geniuses are evil, ~ Gail Carriger, #NFDB
109:Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue. ~ Plato, #NFDB
110:Evil can do anything, for a price. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
111:Evil is a slow-moving organism. ~ Michael Moore, #NFDB
112:Evil on itself shall back recoil. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
113:Evil to him who evil thinks,.... ~ Karen Harper, #NFDB
114:Hate is the father of all evil. ~ David Gemmell, #NFDB
115:I'm evil, know it, and enjoy it. ~ Robert Thier, #NFDB
116:The lesser evil is also evil. ~ Naomi Mitchison, #NFDB
117:Well, that's an evil smile... ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
118:What is evil?' asked the Fiend ~ Joseph Delaney, #NFDB
119:An act of evil is the death of wonder ~ Joe Meno, #NFDB
120:Ego, after all, was the root of evil. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
121:I'm not evil, I'm just very creative ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
122:multitude of books is a great evil ~ Clay Shirky, #NFDB
123:Must not do evil tycoon in garden. ~ Amy Andrews, #NFDB
124:No one who errs unwillingly is evil. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
125:Only religion can lead to such evil. ~ Lucretius, #NFDB
126:Remember: Evil is a point of View ~ Cameron Jace, #NFDB
127:The lesser of two evils is still evil. ~ Solomon, #NFDB
128:All evil is good become cancerous. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
129:Do not accept an evil you can change ~ E Lockhart, #NFDB
130:Evil don’t die. It just waits. ~ Jonathan Maberry, #NFDB
131:Evil is the starry sky of the Good. ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
132:Government is an unnecessary evil. ~ Jeff Berwick, #NFDB
133:Great for good, or great for evil. ~ Robert Burns, #NFDB
134:Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
135:Human reason can excuse any evil. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
136:Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
137:Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. ~ Plato, #NFDB
138:Marketing is neither good nor evil. ~ Paula Scher, #NFDB
139:No approving of the Evil Overlords, ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
140:Not all people with scars are evil. ~ Ally Carter, #NFDB
141:Small-town boy meets big-time evil. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
142:The best known evil is the most tolerable. ~ Livy, #NFDB
143:The United States is evil. ~ Henry de Montherlant, #NFDB
144:...and deliver me from evil." "Amen. ~ Dave Pelzer, #NFDB
145:And would'st thou evil for his good repay? ~ Homer, #NFDB
146:Do not accept an evil you can change. ~ E Lockhart, #NFDB
147:Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
148:Evil has only the power we give it. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
149:Evil is, good or truth misplaced. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
150:Evil is like a shadow. It follows you. ~ Yaa Gyasi, #NFDB
151:Heroism is the antidote to evil. ~ Philip Zimbardo, #NFDB
152:Only a madman would give good for evil ~ Euripides, #NFDB
153:Such evil deeds could religion prompt. ~ Lucretius, #NFDB
154:There is a little good in all evil. ~ Wilson Rawls, #NFDB
155:There is much evil in the world. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
156:There is no evil without choice ~ Christopher Halt, #NFDB
157:There is no greater evil than anarchy. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
158:To fight evil is to fight ourselves. ~ Octavio Paz, #NFDB
159:An evil plan does mischief to the planner. ~ Hesiod, #NFDB
160:Cocaine is like really evil coffee. ~ Courtney Love, #NFDB
161:Evil doesn’t strike justly. ~ Malin Persson Giolito, #NFDB
162:Evil events from evil causes spring. ~ Aristophanes, #NFDB
163:Evil tongues never want a whet. ~ Alain Rene Lesage, #NFDB
164:Evil to some is always good to others ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
165:Evil will win if good people do nothing. ~ P C Cast, #NFDB
166:Good cannot be forced. Only evil. ~ L E Modesitt Jr, #NFDB
167:How can I be so evil? It ain't easy. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
168:I don't really believe in evil at all. ~ Ian Mcewan, #NFDB
169:Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil. ~ Plato, #NFDB
170:Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. ~ Plato, #NFDB
171:Thinking evil is making evil. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
172:To a good man nothing that happens is evil. ~ Plato, #NFDB
173:You evil thing, why do you haunt me? ~ John Fogerty, #NFDB
174:You're sick. Sick and evil and weird. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
175:Dominatio per malum. Power through evil. ~ R L Stine, #NFDB
176:Every evil starts with 15 volts. ~ Philip G Zimbardo, #NFDB
177:Evil companions bring more hurt than profit. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
178:Evil contained is not evil destroyed. ~ Terry Brooks, #NFDB
179:evil days of inward vacancy and despair, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
180:Evil is a confession of inadequacy ~ Stefan Molyneux, #NFDB
181:Evil is in the eye of the beholder. ~ David Mitchell, #NFDB
182:Evil is nourished and grows by concealment. ~ Virgil, #NFDB
183:Evil is obvious only in retrospect. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
184:evil is the nature of mankind. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, #NFDB
185:Evil lies in the hearts of mankind! ~ Heather Graham, #NFDB
186:Evil requires the sanction of the victim. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
187:Evil to him who evil thinks. ~ Edward III of England, #NFDB
188:Evil wishes, like fowls, come home to roost. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
189:Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil). ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
190:•fear the LORD and turn away from evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
191:idleness is the root of all evil. ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
192:Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil. ~ Plato, #NFDB
193:Perhaps this is the only real evil left. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
194:The evil plan is most harmful to the planner ~ Homer, #NFDB
195:the evil thing is inside, not out. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
196:There is no evil as terrible as a woman. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
197:We can overcome evil with greater good. ~ Laura Bush, #NFDB
198:When we make mistakes they call it evil ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
199:Without evil, how would we know good? ~ Kelli Stuart, #NFDB
200:Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
201:Yellow is evil, so don't drink your piss ~ PewDiePie, #NFDB
202:You can make money without doing evil. ~ Sergey Brin, #NFDB
203:Before you think good or evil, who are you? ~ Huineng, #NFDB
204:Being dead broke is the Root of all Evil. ~ Rick Ross, #NFDB
205:But one need not be evil to become it ~ Susan Dennard, #NFDB
206:Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil ~ Eminem, #NFDB
207:Evil is easy, and has infinite forms. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
208:Evil is unspectacular and always human ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
209:Evil never dies. It just changes faces. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
210:Evil succeeds when good men do nothing ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB
211:For nothing is evil in the beginning. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
212:Inequality is the root of social evil. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
213:Let us confess it: evil strides the world. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
214:Mind sees demons when heart full of evil. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
215:No evil is great if it is the last. ~ Cornelius Nepos, #NFDB
216:Seek for good, but expect evil. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
217:The evil always comes from details. ~ Henning Mankell, #NFDB
218:The greatest evil is physical pain. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
219:There is no evil angel but Love ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
220:Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
221:We are all born marked for evil. ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB
222:We don't defeat evil by becoming evil. ~ Nick Clooney, #NFDB
223:What place lay beyond the reach of evil? ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
224:You can't fight evil with meditation. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
225:You foul, lying, evil little cockroach! ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
226:A canter is the cure for all evil. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
227:And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher. ~ Hesiod, #NFDB
228:Before you think good or evil, who are you? ~ Huineng, #NFDB
229:Evil depends on where you're standing. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
230:Evil genius-ness was like that--showy. ~ Gail Carriger, #NFDB
231:Evil is limited. One cannot form ~ Philip James Bailey, #NFDB
232:Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned. ~ Ellen Hopkins, #NFDB
233:Evil is unspectacular and always human, ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
234:Evil perpetually tends to disappear. ~ Herbert Spencer, #NFDB
235:Evil's lurking, I can see him smirking. ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
236:For every innocent, there is also evil. ~ Amber Argyle, #NFDB
237:I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother. ~ Hulk Hogan, #NFDB
238:Ignorance and evil-an ugly alliance. ~ Tom Angleberger, #NFDB
239:Lies and victimhood make evil possible ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
240:Love is evil spell it backwards I'll show ya. ~ Eminem, #NFDB
241:So Ah’m no evil, Ah’m just plain bad. ~ Charles Stross, #NFDB
242:The evil of the soul is ignorance. ~ Hermes, “The Key”, #NFDB
243:The lesser of two evils was still evil. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
244:Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
245:absolute evil paralyzes absolutely. In ~ William Styron, #NFDB
246:Active evil is better than passive good ~ William Blake, #NFDB
247:All evil begins with fifteen volts. ~ Philip G Zimbardo, #NFDB
248:Allow the purity of evil to guide you. ~ The Undertaker, #NFDB
249:Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together." ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
250:Everyone should have an evil secret plan. ~ Denis Leary, #NFDB
251:Evil and laughter cannot co-exist. ~ Alice Thomas Ellis, #NFDB
252:Evil angels make the best boyfriends. ~ Felicity Heaton, #NFDB
253:Evil doesn't always have one face, Ethan. ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB
254:Evil exists only in the hearts of men. ~ Brian Rathbone, #NFDB
255:Evil has only the power that we give it. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
256:Evil prevails when good men fail to act. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB
257:Evil was invisible, and it was everywhere. ~ Alma Katsu, #NFDB
258:Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
259:I don't think good and evil are polarized. ~ Sam Mendes, #NFDB
260:If the gods do evil then they are not gods. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
261:Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. ~ Plato, #NFDB
262:I say one evil empire down...one to go. ~ Michael Moore, #NFDB
263:My definition of evil is unfriendliness. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
264:No one is evil. But evil is within us all. ~ Lizzy Ford, #NFDB
265:The lack of money is the root of all evil. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
266:The process of nature cannot be evil. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
267:They, who know no evil, will suspect none. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
268:We expect Evil to announce itself. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
269:1TH5.22 Abstain from all appearance of evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
270:Active Evil is better than Passive Good. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
271:Bad Amanda! Stop ogling the evil Doomer! She ~ I T Lucas, #NFDB
272:Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153 ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
273:Dedicated Practitioners of Evil,” or DPEs. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
274:Despair makes us serve evil as much as good. ~ Hadewijch, #NFDB
275:Evil comes up softly like a flower. ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB
276:Evil is that which one believes of others. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
277:Evil lurks where disappointment lodges. ~ George Foreman, #NFDB
278:Evil person causes harm even if treated will. ~ Chanakya, #NFDB
279:Evil wishes, like fowls, come home to roost. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
280:God’s goodness is stronger than any evil! ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
281:I'm not somebody who believes in evil. ~ Karin Slaughter, #NFDB
282:Love goodness more than you fear evil. ~ Jonathan Rogers, #NFDB
283:Love is evil, spell it backwards, I’ll show ya. ~ Eminem, #NFDB
284:Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not. ~ Mencius, #NFDB
285:So it must seem. Good to evil seems evil. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
286:some evil old ruffian of a Dog-stealer ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
287:Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
288:The canter is a cure for every evil. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
289:There is no such thing as a necessary evil. ~ Alan Cohen, #NFDB
290:THERE IS SOMETHING truly evil about plaid. ~ Katie Henry, #NFDB
291:The rose is born evil ... but it is pink. ~ Louis Aragon, #NFDB
292:Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return. ~ W H Auden, #NFDB
293:We should not accept an evil we can change. ~ E Lockhart, #NFDB
294:A baseball manager is a necessary evil. ~ Sparky Anderson, #NFDB
295:A full Belly brings forth every Evil. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
296:Anything which deceives is evil, I believe. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
297:Art is an attempt to integrate evil. ~ Simone de Beauvoir, #NFDB
298:evil condoned wears the mask of benevolence ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
299:Evil isn’t capable of telling the truth. ~ Adrienne Woods, #NFDB
300:Evil is only good perverted. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
301:Evil is the rule. Good is the exception. ~ Donato Carrisi, #NFDB
302:Evil prevails when good people do nothing. ~ Erin Gruwell, #NFDB
303:Hope is the most evil of all emotions ~ Charity Parkerson, #NFDB
304:If the act is evil, the actor is evil. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
305:I'm always a bit shy around evil people. ~ Craig Ferguson, #NFDB
306:In doing nothing men learn to do evil. ~ Cato the Younger, #NFDB
307:It is good insofar as it is not evil. ~ Franz Grillparzer, #NFDB
308:It was war itself that was evil, not men. ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
309:Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
310:Let us not become the evil that we deplore. ~ Barbara Lee, #NFDB
311:No evil is without its compensation. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
312:So much good, so much evil. Just add water ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
313:the evil the u are the brighter u will get ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
314:The mouse had fallen in with evil cats. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
315:there is evil everywhere under the sun. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
316:The snake stood up for evil in the Garden. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
317:They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
318:To be slightly evil is to embrace life. ~ Venkatesh G Rao, #NFDB
319:To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil. ~ Manu Bennett, #NFDB
320:Use your powers for good instead of evil ~ Nnedi Okorafor, #NFDB
321:And out of good still to find means of evil. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
322:Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
323:Blame the evil on those who committed it, ~ Daniel Arenson, #NFDB
324:Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead." ~ Diogenes, #NFDB
325:Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
326:Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme. ~ John Carpenter, #NFDB
327:Evil men do what good men only dream of doing. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
328:Evil really needs to step up its game. ~ Lesley Livingston, #NFDB
329:Evil then results from imperfection. ~ Philip James Bailey, #NFDB
330:Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
331:Free will is the power of choosing good and evil. ~ Origen, #NFDB
332:Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
333:It [abortion] is a crime, an absolute evil. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
334:It is better to suffer evil than to do evil. ~ Brent Weeks, #NFDB
335:It was a war of evil against lesser evil. ~ Niall Ferguson, #NFDB
336:Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
337:Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. ~ Plato, #NFDB
338:Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us. ~ Charles Kingsley, #NFDB
339:People are not evil; they are schlemiels. ~ Abraham Maslow, #NFDB
340:So much good, so much evil. Just add water. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
341:The misuse of language induces evil in the soul ~ Socrates, #NFDB
342:Those who understand evil pardon it. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
343:To live without evil belongs only to the gods. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
344:Well, evil to some is always good to others. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
345:When a woman thinks alone, she thinks evil. ~ Stacy Schiff, #NFDB
346:A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
347:Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts. ~ Cormac McCarthy, #NFDB
348:All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
349:and the righteous cowed and the evil grew bold. ~ Leon Uris, #NFDB
350:A pretty face can sometimes hide an evil mind. ~ Thomas Amo, #NFDB
351:Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
352:Evil communications corrupt good manners. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
353:Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
354:Family squabbling is the greatest evil of all ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
355:Find good in what the world says is evil. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
356:I can be quite evil, in a loving sort of way. ~ Nancy Moser, #NFDB
357:If evil exists its to be found in our fears. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
358:I'm always a bit shy around evil people... ~ Craig Ferguson, #NFDB
359:...is it evil to use evil to combat evil... ~ Oliver Bowden, #NFDB
360:It is lonely, being an evil alien in disguise. ~ Emily Barr, #NFDB
361:Like evil, sublimity is also contagious. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
362:Man must become better and more evil. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
363:Oh, there was so much evil in a man . . . ~ Carole Lawrence, #NFDB
364:Repetition is the root of all software evil ~ Martin Fowler, #NFDB
365:Return good for good; return evil with justice. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
366:The misuse of language induces evil in the soul. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
367:There is nothing good or evil save in the will. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
368:Those who don't hate evil hate those who do ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
369:An evil discovered is half healed. ~ Jane Frances de Chantal, #NFDB
370:Being against evil doesn't make you good. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
371:Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
372:Every man is an evil until he falls in love. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
373:Evil people must spread their evil everywhere. ~ Jane Smiley, #NFDB
374:Evil prevails where good people do nothing. ~ Corban Addison, #NFDB
375:evil shall
with evil
be expelled... ~ Stieg Larsson,#NFDB
376:For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts. ~ Matthew XV. 19, #NFDB
377:I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
378:If Evil exists, it’s to be found in our fears ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
379:I hate it when evil sorceresses have a point. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
380:Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
381:It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
382:knowledge is only evil if it is used as such, ~ Dakota Krout, #NFDB
383:Make love your weapon to overcome any evil ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
384:May you fear no evil. ...And may evil fear you. ~ N D Wilson, #NFDB
385:Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude. ~ John Adams, #NFDB
386:Religion taught us to return good for evil. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
387:Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2. ~ Shane West, #NFDB
388:Self-esteem is the goddamn root of all evil. ~ Roseanne Barr, #NFDB
389:The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent. ~ Jean Racine, #NFDB
390:Those to whom evil is done,
do evil in return ~ W H Auden,#NFDB
391:Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
392:Evil is real - but so is God's power and love. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
393:Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic. ~ Jon Stewart, #NFDB
394:Evil is relatively rare; ignorance is epidemic. ~ Jon Stewart, #NFDB
395:Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
396:Evil prospers when good men do nothing. ~ John Philpot Curran, #NFDB
397:Evil was predictable, always painfully expected. ~ Ted Dekker, #NFDB
398:Good and evil both increase at compound interest. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
399:if Evil exists, it’s to be found in our fears? ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
400:If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of. ~ Hesiod, #NFDB
401:Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
402:Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
403:Is there a fate worse than being halfway evil? ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
404:I then had an evil case of word vomit ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
405:It is immoral to see evil and not act on it. ~ Robert Kennedy, #NFDB
406:It was, I thought, what evil must smell like. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
407:Magic is neither good nor evil. It merely is. ~ R A Salvatore, #NFDB
408:Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil. ~ Jeff Ament, #NFDB
409:My story for the day was a limp sort of evil. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
410:No evil lost is wailed when it is gone. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
411:No-mind is an evil place for mind to stay. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
412:Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
413:Not one false man but doth uncountable evil. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
414:PROLOGUE EVIL IN THE CROSSHAIRS LATE MARCH 2003. ~ Chris Kyle, #NFDB
415:Racism today is the ultimate evil in the world ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
416:Suffering and evil will not have the last word. ~ George Pell, #NFDB
417:The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. ~ Menander, #NFDB
418:The more evil you do, the more evil you are, ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
419:The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness. ~ Fred Rogers, #NFDB
420:There is often no line between perfection and evil. ~ Ken Liu, #NFDB
421:Thus, death begets death; evil begets evil. ~ Lloyd Alexander, #NFDB
422:To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
423:Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. ~ Thomas Mann, #NFDB
424:War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
425:We believe no evil till the evil's done ~ Jean de La Fontaine, #NFDB
426:Well-read people are less likely to be evil. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
427:Well-read people are less likely to be evil. ~ Lemony Snicket, #NFDB
428:Afternoon classes - that evil invention! ~ John Gresham Machen, #NFDB
429:could only fight evil so long without a bra. ~ Melissa F Olson, #NFDB
430:Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
431:Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
432:Evil thenceforth became my good. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, #NFDB
433:Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb. ~ Rick Moranis, #NFDB
434:For evil news rides post, while good news baits. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
435:Good ends will not justify evil actions. What ~ Richard Baxter, #NFDB
436:Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
437:I'm lonely like Adam and you're evil like Eve. ~ Elvis Presley, #NFDB
438:It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil. ~ Kevin Hart, #NFDB
439:I whistled. "You have evil thoughts for a goat. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
440:karma is an evil bitch with a very long memory. ~ Zach Fortier, #NFDB
441:long association brings love of evil as well as good. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
442:money so they say is the root of all evil today ~ Roger Waters, #NFDB
443:Premature optimization is the root of all evil. ~ Donald Knuth, #NFDB
444:Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
445:She’s a nice girl. I won’t speak evil of her. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
446:The face of evil is frighteningly ordinary. ~ Charles W Colson, #NFDB
447:the love of money is the root of all evil. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
448:The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
449:To fight evil, you have to understand the dark. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
450:To resist him that is set in authority is evil ~ John Bartlett, #NFDB
451:Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
452:All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
453:Different isn't evil, it's just different. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
454:Every noisy evil is missed when it is taken away. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
455:Evil almost always starts with small cruelties. ~ Will Schwalbe, #NFDB
456:Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. ~ Joel C Rosenberg, #NFDB
457:Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
458:If it can’t be used for evil, it’s not a superpower. ~ Nir Eyal, #NFDB
459:Lack of money is the root of of all evil. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
460:Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
461:liked the evil in themselves too much to be trusted. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
462:money so they say is the root of all evil today ~ Roger Waters, #NFDB
463:Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame. ~ Tertullian, #NFDB
464:Nothing is evil which is according to nature. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
465:Only lies and evil come from letting people off. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
466:Our choices are truncated in evil's presence. ~ Michael Ventura, #NFDB
467:Our greatest evil flows from ourselves. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
468:See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Rohypnol ~ Jimmy Carr, #NFDB
469:So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. ~ Lucretius, #NFDB
470:Spells are like knives, capable of good or evil. ~ J T Lawrence, #NFDB
471:The past is one evil less and one memory more. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
472:There is no evil without its compensation. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
473:The single most instinctive evil is discrimination ~ Rahul Bose, #NFDB
474:Those of you who love the Lord should hate evil ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
475:Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
476:We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
477:Where there's music there can be no evil. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
478:woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil. ~ John Irving, #NFDB
479:do no harm. help when you can. return good for evil. ~ L J Smith, #NFDB
480:Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
481:Every evil overlord needs a fluffy cat to stroke. ~ Sally Thorne, #NFDB
482:Evil never sleeps, and Virtue is ever-vigilant ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
483:Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil. ~ Ella Leya, #NFDB
484:Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. ~ W H Auden, #NFDB
485:How can I protect something so perfect without evil. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
486:How does God deal with evil? He puts a ring on it. ~ A J Swoboda, #NFDB
487:If you want to scare people, you talk about evil. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
488:I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2? ~ Joe Dante, #NFDB
489:In God’s hands intended evil becomes eventual good. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
490:It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil. ~ Tertullian, #NFDB
491:Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
492:Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
493:Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, ~ Sharon Kay Penman, #NFDB
494:The love of money, not money, is root of all evil. ~ Dave Ramsey, #NFDB
495:The perfection of evil is to be ignorant of the Divine. ~ Hermes, #NFDB
496:there are no devils. Inhumanity is the real evil, ~ Michael Wood, #NFDB
497:The root of all evil is 'I', 'Me' , 'Mine'. ~ Pio of Pietrelcina, #NFDB
498:The world is evil only when you become its slave. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
499:They don't realize evil lives on their streets ~ Lisa Scottoline, #NFDB
500:Thy hand bestows blessings: Thy power averts evil. I ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
501:What was worse, being crazy or being evil? ~ Charlie Jane Anders, #NFDB
502:Where evil men would seek to perpetuate ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
503:WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
504:Why are we being chased by evil espresso drinks?! ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
505:15See that t no one repays anyone evil for evil, but ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
506:Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
507:Anything evil that you do will come back at you. ~ Heather Graham, #NFDB
508:Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. ~ Philip Gourevitch, #NFDB
509:Evil comes in shades of gray, not black and white. ~ Dacre Stoker, #NFDB
510:Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others. ~ Richard Powers, #NFDB
511:Evil? Maybe a little deviant. But evil? Nah... ~ Annalise Delaney, #NFDB
512:Evil? Maybe a little deviant, but evil? Nah... ~ Annalise Delaney, #NFDB
513:Evil never sleeps, and Virtue is ever-vigilant. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
514:Evil report carries further than any applause. ~ Baltasar Gracian, #NFDB
515:Evil societies always kill their consciences. ~ James L Farmer Jr, #NFDB
516:Fear is a greater evil than evil itself. ~ Saint Francis de Sales, #NFDB
517:God won't let me into heaven because I'm too evil. ~ Phil Spector, #NFDB
518:In life we pay for the evil that in life we do. ~ Rafael Sabatini, #NFDB
519:It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
520:Love is 'evil' spelled backward--with an i instead of an o. ~ Avi, #NFDB
521:misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is ~ Joel C Rosenberg, #NFDB
522:Not all private equity people are evil. Only some. ~ Paul Krugman, #NFDB
523:She has an evil twin—that’s storybook bad. ~ Aurora Rose Reynolds, #NFDB
524:Silence in the face of evil is evil itself. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
525:Specialization is the great evil of civilization. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
526:That evil can never be great which is the last. ~ Cornelius Nepos, #NFDB
527:There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil. ~ Bob Dole, #NFDB
528:The season of evil," I echoed. "Protect your soul. ~ David Almond, #NFDB
529:We are not against the evil when our enemies are. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
530:What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask. ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB
531:You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
532:All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
533:Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand. ~ Bodie Thoene, #NFDB
534:Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
535:Because evil is a point of view. ~ Cameron JaceWolf ~ Cameron Jace, #NFDB
536:Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
537:Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote. ~ Dorothea Dix, #NFDB
538:Evil and good are God's right hand and left. ~ Philip James Bailey, #NFDB
539:Evil can be undone, but it cannot "develop" into good. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
540:Evil is a word used by the ignorant and the weak, ~ Drew Karpyshyn, #NFDB
541:Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ~ Jeff Wheeler, #NFDB
542:Fear not of evil.. Everyday dem flesh it grow old ~ Damian Marley, #NFDB
543:for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
544:Good always has a price, Marcus. Evil comes free. ~ Donato Carrisi, #NFDB
545:...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
546:How can I protect something so perfect without evil... ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
547:In the world we make good as evil and evil as good. ~ Jim Caviezel, #NFDB
548:Irrationality is the square root of all evil. ~ Douglas Hofstadter, #NFDB
549:Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
550:Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. ~ Hesiod, #NFDB
551:Ordinary men commit extraordinary evil all the time. ~ Mindy Mejia, #NFDB
552:Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it. ~ Jacob Burckhardt, #NFDB
553:Sanity is all that stands between good and evil. ~ Raymond E Feist, #NFDB
554:She's so small, yet she contains so much evil. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
555:Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust. ~ George Washington, #NFDB
556:There is no evil in the world without a remedy. ~ Jacopo Sannazaro, #NFDB
557:There is no fire like lust, no evil like hatred. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
558:There is no possible source of evil except good. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
559:The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
560:The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be. ~ Joe Meno, #NFDB
561:They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be? ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
562:Too bad evil people sometimes live in peaceful towns, ~ Karen Rose, #NFDB
563:Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying. ~ Theodor Adorno, #NFDB
564:Weakness arouses evil. The American people know this. ~ Mike Pence, #NFDB
565:Yeah, he’s evil with a capitol ass and lowercase hat. ~ Celia Kyle, #NFDB
566:14Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
567:And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it? ~ Ted Dekker, #NFDB
568:Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. ~ Steven Biko, #NFDB
569:'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel. ~ Bruce Campbell, #NFDB
570:evil is, after all, only a deficiency of goodness. ~ Dorothy Gilman, #NFDB
571:Evil is in antagonism with the entire creation. ~ Heinrich Zschokke, #NFDB
572:Evil isn’t best served by equally evil servants. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
573:Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
574:Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it. ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB
575:For every evil born, another is born to counter it… ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
576:From an evil dog be glad of a handful of hairs. ~ Alexander Pushkin, #NFDB
577:His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries. ~ Erik Larson, #NFDB
578:In the battle between good and evil, evil has more fun. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
579:It is evil to give up on someone before them. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
580:It’s the anthropic principle’s evil twin, he thought. ~ Peter Watts, #NFDB
581:Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
582:The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy. ~ Milan Kundera, #NFDB
583:there can be no evil, nor any good, without intent. ~ R A Salvatore, #NFDB
584:This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today ~ Tony Blair, #NFDB
585:Those who do not confront evil resent those who do. ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
586:To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God. ~ Emmet Fox, #NFDB
587:[U]nstained thoughts do seldom dream on evil. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
588:What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
589:When men don't fear god, they give themselves to evil ~ Ray Comfort, #NFDB
590:You see, the overall concept of evil in the Catholic ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
591:Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. ~ Michael Moore, #NFDB
592:Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
593:Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. ~ Jean de La Fontaine, #NFDB
594:Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
595:Evil is best served without a patina of hypocrisy. ~ Daniel Polansky, #NFDB
596:Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse. ~ Philip Zimbardo, #NFDB
597:Evil isn’t a bad thing when it’s all you’ve ever known ~ Celia Aaron, #NFDB
598:Evil is usually attractive, because evil is defiant. ~ Angela Carter, #NFDB
599:Evil loves to subvert all blame onto the innocent. ~ E A Bucchianeri, #NFDB
600:evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
601:Evil tendency, strong like Miles Davis heroin dependency. ~ Chino XL, #NFDB
602:Evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. ~ Ruta Sepetys, #NFDB
603:Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
604:Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
605:Good thoughts have their abysses as well as evil ones. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
606:Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it. ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB
607:If the United States doesn't lead then evil triumphs ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
608:I just love to put a hurt on evil things. (Katra) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
609:Irrationality is the square root of all evil. ~ Douglas R Hofstadter, #NFDB
610:It is our own evil thoughts which madden us. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
611:I write because I always want good to win over evil ~ Anamika Mishra, #NFDB
612:Knowledge is power, power corrupts. Study hard, be evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
613:My only policy is to profess evil and do good. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
614:Neither was evil. They were both true to who they are. ~ Ilsa J Bick, #NFDB
615:Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it. ~ Simone Weil, #NFDB
616:Not all evil is final, nor is all suffering needless. ~ Lynn Kurland, #NFDB
617:One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB
618:Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
619:Premature optimization is the root of all evil. ~ Donald Ervin Knuth, #NFDB
620:There is nothing more evil than "Love" itself. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
621:The world is evil only when you become its slave. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
622:Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying. ~ Theodor W Adorno, #NFDB
623:We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration. ~ Desmond Tutu, #NFDB
624:When God gets in the middle of life, evil becomes good. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
625:A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. ~ Matthew Polly, #NFDB
626:Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you ~ Kendrick Lamar, #NFDB
627:Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
628:Esteeming God less than anything is the essence of evil. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
629:Evil can kill a person but never conquer a people. ~ Jens Stoltenberg, #NFDB
630:Evil must exist, just as fire is needed to purify ore. ~ Jeff Wheeler, #NFDB
631:Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it. ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB
632:Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
633:Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
634:Goor or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
635:I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power. ~ Patricia Cornwell, #NFDB
636:I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal. ~ Alex Colville, #NFDB
637:If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil. ~ Jonah Goldberg, #NFDB
638:I look into the mirror for evil that just does not exist. ~ Sara Quin, #NFDB
639:Injustice is an evil in society that must be fought. ~ John M Perkins, #NFDB
640:In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil ~ Robert McNamara, #NFDB
641:in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
642:I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
643:Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose ~ Henry Ford, #NFDB
644:Not good vs evil. Only good vs evil is inside of you ~ Mindy Sterling, #NFDB
645:Stand for what is right and do not let evil persist. ~ Ravinder Singh, #NFDB
646:The base of evil in the world is religion of any kind ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
647:The evil you do to others you may expect in return. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
648:The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial. ~ Xunzi, #NFDB
649:The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
650:There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
651:The seeds of salvation are buried in every act of evil. ~ Sh saku End, #NFDB
652:You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
653:You know the evil that men do, hell is where the men go. ~ Kool G Rap, #NFDB
654:A farmer cannot think too much evil of a good farmer. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
655:An evil conscience is often quiet, but never secure. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
656:But thou, through good and evil, praise and blame, ~ Thomas B Macaulay, #NFDB
657:Duplication may be the root of all evil in software. ~ Robert C Martin, #NFDB
658:educational technology, in itself, is not ‘evil’. As ~ Scott Thornbury, #NFDB
659:Evil has always existed. You could never wipe it out. ~ Soman Chainani, #NFDB
660:Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse. ~ Philip G Zimbardo, #NFDB
661:Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason. ~ Terry Eagleton, #NFDB
662:False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
663:Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers. ~ Stefan Molyneux, #NFDB
664:Hermione: You! You foul loathsome evil little cockroach! ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
665:He's evil, and the only thing that stops evil is death. ~ Kayla Krantz, #NFDB
666:It is dullness and not evil that begets totalitarianism. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
667:It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil. ~ Brigham Young, #NFDB
668:Not to believe in evil is not to be armed against it. ~ Malachi Martin, #NFDB
669:The evil prosper, and the innocent pay the bills for them. ~ Greg Iles, #NFDB
670:The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil. ~ Joni Mitchell, #NFDB
671:The media never covers all the evil wars that's promoted. ~ Alex Jones, #NFDB
672:The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil. ~ Antisthenes, #NFDB
673:There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
674:There is only one real evil in the world: mediocrity. ~ Harlan Ellison, #NFDB
675:Three roots of evil: desire, disliking and ignorance. ~ Buddhist Texts, #NFDB
676:To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better. ~ Claudius, #NFDB
677:To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
678:we’re all capable of evil, under the right circumstances. ~ A G Riddle, #NFDB
679:You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results. ~ Nadine Gordimer, #NFDB
680:Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things. ~ David Ogilvy, #NFDB
681:A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
682:All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
683:Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
684:A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do. ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
685:A true warrior's heart needs no rules! It can do no evil! ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
686:Bad things happen because we live in a world with evil. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
687:Being evil is something that only humans are capable of. ~ Jane Goodall, #NFDB
688:Circumstance has made him so cruel. He is not an evil man. ~ John Green, #NFDB
689:Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB
690:Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil. ~ Ron Fournier, #NFDB
691:Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.' ~ Alexander Schmemann, #NFDB
692:Evil and charismatic. A most dangerous combination. ~ Carrie Anne Noble, #NFDB
693:Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
694:Evil is at its boldest when it walks an unerring path. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
695:Evil” read backwards is “live.” Demon est deus inversus. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
696:Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing. ~ David Gemmell, #NFDB
697:For good people to do evil things, it takes religion. ~ Steven Weinberg, #NFDB
698:Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
699:Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys. ~ Maureen Dowd, #NFDB
700:He who does not punish evil commands it to be done. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
701:He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
702:I'm solid muscle and evil. Stop bitching and cuddle me. ~ Tiffany Reisz, #NFDB
703:In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil ~ Robert S McNamara, #NFDB
704:In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat. ~ Sun Myung Moon, #NFDB
705:in short, the ultimate source of Evil is compasion itself ~ Slavoj i ek, #NFDB
706:Is death the greatest evil that can happen to anyone? ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
707:I think we all have the capacity of evil in us. ~ Nikolaj Coster Waldau, #NFDB
708:Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
709:Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil ~ Eminem, #NFDB
710:Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it. ~ Henry Fielding, #NFDB
711:My job was to fight evil, and my soul was my weapon. ~ Rebecca Chastain, #NFDB
712:No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death. ~ Plato, #NFDB
713:No one who fights so hard to do the right thing is evil. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
714:Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
715:Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
716:Sometimes only evil could defeat another evil. Degrees, ~ James Herbert, #NFDB
717:Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
718:The first lesson of history is that evil is good. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
719:The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed. ~ Stephen Ambrose, #NFDB
720:The lack of money is the root of all evil, Mr. Meadows. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
721:The most effective way to resist evil is to draw near Me. ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
722:The only way to win against evil is not to play the game. ~ Terri Garey, #NFDB
723:There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
724:There are people who are dangerous, and evil is real. ~ Shane Claiborne, #NFDB
725:There has always been a battle between good and evil. ~ Billy Ray Cyrus, #NFDB
726:There is, to be sure, no evil without something good. ~ Pliny the Elder, #NFDB
727:There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair. ~ Evelyn Waugh, #NFDB
728:The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face. ~ Rollo May, #NFDB
729:To give up doing evil is more important than making merit. ~ Ajahn Chah, #NFDB
730:True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good. ~ John Winthrop, #NFDB
731:We've all made mistakes, they are not toxic and evil. ~ Lance Armstrong, #NFDB
732:What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard? ~ Tom Felton, #NFDB
733:...What you're calling evil, is part of human nature. ~ Nikolas Schreck, #NFDB
734:You can best fight any existing evil from the inside. ~ Hattie McDaniel, #NFDB
735:All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
736:Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
737:Be careful of fake faces, the most honest the most evil. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
738:Depart from evil and do good and dwell for evermore. ~ Psalms XXXVII. 27, #NFDB
739:Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile. ~ Terry Eagleton, #NFDB
740:Evil, why do you infest the purest thoughts with hatred? ~ Stevie Wonder, #NFDB
741:Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them. ~ Marilyn Manson, #NFDB
742:>evil< is also just another word for >toilet< ~ Arno Schmidt, #NFDB
743:Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli, #NFDB
744:He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
745:If it’s in order to protect you, I will become evil for you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
746:If you really do hate evil, you can't hate anything else ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
747:I may not be evil, but that doesn't mean I'm a saint. ~ Michelle Knudsen, #NFDB
748:...in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
749:I refuse to live with any more evil cats. It’s him or me. ~ Abigail Roux, #NFDB
750:It was easy to rack up Evil Overlord points in prison. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
751:Ka is a friend to evil as well as good. It embraces both. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
752:Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it. ~ Henry Fielding, #NFDB
753:No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master! ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
754:not all darkness is bad
evil things can travel in the light ~ R H Sin,#NFDB
755:Old enemies must be friends when a greater evil looms. ~ Raymond E Feist, #NFDB
756:One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
757:Perfection is invented by evil people to paralyze you. ~ Stefan Molyneux, #NFDB
758:Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
759:Russian talk of political evil is as natural as eating. ~ Joseph Brodsky, #NFDB
760:Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies. ~ Giuseppe Mazzini, #NFDB
761:The face of evil is always the face of total need. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
762:The only evil is that I don't mind that it happened. ~ Caroline B Cooney, #NFDB
763:Those who won't accept evil never get anything good. ~ August Strindberg, #NFDB
764:To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
765:Usually people who are evil don't see themselves as evil. ~ Jim Caviezel, #NFDB
766:What we are really lacking today is a real hatred of evil. ~ Chuck Smith, #NFDB
767:You’re not responsible for the evil others do,” Dad said. ~ Steven Gould, #NFDB
768:All evil here. Monsters. Little monsters and then big ones. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
769:Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
770:Being a really evil bastard isn’t just a job, it’s a vocation! ~ Tom Holt, #NFDB
771:Evil, as considered in these cases, is a lack of choice. ~ Tom Piccirilli, #NFDB
772:Evil can never touch the person who refuses to accept it. ~ Piers Anthony, #NFDB
773:Evil is a choice one makes, not a natural state of being. ~ Morgan Rhodes, #NFDB
774:Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
775:Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
776:Evil never died down. It simply went into hibernation. ~ Rachel Van Dyken, #NFDB
777:evil. "Till what?" "That should be evident by now, shouldn't ~ L T Ryan, #NFDB
778:Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
779:For the love of money is the root of all evil; ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
780:Give evil nothing to oppose
and it will disappear by itself. ~ Lao Tzu,#NFDB
781:I didn't feel evil. I felt nervous, scared, nothing more. ~ Scott B Smith, #NFDB
782:I feel something dark. Evil. A long way off, but coming. ~ Carolyn J Rose, #NFDB
783:Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? ~ Bret Easton Ellis, #NFDB
784:It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
785:It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions. ~ Menander, #NFDB
786:No evil is so worse than worst you fall in hate with love. ~ e e cummings, #NFDB
787:Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety. ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton, #NFDB
788:Parties are a necessary evil in free governments. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville, #NFDB
789:Parties are an evil inherent in free governments, ~ Alexis de Tocqueville, #NFDB
790:real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.” Beyond ~ William Styron, #NFDB
791:Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide. ~ Gary Shteyngart, #NFDB
792:The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, #NFDB
793:The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
794:The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
795:The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
796:There is in everything a latent evil peculiar to it. ~ Niccol Machiavelli, #NFDB
797:There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
~ Socrates,#NFDB
798:The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it. ~ Brian Eno, #NFDB
799:The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
800:True evil in this world is done by those with no imagination. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
801:With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
802:You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
803:You're worse than evil. You're inefficient. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
804:(6:10) [T]he love of money is the root of all evil…. ~ Robert L Heilbroner, #NFDB
805:all evil needs to triumph is for a few good men to do nothing. ~ S E Smith, #NFDB
806:But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
807:Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own. ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
808:Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster ~ Hesiod, #NFDB
809:Eric the Evil scowled. Well, hell. He was jealous of himself. ~ Nina Bangs, #NFDB
810:Everything is evil that humans can't control or conquer ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
811:Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift. ~ Homer, #NFDB
812:Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
813:Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance. ~ Roy Hattersley, #NFDB
814:Fight evil. Do it perfectly. Then come back and we'll see. ~ Michael Poore, #NFDB
815:Good and evil were always changing places with each other ~ Danielle Paige, #NFDB
816:He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg, #NFDB
817:I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily. ~ Kelly Hu, #NFDB
818:I'd chosen- not the lesser evil, but the less immediate one. ~ Naomi Novik, #NFDB
819:In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
820:I think we make our own choices. And evil can be overcome. ~ Helen Boswell, #NFDB
821:Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
822:Never give up. Goodness will always outrun evil in the end. ~ Anne Fortier, #NFDB
823:Oh my god!” Travers exclaimed. “See no evil, hear no evil— ~ Gregg Hurwitz, #NFDB
824:Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
825:She's evil. Evil, evil, evil. I want to see her naked. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
826:Tell me, is it evil to simply try to control your own life? ~ Shannon Hale, #NFDB
827:The face of 'evil' is always the face of total need. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
828:The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. ~ Cicero, #NFDB
829:The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. ~ Thomas Malthus, #NFDB
830:the problem of evil is the guiding force of modern thought. ~ Susan Neiman, #NFDB
831:There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
832:This is a struggle between good and evil and we're the good? ~ Howard Dean, #NFDB
833:To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
834:All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley,#NFDB
835:All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will. ~ Plato, #NFDB
836:Any government that places profit before people is pure evil. ~ Suzy Kassem, #NFDB
837:Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state. ~ Stefan Molyneux, #NFDB
838:Evil does not question itself. Only Hope questions itself. ~ Craig Ferguson, #NFDB
839:Evil indeed is the man without one woman to mourn him. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
840:Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe. ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB
841:Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous ~ Joel C Rosenberg, #NFDB
842:Faith in God is the sole answer to the mystery of evil. ~ Richard Wurmbrand, #NFDB
843:Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. —Aristotle ~ Wendy Webb, #NFDB
844:If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives. ~ Moby, #NFDB
845:Ignorance is also most always on the point of doing evil. ~ Chinese Proverb, #NFDB
846:I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil. ~ Adam Driver, #NFDB
847:I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
848:Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it? ~ James Fenimore Cooper, #NFDB
849:It was high school. Evil is kind of the name of the game. ~ Jennifer Weiner, #NFDB
850:I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
851:I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
852:Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
853:Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity. ~ Xunzi, #NFDB
854:Only the good die young, all the evil seem to live forever. ~ Chris Jericho, #NFDB
855:Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. ~ Tony Hoare, #NFDB
856:SAVAGE, DESPICABLE EVIL. THAT’S WHAT WE WERE FIGHTING in Iraq. ~ Chris Kyle, #NFDB
857:Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. ~ Chris Kyle, #NFDB
858:Shiver me clitoris, that's an evil vessel,' Severance says. ~ Charlie Human, #NFDB
859:Should we steer our ways clearer from evil if we knew its result? ~ Various, #NFDB
860:Strike them and strike evil so that evil will be defeated. ~ Saddam Hussein, #NFDB
861:that any good impulse can be twisted into something evil. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
862:The Evil That Men Do, co-written by Stephen G. Michaud: ~ Michelle McNamara, #NFDB
863:The more perfect a thing the more it feels good and evil. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
864:The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
865:There are heroes in evil as well as in good. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
866:There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
867:There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good. ~ Meher Baba, #NFDB
868:This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin, #NFDB
869:Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB
870:What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life? ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
871:When sinners accuse people,
evil just did her job, accusing. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
872:Where there is no respect for life, there you will find evil. ~ O R Melling, #NFDB
873:Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. ~ Andr Gide, #NFDB
874:You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person. ~ Evelyn Waugh, #NFDB
875:You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
876:A middleman’s business is to make himself a necessary evil. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
877:An evil beast of taunting and teasing, attack and retreat. ~ Portia Da Costa, #NFDB
878:An evil man without vices was the most dangerous of all. ~ Anand Neelakantan, #NFDB
879:A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
880:…a precarious balance between the forces of good and evil… ~ Jostein Gaarder, #NFDB
881:Curb your speech, restrain your mind, commit no evil deed. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
882:Don't be evil- apparently people like it better than "Be good". ~ Larry Page, #NFDB
883:Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
884:Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. ~ Simone Weil, #NFDB
885:Evil can kill a human being, but never conquer a people!’ * ~ sne Seierstad, #NFDB
886:Evil is thinking you know what the right thing even is. ~ Michael R Fletcher, #NFDB
887:Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children. ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
888:For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
889:God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil. ~ Sholem Asch, #NFDB
890:He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
891:He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
892:..I don't think it evil. I'm sure it's... ... On our side! ~ Nagaru Tanigawa, #NFDB
893:I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
894:In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.] ~ Horace, #NFDB
895:I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world. ~ Chris Martin, #NFDB
896:It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those ~ Iain Banks, #NFDB
897:Jesus abhors both passivity and violence as responses to evil. ~ Walter Wink, #NFDB
898:Just like osmosis, the goodness in you will always attract evil. ~ G P Ching, #NFDB
899:Never leave the door open at this hour, or evil may come to you. ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB
900:Ordinary men commit extraordinary evil all the time. Trust me. ~ Mindy Mejia, #NFDB
901:People can be beyond strange. All the way to evil. ~ Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli, #NFDB
902:Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB
903:Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
904:The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of the good. ~ Saint John Bosco, #NFDB
905:The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
906:There is no fire like passion: there is no evil and hatred. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
907:There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil. ~ Homer, #NFDB
908:There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
909:There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
910:To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
911:When it comes to fighting evil, the left is almost pacifist. ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
912:When you behold the face of pure evil, it will be beautiful. ~ David Farland, #NFDB
913:Whoever neglects doing good is inviting addiction to evil. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
914:Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
915:Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. ~ Andre Gide, #NFDB
916:You can put whatever you want inside evil and good in morality. ~ Gaspar Noe, #NFDB
917:A dragon's heart burns fiercely, even in the face of evil. ~ Suzanne G Rogers, #NFDB
918:Adults are just children sometimes. But evil, hurt children. ~ Juliette Lewis, #NFDB
919:And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is. ~ E J Patten, #NFDB
920:Dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
921:Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
922:Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity. ~ Thomas Malthus, #NFDB
923:Evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
924:Evil is evil, and no good comes of calling it by any other name. ~ Glenn Beck, #NFDB
925:Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins. ~ Ozzy Osbourne, #NFDB
926:Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. ~ Xunzi, #NFDB
927:I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. ~ Robert Kennedy, #NFDB
928:If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
929:If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil ~ Socrates, #NFDB
930:I have a thing for evil bald bad guys. The Kurgan is too sexy. ~ Ernest Cline, #NFDB
931:I’m done playing by the rules. I’m about to make evil my bitch. ~ Lola St Vil, #NFDB
932:In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion. ~ Horace, #NFDB
933:It's a library; only the stupid and the evil are afraid of those ~ Iain Banks, #NFDB
934:Ne laissez aucun mal à s’abattre sur nous. Let no evil befall us. ~ Ami McKay, #NFDB
935:Nobody wants anything bad to happen; the other side isn't evil. ~ Alison Pill, #NFDB
936:Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB
937:Resignation to inevitable evils is the evil duty of us all; the ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
938:So, you’ve got an evil sorceress chained up in your bed, then? ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
939:Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts. ~ George Lucas, #NFDB
940:The Bible says in Romans 12:21 that we overcome evil with good. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
941:There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
942:There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers. ~ Joe Mantegna, #NFDB
943:The sinner sins against himself, for he makes himself evil. ~ Marcus Aurelias, #NFDB
944:We conservatives fight evil; the Left fights carbon emissions ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
945:What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
946:When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate. ~ Knut Hamsun, #NFDB
947:Wisdom and understanding come from fearing God and shunning evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
948:All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
949:All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. ~ Jeremy Bentham, #NFDB
950:black evil is outlined clearest to our eyes by the blaze of virtue ~ Euripides, #NFDB
951:Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
952:Do I look evil? I can't do evil. I can barely pull off dangerous. ~ Dan Abnett, #NFDB
953:Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom…that is very hard indeed. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
954:Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop. ~ Flann O Brien, #NFDB
955:evil is our trade, but not so deep a darkness as politics. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
956:"Evil is the force that believes its knowledge is complete." ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
957:Evil wears many disguises, some that can be mistaken for beauty. ~ David Estes, #NFDB
958:Good and evil do not exist outside of our beliefs about them. ~ Jonathan Haidt, #NFDB
959:If you always speak your mind, the evil man will avoid you. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
960:I guess we’re all capable of evil, under the right circumstances. ~ A G Riddle, #NFDB
961:I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen. ~ Kato Kaelin, #NFDB
962:It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good. ~ Sergey Brin, #NFDB
963:Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from speaking guile. ~ Psalms XXXIV. 13, #NFDB
964:Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
965:No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live. ~ Chris Murphy, #NFDB
966:Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses. ~ Luc de Clapiers, #NFDB
967:That is exactly what I learned. That evil can be so ordinary. ~ Tess Gerritsen, #NFDB
968:The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
969:The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. ~ Plato, #NFDB
970:There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action. ~ Irving Stone, #NFDB
971:There's more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box. ~ Bill Bailey, #NFDB
972:There’s real evil, Mr Honey. Not that existential crap, either. ~ Laird Barron, #NFDB
973:To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
974:To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
975:Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons. ~ Rudy Rucker, #NFDB
976:We can't crush evil with morals. We are justice. We are morality. ~ Sui Ishida, #NFDB
977:What did it say about her that she would save evil's life? ~ Danielle L Jensen, #NFDB
978:What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases. ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB
979:When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. ~ J Edgar Hoover, #NFDB
980:All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
981:Discover thou shalt/That wherever good is found,/Evil is nearby. ~ Ian Doescher, #NFDB
982:Evil comes in all forms, Elena. Even portrays itself as light. ~ Adrienne Woods, #NFDB
983:Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
984:Evil is astir this night. It begs entrance to this holy place. ~ MaryLu Tyndall, #NFDB
985:for evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing. ~ Hourly History, #NFDB
986:Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. ~ Baltasar Gracian, #NFDB
987:Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. ~ Baltasar Graci n, #NFDB
988:Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself. ~ Stephen Mitchell, #NFDB
989:Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul. ~ Derek Landy, #NFDB
990:He's evil," I said. "You're good. You must make your own choice. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
991:He who thinks always of the Lord, which way can evil come to him? ~ Sarada Devi, #NFDB
992:Hit them. Fight them. They are cursed; they are evil. ~ Mohammed Saeed al Sahaf, #NFDB
993:I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power. ~ Harmon Killebrew, #NFDB
994:I feel like the government is more evil than most corporations. ~ Gavin McInnes, #NFDB
995:If there’s evil in recklessness, there’s also evil in banality. ~ Robert Draper, #NFDB
996:If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good? ~ Henryk Sienkiewicz, #NFDB
997:If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring. ~ John Oliver, #NFDB
998:I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil. ~ Amy Carter, #NFDB
999:Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good? ~ Lloyd Alexander, #NFDB
1000:Oh, there was so much evil in a man . . . CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT ~ Carole Lawrence, #NFDB
1001:Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
1002:The Alchemists fight evil by cataloguing it,” chuckled someone. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
1003:The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable. ~ Philip Zimbardo, #NFDB
1004:The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil. ~ Juliana Hatfield, #NFDB
1005:The problem with having evil minions is that minions are stupid. ~ Larissa Ione, #NFDB
1006:To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1007:Well, if you do sense evil, tell me. I shall be glad to know. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1008:When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
1009:When evil had taken root in this house, it had grown here first. ~ Peter Straub, #NFDB
1010:Where all strange and possibly evil things begin. Wikipedia. ~ Sherry D Ficklin, #NFDB
1011:You are the evil scientist of your desires. - Ignacio Rivera ~ Tristan Taormino, #NFDB
1012:You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework. ~ Ravi Zacharias, #NFDB
1013:A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil. ~ Sallust, #NFDB
1014:Besides, isn’t it better to let evil die inside its own flame? ~ James Lee Burke, #NFDB
1015:Coldness went marching up his arms like the feet of evil fairies. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1016:Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other. ~ Denis Diderot, #NFDB
1017:Evil forges a tornado.
But goodness battles in a straight line. ~ Caris Roane,#NFDB
1018:Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom...that is very hard indeed. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1019:"Evil is the force that believes its knowledge is complete." ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
1020:Farewell, friend. I was a thousand times more evil than thou! ~ Michael Moorcock, #NFDB
1021:For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
1022:Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil. ~ Michael Ventura, #NFDB
1023:If it’s in order to overthrow the Queen, I will become evil for you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1024:If you give evil nothing to oppose, then virtue will return by itself. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
1025:I’ll always recognize the evil lying underneath the perfect exterior ~ V F Mason, #NFDB
1026:Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1027:In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue. ~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, #NFDB
1028:I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
1029:Mankind is evil in its thoughts and in its base constructions, ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1030:May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
1031:More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. ~ Glen Cook, #NFDB
1032:My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1033:Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1034:...she is too beautiful, I think, to not be inherently evil. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
1035:The evil never attains to any real friendship, either with good or evil. ~ Plato, #NFDB
1036:The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
1037:The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1038:The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself. ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB
1039:This is for everyone who needs a little evil every now and then. ~ Clarissa Wild, #NFDB
1040:To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil. ~ Jaron Lanier, #NFDB
1041:We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone. ~ William James, #NFDB
1042:You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on. ~ Ken Wilber, #NFDB
1043:You have to be willing to face evil and resist it if you want peace. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1044:An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation. ~ Coretta Scott King, #NFDB
1045:Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman, #NFDB
1046:Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru, #NFDB
1047:Evil works, we realise, by sapping the will with over-complication. ~ Tom Shippey, #NFDB
1048:Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar. ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
1049:For evil from within is but evil from within that has been let out, ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1050:For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1051:For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing. ~ Simon Wiesenthal, #NFDB
1052:How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done! ~ Plautus, #NFDB
1053:If a culture is good or evil, it is only because of its carriers. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
1054:If evil existed, then an equal degree of good existed somewhere, too. ~ G P Ching, #NFDB
1055:If literature stays away from evil, it rapidly becomes boring. ~ Georges Bataille, #NFDB
1056:If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil. ~ Ralph Nader, #NFDB
1057:I'm not evil, but some people are freaked out by a living doll. ~ Josh Ryan Evans, #NFDB
1058:I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me. ~ Stephen Malkmus, #NFDB
1059:It is yet better to perceive a hidden good than a hidden evil. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
1060:It's not your fault there is evil in the world" Cadvan to Maerad ~ Alison Croggon, #NFDB
1061:It’s the crimes we don’t do anything about that are the real evil. ~ Cameron Jace, #NFDB
1062:just because a mage wears the black robes does not make him evil. ~ Margaret Weis, #NFDB
1063:Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
1064:premature optimization is the root of all evil. —Donald E. Knuth [ ~ Joshua Bloch, #NFDB
1065:Sometimes I think evil is just loneliness with nowhere else to go. ~ Richard Long, #NFDB
1066:There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
1067:There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
1068:The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin, #NFDB
1069:Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1070:white men smiling just meant more evil was coming with the next wave. ~ Yaa Gyasi, #NFDB
1071:After all, Goodness is a state of grace. Evil, is a state of mind. ~ Greg F Gifune, #NFDB
1072:All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil. ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
1073:Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils. ~ McGeorge Bundy, #NFDB
1074:apparently the evil was, oddly enough, always on the other side. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1075:Beauty is only skin deep but evil cuts straight through the soul. ~ Lauren Hammond, #NFDB
1076:But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest. ~ Terry Goodkind, #NFDB
1077:Champagne is evil. It's pretty and fun and it loves you and it's evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1078:consider yourself to be wise; •fear the Lord and turn away from evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1079:Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. ~ Jerry Garcia, #NFDB
1080:Evil is the worst necessity for mankind to learn and earn better life. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
1081:Exert yourself ceaselessly in decreasing evil and accumulating good. ~ James Allen, #NFDB
1082:If an act of evil is to stain my soul, it will be for one of my own. ~ A Zavarelli, #NFDB
1083:ISIS will be wiped out.Just off the face of the earth. This is evil. ~ Mike Pompeo, #NFDB
1084:It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. ~ Anthony Burgess, #NFDB
1085:It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1086:Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
1087:Let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1088:Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. ~ Menander, #NFDB
1089:Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
1090:No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures ~ Epicurus, #NFDB
1091:She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil. ~ Pericles, #NFDB
1092:submitting to authority is never for evil, but always for blessing. ~ K P Yohannan, #NFDB
1093:The greatest lie of the greatest evil is that it doesn't exist. ~ G Norman Lippert, #NFDB
1094:They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
1095:We are all measured, good or evil, by the wrong we do to others; ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB
1096:What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1097:What problems?" "Well for starters.. you're an evil duck killer. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
1098:When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1099:When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear. ~ Horace, #NFDB
1100:You will never face an evil you have not the strength to master. ~ William Horwood, #NFDB
1101:15 Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1102:An evil spark flared in his eyes. "Trade: raccoon for some answers. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
1103:Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
1104:Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity ~ Thomas Robert Malthus, #NFDB
1105:Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite ~ Clive Barker, #NFDB
1106:Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1107:Evil is one thing. Evil's only subjective. Illegal is another. ~ William T Vollmann, #NFDB
1108:Facts are lies in the tongue of evil, even if it spoke the truth. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim, #NFDB
1109:Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1110:good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power. ~ James Tiptree Jr, #NFDB
1111:I also believe, without any supporting evidence, that cats are evil. ~ Evan Mandery, #NFDB
1112:If an evil has been pondered beforehand, the blow is gentle when it comes. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
1113:I frowned. “You mean Set’s got, like, other evil gods on speed dial? ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1114:If there is a “problem of evil”, there is also a “problem of good. ~ Kallistos Ware, #NFDB
1115:I have wrought great use out of evil tools. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton 1st Baron Lytton, #NFDB
1116:Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere? ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1117:I tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1118:It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
1119:killing is evil in the eyes of God,’ I said. ‘Never forget that.’ The ~ Ann Swinfen, #NFDB
1120:Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1121:No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
1122:No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
1123:Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1124:The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1125:The greatest weapon we have against evil is doing good in Jesus' name. ~ Kay Warren, #NFDB
1126:There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
1127:The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
1128:The United States is evil ... it is the canker of the world. ~ Henry de Montherlant, #NFDB
1129:True courage is to stand against evil, even when we stand alone. ~ Richard C Edgley, #NFDB
1130:We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
1131:We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil. ~ Martin Heidegger, #NFDB
1132:Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1133:You are evil," I tell Lila.
"Flatterer," she says, but she smiles. ~ Holly Black,#NFDB
1134:You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely. ~ Maurice Sendak, #NFDB
1135:You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego. ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
1136:You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
1137:All he did was stare at me, as if I were as evil as Typhon himself. ~ Michelle Madow, #NFDB
1138:Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any. ~ Ben Affleck, #NFDB
1139:Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
1140:Conquering evil, not the opponent, is the essence of swordsmanship. ~ Yagyu Munenori, #NFDB
1141:Do we focus on pruning out all evil, or do we focus on growing love? ~ Sierra Simone, #NFDB
1142:Do you reject the glamor of Evil, and refuse to be mastered by it? ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
1143:Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
1144:For every one that doeth evil hateth the light." (John 3:19-20.) ~ Spencer W Kimball, #NFDB
1145:Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
1146:Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine. ~ Flannery O Connor, #NFDB
1147:Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other. ~ Bruno Dumont, #NFDB
1148:He had such a lovely smile when he was using it for good and not evil ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
1149:He who does no evil to any is as if the father and mother of all beings. ~ Madharata, #NFDB
1150:Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull. ~ Brandon Sanderson, #NFDB
1151:How are we ever to disarm evil and abolish death as a means to an end? ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
1152:How evil it is to wish I was the one leaving and not the one being left. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1153:Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. ~ Hippocrates, #NFDB
1154:'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
1155:In his experience, the evil lived on while the innocent died. ~ Cinda Williams Chima, #NFDB
1156:It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake. ~ Garrison Keillor, #NFDB
1157:It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
1158:It is easier today to triumph over evil habits than it will be tomorrow. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1159:It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world. ~ John Darnielle, #NFDB
1160:I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
1161:I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
1162:Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers. ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
1163:no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1164:No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy. ~ P C Cast, #NFDB
1165:No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
1166:Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for evil purposes. ~ Francis Lieber, #NFDB
1167:She defines and eliminates problems. She’s practical in an evil way. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
1168:That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1169:The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
1170:The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world. ~ Max Born, #NFDB
1171:The belief in good and evil is humanities most grievous error. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1172:The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
1173:The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression. ~ Alexander Berkman, #NFDB
1174:The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1175:There are no boundries between good and evil where love is concerned. ~ James O Barr, #NFDB
1176:There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil. ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB
1177:The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1178:The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
1179:Though I walk through the valley a the shadow a death, I fear no evil. ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB
1180:whatever is done from love always occurs beyond good and evil. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1181:What is evil? Whatever springs from weakness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, #NFDB
1182:[W]hat is ugly and evil is apt to change and grow milder with time. ~ Edith Hamilton, #NFDB
1183:When are aliens ever not evil?”
“E.T.?” Rome said. ~ Nnedi Okorafor,#NFDB
1184:When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1185:When wealth and honours lead to arrogancy, this brings its evil on itself. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
1186:When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil. ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB
1187:All evil is corrective and remedial, and is therefore not permanent. It ~ James Allen, #NFDB
1188:All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB
1189:but a house arrogant and hating, never off guard, can only be evil. ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB
1190:But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1191:Crazy, yes. Overwhelming, definitely. Obsessed, you bet. But evil? Never. ~ K Webster, #NFDB
1192:Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die. ~ Sappho, #NFDB
1193:Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1194:Evil, however powerful it seemed, could be undone by its own appetite. ~ Clive Barker, #NFDB
1195:Evil is just what is positive; it makes its own existence felt. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
1196:Evil takes only prisoners….Time takes none."
From The Tenth, chapter 28. ~ Various,#NFDB
1197:Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace. ~ L J Smith, #NFDB
1198:for evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.” More ~ Hourly History, #NFDB
1199:...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1200:Have no fear, children. It is only fear that allows evil to prevail. ~ Oliver P tzsch, #NFDB
1201:Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1202:He had such a lovely smile when he was using it for good and not evil. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
1203:how white men smiling just meant more evil was coming with the next wave. ~ Yaa Gyasi, #NFDB
1204:I believe in evil, but not in ghosts. Only we humans can be evil; we ~ Oliver P tzsch, #NFDB
1205:If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good? ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
1206:If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate. ~ Sophocles,#NFDB
1207:It was a spell, thrown by Sebastian Born. Pretty fce, evil disposition. ~ Chloe Neill, #NFDB
1208:I will fear no evil for I am the baddest beast in the land. (Nick) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1209:Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil. ~ Henry Fielding, #NFDB
1210:Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
1211:Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit. ~ Bodhidharma, #NFDB
1212:Never out of evil one plucked good: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night, #NFDB
1213:No I’m not,” I whisper to myself. “I’m a fucking evil psychopath. ~ Bret Easton Ellis, #NFDB
1214:Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1215:Render to God the sole worship which is fitting towards Him, not to be evil. ~ Hermes, #NFDB
1216:Screenwriting Joe Eszterhas have always talked about the charm of evil. ~ Chris Hayes, #NFDB
1217:So my choices are to stay and be evil or to run and be evil. Wonderful. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
1218:The beasts tossed their heads and answered with evil horsey laughter. ~ Loretta Chase, #NFDB
1219:The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man. ~ Plato, #NFDB
1220:The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil. ~ Stefan Molyneux, #NFDB
1221:The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. ~ Plutarch, #NFDB
1222:There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil. ~ Clarence Darrow, #NFDB
1223:There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
1224:We all have good and evil in our blood, what we do with it is up to us. ~ Kim Liggett, #NFDB
1225:We’re all evil,” the doll’s childlike voice said. “And we’ll all… burn. ~ Edward Lorn, #NFDB
1226:Why didn't you tell me that evil could be so lighthearted? ~ Margaret Peterson Haddix, #NFDB
1227:You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior. ~ Rob James Collier, #NFDB
1228:All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
1229:A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself. ~ Jean de la Bruyere, #NFDB
1230:But sometimes to keep Evil from getting in, you have to let Good out. ~ Soman Chainani, #NFDB
1231:Cakes of rice are not a snack. I suspect them of evil deeds for this alone. ~ J D Robb, #NFDB
1232:Cousin John reads Tolkien. No man who does that can be wholly evil. ~ Elizabeth Peters, #NFDB
1233:Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die. ~ Sappho, #NFDB
1234:Evil is a violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine. ~ Ravi Zacharias, #NFDB
1235:Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave. ~ Toni Morrison, #NFDB
1236:... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1237:Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
1238:I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil! ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
1239:If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil. ~ Jerry Garcia, #NFDB
1240:I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people. ~ Antonia Fraser, #NFDB
1241:In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1242:It's the curse of being Evil. It makes you torment the ones you love. ~ Soman Chainani, #NFDB
1243:journeying through the fields of evil is the price we pay for free will, ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1244:Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. ~ Linus Torvalds, #NFDB
1245:Money the root of evil guess I'm the devil then. God bless my soul to rest. ~ Ace Hood, #NFDB
1246:Money was the root of all evil and recklessness was the root of all PTSD. ~ Simon Wood, #NFDB
1247:"Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions." ~ T. S. Eliot, #NFDB
1248:No matter what evil might come one's way to be loved is to be protected. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
1249:No matter what evil might some one's way to be loved is to be protected. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
1250:Prophet!' said I, 'thing of evil! - prophet still, it bird or devil! ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
1251:Right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1252:The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1253:The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
1254:There's a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside. ~ Hillary Jordan, #NFDB
1255:There’s a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside. ~ Hillary Jordan, #NFDB
1256:The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money. ~ Gene Simmons, #NFDB
1257:This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war. ~ Andrew Jackson, #NFDB
1258:Thou wert wise to chisel for me:
«Taken from the evil to come». ~ Edgar Lee Masters,#NFDB
1259:Today our nation saw evil...and we responded with the best of America. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
1260:To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
1261:What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil, ~ Kimberly McCreight, #NFDB
1262:When you paint an evil thing, do you invoke it or take away its power? ~ Richard Siken, #NFDB
1263:Work is not an evil to be avoided but a gift from the Lord to be embraced. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1264:Your evil is that you cannot be evil. And I shall suffer for it no longer! ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1265:You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you. ~ Carlos Santana, #NFDB
1266:All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB
1267:A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
1268:And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil. ~ Ry Murakami, #NFDB
1269:And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1270:An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity. ~ Quintilian, #NFDB
1271:Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
1272:Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us? ~ Ruta Sepetys, #NFDB
1273:Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB
1274:Evil is visible, it burns, it smugly displays itself for all to see. ~ Ir ne N mirovsky, #NFDB
1275:Evil never dies. It merely waits. And it grows stronger in the dark. ~ Jonathan Maberry, #NFDB
1276:Give me only evil men for friends, Verturio wrote. Them I understand. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
1277:Good doesn’t triumph over evil. There’s just random chance and death. You ~ Ethan Cross, #NFDB
1278:Her sudden grin depleted some of his brain cells. She was evil like that. ~ Kelly Moran, #NFDB
1279:He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
1280:I am haunted by the clear knowledge that, in the end, evil always triumphs. ~ Glen Cook, #NFDB
1281:In this spot, he is housed in evil. Reader, unbury him with a word. ~ Elizabeth Kostova, #NFDB
1282:I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time. ~ Whittaker Chambers, #NFDB
1283:It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1284:It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1285:I've fought evil, and it was easy: I shot it. It's apathy I can't stand. ~ E K Johnston, #NFDB
1286:Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
1287:Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtue we write in water. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1288:Money, in itself, is evil. And therefore he who gives money gives evil. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1289:Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
1290:The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1291:The truth is nobody here is as stupid or evil as I let on. Except me. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1292:to take something that was meant for good and use it to do evil is a sin. ~ Chanda Hahn, #NFDB
1293:whatever can be used for good most assuredly will be used for evil. ~ Patricia Cornwell, #NFDB
1294:When you think you’re on the good side, you’re capable of unthinkable evil. ~ Nick Webb, #NFDB
1295:Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1296:You can't beat Evil with Evil. Maybe to win a battle, but not the war. ~ Soman Chainani, #NFDB
1297:You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil. ~ Alice Hoffman, #NFDB
1298:A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. ~ Sallust, #NFDB
1299:Alcohol is evil … until your loved one gets employed by a brewery. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1300:All the evil in the world is powerless against intelligence and courage. ~ Derek Raymond, #NFDB
1301:And if we do not stand now, then when will a stand be taken against evil? ~ Bodie Thoene, #NFDB
1302:A wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. ~ Zen proverb, #NFDB
1303:Because good and evil weren’t inborn traits. They were choices we made. ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
1304:But she’s a redhead, so she’s probably evil, even at her tender age. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
1305:But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1306:By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
1307:Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to. ~ Epicurus, #NFDB
1308:Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. That’s what they say, right? ~ Christina Dalcher, #NFDB
1309:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. ~ Plato, #NFDB
1310:Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1311:His voice was saccharine and sulfuric acid, dripping with evil anticipation. ~ G P Ching, #NFDB
1312:I am not good.
Nor am I evil.
I am no hero.
Nor am I villain. ~ Amie Kaufman,#NFDB
1313:I am not good. Nor am I evil. I am no hero. Nor am I villain. I am AIDAN. ~ Amie Kaufman, #NFDB
1314:I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive. ~ Robert Charles Wilson, #NFDB
1315:If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1316:If you want to fight evil, you have to climb down in the slime to do so. ~ David Gemmell, #NFDB
1317:It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1318:It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1319:It must be that evil had its own attractions, just as goodness did. Vance ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1320:It's fun to play someone who seems evil and to reveal their vulnerabilities. ~ Andy Daly, #NFDB
1321:It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1322:I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man. ~ Tamora Pierce, #NFDB
1323:Let a man make haste towards good, let him turn away his thought from evil. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
1324:Loathesome I am, and evil. You can mock me for that. But leave my pain alone! ~ Barnabas, #NFDB
1325:Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people. ~ Jo Walton, #NFDB
1326:Magic isn’t inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people. ~ Jo Walton, #NFDB
1327:Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1328:Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
1329:Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1330:Not all horror fans love Evil Dead because of the humor, at least not me. ~ Fede Alvarez, #NFDB
1331:Oh Adonai, why do You not act? Why do You let the evil go on and on? ~ Jill Eileen Smith, #NFDB
1332:One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #NFDB
1333:One person's definition of evil is another person's different definition. ~ Eric Schmidt, #NFDB
1334:Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil! — prophet still, if bird or devil! — ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
1335:severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle. ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB
1336:The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing. ~ Plutarch, #NFDB
1337:The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
1338:The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments. ~ Chuck D, #NFDB
1339:The sight of her makes me want to do battle with all evil and ugliness, ~ Peter S Beagle, #NFDB
1340:To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint. ~ Georges Bataille, #NFDB
1341:Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. ~ Jim Morrison, #NFDB
1342:When two evil guys fight in a duel,
the worst of both will be the winner. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
1343:269.—No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. ~ Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
1344:8But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1345:A distinguishing taste of authentic Christians is their distaste for evil. ~ George Barna, #NFDB
1346:All That Is Needed For Evil To Succeeded, Is For Good People To Do Nothing ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB
1347:America isn't young, you know. It's ancient and evil. With aluminum siding. ~ Rudy Rucker, #NFDB
1348:An actor said at one point that evil was a necessity. It was food for genius. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1349:An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community. ~ Aeschines, #NFDB
1350:A tiger can smile
A snake will say it loves you
Lies make us evil ~ Chuck Palahniuk,#NFDB
1351:A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
1352:Better to be good without reason than to be evil for a hundred good reasons. ~ Gene Wolfe, #NFDB
1353:Bring Solomon Gorge to God that he might purge the sin from this evil land! ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
1354:By night the wires on the high poles tell evil tales in the dripping mist. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1355:Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil. ~ William Penn, #NFDB
1356:Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever? ~ Sappho, #NFDB
1357:Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death. ~ Ernest Becker, #NFDB
1358:even if she was an evil creature of the night, she was a very pretty one. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
1359:Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present. ~ Lyndon B Johnson, #NFDB
1360:evil beyond measure, madness, and the power of a masterfully skilled Bocor. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1361:Evil can be undone, but it cannot ‘develop’ into good. Time does not heal it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1362:Evil isn’t a state of being, Barrons once said to me. It’s a choice. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1363:fear of the Lord—that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1364:He had a temper. He had secrets. But that doesn’t make him evil…does it? ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
1365:Hiding the truth is as evil as feeding
the lie grow tough muscles. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,#NFDB
1366:I don't think this one's business as usual. Me evil cunt sense is tinglin'. ~ Garth Ennis, #NFDB
1367:If love is exiled from cities, their good nature becomes an evil nature. ~ Elena Ferrante, #NFDB
1368:If you think good, good will follow; if you think evil, evil will follow. ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB
1369:I'm rather hoping to find the Evil Queen. I think she'd be much more fun. ~ Jude Deveraux, #NFDB
1370:I tiger can smile
A snake will say it loves you
Lies make us evil ~ Chuck Palahniuk,#NFDB
1371:It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
1372:I've been giving the evil in this world too much power and God too little. ~ Debbie Vigui, #NFDB
1373:I will be the lord of traveling salesmen!” “That,” I said, “is truly evil. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1374:Like Santa’s elves,” Percy said. “Except evil. And metal. And really loud. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1375:Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. ~ Anatole France, #NFDB
1376:Never accept evil as something you must walk with, something you deserve. ~ Ellen Hopkins, #NFDB
1377:Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1378:Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1379:Oh my God. Regret cake? Whatever was about to happen must be truly evil. ~ Rachel Hawkins, #NFDB
1380:Places, she told herself, were not evil: they were what people made of them. ~ Kim Newman, #NFDB
1381:Psalm 52:3: “You love evil rather than good, and falsehood rather than truth. ~ Sara Gran, #NFDB
1382:SHE MAY BE AN EVIL BITCH, BUT SHE IS MY EVIL BITCH. AND I'LL HAVE NO OTHER ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
1383:The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1384:The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1385:Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1386:War is the most evil kind of human approach; unless it is for good cause. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
1387:We have always believed that it's possible to make money without being evil. ~ Larry Page, #NFDB
1388:Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good. ~ John Shelby Spong, #NFDB
1389:Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. ~ Quintilian, #NFDB
1390:Why does evil seek out the weakest and the humblest? And above all, why me? ~ Jason Letts, #NFDB
1391:Why do lovely faces haunt us so? Do extraordinary flowers have evil roots? ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
1392:You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil. ~ Alice Hoffman, #NFDB
1393:You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it. ~ John Connolly, #NFDB
1394:You stink like a faerie, all flowers and sunshine and evil manipulation. ~ Kiersten White, #NFDB
1395:All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept. ~ Wei Wu Wei, #NFDB
1396:And there are those who would rather be behind evil than in front of it, ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1397:An evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground... to rule over the ashes. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
1398:Anyone with an autobiography is almost definitely an evil piece of shit. ~ Brian K Vaughan, #NFDB
1399:A storm may be the veil with which heaven covers its eyes from a rising evil. ~ Fiona Paul, #NFDB
1400:As with evil, you never know when you'll be blindsided by kindness. ~ Cinda Williams Chima, #NFDB
1401:but it was the evil nature of our enemy that was somehow super galvanizing. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1402:Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity. ~ James A Owen, #NFDB
1403:Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
1404:Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. ~ David, #NFDB
1405:Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health. ~ Saint Basil, #NFDB
1406:Evil is the great savior and sustainer of those who condemn it most. ~ Anton Szandor LaVey, #NFDB
1407:Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
1408:Good can exist without evil whereas evil cannot exist without good. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #NFDB
1409:I believe in such a thing called mental illness that leads to some evil. ~ Robert Jeffress, #NFDB
1410:I have always believed that there is more goodness than evil in the world. ~ Kathryn Lasky, #NFDB
1411:I never knew true fear until I met pure evil. He wore a smile and a bow tie. ~ T M Frazier, #NFDB
1412:In places like this, where you get a feeling evil still clings to the walls, ~ Terry Hayes, #NFDB
1413:I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars. ~ John Wycliffe, #NFDB
1414:metamorphosed into a creature as evil as any mythical Hulder: “a woman, ~ Harold Schechter, #NFDB
1415:No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1416:No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
1417:On remembering that there was no correlation between evil and competence. ~ Kamila Shamsie, #NFDB
1418:She was a dirty porn author, and God knows what evil she was harvesting, ~ Debra Anastasia, #NFDB
1419:Some call this civil war; others call it emergency -- I call it pure evil. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
1420:That evil was a nameless evil, an evil whose name was Gnag the Nameless. ~ Andrew Peterson, #NFDB
1421:The best weapons against evil were hope, optimism, determination, and faith. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1422:The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1423:The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
1424:The social order, though necessary, is essentially evil, whatever it may be. ~ Simone Weil, #NFDB
1425:The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies. ~ Sophie Jordan, #NFDB
1426:Welcome to hell, Ryler, a place where the evil thrive and the weak die. ~ Jessica Sorensen, #NFDB
1427:You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one. ~ Christina Queen of Sweden, #NFDB
1428:abstraction is evil. Code is anti-evil, and clean code is perhaps divine. ~ Robert C Martin, #NFDB
1429:According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1430:A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1431:Apparently, she was going to visit an evil witch with a scary poet vampire. ~ Erin Kellison, #NFDB
1432:A weapon’s not evil or good, Brownstone. It’s all about who’s holding it. ~ Michael Anderle, #NFDB
1433:Because the Nome King intends to do evil is no excuse for my doing the same, ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
1434:Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up. ~ James Rollins, #NFDB
1435:Bonis nocet, qui malis parcit.
He harms the good (people) who spares the evil. ~ Seneca,#NFDB
1436:Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
1437:Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. ~ S ren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
1438:By swallowing evil word unsaid noone has ever yet harmed his stomach. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
1439:Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us? The ~ Ruta Sepetys, #NFDB
1440:Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1441:Evil can be excused, sometimes. Squalor, though, never,” Magnus murmured. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1442:Evil is in the existent as its innermost possibility of refusing existence ~ Jean Luc Nancy, #NFDB
1443:Evil men have created confusion, but God will one day make all things plain. ~ Rebecca West, #NFDB
1444:For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
1445:God overrules the evil intent of humans to accomplish His ultimate good. ~ Norman L Geisler, #NFDB
1446:Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us. ~ Matthew Woodring Stover, #NFDB
1447:Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #NFDB
1448:Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1449:I believe true evil lies in actions. In deliberate harmful acts.’ ‘Spoken ~ Ian C Esslemont, #NFDB
1450:I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good. ~ Chen Guangcheng, #NFDB
1451:If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. ~ Joseph de Maistre, #NFDB
1452:In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1453:In the end pride is the only evil, the root of all sins.” “Pride is all I have. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1454:It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
1455:It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil. ~ Amish Tripathi, #NFDB
1456:Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but love. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1457:Maybe he couldn’t find a place on Stupid Evil Magician Street,” I suggested. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1458:monarchy wasn’t inherently evil, nor was a democratic system perfectly good. ~ Randi Darren, #NFDB
1459:no doubt that evil is more contagious than good, therefore, it's more powerful. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1460:...occasionally I can be quite evil, when there's no-one around to realise. ~ Sarra Manning, #NFDB
1461:Once more a good man is led astray by the undeniable sexiness of evil. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan, #NFDB
1462:Such is the end of the evil-doer: the death of a sinner always reflects his life. ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
1463:That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not. ~ Bela Lugosi, #NFDB
1464:The evil we do, Monsieur, is within us; it does not come from circumstance. ~ Emmuska Orczy, #NFDB
1465:The good suffer, the evil flourishes, and all that is mortal passes away. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1466:The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little. ~ Terence McKenna, #NFDB
1467:There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1468:There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1469:They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1470:Though there is no evil in righteousness, there is in self-righteousness, ~ David Pietrusza, #NFDB
1471:Tis true I know what evil I shall do but passion overpowers the better council. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
1472:Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world. ~ Robert Hughes, #NFDB
1473:Truth proclaimed and lived out is a fiercely accurate weapon against evil. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
1474:When evil comes, you can't always talk to it—sometimes it must be destroyed. ~ Scott Sigler, #NFDB
1475:You are not evil, Fell. You have just been robbed of love. Of light. ~ David Clement Davies, #NFDB
1476:You can't give evil free reign because you're afraid to confront it. ~ Cinda Williams Chima, #NFDB
1477:You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything. ~ Ralph Fiennes, #NFDB
1478:10Those who lead good people along an evil path will fall into their own trap, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1479:2TH3.3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1480:All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1481:All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
1482:(an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose). ~ Susanna Clarke, #NFDB
1483:An evil thought is the most dangerous of all thieves. ~ Buddhist Scriptures from the Chinese, #NFDB
1484:As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil. ~ Robert Southey, #NFDB
1485:Avoid evil, particularly if they're attractive members of the opposite sex. ~ Charlie Munger, #NFDB
1486:Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own. ~ P C Cast, #NFDB
1487:Be not wise in your own eyes; n fear the LORD, and turn away from evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1488:Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
1489:Evil bloomed where humans gathered, like rust in oxygen. It only required time. ~ Sean Platt, #NFDB
1490:Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think. ~ Benedict XVI, #NFDB
1491:Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. ~ Anthony Burgess, #NFDB
1492:evil loves to hurt good. And evil uses people who have no good in them.” “But… ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
1493:Evil the drink and ill the resting place. I am not, unfortunately, asleep. ~ Dorothy Dunnett, #NFDB
1494:Evil will always catch up with you. That’s why you have to get to it first. ~ Danielle Paige, #NFDB
1495:Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty. ~ Raisa Gorbacheva, #NFDB
1496:I believed that to sin for good and to sin for evil were equal in God’s eyes. ~ Jodi Daynard, #NFDB
1497:If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1498:If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too? ~ Amy Tan, #NFDB
1499:If there's a good side of Islam, at the end of the day it serves evil. ~ Mosab Hassan Yousef, #NFDB
1500:If you want to lose weight, whole-wheat bread, couscous, and quinoa are evil. ~ Jorge Cruise, #NFDB
343 Integral Yoga
286 Poetry
133 Philosophy
107 Christianity
96 Occultism
95 Fiction
50 Yoga
46 Psychology
44 Islam
18 Mysticism
18 Hinduism
13 Kabbalah
11 Philsophy
10 Science
7 Mythology
5 Baha i Faith
4 Integral Theory
3 Sufism
2 Buddhism
1 Theosophy
1 Thelema
1 Education
1 Alchemy
238 Sri Aurobindo
140 The Mother
107 Nolini Kanta Gupta
79 Satprem
64 H P Lovecraft
53 Friedrich Nietzsche
46 Carl Jung
44 Muhammad
38 William Wordsworth
35 Percy Bysshe Shelley
32 Plotinus
31 Saint Augustine of Hippo
30 Sri Ramakrishna
29 James George Frazer
26 Aleister Crowley
24 Anonymous
24 Aldous Huxley
22 Saint John of Climacus
21 Walt Whitman
16 Robert Browning
16 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
15 Swami Vivekananda
14 Saint Teresa of Avila
13 William Butler Yeats
13 Rabbi Moses Luzzatto
13 A B Purani
11 Ralph Waldo Emerson
11 Plato
10 Vyasa
10 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
9 Franz Bardon
7 Edgar Allan Poe
6 Rudolf Steiner
6 Lucretius
6 Jorge Luis Borges
6 Jordan Peterson
6 John Keats
6 George Van Vrekhem
5 Rabindranath Tagore
5 Patanjali
5 Joseph Campbell
5 Friedrich Schiller
5 Baha u llah
4 Swami Sivananda Saraswati
4 Sri Ramana Maharshi
3 Paul Richard
3 Jalaluddin Rumi
2 William Blake
2 Ramprasad
2 Ovid
2 Mahendranath Gupta
2 Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia
2 Al-Ghazali
64 Lovecraft - Poems
46 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
44 Quran
43 The Synthesis Of Yoga
38 Wordsworth - Poems
35 Shelley - Poems
29 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
29 The Golden Bough
27 The Bible
25 Savitri
24 The Perennial Philosophy
24 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
22 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
21 Whitman - Poems
21 The Life Divine
21 Essays On The Gita
21 City of God
20 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
20 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
20 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
19 Mysterium Coniunctionis
17 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
17 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
16 Browning - Poems
15 Collected Poems
14 The Divine Comedy
14 On the Way to Supermanhood
14 Liber ABA
14 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
13 Yeats - Poems
13 Words Of Long Ago
13 General Principles of Kabbalah
13 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
12 Agenda Vol 01
11 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
11 Emerson - Poems
11 Aion
10 Vishnu Purana
10 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
10 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
10 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
10 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
9 The Human Cycle
9 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
9 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
9 Magick Without Tears
9 Letters On Yoga I
9 Faust
8 Raja-Yoga
8 Essays Divine And Human
8 Agenda Vol 04
8 5.1.01 - Ilion
7 Twilight of the Idols
7 The Way of Perfection
7 The Secret Of The Veda
7 The Practice of Psycho therapy
7 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
7 The Future of Man
7 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
7 Poe - Poems
7 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
7 Isha Upanishad
7 Agenda Vol 02
6 Talks
6 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
6 Questions And Answers 1954
6 Questions And Answers 1953
6 Preparing for the Miraculous
6 Of The Nature Of Things
6 Maps of Meaning
6 Letters On Yoga II
6 Labyrinths
6 Keats - Poems
6 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
6 Agenda Vol 10
5 Vedic and Philological Studies
5 The Secret Doctrine
5 The Red Book Liber Novus
5 The Practice of Magical Evocation
5 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
5 Tagore - Poems
5 Some Answers From The Mother
5 Schiller - Poems
5 Questions And Answers 1955
5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
5 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
5 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
5 Kena and Other Upanishads
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
5 Anonymous - Poems
5 Agenda Vol 03
4 Questions And Answers 1956
4 Initiation Into Hermetics
4 Amrita Gita
4 Agenda Vol 11
3 Words Of The Mother III
3 The Phenomenon of Man
3 Letters On Yoga IV
3 Let Me Explain
3 Hymn of the Universe
3 Dark Night of the Soul
3 Crowley - Poems
3 Agenda Vol 13
3 Agenda Vol 09
3 Agenda Vol 05
2 Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit
2 The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
2 The Problems of Philosophy
2 The Book of Certitude
2 The Alchemy of Happiness
2 Rumi - Poems
2 Prayers And Meditations
2 Metamorphoses
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
2 Bhakti-Yoga
2 Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
2 Agenda Vol 06
2 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
00.01 - The Approach to Mysticism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The mystic forces are not only of immense potency but of a definite moral disposition and character, that is to say, they are of immense potency either for good or for Evil. They are not mechanical and amoral forces like those that physical sciences deal with; they are forces of consciousness and they are conscious forces, they act with an aim and a purpose. The mystic forces are forces either of light or of darkness, either Divine or Titanic. And it is most often the powers of darkness that the naturally ignorant consciousness of man contacts when it seeks to cross the borderline without training or guidance, by the sheer arrogant self-sufficiency of mental scientific reason.
Ignorance, certainly, is not man's ideal conditionit leads to death and dissolution. But knowledge also can be equally disastrous if it is not of the right kind. The knowledge that is born of spiritual disobedience, inspired by the Dark ones, leads to the soul's fall and its calvary through pain and suffering on earth. The seeker of true enlightenment has got to make a distinction, learn to separate the true and the right from the false and the wrong, unmask the luring Mra say clearly and unfalteringly to the dark light of Luciferapage Satana, if he is to come out into the true light and comm and the right forces. The search for knowledge alone, knowledge for the sake of knowledge, the path of pure scientific inquiry and inquisitiveness, in relation to the mystic world, is a dangerous thing. For such a spirit serves only to encourage and enhance man's arrogance and in the end not only limits but warps and falsifies the knowledge itself. A knowledge based on and secured exclusively through the reason and mental light can go only so far as that faculty can be reasonably stretched and not infinitelyto stretch it to infinity means to snap it. This is the warning that Yajnavalkya gave to Gargi when the latter started renewing her question ad infinitum Yajnavalkya said, "If you do not stop, your head will fall off."
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Born in an orthodox brahmin family, Sri Ramakrishna knew the formalities of worship, its rites and rituals. The innumerable gods and goddesses of the Hindu religion are the human aspects of the indescribable and incomprehensible Spirit, as conceived by the finite human mind. They understand and appreciate human love and emotion, help men to realize their secular and spiritual ideals, and ultimately enable men to attain liberation from the miseries of phenomenal life. The Source of light, intelligence, wisdom, and strength is the One alone from whom comes the fulfilment of desire. Yet, as long as a man is bound by his human limitations, he cannot but worship God through human forms. He must use human symbols. Therefore Hinduism asks the devotees to look on God as the ideal father, the ideal mother, the ideal husband, the ideal son, or the ideal friend. But the name ultimately leads to the Nameless, the form to the Formless, the word to the Silence, the emotion to the serene realization of Peace in Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute. The gods gradually merge in the one God. But until that realization is achieved, the devotee cannot dissociate human factors from his worship. Therefore the Deity is bathed and clothed and decked with ornaments. He is fed and put to sleep. He is propitiated with hymns, songs, and prayers. And there are appropriate rites connected with all these functions. For instance, to secure for himself external purity, the priest bathes himself in holy water and puts on a holy cloth. He purifies the mind and the sense-organs by appropriate meditations. He fortifies the place of worship against Evil forces by drawing around it circles of fire and water. He awakens the different spiritual centres of the body and invokes the Supreme Spirit in his heart. Then he transfers the Supreme Spirit to the image before him and worships the image, regarding it no longer as clay or stone, but as the embodiment of Spirit, throbbing with Life and Consciousness. After the worship the Supreme Spirit is recalled from the image to Its true sanctuary, the heart of the priest. The real devotee knows the absurdity of worshipping the Transcendental Reality with material articles — clothing That which pervades the whole universe and the beyond, putting on a pedestal That which cannot be limited by space, feeding That which is disembodied and incorporeal, singing before That whose glory the music of the spheres tries vainly to proclaim. But through these rites the devotee aspires to go ultimately beyond rites and rituals, forms and names, words and praise, and to realize God as the All-pervading Consciousness.
Hindu priests are thoroughly acquainted with the rites of worship, but few of them are aware of their underlying significance. They move their hands and limbs mechanically, in obedience to the letter of the scriptures, and repeat the holy mantras like parrots. But from the very beginning the inner meaning of these rites was revealed to Sri Ramakrishna. As he sat facing the image, a strange transformation came over his mind. While going through the prescribed ceremonies, he would actually find himself encircled by a wall of fire protecting him and the place of worship from unspiritual vibrations, or he would feel the rising of the mystic Kundalini through the different centres of the body. The glow on his face, his deep absorption, and the intense atmosphere of the temple impressed everyone who saw him worship the Deity.
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Sri Ramakrishna set himself to the task of practising the disciplines of Tantra; and at the bidding of the Divine Mother Herself he accepted the Brahmani as his guru. He performed profound and delicate ceremonies in the Panchavati and under the bel-tree at the northern extremity of the temple compound. He practised all the disciplines of the sixty-four principal Tantra books, and it took him never more than three days to achieve the result promised in any one of them. After the observance of a few preliminary rites, he would be overwhelmed with a strange divine fervour and would go into samadhi, where his mind would dwell in exaltation. Evil ceased to exist for him. The word "carnal" lost its meaning. The whole world and everything in it appeared as the lila, the sport, of Siva and Sakti. He beheld held everywhere manifest the power and beauty of the Mother; the whole world, animate and inanimate, appeared to him as pervaded with Chit, Consciousness, and with Ananda, Bliss.
He saw in a vision the Ultimate Cause of the universe as a huge luminous triangle giving birth every moment to an infinite number of worlds. He heard the Anahata Sabda, the great sound Om, of which the innumerable sounds of the universe are only so many echoes. He acquired the eight supernatural powers of yoga, which make a man almost omnipotent, and these he spurned as of no value whatsoever to the Spirit. He had a vision of the divine Maya, the inscrutable Power of God, by which the universe is created and sustained, and into which it is finally absorbed. In this vision he saw a woman of exquisite beauty, about to become a mother, emerging from the Ganges and slowly approaching the Panchavati. Presently she gave birth to a child and began to nurse it tenderly. A moment later she assumed a terrible aspect, seized the child with her grim jaws, and crushed it. Swallowing it, she re-entered the waters of the Ganges.
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The path of the Vedantic discipline is the path of negation, "neti", in which, by stern determination, all that is unreal is both negated and renounced. It is the path of jnana, knowledge, the direct method of realizing the Absolute. After the negation of everything relative, including the discriminating ego itself, the aspirant merges in the One without a Second, in the bliss of nirvikalpa samadhi, where subject and object are alike dissolved. The soul goes beyond the realm of thought. The domain of duality is transcended. Maya is left behind with all its changes and modifications. The Real Man towers above the delusions of creation, preservation, and destruction. An avalanche of indescribable Bliss sweeps away all relative ideas of pain and pleasure, good and Evil. There shines in the heart the glory of the Eternal Brahman, Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute. Knower, knowledge, and known are dissolved in the Ocean of one eternal Consciousness; love, lover, and beloved merge in the unbounded Sea of supreme Felicity; birth, growth, and death vanish in infinite Existence. All doubts and misgivings are quelled for ever; the oscillations of the mind are stopped; the momentum of past actions is exhausted. Breaking down the ridge-pole of the tabernacle in which the soul has made its abode for untold ages, stilling the body, calming the mind, drowning the ego, the sweet joy of Brahman wells up in that superconscious state. Space disappears into nothingness, time is swallowed in eternity, and causation becomes a dream of the past. Only Existence is. Ah! Who can describe what the soul then feels in its communion with the Self?
Even when man descends from this dizzy height, he is devoid of ideas of "I" and "mine"; he looks on the body as a mere shadow, an outer sheath encasing the soul. He does not dwell on the past, takes no thought for the future, and looks with indifference on the present. He surveys everything in the world with an eye of equality; he is no longer touched by the infinite variety of phenomena; he no longer reacts to pleasure and pain. He remains unmoved whether he — that is to say, his body — is worshipped by the good or tormented by the wicked; for he realizes that it is the one Brahman that manifests Itself through everything. The impact of such an experience devastates the body and mind. Consciousness becomes blasted, as it were, with an excess of Light. In the Vedanta books it is said that after the experience of nirvikalpa samadhi the body drops off like a dry leaf. Only those who are born with a special mission for the world can return
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Thus, after nirvikalpa samadhi, Sri Ramakrishna realized maya in an altogether new role. The binding aspect of Kali vanished from before his vision. She no longer obscured his understanding. The world became the glorious manifestation of the Divine Mother. Maya became Brahman. The Transcendental Itself broke through the Immanent. Sri Ramakrishna discovered that maya operates in the relative world in two ways, and he termed these "avidyamaya" and "vidyamaya". Avidyamaya represents the dark forces of creation: sensuous desires, Evil passions, greed, lust, cruelty, and so on. It sustains the world system on the lower planes. It is responsible for the round of man's birth and death. It must be fought and vanquished. But vidyamaya is the higher force of creation: the spiritual virtues, the enlightening qualities, kindness, purity, love, devotion. Vidyamaya elevates man to the higher planes of consciousness. With the help of vidyamaya the devotee rids himself of avidyamaya; he then becomes mayatita, free of maya. The two aspects of maya are the two forces of creation, the two powers of Kali; and She stands beyond them both. She is like the effulgent sun, bringing into existence and shining through and standing behind the clouds of different colours and shapes, conjuring up wonderful forms in the blue autumn heaven.
The Divine Mother asked Sri Ramakrishna not to be lost in the featureless Absolute but to remain, in bhavamukha, on the threshold of relative consciousness, the border line between the Absolute and the Relative. He was to keep himself at the "sixth centre" of Tantra, from which he could see not only the glory of the seventh, but also the divine manifestations of the Kundalini in the lower centres. He gently oscillated back and forth across the dividing line. Ecstatic devotion to the Divine Mother alternated with serene absorption in the Ocean of Absolute Unity. He thus bridged the gulf between the Personal and the Impersonal, the immanent and the transcendent aspects of Reality. This is a unique experience in the recorded spiritual history of the world.
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But he remained as ever the willing instrument in the hand of God, the child of the Divine Mother, totally untouched by the idea of being a teacher. He used to say that three ideas — that he was a guru, a father, and a master — pricked his flesh like thorns. Yet he was an extraordinary teacher. He stirred his disciples' hearts more by a subtle influence than by actions or words. He never claimed to be the founder of a religion or the organizer of a sect. Yet he was a religious dynamo. He was the verifier of all religions and creeds. He was like an expert gardener, who prepares the soil and removes the weeds, knowing that the plants will grow because of the inherent power of the seeds, producing each its appropriate flowers and fruits. He never thrust his ideas on anybody. He understood people's limitations and worked on the principle that what is good for one may be bad for another. He had the unusual power of knowing the devotees' minds, even their inmost souls, at the first sight. He accepted disciples with the full knowledge of their past tendencies and future possibilities. The life of Evil did not frighten him, nor did religious squeamishness raise anybody in his estimation. He saw in everything the unerring finger of the Divine Mother. Even the light that leads astray was to him the light from God.
To those who became his intimate disciples the Master was a friend, companion, and playmate. Even the chores of religious discipline would be lightened in his presence. The devotees would be so inebriated with pure joy in his company that they would have no time to ask themselves whether he was an Incarnation, a perfect soul, or a yogi. His very presence was a great teaching; words were superfluous. In later years his disciples remarked that while they were with him they would regard him as a comrade, but afterwards would tremble to think of their frivolities in the presence of such a great person. They had convincing proof that the Master could, by his mere wish, kindle in their hearts the love of God and give them His vision.
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At the beginning of 1884 Narendra's father suddenly died of heart-failure, leaving the family in a state of utmost poverty. There were six or seven mouths to feed at home. Creditors were knocking at the door. Relatives who had accepted his father's unstinted kindness now became enemies, some even bringing suit to deprive Narendra of his ancestral home. Actually starving and barefoot, Narendra searched for a job, but without success. He began to doubt whether anywhere in the world there was such a thing as unselfish sympathy. Two rich women made Evil proposals to him and promised to put an end to his distress; but he refused them with contempt.
Narendra began to talk of his doubt of the very existence of God. His friends thought he had become an atheist, and piously circulated gossip adducing unmentionable motives for his unbelief. His moral character was maligned. Even some of the Master's disciples partly believed the gossip, and Narendra told these to their faces that only a coward believed in God through fear of suffering or hell. But he was distressed to think that Sri Ramakrishna, too, might believe these false reports. His pride revolted. He said to himself: "What does it matter? If a man's good name rests on such slender foundations, I don't care." But later on he was amazed to learn that the Master had never lost faith in him. To a disciple who complained about Narendra's degradation, Sri Ramakrishna replied: "Hush, you fool! The Mother has told me it can never be so. I won't look at you if you speak that way again."
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Harinath had led the austere life of a brahmachari even from his early boyhood — bathing in the Ganges every day, cooking his own meals, waking before sunrise, and reciting the Gita from memory before leaving bed. He found in the Master the embodiment of the Vedanta scriptures. Aspiring to be a follower of the ascetic Sankara, he cherished a great hatred for women. One day he said to the Master that he could not allow even small girls to come near him. The Master scolded him and said: "You are talking like a fool. Why should you hate women? They are the manifestations of the Divine Mother. Regard them as your own mother and you will never feel their Evil influence. The more you hate them, the more you will fall into their snares." Hari said later that these words completely changed his attitude toward women.
The Master knew Hari's passion for Vedanta. But he did not wish any of his disciples to become a dry ascetic or a mere bookworm. So he asked Hari to practise Vedanta in life by giving up the unreal and following the Real. "But it is not so easy", Sri Ramakrishna said, "to realize the illusoriness of the world. Study alone does not help one very much. The grace of God is required. Mere personal effort is futile. A man is a tiny creature after all, with very limited powers. But he can achieve the impossible if he prays to God for His grace." Whereupon the Master sang a song in praise of grace. Hari was profoundly moved and shed tears. Later in life Hari achieved a wonderful synthesis of the ideals of the Personal God and the Impersonal Truth.
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One day, in January 1884, the Master was going toward the pine-grove when he went into a trance. He was alone. There was no one to support him or guide his footsteps. He fell to the ground and dislocated a bone in his left arm. This accident had a significant influence on his mind, the natural inclination of which was to soar above the consciousness of the body. The acute pain in the arm forced his mind to dwell on the body and on the world outside. But he saw even in this a divine purpose; for, with his mind compelled to dwell on the physical plane, he realized more than ever that he was an instrument in the hand of the Divine Mother, who had a mission to fulfil through his human body and mind. He also distinctly found that in the phenomenal world God manifests Himself, in an inscrutable way, through diverse human beings, both good and Evil. Thus he would speak of God in the guise of the wicked, God in the guise of the pious. God in the guise of the hypocrite, God in the guise of the lewd. He began to take a special delight in watching the divine play in the relative world. Sometimes the sweet human relationship with God would appear to him more appealing than the all-effacing Knowledge of Brahman. Many a time he would pray: "Mother, don't make me unconscious through the Knowledge of Brahman. Don't give me Brahmajnana, Mother. Am I not Your child, and naturally timid? I must have my Mother. A million salutations to the Knowledge of Brahman! Give it to those who want it." Again he prayed: "O Mother let me remain in contact with men! Don't make me a dried-up ascetic. I want to enjoy Your sport in the world." He was able to taste this very rich divine experience and enjoy the love of God and the company of His devotees because his mind, on account of the injury to his arm, was forced to come down to the consciousness of the body. Again, he would make fun of people who proclaimed him as a Divine Incarnation, by pointing to his broken arm. He would say, "Have you ever heard of God breaking His arm?" It took the arm about five months to heal.
--- BEGINNING OF HIS ILLNESS
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Deliver us from Good and Evil!
That Mine as Thine be the Crown of the Kingdom,
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rise to the appearance of Evil.
[53]
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and Evil is an exceedingly rare accident; there can be
no night in the whole of the Solar System, except in rare
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Save me from Evil and from Good!
That Thy one crown of all the Ten.
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Hum! (Keep us from Evil!)
[116]
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in brackets, "Keep us from Evil", since, although it is the
place of life, the means of grace, it may be ruinous.
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but sorrow and Evil in the universe.
The Buddhist analysis may be true, but not for
0.03 - The Threefold Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But if it is often difficult for the mental life to accommodate itself to the dully resistant material activity, how much more difficult must it seem for the spiritual existence to live on in a world that appears full not of the Truth but of every lie and illusion, not of Love and Beauty but of an encompassing discord and ugliness, not of the Law of Truth but of victorious selfishness and sin? Therefore the spiritual life tends easily in the saint and Sannyasin to withdraw from the material existence and reject it either wholly and physically or in the spirit. It sees this world as the kingdom of Evil or of ignorance and the eternal and divine either in a far-off heaven or beyond where there is no world and no life. It separates itself inwardly, if not also physically, from the world's impurities; it asserts the spiritual reality in a spotless isolation. This withdrawal renders an invaluable service to the material life itself by forcing it to regard and even to bow down to something that is the direct negation of its own petty ideals, sordid cares and egoistic self-content.
But the work in the world of so supreme a power as spiritual force cannot be thus limited. The spiritual life also can return upon the material and use it as a means of its own greater fullness. Refusing to be blinded by the dualities, the appearances, it can seek in all appearances whatsoever the vision of the same Lord, the same eternal Truth, Beauty, Love, Delight. The
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is absolutely false that anything human can heal a human Evil.
Only the Divine can heal. It is in Him alone that one must
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
How can one distinguish between good and Evil in
a dream?
0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Does an outer life of Evil deeds and a base consciousness have an effect on the psychic being? Is there
a possibility of its degradation?
A base and Evil life can only have the effect of separating the
outer being more and more completely from the psychic being,
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voice which distinguishes between good and Evil, encourages us
to do good and forbids us to do Evil. This voice is very useful
in ordinary life, until one is able to become conscious of one's
01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Their work betrayed, their good to Evil turned,
The cross their payment for the crown they gave,
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Against the Evil at life's afflicted roots,
Her own calamity its private sign,
01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
To sum up and recapitulate. The evolution of the poetic expression in man has ever been an attempt at a return and a progressive approach to the spiritual source of poetic inspiration, which was also the original, though somewhat veiled, source from the very beginning. The movement has followed devious waysstrongly negative at timeseven like man's life and consciousness in general of which it is an organic member; but the ultimate end and drift seems to have been always that ideal and principle even when fallen on Evil days and Evil tongues. The poet's ideal in the dawn of the world was, as the Vedic Rishi sang, to raise things of beauty in heaven by his poetic power,kavi kavitv divi rpam sajat. Even a Satanic poet, the inaugurator, in a way, of modernism and modernistic consciousness, Charles Baudelaire, thus admonishes his spirit:
"Flyaway, far from these morbid miasmas, go and purify yourself in the higher air and drink, like a pure and divine liquor, the clear fire that fills the limpid spaces."18
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The kings of Evil and the kings of good,
Appellants at the reason's judgment seat,
01.04 - The Intuition of the Age, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
So instead of the rational principle, the new age wants the principle of Nature or Life. Even as regards knowledge Reason is not the only, nor the best instrument. For animals have properly no reason; the nature-principle of knowledge in the animal is Instinct the faculty that acts so faultlessly, so marvellously where Reason can only pause and be perplexed. This is not to say that man is to or can go back to this primitive and animal function; but certainly he can replace it by something akin which is as natural and yet purified and self-consciousillumined instinct, we may say or Intuition, as Bergson terms it. And Nietzsche's definition of the Superman has also a similar orientation and significance; for, according to him, the Superman is man who has outgrown his Reason, who is not bound by the standards and the conventions determined by Reason for a special purpose. The Superman is one who has gone beyond "good and Evil," who has shaken off from his nature and character elements that are "human, all too human"who is the embodiment of life-force in its absolute purity and strength and freedom.
This then is the mantra of the new ageLife with Intuition as its guide and not Reason and mechanical efficiency, not Man but Superman. The right mantra has been found, the principle itself is irreproachable. But the interpretation, the application, does not seem to have been always happy. For, Nietzsche's conception of the Superman is full of obvious lacunae. If we have so long been adoring the intellectual man, Nietzsche asks us, on the other hand, to deify the vital man. According to him the superman is he who has (1) the supreme sense of the ego, (2) the sovereign will to power and (3) who lives dangerously. All this means an Asura, that is to say, one who has, it may be, dominion over his animal and vital impulsions in order, of course, that he may best gratify them but who has not purified them. Purification does not necessarily mean, annihilation but it does mean sublimation and transformation. So if you have to transcend man, you have to transcend egoism also. For a conscious egoism is the very characteristic of man and by increasing your sense of egoism you do not supersede man but simply aggrandise your humanity, fashion it on a larger, a titanic scale. And then the will to power is not the only will that requires fulfilment, there is also the will to knowledge and the will to love. In man these three fundamental constitutive elements coexist, although they do it, more often than not, at the expense of each other and in a state of continual disharmony. The superman, if he is to be the man "who has surmounted himself", must embody a poise of being in which all the three find a fusion and harmonya perfect synthesis. Again, to live dangerously may be heroic, but it is not divine. To live dangerously means to have eternal opponents, that is to say, to live ever on the same level with the forces you want to dominate. To have the sense that one has to fight and control means that one is not as yet the sovereign lord, for one has to strive and strain and attain. The supreme lord is he who is perfectly equanimous with himself and with the world. He has not to batter things into a shape in order to create. He creates means, he manifests. He wills and he achieves"God said 'let there be light' and there was light."
01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But the more truly modern mind looks at the thing in a slightly different way. The good and the Evil are not, to it, contrary to each other: one does not deny or negate the other. They are intermixed, fused in a mysterious identity. The best and the worst are but two conditions, two potentials of the same entity. Baudelaire, who can be considered as the first of the real moderns in many ways, saw and experienced this intimate polarity or identity of opposites in human nature and consciousness. What is Evil, who is the Evil One:
Une Ide, uneForme, Un tre
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Mute, pure, they share not in the Evil done;
Else might their strength be marred and could not save.
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A partner in her Evil and her good,
He has consented to her passionate ways,
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
She turned against the Evil she had helped
Her engined wrath, her invisible means to slay;
01.06 - On Communism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
However, individualism has given us a truth and a formula which collectivism ignored. Self-determination is a thing which has come to stay. Each and every individual is free, absolutely free and shall freely follow his own line of growth and development and fulfilment. No extraneous power shall choose and fix what is good or Evil for him, nor coerce and exploit him for its own benefit. But that does not necessarily mean that collectivism has no truth in it; collectivism also, as much as individualism, has a lesson for us and we should see whether we can harmonise the two. Collectivism signifies that the individual should not look to himself alone, should not be shut up in his freedom but expand himself and envelop others in a wider freedom, see other creatures in himself and himself in other creatures, as the Gita says. Collectivism demands that the individual need not and should not exhaust himself entirely in securing and enjoying his personal freedom, but that he can and should work for the salvation of others; the truth it upholds is this that the individual is from a certain point of view only a part of the group and by ignoring the latter it ignores itself in the end.
Now, a spiritual communism embraces individualism and collectivism, fuses them in a higher truth, establishes them in an intimate and absolute harmony. The individual is the centre, the group is the circumference and the two form one whore circle. The individual by fulfilling the truth of his real individuality fulfils also the truth of a commonality. There are no different laws for the two. The individuals do not stand apart from and against one another, the dharma of one does not clash with the dharma of the other. The ripples in the bosom of the sea, however distinct and discrete in appearance, form but a single mass, all follow the same law of hydrodynamics that the mother sea incarnates. Stars and planets and nebulae, each separate heavenly body has its characteristic form and nature and function and yet all fulfil the same law of gravitation and beat the measure of the silent symphony of spaces. Individualities are the freedoms of the collective being and collectivity the concentration of individual beings. The same soul looking inward appears as the individual being and looking outward appears as the collective being.
01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Indeed, it would be interesting to compare and contrast the Eastern and Western approach to Divine Love, the Christian and the Vaishnava, for example. Indian spirituality, whatever its outer form or credal formulation, has always a background of utter unity. This unity, again, is threefold or triune and is expressed in those great Upanishadic phrases,mahvkyas,(1) the transcendental unity: the One alone exists, there is nothing else than theOneekamevdvityam; (2) the cosmic unity: all existence is one, whatever exists is that One, thereare no separate existences:sarvam khalvidam brahma neha nnsti kincaa; (3) That One is I, you too are that One:so' ham, tattvamasi; this may be called the individual unity. As I have said, all spiritual experiences in India, of whatever school or line, take for granted or are fundamentally based upon this sense of absolute unity or identity. Schools of dualism or pluralism, who do not apparently admit in their tenets this extreme monism, are still permeated in many ways with that sense and in some form or other take cognizance of the truth of it. The Christian doctrine too says indeed, 'I and my Father in Heaven are one', but this is not identity, but union; besides, the human soul is not admitted into this identity, nor the world soul. The world, we have seen, according to the Christian discipline has to be altogether abandoned, negatived, as we go inward and upward towards our spiritual status reflecting the divine image in the divine company. It is a complete rejection, a cutting off and casting away of world and life. One extreme Vedantic path seems to follow a similar line, but there it is not really rejection, but a resolution, not the rejection of what is totally foreign and extraneous, but a resolution of the external into its inner and inmost substance, of the effect into its original cause. Brahman is in the world, Brahman is the world: the world has unrolled itself out of the Brahmansi, pravttiit has to be rolled back into its, cause and substance if it is to regain its pure nature (that is the process of nivitti). Likewise, the individual being in the world, "I", is the transcendent being itself and when it withdraws, it withdraws itself and the whole world with it and merges into the Absolute. Even the Maya of the Mayavadin, although it is viewed as something not inherent in Brahman but superimposed upon Brahman, still, has been accepted as a peculiar power of Brahman itself. The Christian doctrine keeps the individual being separate practically, as an associate or at the most as an image of God. The love for one's neighbour, charity, which the Christian discipline enjoins is one's love for one's kind, because of affinity of nature and quality: it does not dissolve the two into an integral unity and absolute identity, where we love because we are one, because we are the One. The highest culmination of love, the very basis of love, according to the Indian conception, is a transcendence of love, love trans-muted into Bliss. The Upanishad says, where one has become the utter unity, who loves whom? To explain further our point, we take two examples referred to in the book we are considering. The true Christian, it is said, loves the sinner too, he is permitted to dislike sin, for he has to reject it, but he must separate from sin the sinner and love him. Why? Because the sinner too can change and become his brother in spirit, one loves the sinner because there is the possibility of his changing and becoming a true Christian. It is why the orthodox Christian, even such an enlightened and holy person as this mediaeval Canon, considers the non-Christian, the non-baptised as impure and potentially and fundamentally sinners. That is also why the Church, the physical organisation, is worshipped as Christ's very body and outside the Church lies the pagan world which has neither religion nor true spirituality nor salvation. Of course, all this may be symbolic and it is symbolic in a sense. If Christianity is taken to mean true spirituality, and the Church is equated with the collective embodiment of that spirituality, all that is claimed on their behalf stands justified. But that is an ideal, a hypothetical standpoint and can hardly be borne out by facts. However, to come back to our subject, let us ow take the second example. Of Christ himself, it is said, he not only did not dislike or had any aversion for Judas, but that he positively loved the traitor with a true and sincere love. He knew that the man would betray him and even when he was betraying and had betrayed, the Son of Man continued to love him. It was no make-believe or sham or pretence. It was genuine, as genuine as anything can be. Now, why did he love his enemy? Because, it is said, the enemy is suffered by God to do the misdeed: he has been allowed to test the faith of the faithful, he too has his utility, he too is God's servant. And who knows even a Judas would not change in the end? Many who come to scoff do remain to pray. But it can be asked, 'Does God love Satan too in the same way?' The Indian conception which is basically Vedantic is different. There is only one reality, one truth which is viewed differently. Whether a thing is considered good or Evil or neutral, essentially and truly, it is that One and nothing else. God's own self is everywhere and the sage makes no difference between the Brahmin and the cow and the elephant. It is his own self he finds in every person and every objectsarvabhtsthitam yo mm bhajati ekatvamsthitah"he has taken his stand upon oneness and loves Me in all beings."2
This will elucidate another point of difference between the Christian's and the Vaishnava's love of God, for both are characterised by an extreme intensity and sweetness and exquisiteness of that divine feeling. This Christian's, however, is the union of the soul in its absolute purity and simplicity and "privacy" with her lord and master; the soul is shred here of all earthly vesture and goes innocent and naked into the embrace of her Beloved. The Vaishnava feeling is richer and seems to possess more amplitude; it is more concrete and less ethereal. The Vaishnava in his passionate yearning seeks to carry as it were the whole world with him to his Lord: for he sees and feels Him not only in the inmost chamber of his soul, but meets Him also in and I through his senses and in and through the world and its objects around. In psychological terms one can say that the Christian realisation, at its very source, is that of the inmost soul, what we call the "psychic being" pure and simple, referred to in the book we are considering; as: "His sweet privy voice... stirreth thine heart full stilly." Whereas the Vaishnava reaches out to his Lord with his outer heart too aflame with passion; not only his inmost being but his vital being also seeks the Divine. This bears upon the occult story of man's spiritual evolution upon earth. The Divine Grace descends from the highest into the deepest and from the deepest to the outer ranges of human nature, so that the whole of it may be illumined and transformed and one day man can embody in his earthly life the integral manifestation of God, the perfect Epiphany. Each religion, each line of spiritual discipline takes up one limb of manone level or mode of his being and consciousness purifies it and suffuses it with the spiritual and divine consciousness, so that in the end the whole of man, in his integral living, is recast and remoulded: each discipline is in charge of one thread as it were, all together weave the warp and woof in the evolution of the perfect pattern of a spiritualised and divinised humanity.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
an ignorant and imperfect human being struggling with the Evils
of the lower nature.... What is created by spiritual progress is an
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on the idea of good and Evil, a moral entity or rather an element of goodwill which tries to keep the individual on what is
commonly known as the straight path.
01.10 - Principle and Personality, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is asked of us why do we preach a man and not purely and solely a principle. Our ideal being avowedly the establishment and reign of a new principle of world-order and not gathering recruits for the camp of a sectarian teacher, it seems all the more inconsistent, if not thoroughly ruinous for our cause, that we should lay stress upon a particular individual and incur the danger of overshadowing the universal truths upon which we seek to build human society. Now, it is not that we are unconscious or oblivious of the many Evils attendant upon the system of preaching a man the history of the rise and decay of many sects and societies is there to give us sufficient warning; and yet if we cannot entirely give the go-by to personalities and stick to mere and bare principles, it is because we have clear reasons for it, because we are not unconscious or oblivious either of the Evils that beset the system of preaching the principle alone.
Religious bodies that are formed through the bhakti and puja for one man, social reconstructions forced by the will and power of a single individual, have already in the inception this grain of incapacity and disease and death that they are not an integrally self-conscious creation, they are not, as a whole, intelligent and wide awake and therefore constantly responsive to the truths and ideals and realities for which they exist, for which at least, their founder intended them to exist. The light at the apex is the only light and the entire structure is but the shadow of that light; the whole thing has the aspect of a dark mass galvanised into red-hot activity by the passing touch of a dynamo. Immediately however the solitary light fails and the dynamo stops, there is nothing but the original darkness and inertiatoma asit tamasa gudham agre.
01.11 - Aldous Huxley: The Perennial Philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We fear Mr. Huxley has completely missed the point of the cryptic sentence. He seems to take it as meaning that human kindness and morality are a means to the recovery of the Lost Way-although codes of ethics and deliberate choices are not sufficient in themselves, they are only a second best, yet they mark the rise of self-consciousness and have to be utilised to pass on into the unitive knowledge that is Tao. This explanation or amplification seems to us somewhat confused and irrelevant to the idea expressed in the apophthegm. What is stated here is much simpler and transparent. It is this that when the Divine is absent and the divine Knowledge, then comes in man with his human mental knowledge: it is man's humanity that clouds the Divine and to reach the' Divine one must reject the human values, all the moralities, sarva dharmn, seek only the Divine. The lesser way lies through the dualities, good and Evil, the Great Way is beyond them and cannot be limited or measured by the relative standards. Especially in the modern age we see the decline and almost the disappearance of the Greater Light and instead a thousand smaller lights are lighted which vainly strive to dispel the gathering darkness. These do not help, they are false lights and men are apt to cling to them, shutting their eyes to the true one which is not that that one worships here and now, nedam yadidam upsate.
There is a beautiful quotation from the Chinese sage, Wu Ch'ng-n, regarding the doubtful utility of written Scriptures:
01.12 - Goethe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Goe the and the Problem of Evil
No problem is so vital to the human consciousness as the problem of Evilits why and wherefore It is verily the Sphinx Riddle. In all ages and in all climes man has tried to answer; the answers are of an immense variety, but none seems to be sure and certain. Goethe's was an ardent soul seeking to embrace the living truth whole and entire; the problem was not merely of philosophical interest to him, but a burning question of life and deathlife and death of the body and even of the soul.
One view considers Evil as coeval with Good: the Prince of Evil is God's peer, equal to him in all ways, absolutely separate, independent and self-existent. Light and Darkness are eternal principles living side by side, possessing equal reality. For, although it is permissible to the individual to pass out of the Darkness and enter into Light, the Darkness itself does not disappear: it remains and maintains its domain, and even it is said that some human beings are meant eternally for this domain. That is the Manichean principle and that also is fundamentally the dualistic conception of chit-achit in some Indian systems (although the principle of chit or light is usually given a higher position and priority of excellence).
The Christian too accepts the dual principle, but does not give equal status to the two. Satan is there, an eternal reality: it is anti-God, it seeks to oppose God, frustrate his work. It is the great tempter whose task it is to persuade, to inspire man to remain always an earthly creature and never turn to know or live in God. Now the crucial question that arises is, what is the necessity of this Antagonist in God's scheme of creation? What is the meaning of this struggle and battle? God could have created, if he had chosen, a world without Evil. The orthodox Christi an answer is that in that case one could not have fully appreciated the true value and glory of God's presence. It is to manifest and proclaim the great victory that the strife and combat has been arranged in which Man triumphs in the end and God's work stands vindicated. The place of Satan is always Hell, but he cannot drag down a soul into his pit to hold it there eternally (although according to one doctrine there are or may be certain eternally damned souls).
Goe the carries the process of convergence and even harmony of the two powers a little further and shows that although they are contrary apparently, they are not contradictory principles in essence. For, Satan is, after all, God's servant, even a very obedient servant; he is an instrument in the hand of the Almighty to work out His purpose. The purpose is to help and lead man, although in a devious way, towards a greater understanding, a nearer approach to Himself.
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The angels weave the symphony that is creation. They represent the various notes and rhythmsin their higher and purer degrees that make up the grand harmony of the spheres. It is magnificent, this music that moves the cosmos, and wonderful the glory of God manifest therein. But is it absolutely perfect? Is there nowhere any flaw in it? There is a doubting voice that enters a dissenting note. That is Satan, the Antagonist, the Evil One. Man is the weakest link in the chain of the apparently all-perfect harmony. And Satan boldly proposes to snap it if God only let him do so. He can prove to God that the true nature of his creation is not cosmos but chaos not a harmony in peace and light, but a confusion, a Walpurgis Night. God acquiesces in the play of this apparent breach and proves in the end that it is part of a wider scheme, a vaster harmony. Evil is rounded off by Grace.
The total eradication of Evil from the world and human nature and the remoulding of a terrestrial life in the substance and pattern of the Highest Good that is beyond all dualities is a conception which it was not for Goe the to envisage. In the order of reality or existence, first there is the consciousness of division, of trenchant separation in which Good is equated with not- Evil and Evil with not-good. This is the outlook of individualised consciousness. Next, as the consciousness grows and envelops the whole existence, good and Evil are both embraced and are found to form a secret and magic harmony. That is the universal or cosmic consciousness. And Goethe's genius seems to be an outflowering of something of this status of consciousness. But there is still a higher status, the status of transcendence in which Evil is not simply embraced but dissolved and even transmuted into a supreme reality of which it is an aberration, a reflection or projection, a lower formulation. That is the mystery of a spiritual realisation to which Goe the aspired perhaps, but had not the necessary initiation to enter into.
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0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The vibrations of Evil are in truth less powerful than the vibrations of good.
26 June 1968
0 1955-06-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother, it is an impossible, absurd, unlivable life. I feel as though I have no hand in this cruel little game. Oh Mother, why doesnt your grace trust that deep part in me which knows so well that you are the Truth? Deliver me from these Evil forces since, profoundly, it is you and you alone I want. Give me the aspiration and strength I do not have. If you do not do this Yoga for me, I feel I shall never have the strength to go on.
There is something that must be SHATTERED: can it not be done once and for all without lingering on indefinitely? Mother, I am your child.
0 1957-01-01, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
A power greater than that of Evil
can alone win the victory.
0 1958-06-06 - Supramental Ship, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Its action will be somewhat similar to what is described in the Last Judgment, which is an entirely symbolic expression of something that makes us discern between what belongs to the world of falsehood which is destined to disappear and what belongs to this same world of ignorance and inertia but is transformable. One will go to one side and the other to the other side. All that is transformable will be permeated more and more with this new substance and this new consciousness to such an extent that it will rise towards it and serve as a link between the two but all that belongs incorrigibly to falsehood and ignorance will disappear. This was also prophesied in the Gita: among what we call the hostile or anti-divine forces, those capable of being transformed will be uplifted and go off towards the new consciousness, whereas all that is irrevocably in darkness or belongs to an Evil will shall be destroyed and vanish from the Universe. And a whole part of humanity that has responded to these forces rather too zealously will certainly vanish with them. And this is what was expressed in this concept of the Last Judgment.
May 1, 1958.
0 1958-07-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Perhaps it is a kind of it can hardly be called an intuition, but a kind of divination of this idea that made people speak of selling ones soul to the d Evil for money, of money being an Evil force, which produces this shrinking on the part of all those who want to lead a spiritual life but as for that, they shrink from everything, not only from money!
Perhaps it would not be necessary to have this power over all men, but in any event, it should be great enough to act upon the mass. It is likely that once a certain movement has been mastered to some degree, what the mass does or doesnt do (this whole human mass that has barely, barely emerged into even the mental consciousness) will become quite irrelevant. You see, the mass is still under the great rule of Nature. I am referring to mental humanity, predominantly mental, which developed the mind but misused it and immediately set out on the wrong pathfirst thing.
0 1958-07-19, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
It is an ascending curve, but a curve that swerves away from the Divine. So naturally, one has to climb much higher to find a higher Divine, since it is a conscious Divine, whereas the others are divine spontaneously and instinctively, without being conscious of it. All our moral notions of good and Evil, all of that, are what we have thrown over the creation with our distorted and perverted consciousness. It is we who have invented it.
We are the distorting intermediary between the purity of the animal and the divine purity of the gods.
0 1958-11-04 - Myths are True and Gods exist - mental formation and occult faculties - exteriorization - work in dreams, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
They are beings who belong to the progressive creation of the universe and who have themselves presided over its formation from the most etheric or subtle regions to the most material regions. They are a descent of the divine creative Spirit that came to repair the mischief in short, to repair what the Asuras had done. The first makers created disorder and darkness, an unconsciousness, and then it is said that there was a second lineage of makers to repair that Evil, and the gods gradually descended through realities that were ever moreone cant say dense because it isnt really dense, nor can one even say material, since matter as we know it does not exist on these planesthrough more and more concrete substances.
All these zones, these planes of reality, received different names and were classified in different ways according to the occult schools, according to the different traditions, but there is an essential similarity, and if we go back far enough into the various traditions, hardly anything but words differ, depending upon the country and the language. The descriptions are quite similar. Moreover, those who climb back up the ladderor in other words, a human being who, through his occult knowledge, goes out of one of his bodies (they are called sheaths in English) and enters into a more subtle bodyin order to ACT in a more subtle body and so forth, twelve times (you make each body come out from a more material body, leaving the more material body in its corresponding zone, and then go off through successive exteriorizations), what they have seen, what they have discovered and seen through their ascensionwhe ther they are occultists from the Occident or occultists from the Orientis for the most part analogous in description. They have put different words on it, but the experience is very analogous.
0 1958-12-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Sweet Mother, I indeed suspect that you want to endure, to bear this struggle all alone. Oh, I think I understand a number of things about the mechanism of these attacks and their connection with me, about the Divine Love that embraces all and takes into itself the suffering and the Evil of menall this overwhelms me with a sudden understanding. It seems to me that I am seeing and feeling all that you are facing, all that you are taking upon yourself for us. The suffering of the Divine in Matter has been an overwhelming revelation to meAh! I see, I want to fight, I want to be totally on your side; I am now and forever determined.
But you have enough to do with the higher beasts of prey without still having to fight the little scorpions. I beg of you, Sweet Mother, accept the help that is being offered to you, preserve your strength for the higher struggle. I quite understand that your Love can even go to the scorpions that are attacking you, but it is not forbidden to protect yourself from their venom. You have enough to do on other planes.
0 1959-01-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
His action upon you is to continue for another five days, after which he is positive that you will be entirely saved. According to him, it is indeed a magic attack originating in Pondicherry, and perhaps even from someone in the Ashram!! He told me that this Evil person would finally be forced to appear before you I am learning many interesting things from him.
Mother, by way of expressing to you my gratitude, I want to work now to open myself totally to your Light and become truly an egoless instrument, your conscious instrument. Mother, you are the sole Reality.
0 1959-01-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This morning, X told me that he would be most happy to continue his action upon you if it would help your work; he has continued it anyway, even after knowing that the malefic influence was expelled from the Ashram. By the way, X told me that this Evil spirit is continuing to circle around the Ashram, but beyond its borders. Therefore, if you agree, it would be necessary for him to come to Pondicherry one of these days to come to grips directly with the Evil one and finish him off in such a way that he can no longer come to disturb the sadhaks, or your work, upon the slightest pretext. Then X could force this spirit to appear before him, and thereby free the atmosphere from its influence. Anyway, this trip to Pondicherry would not take place in the near future, and it would be easy to give him an official excuse: seminars on the Tantra Shastra that will interest all the Sanskritists at the Ashram. Moreover, Xs work would be done quietly in his room when he does his daily puja. From here, from Rameswaram, it is rather difficult to attract Pondicherrys atmosphere and do the work with precision. Of course, nothing will be done without your express consent. Swami is writing you on his own to tell you of the revelation that X received from his [deceased] guru concerning your experience and the schemings of certain Ashram members.
In this regard, perhaps you know that X is the tenth in the line of Bhaskaraya (my spelling of this name is perhaps not correct), the great Tantric of whom you had a vision, who could comm and the coming of Kali along with all her warriors. It is from X that Swami received his initiation.
0 1959-06-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
As of yesterday evening I am a man delivered. It took only a very little word from X, and suddenly a weight seemed to have been lifted from me, and I knew at last that I would be fulfilled. All this is still so new, so improbable that I can scarcely believe it, and I wonder if by chance some Evil blow is not still lurking in wait for me behind this promise of happiness; thus I shall be reassured only when I have told you everything, recounted all. But X has asked, me to wait a few more days before telling you this story, for he wants to give me certain additional details so that you may have all the elements, as accurately as possible.
But I did not want to wait any longer to express my gratitude. I am still not so sure how all this will turn out nor how this destiny that he predicts for me can be realized, but I want to repeat to you, with all my confidence: I am your child, may your will be done now and forever.
0 1960-07-12 - Mothers Vision - the Voice, the ashram a tiny part of myself, the Mothers Force, sparkling white light compressed - enormous formation of negative vibrations - light in evil, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
object:0_1960-07-12 - Mothers Vision - the Voice, the ashram a tiny part of myself, the Mothers Force, sparkling white light compressed - enormous formation of negative vibrations - light in Evil
author class:The Mother
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There is a magnificence of realization which could not have been had this Evil, this horror and this negation not been.
Our consciousness shrinks from these things which belong to the past and which are no longer in their place, so we feel disgust and revulsionbecause we are ignorant. But if we can raise ourselves above and be in contact with That the supreme Lightwhich is ALWAYS just behind, then this Light seems all the more supreme because it is so much its own opposite.
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Its an approach which is not at all mental nor intellectual nor (God knows!) moral in the leastno notion of Good or Evil nor any of those things, absolutely none of that. Theres a moment in life when you begin thinking a little and you see all this from an overall or universal point of view in which all moral notions completely disappearFOR ANOTHER REASON. This experience with Z reminded me of a certain way of approaching Beauty that enables you even to find it in what appears dirty and ugly to the common vision. It is She trying to express herself in this something which to the common vision is ugly, dirty, hypocritical. But of course, if you yourself have striven assiduously and have greatly held yourself in, then you look at it reprovingly.
From my earliest childhood, instinctively, I have never felt the slightest contempt or how should I say (well, well! I was thinking in English) shrinking or disapproval, severe criticism or disgust for the things people call vice.
0 1961-01-10, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
49To feel and love the God of beauty and good in the ugly and the Evil, and still yearn in utter love to heal it of its ugliness and its Evil, this is real virtue and morality.1
Do you have a question?
How can one collaborate in curing the Evil and ugliness seen everywhere? By loving? What is the power of love? What effect can an individual consciousness, acting alone, have on the rest of mankind?
How to collaborate in curing Evil and ugliness? We can say that theres a kind of hierarchic scale of collaboration or action; a negative cooperation and a positive cooperation.
To begin with, theres what could be called a negative way, the way expounded by Buddhism and similar religions: the refusal to see. To be in a state of such purity and beauty that there is no perception of Evil and ugliness. Its like something that doesnt touch you because it doesnt exist in you. This is the perfection of the negative method.
It is quite elementary: never take notice of Evil, never speak of the Evil present in others, never perpetuate the vibrations of Evil by observation, criticism or giving undue attention to the Evil deed. This is what Buddha taught: each time you mention an Evil you help spread it.
This skirts the issue.
Nevertheless, it ought to be a very general rule; yet its critics have a reply: If you dont see Evil you can never cure it. If you leave someone to his squalor he will never emerge from it. (Its not exactly true, but its how they legitimize their actions.) In this aphorism, Sri Aurobindo has anticipated these objections: it is not through ignorance or unconsciousness or indifference that you fail to see Evilyou can see and even feel it, but you refuse to collaborate in spreading it by giving it the force of your attention or the support of your consciousness. And for that, you must yourself be above the perception and sensationable to see Evil or ugliness without suffering, without feeling shocked or troubled. You see them from a height where such things do not exist, yet you have the conscious perception of themthey dont affect you, you are free. This is the first step.
The second step is to be POSITIVELY conscious of the supreme Goodness and Beauty behind all things and supporting all things, permitting them to exist. Once you have seen Him, you can perceive Him behind the mask and the distortioneven ugliness, even cruelty, even Evil are a disguise for that Something which is essentially good or beautiful, luminous, pure.
With this comes TRUE collaboration. For when you have this vision, this awareness, when you live in this consciousness, you also get the power to PULL That into the manifestation on earth and put it into contact with what, for the time being, distorts and disguises; thus the deformation and disguise are gradually transformed by the influence of the Truth behind.
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Put this way, there is no need to bring the principle of love into our explanation. But if we want to know or understand the nature of the Force or Power that permits and accomplishes this transformation (specially in the case of Evil, but for ugliness to some extent as well), we see that of all powers, Love is obviously the mightiest, the most integralintegral in that it applies to all cases. Its even mightier than the power of purification which dissolves bad wills and is, in a way, master over the adverse forces, but which doesnt have the direct transforming power; because the power of purification Must FIRST dissolve in order to form again later. It destroys one form to make a better one from it, while Love doesnt need to dissolve in order to transform: it has the direct transforming power. Love is like a flame changing the hard into the malleable, then sublimating even the malleable into a kind of purified vapor. It doesnt destroy: it transforms.
Love, in its essence and in its origin, is like a white flame obliterating ALL resistances. You can have the experience yourself: whatever the difficulty in your being, whatever the weight of accumulated mistakes, the ignorance, incapacity, bad will, a single SECOND of this Lovepure, essential, suprememelts everything in its almighty flame. One single moment and an entire past can vanish. One single TOUCH of That in its essence and the whole burden is consumed.
0 1961-01-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When we enter a certain state of consciousness, we plainly see that we are capable of anything and that ultimately there is no sin not potentially our own. Is this impression correct? And yet certain things make us rebel or disgust us. We always reach some inadmissible point. Why? What is the true, effective attitude when confronted with Evil?
There is no sin not our own.
You have this experience when for some reason or other, depending on the case, you come into contact with the universal consciousness not in its limitless essence but on any level of Matter. There is an atomic consciousness, a purely material consciousness and an even more generally prevailing psychological consciousness. When, through interiorization or a sort of withdrawal from the ego you enter into contact with that zone of consciousness we can call psychological terrestrial or human collective (there is a difference: human collective is restricted, while terrestrial includes many animal and even plant vibrations; but in the present case, since the moral notion of guilt, sin and Evil belongs exclusively to human consciousness, let us simply say human collective psychological consciousness); when you contact that through identification, you naturally feel or see or know yourself capable of any human movement whatsoever. To some extent, this constitutes a Truth-Consciousness, or at such times the egoistical sense of what does or doesnt belong to you, of what you can or cannot do, disappears; you realize that the fundamental construction of human consciousness makes any human being capable of doing anything. And since you are in a truth-consciousness, you are aware at the same time that to feel judgmental or disgusted or revolted would be an absurdity, for EVERYTHING is potentially there inside you. And should you happen to be penetrated by certain currents of force (which we usually cant follow: we see them come and go but we are generally unaware of their origin and direction), if any one of these currents penetrates you, it can make you do anything.
If one always remained in this state of consciousness, keeping alive the flame of Agni, the flame of purification and progress, then after some time, not only could one prevent these movements from taking an active form in oneself and becoming expressed physically, but one could act upon the very nature of the movement and transform it. Needless to say, however, that unless one has attained a very high degree of realization it is virtually impossible to keep this state of consciousness for long. Almost immediately one falls back into the egoistic consciousness of the separate self, and all the difficulties return: disgust, the revolt against certain things and the horror they create in us, and so on.
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In another aphorism, Sri Aurobindo says (I no longer recall his exact words) that sin is simply something no longer in its place. In this perpetual Becoming nothing is ever reproduced and some things disappear, so to speak, into the past; and when its time for them to disappear, they seemto our very limited consciousness Evil and repulsive: we revolt against them because their time is past.
But if we had the vision of the whole, if we were able to contain past, present and future simultaneously (as it is somewhere up above), then we would see how relative these things are and that its mainly the progressing evolutionary Force which gives us this will to reject; yet when these things still had their place, they were quite tolerable. However, to have this experience in a practical sense is impossible unless we have a total vision the vision that is the Supremes alone! Therefore, one must first identify with the Supreme, and then, keeping this identification, one can return to a consciousness sufficiently externalized to see things as they really are. But thats the principle, and in so far as we are able to realize it, we reach a state of consciousness where we can look at all things with the smile of a complete certainty that everything is exactly as it should be.
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Actually, what you hate in them is their self-righteousness, only that. After all, theyre right not to do Evilthey cant be blamed for that! But whats hard to tolerate is their sense of superiority, the way they look down their noses at all these poor fellows who are no worse than they!
Oh, I could cite a few shining examples!
0 1961-02-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then why do these creatures always seem so Evil to us?
The Christians say its the spirit of Evil, but this is due to a lack of understanding.
Theon always told me that the true interpretation of the Biblical story of the serpent in the Garden of Eden is that humanity wanted to pass from a state of animal-like divinity to the state of conscious divinity by means of mental development, symbolized by eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. And this serpent, which Theon always said was iridescent, reflecting all the colors of the prism, was not at all the spirit of Evil, but the power of evolution the force, the power of evolution. And it was natural that this power of evolution would make them taste the fruit of knowledge.
Now, according to Theon, Jehovah was the chief of the Asuras,6 the supreme Asura, the egoistic God who wanted to dominate everything and keep everything under his control. And of course this act made him furious, for it enabled mankind to become gods through the power of an evolution of consciousness. And thats why he banished them from Paradise.
0 1961-03-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
58The animal, before he is corrupted, has not yet eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and Evil; the god has abandoned it for the tree of eternal life; man stands between the upper heaven and the lower nature.
Do you have a question?
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According to Theon, the serpent wasnt the spirit of Evil at all: it was the evolutionary Force. And Sri Aurobindo fully agreed; he used to tell me the same thing: the evolutionary power the mental evolutionary poweris what drove man to gain knowledge, a knowledge of division. And its a fact that along with the sense of Good and Evil, man became conscious of himself. Naturally, this ruined everything and he couldnt stay: it was his own consciousness that drove him out of Paradisehe could no longer stay.
Then was man banished by Jehovah or by his own consciousness?
0 1961-03-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Aphorism 57Because the tiger acts according to his nature and knows not anything else, therefore he is divine and there is no Evil in him. If he questioned himself, then he would be a criminal.
What might be mans true, natural state? Why does he question himself?
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Man questions himself because the mental instrument is made for seeing all possibilities and because the human being feels he has freedom of choice and the immediate consequences are the notions of good and Evil, right and wrong, and all the ensuing miseries. This cant be called a bad thing: its an intermediate stagenot a very pleasant stage, but nevertheless it was certainly inevitable for a total development.
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0 1961-04-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yet I dont understand how someone might be doing something positively Evil, to the extent that X says, They will repent of it. I dont understand it, I just dont. Because usually when people are like that, they cant stay, they go. Certain people have left for just that reason. Its like this story of black magic performed at the Ashram the first time I fell ill two years ago; I cant believe it, because it would prove that I am totally unconscious! And I dont think I am.
I know all the people here. I know everything thats going on, I see it night and day. But I havent seen this. Yes, there are ill-intentioned people, but they are even obliged to tell me so! There are people who oh, they almost wish I would leave, because they feel my presence as a constraint! They tell me so very frankly: As long as youre here, were obliged to do the yoga, but we dont want to do the yoga, we want to live quietly; so if you werent here, well, we wouldnt have to think about yoga anymore! But they are a bunch of fools with no power in them at all. As I said, they are even forced to tell me their true feelings.
0 1961-08-08, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
X's astonishment raises an extremely important point, drawing the exact dividing line between all the traditional yogas and the new yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Mother. To a tantric, for example, it seems unthinkable that Mother, with a consciousness so powerful as to scoff at the laws of nature and comm and the elements (if she wishes), could be subjected to absurd head colds or an eye hemorrhage or even more serious disorders. For him, it is enough to simply lift a finger and emit a vibration which instantly muzzles the disorderyes, of course, but for Mother it is not a question of 'curing' a head cold by imposing a higher POWER on Matter, but of getting down to the cellular root and curing or transforming the source of the Evil (which causes death as easily as head colds, for it is the same root of disorder). It is not a question of imposing oneself on Matter through a 'power,' but of transforming Matter. Such is the yoga of the cells.
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0 1962-01-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats another thing I have noticed: even in my childhood I was already conscious of what Sri Aurobindo calls living divinely, that is, outside the sense of Good and Evil.
This was counterbalanced by a terrible censor which never left me.11 It took Sri Aurobindo to clear it from my path. But I didnt have the sense of sin, of Good and Evil, sin and virtuedefinitely not! My consciousness was centered around right action and wrong action12this should have been done, that shouldnt havewith no question of Good or Evil, from the standpoint of work, of action alone. My consciousness has always been centered on action. It was a vision, a perception of the line to be followedor the many lines to be followed for the action to be accomplished. And any deviation from what to me was the luminous line, the straight line (not geometrically straight: the luminous line, the line expressing the divine Will), the slightest deviation from that, and oh, it was the only thing that tormented me.
And the torment didnt come from me, it came from that character hooked on to my consciousness and constantly whipping me, hounding me, ill-treating mewhat people call their conscience, which has nothing whatsoever to do with consciousness!13 Its an adverse being, and whatever it can change, it changes for the worse; whatever is susceptible to being changed into something antidivine, it changes. And it is constantly repeating the same thing: This is wrong, that is wrong, this is wrong.
0 1962-01-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But there is one advantage: without those beings, without the worlds distortion, many things would be lacking. Those beings potentially embodied certain absolutely unique elementsunderstandably so, since they were the first wave. And precisely because they still WERE the Supreme to such a great extent, each one felt he was the Supreme, and that was that. Only it wasnt quite sufficient, for the simple reason that they were already divided into four, and one single division is enough to make everything go wrong. Its readily understandable: its not something essentially Evil, but a question of wrong FUNCTIONING; its not the substance, not the essence. The essence isnt Evil, but the functioning is faulty.
But if you understand.
0 1962-08-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Well, wellwhy has that returned? I wondered. And then I saw that this body has been built in such a way that it instinctively ATTRACTS ordeals, painful experiences. And in the face of such formations, it is always passive, consenting, accepting, and totally confident in the ultimate outcome, with such an ingrained certitude that even at the moment of greatest difficulty, it will be helped and saved, and that the purpose behind all those ordeals is to speed up, to gain time, and to exhaust all the I cant say the Evil possibilities, but all the hindrancesthings that hamper, block the way and seem to negate the goalso that they are pushed back into the past and no longer hinder progress.
Once I saw that, the formation went away. It had come just to show me that. And once again the body gave its eternal assent: no matter what its burdened with, it will always be ready to receive and to bear it.
0 1962-09-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the middle of the First World War, Sri Aurobindo noted with prophetic force: The defeat of Germany could not of itself kill the spirit then incarnate in Germany; it may well lead merely to a new incarnation of it, perhaps in some other race or empire, and the whole battle would then have to be fought over again. So long as the old gods are alive, the breaking or depression of the body which they animate is a small matter, for they know well how to transmigrate. Germany overthrew the Napoleonic spirit in France in 1813 and broke the remnants of her European leadership in 1870; the same Germany became the incarnation of that which it had overthrown. The phenomenon is easily capable of renewal on a more formidable scale.2 Today we are finding that the old gods know how to transmigrate. Gandhi himself, seeing all those years of nonviolence culminate in the terrible violence that marked Indias partition in 1947, ruefully observed shortly before his death: The attitude of violence which we have secretly harboured now recoils on us, and makes us fly at each others throats when the question of distribution of power arises. Now that the burden of subjection is lifted, all the forces of Evil have come to the surface. For neither nonviolence nor violence touch upon the root of Evil.
Ahimsa: nonviolence.
0 1962-09-26, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am unfamiliar with the purely Hindu traditions, but the gods are the beings the Vedas and people of Vedic times were in touch wi that least I think so. I learned what I know about the gods before coming here, through the other tradition, the Chaldean. But Thon used to say that this tradition and the Vedic (which he knew well) were outgrowths of a more ancient tradition common to both. The story goes, according to him, that the first Emanations, who were perfectly independent, separated themselves from the Supreme in their action, creating all the disorder thats what caused the creations disorder. Afterwards the gods were emanated, to repair the Evil that had been wrought and to organize the world according to the supreme Will. Of course, this is a childlike way of putting it, but its comprehensible. So all these gods work in harmony and order. Thats what the ancient tradition says.
As far as Ive understood, the Indian tradition has embraced everything that came from the first Emanations, since all the gods of destruction, of unconsciousness and of suffering are included in its pantheon.
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Basically, its part of the old path, a consequence of all that has happened, of the whole universal formation as we know it. People who believe in essential Evil would say its a consequence of the accident of creation. But is it an accident? I have my doubts. It has yet to be revealed. And we wont know until until its over.
I am speaking in riddles, but what else can I do!
0 1963-01-14, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The only way to make life perfect (I mean here life on earth, of course) is to look at it from a sufficient height to see it in its totality, not only its present totality, but over the whole past, present and future: what it has been, what it is, what it must beyou must be able to see it all at once. Because thats the only way to put everything in its place. Nothing can be done away with, nothing SHOULD be done away with, but each thing must find its own place in total harmony with the rest. Then all those things that appear so Evil, so reprehensible and unacceptable to the puritan mind would become movements of joy and freedom in a totally divine life. And then nothing would stop us from knowing, understanding, feeling and living this wonderful Laughter of the Supreme who takes infinite delight in watching Himself live infinitely.
This delight, this wonderful Laughter which dissolves all shadows, all pain, all suffering We only have to go deep enough into ourselves to find the inner Sun and let ourselves be bathed in it. Then everything is but a cascade of harmonious, luminous, sun-filled laughter which leaves no room for shadow and pain.
0 1963-07-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Those are old ideas the old ideas of two powers opposing each other: the power of Good and the power of Evil, the battle between the two, which of the two will have the last word. There was a time when children were entertained with such stories. Theyre just childrens stories.
Some people (or if you like, some beings, or forces, or consciousnesses) in order to progress need to give themselves, to merge, and in total self-annihilation, they attain Realization; for others the path is diametrically opposite: its a growth, a domination, an expansion which assumes fantastic proportions until the separation disappearsit can no longer exist.
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Incidents of that sort have left me with a peculiar impression. The stories of the Inquisition had already given me a sufficient Now, of course, youve heard what I told you [the story of the Asura], and thats really my way of seeing the thing. But there was a time when I might have said, No religion has done more Evil in the world than this one.
But I am not so sure now. Its one ASPECT of that religion.
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But the urge to fight! Because I feel so strongly the Evil hidden there.
Oh!
And a vicious Evila vicious Evil hidden there.
Under the cloak of charity and total benevolence: a hypocrisy. Yes, those are the things that always made me get up in arms.
0 1963-08-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Nothing inside asks any questions, there are no problems there; all the problems I am talking about are posed by the body, for the body; otherwise, inside, everything is perfect, everything is exactly as it should be. And totally so: what people call good, what they call Evil, the beautiful, the ugly, the all that is a small immensity (not a big immensity), a small immensity that is moving more and more towards a progressive realization thats the correct phrasewithin an integral Consciousness which integrally (how should I put it?) enjoys, or I could say, feels the plenitude of what He doesdoes, is and so forth (its all the same thing). But this poor body
And probably Its certain too that one cant go too fast: if the body had that Joy in it, if it had that ecstasy in it, that rapture continually, surely that would bring too rapid a transformation there are still a lot of things to be changed, a lot, a whole lot of things.
0 1963-09-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In a very concrete way, there was the consciousness that everything is the Lord and that everything is His will, His action, His consciousness and so forth; at the same time, the perception of the world as it is (as it is, anyway as we feel it). And as there was no longer any notion of good and Evil and all that, there was a sort of almost candid surprise, a very spontaneous surprise, not thought out, at reprobation, anger, disapproval, scorn for all the people who are called bad, who do Evil and have bad will. It seemed so strange that one could lose ones temper because of that! Then there arose a profound Pity but a Pity that has nothing of the sense of superiority or inferiority, nothing like thatlike a sort of sorrow that there can be people who are so small and so weak in that Immensity that they are COMPELLED to be nasty and malicious, to hate, to reject, to wish Evil.
The words diminish the experience very, very much. It was so a super-compassion, you know, full of a deep Love and Understanding: How can one reproach them for being the way the Lord wants them to be?
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But then the word bon [good] no longer had that sense of opposition to Evil: it contained all the divine splendor. It was the radiance of divine Love.
(silence)
0 1963-09-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
An Evil transmutation overtook
Her members till she knew herself no more.
0 1963-11-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am insisting on this, because it eliminates all moral elements. It eliminates the derogatory notion of desire. The vision increasingly eliminates all those notions of good and Evil, good and bad, inferior and superior, and so forth. There is only what I might almost call a difference of vibratory qualityquality still evokes the idea of superiority and inferiority, it isnt quality, not intensity either, I dont know the scientific term they use to distinguish one vibration from another, but thats it.
But then, the remarkable thing is that the Vibration (what we could call the quality of the vibration that comes from the Lord) is constructive: it constructs, it is peaceful and luminous; while that other vibration, of desire and such like, complicates, destroys and confuses, it twists thingsconfuses and distorts them, twists them. And it takes away the light: it makes for a dullness, which can be intensified with violent movements to the point of very dark shadows. But even where there is no passion, where passion doesnt interfere, thats how it is. You see, the physical reality has become nothing but a field of vibrations mingling together and, unfortunately, clashing together too, in conflict with one another. And the clash, the conflict, is the climax of that kind of turmoil, of disorder and confusion created by certain vibrations, which are ultimately vibrations of ignorance (they come because people dont know, they are vibrations of ignorance), and are too small, too narrow, too limitedtoo short. The problem isnt seen from a psychological standpoint at all: its nothing but vibrations.
0 1963-12-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is equally ignorant and one thousand miles away from my teaching to find it in your relations with human beings or in the nobility of the human character or an idea that we are here to establish mental and moral and social Truth and justice on human and egoistic lines. I have never promised to do anything of the kind. Human nature is made up of imperfections, even its righteousness and virtue are pretensions, imperfections and prancings of a self-approbatory egoism. What is aimed at by us is a spiritual truth as the basis of life, the first words of which are surrender and union with the Divine and the transcendence of ego. So long as that basis is not established, a sadhak is only an ignorant and imperfect human being struggling with the Evils of the lower nature.
I want to offer it to an American admiral who is here and who needs to know this.
0 1963-12-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was a no mans land of Evil air,
A crowded neighbourhood without one home,
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Joy nurtured tears and good an Evil proved,
But never out of Evil one plucked good:
Love ended early in hate, delight killed with pain,
0 1964-01-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The solution is, of course, the change of consciousness. I know those other people [in Pakistan] behaved badly, like animalseven animals are better than human beings but if people here also do the same, they would be playing in the hands of the forces that make people do Evil and would only streng then the hold of these forces. Retaliation like this is no remedy.
(B.) People there feel frustrated, they see no remedy, do not know which way to go, whom to look up to. They are going the wrong way, following the wrong lead. Isnt the division of the country responsible for much of these troubles?
0 1964-03-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the light and warmth were expressed, that intensity of Ananda, that bliss You understand, it wasnt in opposition to but like a COMPLEMENT of this vibratory knowledge, which was I cant say a coldly scientific knowledge because that introduces mental notions, but it was of such a wisdom! A knowledge so wise, so calm, so imperturbably quiet, absolutely free from any notion of good and Evil, of divine, of positive and negative, absolutely independent of all of thatpurely material. And with an absolute power. Then in these same cells, which were fully conscious of this knowledge of vibrations as being the supreme means of control for their harmony, suddenly there arose in them a sort of not a flame (a flame is dark in comparison), a luminous Ananda: Love in its perfect reality.
And it was translated like this: Its so much more marvelous when we know its You!
0 1964-10-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats the real Evil at the School, and there is one: a tendency to turn everything into a system.
Yes. Dogmatism.
0 1965-08-18, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Z and I met with him a few times. Since I saw in him a d Evilish Evil, we have broken contact. I leave this now in your hands.
Z lives in the forest with his friend S., in a house built with logs. I saw the photos some time ago. The forest is a marvel.
0 1965-12-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ultimately, whats necessary would be first to perceive THE central Vibration, then to appreciate its UNIQUE and marvelous quality to such a point that you automatically and spontaneously move away from all distortions, whether virtuous distortions or Evil distortions.
We always come back to the same thing, there is only one solution: to reach the truth of things and cling to it that essential truth, the truth of essential Love, and cling to it.
0 1966-09-28, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
She writes this: We must stop encouraging torturers, whether of men or of animals. I am writing to beg you to teach me how to obtain the powers to lessen sufferings in others through concentration of fluid, and how to act by inwardly returning blow for blow to the aggressors, without hatred but implacably. I beg you to help me. Which inner giving, which renunciation is necessary? Who will teach me the force and justice that will enable me to act and not to always let Evil triumph? It is too easy to forget, deny, minimize others suffering. I can no longer put up with it. I no longer want to shut my eyes and comfort myself till the next time. What should I undertake?
When did you get this letter?
0 1967-07-05, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For instance, that relationship of simplicity (like that of a child) in which you very simply ask for the thing you feel the need for, but without mental complications; without explanations, without justifications, without all that useless farragosimply, Oh, I would like You have, for instance, quite a special feeling towards someone or something and you would like that someone or something to be perfectly harmonious, happy (which physically is expressed by good health or favourable circumstances), and so, spontaneously, simply, you say, Oh! (you pray), Oh, may it be like that! And it happens. Then the thought (the general human thought): This has happened, therefore its the expression of the Truth. And it becomes a principle: This is true, this is the way things should be. But up above, in that Consciousness that global Consciousness in that total Harmony, those things in themselves, in their material expression (good health, favourable circumstances) are of no more than minor importance, so to say, of almost nonexistent importance: things may be this way or that or this (they may be a hundred different ways), without its making any difference to the Harmony; but this particular way is chosen because of the simple, pure, candid beauty of the aspiration that is lovely, that is powerful in its simplicity. And, you know, without mental complication, without hypocrisy of any sort, without pretence of any sort: very simply, but from a luminous, pure, loving heart, without any egoism, just like that. So thats a lovely light which has its place; and because of it, things may be this way or that (good health, favourable circumstances), it doesnt matter, its unimportant. Human beings attach importance only to the external form, to what has manifested; they say, Oh, this is true, since it isand its a passing breath of air. But the cause of it, its origin has a place in that total, universal Harmony: a disinterested goodwill, love devoid of egoism, trust that doesnt argue or reason, simplicityingenious simplicity for which Evil doesnt exist.4 If we could catch hold of that and keep it That trust for which Evil doesnt existnot trust in what takes place here: trust up above, in that all-powerful principle of Harmony.
(long silence, then Mother repeats this prayer:)
0 1968-03-13, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is an increasingly concrete perception that everything that there is nothing that doesnt hold its own joy of being, because thats THE way of being: without joy of being, there is no being. But its not what we mentally understand by joy of being. Its something which is hard to express. And this perception of suffering and joy (almost of Evil and good), all of that is necessities of the work to enable it to be done in a certain field of unconsciousness. Because true consciousness is something entirely, totally different. Thats what the consciousness of the cells is now learning, and learning through a concrete experience; and all those appreciations of what is good and what is Evil, of what is suffering and what is joy, all that seems misty. But the thing the Truth the concrete thing still hasnt been caught. Its on the way, one feels its on the way, but its not there yet. If one had it one would be the all-powerful master. And possibly one cannot have it until the world in its totality, or to a sufficient extent, is ready for the transformation.
Thats speculation, what we might call an inspiration. But it still belongs to the upper realm.
0 1968-03-16, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This morning, there was an experience; it seemed an extraordinary revelation, and its something that was always known. So you mentalize it the moment you mentalize it, it becomes clear, but thats no longer it! You see, we say this creation is the creation of equilibrium,2 and that in fact it is mental error which makes us want to choose one thing and reject another that all things must be together: what we call good, what we call Evil, what we call right and what we call wrong, what we find pleasant and what we find unpleasantall that must be together. And this morning, there was the discovery that through Separationthis Separation which has been described in all kinds of different ways, sometimes pictorially, sometimes simply in an abstract way, sometimes philosophically, sometimes all that is just explanations, but there is something, which probably is simply Objectification (Mother gestures as if to push the universe forward, out of the Nonmanifest) But thats still one way to explain. This so-called Separation, what is it exactly? We dont know (or perhaps we do, after all). It in fact created (to put it in colors) black and white, night and day (thats already more mixed but black and white too are mixed), its the tendency to create two poles: the pleasant or good thing, and the unpleasant or bad one. And as soon as you want to return to the Origin, the two tend to merge together again. And it is in perfect equilibrium, that is, where no division is possible anymore and the one has no influence over the other, where the two have become one again, its there that lies this famous Perfection which we are trying to rediscover.
Rejection of the one and acceptance of the other is childishness. Its ignorance. All mental translations, like that of an Evil eternally Evil, giving birth to the idea of hell, or that of a Good eternally good all that, all of it is childishness.
(silence)
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So in order to give form to those elements, it all began with Separation, and it was Separation that gave birth to this division between what we call good and Evil; but from the point of view of sensationsensation in the most material partwe may say its suffering and Ananda. And the movement is to put a stop to all separation and to realize the total consciousness in every part (which mentally speaking is absurd, but its like that).
Thats far too philosophical for my taste, not concrete enough. But this mornings experience was concrete, and concrete because it stemmed from extremely concrete sensations in the body, from the presence of this constant duality which looks like an opposition (not only opposition, but mutual negation) between we may take the symbol of suffering and Ananda. And the true state (which for the moment appears impossible to formulate in words, but which was lived and felt) is an all-containing totality; but instead of containing everything as clashing elements, its a harmony of everything, an equilibrium of everything. And once this equilibrium is realized in the creation, the creation will be able (if you put it into words, its no longer that) we might say, able to go on progressing without break.
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Is it the material equivalent of a psychological experience one has in which the perception of Evil completely disappears in the perception of an absolute Goodeven in Evil?
Yes, thats it. We might say that instead of being just a mental conception, its a concrete realization of the fact.
0 1968-07-31, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A strange man: he is amoral. That is to say, he may do extreme good or extreme Evil just as easily. And a brilliant intelligence indeed. A politician of the first order. You understand, he is good because thats good policy; but if the policy were to be bad, he would be bad.
I wonder if they have many like that among the cardinals?
0 1969-04-30, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That serpent, you know Why this vision suddenly? I dont know. I was in a state in which I was trying to establish a general harmonyprobably it was too limited or incomplete or And then that serpent came.1 You understand, the universe is the Lord manifested, and so for this body, anyhow, its perfection, but of course its unable to understand; and all of a sudden this serpent came, and came in such a way that the body said to itself, Well! Id never thought of that (which isnt true, of course). There are all the theories that explain Evil as the action of adverse forces in the universe, but that seems quite childish. And as always it showed something VERY subtle in the play of forces (and how, to try and make it [ Evil] understood, the notion was born of a succession in time, which is absurdin other words, successive creations). And there was something very subtle to show that those poisoned fangs are a defense, not an attack; this consciousness gave proof that the poisoned fangs are a defense, because they existed AFTER the attack but how to explain that I dont know.
(Mother seems to gaze at a world of simultaneous things, and gropes for words)
0 1969-05-28, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I shall deliver you from all Evil, fear not.1
That promise of victory from the Divine embodied on the earth carried me away with joy.
0 1969-08-23, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I must say that from the standpoint of action (not even merely material action, because I have almost no material action left, so to say), but of invisible action, with this Consciousness I have learned a LOT, quite a lot. It has our means are very childish, and, you know, it has such a wonderful sense of humor, a way of making people face their stupidity, which is really really charming. And I see it constantly, all the time, for very small things, for big things, for a countrys politics or the organization of a houseall the same thing. And with a delightful irony and so benevolent: no sense of reprobation, no The idea of Evil and sin and all thatprrrt! all gone.
Its only the pressure of the Consciousness on the inconscientand then, in people, the measure of the resistance or of the receptivity. its like that. In some people (and not always the apparently bad ones), theres such resistance! Its like like iron. While others
0 1969-11-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I might put it this way (for the convenience of expression, Ill say the Supreme and the creation): In the Supreme its a unity that contains all possibilities perfectly united, without differentiation. The creation is, so to speak, the projection of all that makes up that unity, by dividing all opposites, that is to say, by separating (thats what was caught by those who said that creation is separation), by separating: for instance day and night, white and black, Evil and good, and so on (all that is our explanation). All together, all of it together is a perfect unity, immutable and indissoluble. The creation is the separation of all that makes up this unitywe might call it the division of the consciousness the division of the consciousness, which starts from unity conscious of its unity to arrive at unity conscious of its multiplicity IN UNITY.
So then, this route is what, for us for the fragmentsis expressed as space and time.
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And Evil, what we call Evil, has its INDISPENSABLE place in the whole. But it would no longer be felt as Evil the minute one became conscious of Thatnecessarily Evil is that infinitesimal element looking on its infinitesimal consciousness; but because consciousness is essentially ONE, it recaptures, regains the Consciousness of Unityboth together. And thats what, THAT IS WHAT has to be realized. Its a marvelous thing. I had the vision: at the time, there was the vision of THAT. And the beginnings (is it beginnings?), what they call in English the outskirts, whats farthest from the central realization, becomes the multiplicity of things, also the multiplicity of sensations, feelings, everything the multiplicity of consciousness. And that action of separation is what created, what constantly creates the world, and what at the same time creates everything: suffering, happiness, all, all, all that was created, through its what we might call diffusion but its absurd, its not a diffusion: we live in the sense of space, so we say diffusion and concentration, but its nothing like that.
I understood why Thon used to say that we are at the time of Equilibrium. That is to say, its through the equilibrium of all those innumerable points of consciousness and all those opposites that one recaptures the central Consciousness. All that one can say is stupidjust while I am saying it, I see how stupid it is; but theres no other way Its something something SO CONCRETE, so true, you understand, so ab-so-lute-ly THAT.
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Evil is simply fixing ones vision on a small angle, so one says, This is Evil, but if one sees the whole trajectory In a total consciousness, there is obviously no Evil.
There are no OPPOSITES. No oppositesnot even contradictions, I say, no opposites. Its that Unity, its LIVING in that Unity And its not expressed in thoughts and words. I tell you, it was a limitless immensity and a light a motionless light, and at the same time a well-being without even the appreciation of a well-being.
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Mother is probably referring to this aphorism of Sri Aurobindo: 25"When I pine at misfortune and call it Evil, or am jealous and disappointed, then I know that there is awake in me again the eternal fool."
On 29 February 1956.
0 1969-12-13, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I keep receiving almost daily some Aphorisms of Sri Aurobindo, which I had completely forgotten. There are really quite interesting things . Some of them give me the exact impression of a clothing (we might say an intellectual clothing, but its not that, its from a higher mind, but its mentalized, that is to say, accessible to thought), a clothing of the experience I had of the supramental Consciousness, in which the difference between good and Evil and all that looked like childishness, and Sri Aurobindo expresses it in those Aphorisms in a manner accessible to intelligence. Only those who understand dont understand right! Because they understand below.
Do you remember those Aphorisms? In one he says, If I cant be Rama, then I want to be Ravana and he explains why Its that series.1
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Ah, yes, thats the general rule. Whats needed is the opposite! Instead of repelling it, to offer it. Its to put the thing, the movement itself, to CAST it into the Light . Generally, it squirms and refuses! But (laughing) its the only way. Thats why this Consciousness is so precious . You understand, what caused the repression is the idea of good and Evila sort of contempt or shame at whats regarded as Evil and so one goes like this (gesture of repelling), one doesnt want to see it, doesnt want to let it be. Whats needed The first thing the first thing to be realized is that the infirmity of our consciousness is what creates this division, and that there is a Consciousness (I am sure of it now), there is a Consciousness in which that doesnt exist, in which what we call Evil is as necessary as what we call good, and if we could cast our sensationor our activity or perceptioncast it into this Light, thats what cures.2 Instead of repressing or repelling it as something one wants to destroy (it cant be destroyed!), one must cast it into the Light. I had in fact several days of an experience which for that reason was very interesting; instead of trying to drive far away from yourself certain things (which you dont accept or which cause a disequilibrium in the being), instead of that, accept them, take them as a part of yourself, and (Mother opens her hands) offer themthey dont want to be offered, but theres a way to compel them. A way to compel them: the resistance is lessened to the extent that we can lessen in us the sense of disapproval. If we can replace that sense of disapproval with a higher understanding, then we can do it. Its much easier.
I had a whole baggage which remained like that, of things I did when I was young; it remained like that (gesture on the side), and in fact, after that supramental experience, I was able to gather all of it, and all of a sudden, it got entirely clarified, I understood everything, and it evaporated. Things I had been dragging along for a very long time I didnt want to know, you understand, didnt want to have anything to do with them anymore and then it was all over. It melted, it was clarified like Well, it was in its place.
0 1969-12-27, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Intelligence at its higher level very easily understands that it knows nothing and is very easily in the attitude required to progress, but even those who have that intelligence, when they deal with material things, they instinctively feel all that is quite well known and based on established experiences. So there, one is vulnerable. Thats just what is being taught to the body: the inanity of this present way of seeing and understanding things based on the good and the bad, good and Evil, the luminous and the dark all those contradictions; and the whole judgment, the whole conception of life (material life) is based on thatits to teach you the inanity of this base. I see that. The work has become very acute, very persistent, as if with a will to go fast.
Even the practical part which thought it knew how to live and knew what needs to be done and how it should be done, even it must understand that this isnt true knowledge, it isnt the true way of using external things.
0 1970-01-21, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother listens to the English translation of the conversation of 13 December 1969, in which she spoke of a cure "without repression": "What causes the repression is the idea of good and Evil.... The infirmity of our consciousness is what creates this division." Mother added that one has to "learn to disappear." Satprem had proposed the publication of a few extracts in the "Notes on the Way.")
Is it the end?
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Separation must be done away with, then their very nature changes: its no longer good and Evil but something else, which is complete. Its complete.
(silence)
0 1970-03-04, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
135All disease is a means towards some new joy of health, all Evil and pain a tuning of Nature for some more intense bliss and good, all death an opening on widest immortality. Why and how this should be so, is Gods secret which only the soul purified of egoism can penetrate.
Yes, yes (Mother nods approvingly), thats what I am doing right now. And one has be really persevering.
0 1970-05-23, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
520Our parents fell, in the deep Semitic apologue, because they tasted the fruit of the tree of good and Evil. Had they taken at once of the tree of eternal life, they would have escaped the immediate consequence; but Gods purpose in humanity would have been defeated. His wrath is our eternal advantage.
And you say:
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Here, the body is learning that You see, all life is organized on the basis of this old habit of opposition between whats good and whats Evil, what does good and what does harm, and that has been completely swept away, so its now learning For instance, a little sensation comes (its constant, of course, to express it I have to take one thing among hundreds), but like this: how can the sensation become true? Thats really interesting.
Only, its inexpressible; the minute you put it into words, it takes on enormous proportions.
0 1970-07-25, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It instantly does away with all notions of sin, of Evil.
But all, all human conceptions fall away. Its so simple! So simple. And this whole huge mental edifice people have built to try and explain falls to the ground.
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Its limitations that create the sense of Evil, of badas soon as you do away with the limitations, its gone.
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0 1971-10-27, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The tree of the knowledge of good and Evil with its sweet and bitter fruits is secretly rooted in the very nature of the Inconscience from which our being has emerged and on which it still stands as a nether soil and basis of our physical existence; it has grown visibly on the surface in the manifold branchings of the Ignorance which is still the main bulk and condition of our consciousness in its difficult evolution towards a supreme consciousness and an integral awareness. As long as there is this soil with the unfound roots in it and this nourishing air and climate of Ignorance, the tree will grow and flourish and put forth its dual blossoms and its fruit of mixed nature. It would follow that there can be no final solution until we have turned our inconscience into the greater consciousness, made the truth of self and spirit our life-basis and transformed our ignorance into a higher knowledge. All other expedients will only be makeshifts or blind issues; a complete and radical transformation of our nature is the only true solution.
The Life Divine, XVIII.627
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The root that hasnt been found. The root of all the Evil, the Ignorance, everything: As long as there is this soil with the unfound roots in it and this nourishing air , etc.
(after a silence)
0 1972-03-29a, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I think I am correctly interpreting the feeling of my young Indian friends when I say that they see the heroes of your novels as raw mystics, to use Claudels description of Rimbaud. This may seem a surprising attribute, considering your heroes atheism, but that is because we have too often confused mysticism or spirituality with religion, as Sri Aurobindo stresses. One need not believe in a personal, extracosmic God to be a mystic. (That is certainly why religion has from time to time taken upon itself to bum alive all the non-regular mystics.) Here we touch upon a huge confusion rooted in religions. Through their monks, sannyasins and ascetics, religions have shown us a purely contemplative, austere and lifeless side of mysticismindeed those mystics, like the religions they practice, live in a negation of life; they go through this vale of tears with their eyes exclusively fixed on the Beyond. But true mysticism is not so limited as that, it seeks to transform life, to reveal the Absolute hidden in it; it seeks to establish the kingdom of God in man, as Sri Aurobindo wrote, and not the kingdom of a Pope, clergy or sacerdotal class. If the modem world lives in conflict and anguish, if it is torn between being and doing, it is because religion has driven away God from this world, severed him from his creation and flung him back to some distant heaven or empty nirvana, thus denying any possibility of human perfection on this earth and digging an unbridgeable gulf between being and doing, between mystics sunk in their dreams and this world abandoned to the forces of Evil, to Satan and all those who consent to get their hands dirty.
That contradiction is powerfully expressed in your books, it is striking to my Indian students. And they are surprised, for the urge to do something at all coststo do anything at all, as long as we do something, as one often hears in Europewithout this action being based on a being which it expresses and of which it is but the material translation, appears to them a strange attitude. Neither the despair, the silence or the revolt, nor the absurd pointlessness that sometimes surrounds the death of many of your heroes escape them. They feel that your heroes flee from themselves rather than express themselves. This torment between being and doing can be found in each one of them. They have apparently renounced to be something in order to do something, as one character stresses in Hope, but are they not desperately seeking to be through their actions, a being that they will capture only as time is abolished, in death? The same obsession seems to run through each of them: from Perken, who wants to leave his scar on the map, to outlive himself through twenty tribes, who fights against time as one fights against cancer, to Tchen, who shuts himself in the world of terrorism: an eternal world where time does not exist, and to Katow, who whispers to himself, O prisons, where time stops. In that respect, these characters clearly symbolize the impotence of a religion that has not been able to give the earth its meaning and plenitude.
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In your reply to the Swedish magazine, you emphasize, The major obstacle to tolerance is not agnosticism but Manichaeism. That is also why religions will never be able to unite humanity, because they have remained Manichaean in their principle, because they are founded on morality, on a sense of good and Evil, necessarily varying from one country to the next. Religions will not reconcile men with one another any more than they have reconciled men with themselves, or reconciled their aspiration to be with their need for action and for the same reasons, for in both cases they have dug an abyss between an ideal good, a being they have relegated to heaven, and an Evil, a becoming, which reigns supreme in a world where all is vanity. I would like to quote here a passage from Sri Aurobindos Essays on the Gita which throws a clear light on the problem: To put away the responsibility for all that seems to us Evil or terrible on the shoulders of a semi-omnipotent D Evil, or to put it aside as part of Nature, making an unbridgeable opposition between world-nature and God-Nature, as if Nature were independent of God, or to throw the responsibility on man and his sins, as if he had a preponderant voice in the making of this world or could create anything against the will of God, are clumsily comfortable devices in which the religious thought of India has never taken refuge. We have to look courageously in the face of the reality and see that it is God and none else who has made this world in his being and that so he has made it. We have to see that Nature devouring her children, Time eating up the lives of creatures, Death universal and ineluctable and the violence of the Rudra forces in man and Nature are also the supreme Godhead in one of his cosmic figures. We have to see that God the bountiful and prodigal creator, God the helpful, strong and benignant preserver is also God the devourer and destroyer. The torment of the couch of pain and Evil on which we are racked is his touch as much as happiness and sweetness and pleasure. It is only when we see with the eye of the complete union and feel this truth in the depths of our being that we can entirely discover behind that mask too the calm and beautiful face of the all-blissful Godhead and in this touch that tests our imperfection the touch of the friend and builder of the spirit in man. The discords of the worlds are Gods discords and it is only by accepting and proceeding through them that we can arrive at the greater concords of his supreme harmony.2 I believe that the characters of your books would not be seeking sacrifice and death so intensely if they did not feel the side of light and joy behind the mask of darkness in which they so passionately lose themselves.
Sri Aurobindo has constantly stressed that, through progressive evolutionary cycles, humanity must go beyond the purely ethical and religious stage, just as it must go beyond the infrarational and rational stage, in order to reach a new spiritual and suprarational ageotherwise we will simply remain doomed to the upheavals, conflicts and bloody sacrifices that shake our times, for living according to a code of morality is always a tragedy, as one of the characters in Hope notes.
0 1972-06-24, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All our notions of good and Evil are.
We have to keep reacting to things, precisely the reactions based on good and Evil, the human conception of good and Evil (it isnt exactly a human conception, but an approximation of the Harmony).
(Mother plunges in and comes back moving her hand, as if waves were going through her fingertips)
0 1973-02-17, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh! I have to cope with everything that contradicts the Divine in the past and the present, and its. In this body. I mean, all the past is surging up from the subconscient, and now even everything that was repressed. It isnt something I feel or experience, but its a perception. The perception yes, of how all our notions of good and Evil, right and wrong are futile for the Divine vision, absolutely futileunreal.
All human notions are so narrow and limited, so partial and tinged with moral preferences.
02.01 - The World War, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In fact, however, there is no insurmountable disparity between spirituality and "worldliness", between meditation and the most "terrible work"ghore karmani: the Gita has definitively proved the truth of the fact millenniums ago. War has not been the monopoly of warriors alone: it will not be much of an exaggeration to say that Avatars, the incarnations of the Divine, have done little else besides that. And what of the Divine Mother herself? The main work of an Avatar is often to subdue the Evil-doers, those that follow and pull others to follow the Wrong Path. And the Divine Mother, she who harbours in her bosom the supreme Truth and Consciousness and Bliss, is in one of her essential aspects, the slayer of the Demon, of the Asura.
Now, it is precisely with the Asura that we have to deal in the present war. This is not like other warsit is not a war of one country with another, of one group of Imperialists with another, nor is it merely the fierce endeavour of a particular race or nation for world-domination: it is something more than all that. This war has a deeper, a more solemn, almost a grim significance. Some thinkers in Europe, not the mere political leaders, but those who lead in thought and ideas and ideals, to whom something of the inner world is revealed, have realised the true nature of the present struggle and have expressed it in no uncertain terms. Here is what Jules Romains, one of the foremost thinkers and litterateurs of contemporary France, says:
02.02 - Rishi Dirghatama, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Indeed the darkness and the blindness seem to have been the Divine's grace upon him, for his eyes turned inward to other domains and saw strange truths and stranger facts. We remember in this connection another blind old poet who even though fallen on such Evil days composed the world famous epic poem (I am referring obviously to Milton and his Paradise Lost). We remember also here the deaf incomparable master of music Beethoven. Many of the sayings of Dirghatama have become so current that they are now familiar even to the common man. They are mottoes and proverbs we all quote at all times. "Truth is one, the wise call it in different ways"the mantra is from Dirghatama. "Heaven is my father, Earth my mother"this is also from Dirghatama. The famous figure of two birds with beautiful wing dwelling on the same tree comes also from Dirghatama. There are a good many sayings of this kind that have become intimate companions to our lips of which the source we do not know. When we read the mantras of Dirghatama we are likely to exclaim even as the villager did when he first saw Hamlet played in London, "It is full of quotations."
You must have already noticed that the utterance of Dirghatama carries a peculiar turn, even perhaps a twist. In fact his mantras are an enigma, a riddle to which it is sometimes difficult to find the fitting key. For example when he says, "What is above is moving downward and what is down is moving upward; yes, they who are below are indeed up above, and they who are up are here below," or again, "He who knows the father below by what is above, and he who knows the father who is above by what is below is called the poet (the seer creator)", we are, to say the least, not a little puzzled.
02.02 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Its artist good begins our Evil's tale.
A heaven of creative truths above,
02.02 - The Message of the Atomic Bomb, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In one sense certainly there has been a progress. This march of machinery, this evolution of tools means man's increasing mastery over Nature, even though physical nature. The primitive man like the animal is a slave, a puppet driven helplessly by Nature's forces. Both lead more or less a life of reflex action: there is here no free, original initiation of action or movement. The slow discovery of Nature's secrets, the gradual application and utilisation of these secrets in actual life meant, first, a liberation of man's conscious being originally imbedded in Nature's inertial movements, and then, a growing power to react upon Nature and mould and change it according to the will of the conscious being. The result at the outset was a release and organisation on the mental level, in the domain of reason and intelligence. Of course, man found at once that this increasing self-consciousness and self-power meant immense possibilities for good, but, unfortunately, for Evil also. And so to guard against the latter contingency, rules and regulations were framed to control and canalise the new-found capacities. The Dharma of the Kshatriya, the honour of the Samurai, the code of Chivalry, all meant that. The power to kill was sought to be checked and restrained by such injunctions as, for example, not to hit below the belt, not to fight a disarmed or less armed opponent and so on. The same principle of morals and manners was maintained and continued through the centuries with necessary changes and modifications in application and finds enshrined today in International Covenants and Conventions.
But a new situation has arisen for some time past. The last Great War (World War No. I) was crucial in many ways in the life of humanity. It opened a new direction of man's growth, opened and then closed also apparently. I am referring to the tragedy of the League of Nations. That was an attempt on the part of man (and Nature) to lift the inner life and consciousness to the level of the outer achievements. The attempt failed. Man could not rise to the height demanded of him. Now the second World War became logically more devastating and shattering; it has given the go-by to all ethical standards and codes of honour. The poison gas was not used not because of any moral restraint or disinclination, but because of practical and utilitarian considerations. The Atom Bomb, however, has spoken the word.
02.03 - The Glory and the Fall of Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Such was the Evil mystery of her change.
END OF CANTO THREE
02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The phantom of a dark and Evil start
Ghostlike pursues all that we dream and do.
02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
To sport with good and Evil is their law;
Luring to failure and meaningless success,
02.06 - Boris Pasternak, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And yet pain is pain and Evil Evil. There are tears in mortal things that touch us to the core. In mankind the drive for evolution brings in revolution. Not only strife and suffering but uglier elements take birth; cruelty, inhumanity, yes, and also perversity, falsehood, all moral turpitudes, a general inner deterioration and bankruptcy of values. In the human scheme of things nothing can remain on a lofty status, there comes inevitably a general decline and degradation. As Zhivago says "A thing which has been conceived in a lofty ideal manner becomes coarse and material."
An element of the human tragedy the very central core perhapsis the calvary of the individual. Pasternak's third article of faith is human freedom, the freedom of the individual. Indeed if evolution is to mean progress and growth it must base itself upon that one needful thing. And here is the gist of the problem that faces Pasternak (as Zhivago) in his own inner consciousness and in his outer social life. The problemMan versus Society, the individual and the collective-the private and the public sector in modern jargonis not of today. It is as old as Sophocles, as old as Valmiki. Antigone upheld the honour of the individual against the law of the State and sacrificed herself for that ideal. Sri Rama on the contrary sacrificed his personal individual claims to the demand of his people, the collective godhead.
02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Or are Evil's soldiers in the pay of Sin.
For Evil and good an equal tenure keep
Wherever Knowledge is Ignorance's twin.
02.06 - Vansittartism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A son of the soil, an eminent erstwhile collaborator of Hitler, who has paid for his apostasy, offered a compromise solution. He says, Germany, as a matter of fact, is not one but two: there is the Eastern Germany (the Northern and the Eastern portion) and there is the Western Germany (the South and the West) and the two are distinct and differenteven antagonisticin temperament and character and outlook. The Western Germany is the true Germany, the Germany of light and culture, the Germany that produced the great musicians, poets and idealists, Goe the and Heine and Wagner and Beethoven. The other Germany represents the dark shadow. It is Prussia and Prussianised Germany. This Germany originally belonged to the bleak, wild, savage, barbarous East Europe and was never thoroughly reclaimed and its union with the Western half was more political than psychological. So this ex-lieutenant of Hitler proposed to divide and separate the two altogether and form two countries or nations and thus eliminate the Evil influence of Prussianism and Junkerism.
The more democratic and liberal elements among the Allies do not also consider that Germany as a whole is smitten with an original sin and is beyond redemption. They say Germany too has men and groups of men who are totally against Hitler and Hitlerism; they may have fallen on Evil days, but yet they can be made the nucleus of a new and regenerated Germany.Furthermore, they say if Germany has come to be what she is, considerable portion of the responsibility must be shared by the unprogressive and old-world elements among the Allies themselves who helped or pitied or feared the dark Germany.
Hence it is suggested that for the postwar reconstruction of Germany what is required is the re-education of its people. For, only a psychological change can bring about a durable and radical change. But certain proposals towards this end raise serious misgivings, since they mean iron regimentation under foreign control. Even if such a thing were possible and feasible, it is doubtful if the purpose could be best served in this way. Measures have to be taken, no doubt, to uproot Prussianism and Junkerism and prevent their revival, no false mercy or sympathy should be extended to the enemies of God and man. But this is only a negative step, and cannot be sufficient by itself. A more positive and more important work lies ahead. The re-education of Germany must come from within, if it is to be permanent and effective. What others can do is to help her in this new orientation. As we have said, there are the progressive elements in Germany too, although submerged for the moment. The task of reconstruction will precisely consist in calling up and organising and marshalling these forces that are for the Light. The Allied organisation, it may be noted, itself has grown up in this way. When one remembers how Britain stood alone at one time against the all-sweeping victorious march of the Titan, how slowly and gradually America was persuaded to join hands, at first in a lukewarm way, finally with all its heart and soul and might and main, how a new France is being built up out of a mass of ruins, we can hope that the same process will be adopted in the work that lies ahead even after victory, with regard to Italy and with regard to Germany. In the second case the task is difficult but it has got to be done.
02.07 - The Descent into Night, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Evil guarded at the roots of life
Raised up its head and looked into his eyes.
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Ambassadors of Evil's absolute.
In silence the inaudible voices spoke,
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And her Evil and sorrow and last gift of death.
A breath of disillusion and decadence
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Beauty from ugliness and Evil drank
Feeling themselves guests at a banquet of the gods
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Made Evil a relief from spurious good,
The ego battened on righteousness and sin
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All Evil starts from that ambiguous face.
A peril haunted now the common air;
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It was a no man's land of Evil air,
A crowded neighbourhood without one home,
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Joy nurtured tears and good an Evil proved,
But never out of Evil one plucked good:
Love ended early in hate, delight killed with pain,
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Only they agreed to differ in Evil's paths,
To live in their own way for their own selves
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Pierced through his back by Evil's poignant stake.
So might one fall on the Eternal's road
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If worse can be where all is Evil's extreme;
Yet to the cloaked the uncloaked is naked worst.
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A pride in Evil hugged its wretchedness;
A misery haunting splendour pressed those fell
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Her Evil face of perilous beauty and charm
And, drawing panic to a shuddering kiss
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An inexorable Evil's worshipper,
She made vileness great and sublimated filth;
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A new philosophy theorised Evil's rights,
Gloried in the shimmering rot of decadence,
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It claimed the whole world for Evil's living room,
Its party's grim totalitarian reign
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Nothing was left, not even an Evil face.
He was alone with the grey python Night.
02.08 - The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
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In darkling aisles with Evil eyes for lamps
And fatal voices chanting from the apse,
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Nature they fill with Evil's institutes,
Turn into defeats the victories of Truth,
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And Evil and misery were their natural state.
A dire administration's penal code
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A pavement like a floor of Evil fate.
Each stone was a keen edge of ruthless force
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An Evil environment worsened Evil souls:
All things were conscious there and all perverse.
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The ordeal he suffered of Evil's absolute reign,
Yet kept intact his spirit's radiant truth.
02.13 - In the Self of Mind, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Impartial fell its gaze on Evil and good,
It saw destruction come and did not move.
02.13 - On Social Reconstruction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In the older order, however, a kindlier treatment was meted out to this class, this class of the creators of values. They had patrons who looked after their physical well-being. They had the necessary freedom and leisure to follow their own bent and urge of creativity. Kings and princes, the court and the nobility, in spite of all the Evils ascribed to them, and often very justly, have nevertheless been the nursery of art and culture, of all the art and culture of the ancient times. One remembers Shakespeare reading or enacting his drama before the Great Queen, or the poignant scene of Leonardo dying in the arms of Francis the First. Those were the truly great classical ages, and art or man's creative genius hardly ever rose to that height ever since. The downward curve started with the advent and growth of the bourgeoisie when the artist or the creative genius lost their supporters and had to earn their own living by the sweat of their brow. Indeed the greatest tragedies of frustration because of want and privation, occur, not as much among the "lowest" classes who are usually considered as the poorest and the most miserable in society, but in that section from where come the intellectuals, "men of light and leading," to use the epithet they are honoured with. For very few of this group are free to follow their inner trend and urge, but have either to coerce and suppress them or stultify them in the service of lesser alien duties, which mean "forced labour." The punishment for refusing to be drawn away and to falsify oneself is not unoften the withdrawal of the bare necessities of life, in certain cases sheer destitution. A Keats wasting his energies in a work that has no relation to his inner life and light, or a Madhusudan dying in a hospital as a pauper, are examples significant of the nature of the social structure man lives in.
It is one of the great illusionsor perhaps a show plank for propagandato think or say that the so-called poorer classes are the poorest and the most miserable. It is not so in fact. Really poor are those who have a standard of life commensurate with their inner nature and consciousnessof beauty and orderliness and material sufficiency and yet their actual status and function in society do not provide them with the necessary where-withals and resources. No amount of philanthropic sentimentalising can suppress or wipe off the fact that the poor do not feel the pinch of poverty so much as do those who are poor and yet are to live and move as not poor. It all depends upon one's standard. One is truly rich or poor not in proportion- to one's income, but" in accordance with one's needs and the means to meet them. And all do not have the same needs and requirements. This does not mean that the needs of the princes, the aristocrats, the magnates are greater than those of the mere commoner. No, it means that there are people, there is a section of humanity found more or less in all these classes, but mostly in less fortunate classes, whose needs are intrinsically greater and they require preferential treatment. There should be none poor or miserable in society, well and good. But this should not mean that all the economic resources of the society must be requisitioned only to enrichto pamper the poor. For there is a pampering possible in this matter. We know the nouveaux riches, the parvenus and the kind of life they lead with their fair share boldly seized. A levelling, a formal equalisation of the economic status, although it may mean uplift in certain cases, may involve gross injustice to others. The ideal is not equal distribution but rational distribution of wealth, and that distribution should not depend upon any material function, but upon psychological demands. Is this bourgeois economics? Even if it is so, the truth has to be faced and recognised. You can call truth by the name bourgeois and hang it, but it will revive all the same, like the Phoenix out of the ashes.
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As we have said, a normally healthy society is a harmonious welding of these four elements. A society becomes diseased when only one member gets inflated and all-powerful at the expense of others or whenever there is an unholy alliance of some against the rest. Priest-craft, the Church militant, Fanaticism (religious or ideological), Inquisition are corruptions that show themselves when the first principle, the principle of Brahminhood, becomes exclusive and brings in arrogance and ignorance. Similarly colonisation and imperialism of the type only too familiar to us are aberrations of the spirit that the second principle embodies the spirit of the Kshattriya. Likewise financial cartels, the industrial magnates, the profiteer, the arriviste are diseased growths in the economic body of a modern society which has forgotten the true Vaishya spirit that seeks to produce wealth in order to share and distribute fairly and equitably. The remedy of these ills society has suffered from is not the introduction of a fourth Evil, the tyranny of the Fourth Estate of the proletariate. The Fourth was reduced, it is true, to a state of slavery and serfdom, of untouchability, at its reductio ad absurdum. The cure, we say, is not in blind revolt and an inauguration of the same Evil under a new name and form, which means its perpetuation, but in the creation of a new life and soul, that can happen only with the creation of a new head and front Zeus-like that would give birth to the goddess of light and knowledge, inspirer of a true Brahminhood.
We repeat a fair and sure economic basis has to be found for the down-trodden, proletarian or other. For the proletariate is not the only unfortunate in the human society. There are whole groups of the unfortunate in the three other Estates also. Or perhaps if we like we can extend the meaning of the term "proletariate" and include in it all the less favoured sections of all the Four Orders.
02.14 - The World-Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It led things Evil towards their secret good,
It turned racked falsehood into happy truth;
03.01 - Humanism and Humanism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Indian spirituality precisely envisages such a transcendence. According to it, the liberated soul, one who lives in and with the Brahman or the Supreme Divine is he who 'has discarded the inferior human nature and has taken up the superior divine nature. He has conquered the Evil of the lower nature, certainly; but also he has gone beyond the good of that nature. The liberated man is seated above the play of the three Gunas that constitute the apar prakti.Human intelligence, human feeling, human sentiment, human motive do not move him. Humanism generally has no meaning for him. He is no longer human, but supra-human; his being and becoming are the spontaneous expression of a universal and transcendent consciousness. He does not always live and move externally in the non-human way; but even when he appears human in his life and action, his motives are not humanistic, his consciousness lies anchored somewhere else, in the Divine Will that makes him be and do whatever it chooses, human or not.
There is, however, a type of humanism that is specially known in Indiait is not human humanism, but, as it is called, divine humanism. That is to say, the human formula is maintained, but a new significance, a transcendent connotation is put into it. The general contour of the instrumentation is preserved, but the substance is transmuted. The brain, the heart and the physical consciousness not only change their direction, but their very nature and character. And the Divine himself is conceived of as such a Human Person for the norm of the human personality is an eternal verity in the divine consciousness.
03.01 - The New Year Initiation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The scope of this New Year Prayer does not limit itself only to our individual sadhanait embraces also the collective consciousness which is specially the field of its application. It is the muffled voice of entire humanity in its secret aspiration that is given expression here. It is by the power of this mantra, protected by this invulnerable armour,if we choose to accept it as such,that the collective life of man will attain its fulfilment. We have often stated that the outstanding feature of the modern world is that it has become a Kurukshetra of Gods and Titans. It is no doubt an eternal truth of creation, this conflict between the divine and the anti-divine, and it has been going on in the heart of humanity since its advent upon earth. In the inner life of the world this is a fact of the utmost importance, its most significant principle and mystery. Still it must be said that never in the annals of the physical world has this truth taken such momentous proportions as in the grim present. It is pregnant with all good and Evil that may make or mar human destiny in the near future. Whether man will transcend his half-animal state and rise to the full height of his manhood, nay even to the godhead in him, or descend back to the level of his gross brute naturethis is the problem of problems which is being dealt with and solved in the course of the mighty holocaust of the present World War.
In her last year's message1 the Mother gave a clear warning that we must have no more hesitation, that we must renounce one side, free ourselves from all its influence and embrace the other side without hesitation, without reservation. At the decisive moment in the life of the world and of mankind, one must definitely, irrevocably choose one's loyalty. It will not do to say, like the over-wise and the over-liberal, that both sides the Allies and the Axis Powersare equalequally right or equally wrong and that we can afford to be outside or above the prejudices or interests of either. There is no room today for a neutral. He who pretends to be a neutral is an enemy to the cause of truth. Whoever is Dot with us is against us.
03.03 - A Stainless Steel Frame, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In the old worldnot so old however, for the landslide started in fact with the First World War Evil there was and abundantly in man and in man's society, but it was not accepted as virtue or even as an acceptable or inevitable thing. It was tolerated, suffered, and generally with a heavy heart. Indeed the heart was sound, it was the flesh only that was weak. There was an idealism, an aspiration and although one could not always live up to it, yet one did not deny it or spurn it; one endeavoured as best one could, even though in leisure hours, in the inner mind and consciousness at least, to obey and follow its dictates. It is the Nazi theory of life that broughtto the very forefront and installed in the consciousness ofman Evil as Good, Falsehood as Truth. That is pragmatism with a vengeance. Whatever leads to success, to worldly success, that is to say, brings you wealth, prosperity, power to rule over men and things, enriches you in your possessionvittena, as the Upanishad terms it that is Good, that is Truth. All the rest are mental conceptions, notions, abstractions, day-dreams meant to delude you, take you away from the road to your fulfilment and achievement. That is how we have listened to the voice of Mephistopheles and sold away our soul.
The government of a country is, as we know, the steel frame that holds together the life of its people: it is that that gives the primary stability and security, scope and free play to all its activities. In India it was the pride of the British that they built up such a frame; and although that frame sometimes seemed almost to throttle the nation in its firm and rigid grip, still today we are constrained to recognise that it was indeed a great achievement: Pax Britannica was in fact a very efficient reality. The withdrawal of the power that was behind us has left the frame very shaky; and our national government is trying hard to set it up again, streng thening, reinforcing, riveting wherever and however necessary. But the misfortune is that the steel has got rusted and worn out from inside.
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What is needed then is an army of souls: individuals, either separately or in groups, who have contacted their inmost reality, their divinity, in some way or othermen with a new consciousness and aspiration, a new life and realisation. They will live in the midst of the general degeneration and disintegration, not aloof and immured in their privacy of purity, but take part in the normal activities of everyday life, still acting from the height and depth of the pure consciousness prove by their very living that one can be in the world and yet not of it, doing what is necessary for the maintenance and enhancement of life and yet not stooping to the questionable ways that are supposed to be necessary and inevitable. In other words, they will disprove that safety and success and prosperity in life can be had only if one follows the lead of Evil, if one sells one's soul. On the contrary, by living out one's divine essence one will have conquered the worldihaiva tairjitam. At every moment, in all circumstances one follows the voice of the highest in oneself. If it is that and no other inferior echo, then one becomes fearless and immortal and all-conquering.
Such souls living and moving among men with little faith and in circumstances adverse and obscure will forge precisely the new steel frame, the stainless-steel frame upon which the new society will be securely based.
03.03 - The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The marriage of Evil with good within one breast,
The clash of strife in the very clasp of love,
03.04 - The Other Aspect of European Culture, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Nor is it a fact that Europe is and has been merely profane and materialistic in her outlook and attainment. The godless and mechanistic civilisation which is rampant today in Europe is a distemper of comparatively recent growth. Its farthest limit does not go beyond the sixteenth or the fifteenth century when the first seeds were sown by the Humanists of the Renaissance. It sprouted with the rationalists of the eighteenth century and the French Revolution cleared the ground for its free and untrammelled growth. But only in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries has it reached such vast and disconcerting proportions as to swallow all Europe's other motives and velleities and to appear as the only form of her life-expression. But in the earlier centuries, those that preceded the New Enlightenment, Europe had a different conception of culture and civilisation, she possessed almost another soul. The long period that is known as the mediaeval age was not after all so dark and unregenerate as it has been the familiar custom to represent it. Christian Europe the Europe of cathedrals and monasteries, of saints and sages, of St. Francis and St. Teresa, of Boehme and Bernard, of Thomas Aquinas and Augustine, had an enlightenment all her own, which was real and living and dynamic, possessing a far-extending and deeply penetrating influence; in as much as it was this that called into being and fashioned the more abiding forces, which underlie Europe's cultural life and social institutions, although latterly "fallen on Evil days and on Evil tongues".
Even the still more ancient Grco-Latin Europe which was not, to a general and apparent view, quite spiritual or other-worldly, was yet not so exclusively materialistic and profane as modern Europe. Classical culture was rationalistic, without doubt; but that rationalism was the function of a sublimated intelligence and a refined sensibility and served as a vehicle for a Higher Perceptiona ratiocinative and ultra-logical mind, like that of Socrates, could yet be so passive and upgazing as to receive and obey the commandments of a Dmon; whereas the rationalism, which is in vogue today and to which orthodox Scientism has affixed its royal sign manual, is the product of mere brain-power, vigorous but crude, of an intellect shut up in its self-complacent cunningness, obfuscated by its infinite but shallow inquisitiveness.
03.04 - Towardsa New Ideology, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We had in India a fairer word than "duty", a deeper and more luminous mantra: it is dharma. The expression has certainly "'fallen on Evil days and on Evil tongues"; it smells today of medievalism and obscurantism and whatever is not "forward" and "radical". Still we hark back to it: it is high time that we should resuscitate the old word mantrain spite of its musty covering, it carries the purest nugget of gold.
Indeed, Right, Duty and Dharma are three terms that represent the three stages of an ascending consciousness in its play of forces. At the base and beginning the original and primary state of consciousness is dominated by the mode of inertia (tamas); in that state things are an inchoate mass and are simply jumbled together; they are moved and acted upon helplessly by forces that are outside them. A rise in the scale of growth and evolution occurs when things begin to be organised, that is to say, differentiated and coordinated. And this means at the outset the self-assertion of each and every unit, the claim and the right of the individual to be itself first and foremost. It is a necessary development, for it signifies the growth of self-conscious units out of a general unconsciousness. It is the appearance of rajas, the mode of life and activity. Right belongs to this field and level: it is the lever that serves to bring out the individual nuclei from a general formlessness, it is the force that crystallises and organises the separative centres for separate fulfilment in life. And naturally it is the field also of competition and conflict. This is a stage and has to be transcended, from the domain of differentiation and contrariety one has to rise to the domain of co-ordination and co-operation. Here comes in the concept of duty which seeks to remedy the ills of the modus of rights in two ways, first, by replacing the movement of taking by that of giving, orienting the consciousness from the sense of self-sufficiency and self-importance towards that of submission and humbleness; secondly, by the recognition of the just rights of others also against one's own. Duty represents the mode of sattwa in action.
03.05 - The Spiritual Genius of India, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The most significant fact in the history of India is the unbroken continuity of the line of her spiritual masters who never ceased to appear even in the midst of her most dark and distressing ages. Even in a decadent and fast disintegrating India, when the whole of her external life was a mass of ruins, when her political and economical and even her cultural life was brought to stagnation and very near to decomposition, this undying Fire in her secret heart was ever alight and called in the inevitable rebirth and rejuvenation. Ramakrishna, with Vivekananda as his emanation in life dynamic and material, symbolises this great secret of India's evolution. The promise that the Divine held out in the Gita to Bharata's descendant finds a ready fulfilment in India, in Bharata's land, more perhaps than anywhere else in the world; for in India has the. Divine taken birth over and over again to save the pure in heart, to destroy the Evil-doer and to establish the Right Law of life.
Other peoples may be the arms and the feet and the head of Humanity, but India is its heart, its soul for she cherishes always within her the Truth that lives for ever, the flaming God-head, the Immortal awake in mortality, as say the Vedas, amto martyeu tv .
03.05 - The World is One, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We say not only that India is one and indivisible (and for that matter, Bengal too is one and indivisible, since we have to repeat axiomatic truths that have fallen on Evil days and on Evil tongues) but that also the whole world is one and indivisible. They who seek to drive in a wedge anywhere, who are busy laying some kind of cordon sanitaire across countries and nations or cultures and civilisations, in the name of a bigoted ideology, are, to say the least, doing a disservice to humanity, indeed they are inviting a disaster and catastrophe to the world and equally to themselves. For that is an attempt to stem the high tide of Nature's swell towards a global unity that shall brook no resistance.
The distinctions and differences that held good in other times and climes can have no sense or value in the world of today. Race or religion can divide man no longer; even nationhood has lost much of its original force and meaning. It is strangeperhaps it is inevitable in the secret process of Nature's working that when everything in conditions and circumstances obviously demands and points to an obliteration of all frontiers of division and separationeconomically and politically tooand all drives towards a closer co-operation and intermingling, it is precisely then that the contrary spirit and impulse raises its head and seems even to gather added strength and violence. The fact may have two explanations. First of all, it may mean a defence gesture in Nature, that is to say, certain forces or formations have a permanent place in Nature's economy and when they apprehend that they are being ousted and neglected, when there is a one-pointed drive for their exclusion, naturally they surge up and demand recognition with a vengeance: for things forgotten or left aside that form indissolubly part of Nature's fabric and pattern, one has to retrace one's steps in order to pick them up again. But also the phenomenon may mean a simple case of atavism: for we must know that there are certain old-world aboriginal habits and movements that have to go and have no place in the higher scheme of Nature and these too come up off and on, especially when the demand is there for their final liquidation. They have to be recognised as such and treated as such. Radical and religious (including ideological) egoisms seem to us to belong to this category.
03.06 - Divine Humanism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Indian spirituality envisages precisely such a transcendence. According to it, the liberated soul, one who lives in and with the Brahman or the Supreme Divine, is he who has discarded the inferior human nature and has taken up the superior divine nature. He has conquered the Evil of the lower nature, certainly; but also he has gone beyond the good of that nature. The liberated man is seated above the play of the three Gunas that constitute the inferior hemisphere of manifestation, apar prakti, Human intelligence, human feeling, human sentiment, human motive, even at their best and purest, do not move him. Humanism has naturally no meaning for him. He is no longer human, but supra-human; his being and becoming are the spontaneous expression of a universal and transcendent consciousness. He may not always live and move externally in the non-human way; but even when he appears human in his life and action, his motives are not humanistic, his consciousness lies anchored somewhere else, in the transcendent Will of the Divine that makes him be and do whatever it chooses, human or otherwise.
And yet there is a humanism that is proper to Indiait is not 'human humanism', but, as it is called, 'divine humanism'. That is to say, the human formula is maintained, but a new significance, a transcendent connotation is put into it. The general contour of the instrumentation is preserved, but the substance is transmuted. The brain, the heart and the physical consciousness not only change their direction, but their very nature and character. And the Divine Himself is conceived as such a Divine Person for the norm of the human personality in this view is an eternal verity in the divine consciousness.
03.06 - The Pact and its Sanction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The difficulty comes from the middle region, from the second element of the tripartite sanction. It is the "middle class", not quite in the economic but in the ideological sense. In other words, in every society there are people who have risen or are attempting to rise above the mass level. They look around and above: they are not satisfied with their lot, they aspire towards higher and wider ideals. They are the material out of which what we call reformers and revolutionaries are made. In the general mass who are more or less contented, they are the discontented: they form the leaven of cells that move and stir and work for change. Now all depends on what kind of leaven it is, what is the quality of the force that is called up, the nature of the ideal or idea that is invoked. For it can be either way, for good or for Evil. There are elements that belong to the light, and there are elements that belong to darkness. There are mixtures in men no doubt, but on the whole there are these two types: one helps humanity's progress, the other retards and sometimes blocks completely. If the mass of mankind is tamasinertia there is a kind of rajasdynamism that drives towards greater tamas, as the Upanishad says, towards disintegration, under the garb of reformation it brings about disruption.
So we have to see the type of cells that grow and become consciously active in the body politic. It is sattwalight that brings in knowledge and harmony. And the movement for reformation and growth among the mass has to be inspired by that quality or mode of consciousness. A sound and healthy structure can be raised effectively upon that basis alone. The man in the mass, as I have said and as is well known, is a good-natured malleable material, but it is ignorant and inert: it can easily be worked upon by any kind of strong force, worked up to any kind of mischief. Shakespeare has made us very graphically familiar with the reaction of a mob and that remains true even today. Even if right direction is there at the top, at the higher governmental level, reflecting the mind of the true intelligentsia, a well-meaning plan is doomed to failure if it does not touch and move the middle strata that are the real executive agents.
03.07 - Some Thoughts on the Unthinkable, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The actual manifestation, the world as it stands, is in the hands of the Undivine. The Divine has to establish his reign through a working out of struggling and combating forces. The Evil that man does or suffers from comes from his slavery to the Undivine: likewise the good that he is capable of doing or receiving is the sign of his freedom from that slavery and of his openness to the secret Divine.
The Undivine means the obscure separativeness of the Ignorance, the darkness of Inferior Nature. The Divine, from his superior status, has cast himself down and is scattered and concretised as the ignorant creation, he has consented to be degraded and imbedded into Matter, in order to quicken Matter gradually, to illumine and transform it and invest it with the Divine's own glory. The whole dynamics of creation consists in the interaction of these two forces, one apparent and pragmatic and patent, the other behind and involved and latent. The elements and forces of the Ignorance, while they appear to move in the cycles of their inexorable Law, are gradually led by the stress of the involved Spirit, to evolve and change, and finally express and incarnate that which it now negates, that which is the Spirit unveiled in its pristine au thenticity.
03.08 - The Spiritual Outlook, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The spiritual consciousness dawns precisely with the rejection of this monomania, this obsession of one-track mentality. It means, in other words, nothing les than coming out of the shell of one's egoism. To be able thus to come out of oneself, enter into others' consciousness, see things as others see them, that is the great initiation, the true beginning of the life of the spirit. For the Spirit is the truth of all things: all things, even what appears Evil and reprehensible, exist and have their play because of a core of truth and force of truth in each. Mind and mind's external consciousness and practical drive compel one to take to a single line of perception and action and that which is more or less superficial and immediately necessary. But it is only when one withdraws from the drive' of Maya and gets behind, gets behind all opposing views and standpoints and tries to see what is the underlying truth that seeks to manifest in each that one enters the gateway of the spiritual consciousness.
The spiritual consciousness is global, not in the sense that it is eclectic, that is to say, the sum-total of all the superficial views, but in the sense that it experiences the one dynamic truth that underlies all and which manifests its varying powers and potentials in various objects and forces, expressing itself in multiple standpoints and modes and angles of vision.
03.09 - Art and Katharsis, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The uplifting power of Art is inherent in its nature, for Art itself is the outcome of an uplifted nature. Art is the expression of a heightened consciousness. The ordinary consciousness in which man lives and moves is narrow, limited, obscure, faltering, unhappyit is the abode of all that is Evil and ugly; it is inartistic. The poetic zeal, enthusiasm or frenzy, when it seizes the consciousness, at once lifts it high into a state that is characterised by wideness and depth and a new and fresh exhilarating intensity of perception and experience. We seem to arrive at the very fountain-head, where things take birth and are full of an unspoilt life and power and beauty and light and harmony. A line burdened with the whole tragedy of earthly existence such as Shakespeare's:
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain...
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Whatever is ugly and gross, all the ills and Evils of life that is to say, what appears as such to our external mind and senseswhen they have passed through the crucible of the poet's consciousness undergoes a sea-change and puts on an otherworldly beauty and value. We know of the alchemy of poetic transformation that was so characteristic of Wordsworth's manner and to which the poet was never tired of referring, how the physical and brute natureeven a most insignificant and meaningless and unshapely object in it attains a spiritual sense and beauty when the poet takes it up and treasures it in his tranquil and luminous and in-gathered consciousness, his "inward eye". A crude feeling, a raw passion, a tumult of the senses, in the same way, sifted through the poetic perception, becomes something that opens magic casements, glimpses the silence of the farthest Hebrides, wafts us into the bliss of the invisible and the beyond.
The voice of Art is sweetly persuasivekntsmmita, as the Sanskrit rhetoricians say-it is the voice of the beloved, not that of the school-master. The education of Poetry is like the education of Nature: the poet said of the child that grew in sun and shower
03.10 - Hamlet: A Crisis of the Evolving Soul, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Arjuna tided over the crisis as he could avail himself of the knowledge of the way out and the necessary help that was given by the Divine Guide. Hamlet bears the full crash of doom upon his head and makes others also share its consequences with him. At one point, however, he seemed to make just a move towards the right solution of the difficulty. He finds that the avoidance of the Evil by self-destructionwhich is a common and natural temptation in like situationsis no solution: it may lead you into a still greater Evil. One has to face the Evil, stand and fight it. Once this is decided, the right course for the hero (the Aryan fighter, as the Gitawould say) would be to live
As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing;
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A poignant vision or experience of Evil in God's world which otherwise appears so work living in, the perception of the canker in the rose, has been the turning-point of many a destiny. It has been the occasion of the birth of saints and sages, souls that have traversed beyond and found the solution of the enigma. It has also hurled back into confusion and ruin souls that faced the Sphinx but could not answer her riddlesuch, for example, as were Hamlet and Faust.
In these latter the human consciousness has reached its high water-mark of normal development. They are the finest expression of mans capacities and powers in the ordinary nature. Here we have the play of the higher, even perhaps the highest ranges of the Mind the mind, that is to say, of the poet and the philosopher. But here also stands revealed the counterfoil, the obverse of that high achievement the feet of clay on which is reared the head of gold, the flesh that is tied irrevocably to the spirit.
03.14 - Mater Dolorosa, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Some believers in God or in the Spirit admit that it is so. The world is the creation of another being, a not-God, a not-Spiritwhe ther Maya or Ahriman or the Great Evil. One has simply to forget the world, abandon earthly existence altogether as a nightmare. Peace, felicity one can possess and enjoy but not here in this vale of tears, anityam asukham lokam imam, but elsewhere beyond.
Is that the whole truth? We, for ourselves, do not subscribe to this view. Truth is a very complex entity, the universe a mingled strain. It is not a matter of merely sinners and innocents that we have to deal with. The problem is deeper and more fundamental. The whole question is, where, in which world, on which level of consciousness do we stand, and, what is more crucial, how much of that consciousness is dynamic and effective in normal life. If we are in the ordinary consciousness and live wholly with that consciousness, it is inevitable that, being in the midst of Nature's current, we should be buffeted along, the good and the Evil, as we conceive them to be, befalling us indiscriminately. Or, again, if we happen to live in part or even mainly in an inner or higher consciousness, more or less in a mood of withdrawal from the current of life allowing the life movements to happen as they list, then too we remain, in fact, creatures and playthings of Nature and we must not wonder if, externally, suffering becomes the badge of our tribe.
And yet the solution need not be a total rejection and transcendence of Nature. For what is ignored in this view is Nature's dual reality. In one form, the inferior (apar), Nature means the Law of Ignoranceof pain and misery and death; but in another form, the superior (par), Nature's is the Law of Knowledge, that is to say, of happiness, immunity and immortality, not elsewhere in another world and in a transcendent consciousness, but here below on the physical earth in a physical body.
03.16 - The Tragic Spirit in Nature, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There runs a pessimistic vein in Nature's movement. Due to the original Inconscience out of which she is built and also because of a habit formed through millenniums it is not possible for her to expect or envisage anything else than decay, death and frustration in the end or on the whole. To every rise there must be a fall, a crest must end in a trough. Nature has not the courage nor the faculty to look for any kind of perfection upon earth. Not that within her realm one cannot or should not try for the good; the noble, even the perfect, but one must be ready to pay the price. Good there is and may be, but it is suffered only on payment of its Danegeld to Evil. That is the law of sacrifice that seems to be fundamental to Nature's governance.
The Evil, we have said, is nothing else than the basis of unconsciousness or Inconscience in Nature. It is this which pulls the beingwhatever structure of consciousness can be reared upon itdown to decay and frustration. It is the force of gravitation or inertia. Matter is unconsciousness; the body, formed basically of matter, is unconsciousness too. The natural tendency of Matter is towards disintegration and dissolution; the body, therefore, is mortalbhasmntamidam arram. The scope and range of mortality is measured by the scope and range of unconsciousness. Matter is the most concrete and solid form of unconsciousness; but it casts its shadow upon the higher levels toolife and mind always lie in the penumbra of this original Evil.
A great personality means a great rise in consciousness, therefore it means also a strain upon the normal consciousness and hence a snap or scission sometime and somewhere. As the poet describes the tragic phenomenon
04.01 - The Divine Man, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But there is a still closer mystery, the mystery of mysteries. There has not been merely a general descent, the descent of a world-force on a higher plane into another world-force on a lower plane; but that there is the descent of the individual, the personal Godhead into and as an earthly human being. The Divine born as a man and leading the life of a man among us and as one of us, the secret of Divine Incarnation is the supreme secret. That is the mechanism adopted by the Divine to cure and transmute human illshimself becoming a man, taking upon himself the burden of the Evil that vitiates and withers life and working it out in and through himself. Something of this truth has been caught in the Christian view of Incarnation. God sent upon earth his only begotten son to take upon himself the sins of man, suffer vicariously for him, pay the ransom and thus liberate him, so that he may reach salvation, procure his seat by the side of the Father in Heaven. Man corrupted as he is by an original sin cannot hope by his own merit to achieve salvation. He can only admit his sin and repent and wait for the Grace to save him. The Indian view of Incarnation laid more stress upon the positive aspect of the matter, viz, the role of the Incarnation as the inaugurator and establisher of a new order in lifedharmasasthpanrthya. The Avatar brings down and embodies a higher principle of human organisation, a greater consciousness which he infuses into the existing pattern, individual or collective, which has -served its purpose, has become otiose and time-barred and needs to be remodelled, has been at the most preparatory to something else. The Avatar means a new revelation and the uplift of the human consciousness into a higher mode of being. The physical form he takes signifies the physical pressure that is exerted for the corroboration and fixation of the inner illumination that he brings upon earth and in the human frame. The Indian tradition has focussed its attention upon the Goodreyasand did not consider it essential to dwell upon the Evil. For one who finds and sees the Good always and everywhere, the Evil does not exist. Sri Aurobindo lays equal emphasis on both the aspects. Naturally, however, he does not believe in an original Evil, incurable upon earth and in earthly life. In conformity with the ancient Indian teaching he declares the original divinity of man: it is because man is potentially and essentially divine that he can become actually and wholly divine. The Bible speaks indeed of man becoming perfect even as the Father in Heaven is perfect: but that is due exclusively to the Grace showered upon man, not because of any inherent perfection in him. But in according full divinity to man, Sri Aurobindo does not minimise the part of the undivine in him. This does not mean any kind of Manicheism: for Evil, according to Sri Aurobindo, is not coeval or coterminous with the Divine, it is a later or derivative formation under given conditions, although within the range and sphere of the infinite Divine. Evil exists as a stern reality; even though it may be temporary and does not touch the essential reality, it is not an illusion nor can it be ignored, brushed aside or bypassed as something superficial or momentary and of no importance. It has its value, its function and implication. It is real, but it is not irremediable. It is contrary to the Divine but not contradictory. For even the Evil in its inmost substance carries or is the reality which it opposes or denies outwardly. Did not the very first of the apostles of Christ deny his master at the crucial moment? As we have said, Evil is a formation necessitated by certain circumstances, the circumstances changed, the whole disposition as at present constituted changes automatically and fundamentally.
The Divine then descends into the earth-frame, not merely as an immanent and hidden essencesarvabhtntratm but as an individual person embodying that essencemnu tanumritam. Man too, however earthly and impure he maybe, is essentially the Divine himself, carries in him the spark of the supreme consciousness that he is in his true and highest reality. That is how in him is bridged the gulf that apparently exists between the mortal and the immortal, the Infinite and the Finite, the Eternal and the Momentary, and the Divine too can come into him and become, so to say, his lower self.
The individual or personal Divine leaves his home of all blissVaikunthaforgets himself and enters into this world of all misery; but this does not mean that he becomes wholly the Man of Misery: he encompasses all misery within himself, penetrates as well into the stuff and substance of all misery, but suffuses all that with the purifying and transforming pressure of his own supreme consciousness. And yet pain and suffering are real, cruelly real, even to the Divine Man. Just as the ordinary human creature suffers and agonises in spite of the divine essence in him, in spite of his other deeper truth and reality, his soul of inalienable bliss, his psychic being, the Divine too suffers in the same way in spite of his divinity. This double line of consciousness, this system of parallels running alongside each other, interacting upon each other (even intersecting each other, when viewed in a frame of infinity) gives the whole secret mechanism of creation, its purpose, its working and its fulfilment. It is nothing else than the gradual replacement or elimination, elevation or sublimation of the elements on one line that are transmuted into those of the other. The Divine enters into the Evil to root out the Evil and plant there or release and fructify the seed of Divinity lying covered over and lost in the depths of dead inconscience.
The Divine descends as an individual person fundamentally to hasten the evolutionary process and to complete it; he takes the human form to raise humanity to divinity. The fact and the nature of the process have been well exemplified in Sri Ramakrishna who, it is said, took up successively different lines of spiritual discipline and by a supreme and sovereign force of concentration achieved realisation in each line in the course of a few days what might take in normal circumstances years or even lives to do. The Divine gathers and concentrates in himself the world-force, the Nature-Energyeven like adynamo and focuses and canalises it to give it its full, integral and absolute effectivity. And mortal pain he accepts, and swallows the poison of ignorant lifeeven like Nilakantha Shivato transmute it into ecstasy and immortality. The Divine Mother sank into the earth-nature of a human body:
04.02 - To the Heights II, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Where shall hide all the Evil ones now so cosily lodged?
The surging luminosities shall hurl themselves scouring and flooding
04.06 - To Be or Not to Be, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This is a way of cutting the Gordian knot. But the problem is not so simple as the moralist would have it. Resist not Evil: if it is made an absolute rule, would not the whole world be filled with Evil? Evil grows much faster than good. By not resisting Evil one risks to perpetuate the very thing that one fears; it deprives the good of its chance to approach or get a foothold. That is why the Divine Teacher declares in the Gita that God comes down upon earth, assuming a human body,2to protect the good and slay the wicked,3 slay not metaphorically but actually and materially, as he did on the field of the Kurus.
It is a complex problem and the solution too is complex. The GitaHinduism generallydoes not posit a universal dharma, but a hierarchy of dharmas. Men have different natures; so their duties, their functions and activities, their paths of growth and development must naturally be different. A rigid rule does not fit in with the facts of life, and the more absolute it is, the less efficacy it possesses as a living reality. Therefore in the Indian social scheme, there is one dharma for the Brahmin and another for the Kshatriya, a third for the Vaishya and a fourth for the Shudra.
The Brahmin is he who represents in his nature and character the principle and movement of knowledge, of comprehension and inclusion, of peace and harmonyall the qualities that are termed sttwic. A Brahmin does not fight, the very build of his consciousness prevents him from wounding and hurting; he has no enemy; even if he is attacked or killed, he does not raise his arm to protect himself (although Ramakrishna would prescribe even for him a modified or mollified mode of resisting the Evil, hissing at least if not biting). The Biblical injunction, we know, is to present the other cheek too to the smiter. This is for those who follow the Brahminical discipline. But a Kshatriya, who in his nature and consciousness is a warrior, has another dharma; he is the armed guard of knowledge and truth, he is strength and force. He has to resist the Evil in the name of the Lord, he has to raise his arm to strike. He is the instrument of Rudra and Mahakali. Does not the mighty goddess declare I draw the bow for Rudra, I hurl the arrow to slay the hater of the truth?4 If the Kshatriya does not follow his own dharma, but seeks to imitate the Brahmin, he brings about a confusion liable to disintegrate the society, he is then un-Aryan, inglorious, unworthy of heaven, deserving all the epithets which Sri Krishna heaped upon the dejected, depressed and confused Arjuna. So long as the world is held by brute force, so long as there is the sway of Evil power over the material earth and the physical body, there will be the need to resist it physically: if I do not do it, other instruments will be found. I may say like Arjuna, overwhelmed with pity and grief, I shall not fight, but God and the cosmic deities may refuse my refusal and compel me to do what in my ignorance and wrong headedness I would not like to do.
Rig Veda, IX. 126
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It may be asked if even then there are not some types of activity and impulsion that are intrinsically Evil, undivine they can under no circumstances be godly or God's instruments, they have to be rejected, cast aside in the very beginning, also in the middle and naturally in the end. But it must be remembered that the human mind cannot be the judge of what is divine or undivine, there are things the Divine may sanction which the mental being fights shy of. It must leave into the Divine to choose His instrument and His mode of activityit is sufficient if the mental being knows by whom it is impelled and where it falls as an arrow shot to its mark: keneitam patati preitam.6
Yes, there is one thing intrinsically Evil and undivine and that has to be rejected and cast aside ruthlessly that is nothing else than the egoistic consciousness. It is this that has passions and prejudices, likes and dislikes, ideas and ideals, formations of its own, other deities installed in place of the Divine Truth and Reality. The ego goes, indeed, and with it also those rhythms and stresses, lines and shades germane to it that bar the free flow of the Supreme Breath. But the instrument remains and the arms and the weapons they are cleansed and sanctified: instead of the Asura wielding them, it is now the gods, the Divine Himself who possess and use them.
Canto I 5
04.10 - To the Heights-X, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Seeking remedy and refuge from Evil
At Evil's gate,
Pour, pour thy soothing Light, O Divine Compassion!
04.13 - To the HeightsXIII, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Saviour from all Evil, deliverer from pain is thy Great Name,
O Mother victorious!
05.02 - Gods Labour, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A great mystery of existence, its central rub is the presence of Evil. All spiritual, generally all human endeavour has to face and answer this Sphinx. As he answers, so will be his fate. He cannot rise up even if he wishes, earth cannot progress even when there is the occasion, because of this besetting obstacle. It has many names and many forms. It is Sin or Satan in Christianity; Buddhism calls it Mara. In India it is generally known as Maya. Grief and sorrow, weakness and want, disease and death are its external and ubiquitous forms. It is a force of gravitation, as graphically named by a modern Christian mystic, that pulls man down, fixes him upon earth with its iron law of mortality, never allowing him to mount high and soar in the spiritual heavens. It has also been called the Wheel of Karma or the cycle of Ignorance. And the aim of all spiritual seekers has been to rise out of itsome-how, by force of tapasy, energy of concentrated will or divine Gracego through or by-pass and escape into the Beyond. This is the path of ascent I referred to at the outset. In this view it is taken for granted that this creation is transient and empty of happinessanityam asukham (Gita)it is anatta, empty of self or consciousness (Buddha) and it will be always so. The only way to deal with it, the way of the wise, is to discard it and pass over.
Sri Aurobindo's view is different. He says Evil can be and has to be conquered here itself, here upon this earth and in this body-the ancients also said, ihaiva tairjitah, they have conquered even here, prkariravimokat, before leaving the body. You have to face Evil full-square and conquer it, conquer it not in the sense that you simply rise above it so that it no longer touches you, but that you remain where you are in the very field of Evil and drive it out from there completely, erase and annihilate it where it was reigning supreme. Hence God has to come down from his heaven and dwell here upon earth and among men and in the conditions of mortality, show thus by his living and labour that this earthly earth can be transformed into a heavenly earth and this human body into a "body divine".
Matter or the physical body is not by itself the centre of gravity of the human consciousness; it is not that that pins the soul or the self to the life of pain and misery and incapacity and death. Matter is not the Evil, nor made up of Evil; it contains or harbours Evil under the present circumstances, even as dross is mixed up, inextricably as it appears, with the noble metal in the natural ore; but the dross can be eradicated and the free metal brought out, pure- and noble in its own true nature. It is, as Rumi, the Persian mystic, says in his famous imagery, like a piece of iron, dull and dismal to look at, but when put into fire slowly acquires the quality of fire, turning into a glowing and radiant beauty, yet maintaining its original form and individuality and concrete, even material reality. Now, the crust or dross that has to be eliminated in Matter is called by Sri Aurobindo "Inconscience". Matter is inconscient, therefore it is unconscious and ignorant. Make it conscious, it will be radiant and full of knowledge. That is the great transformation needed, the only way to true and total reformation. The Divine descends into Matter precisely to work out that transformation.
It is a long dredging process, tedious and arduous, requiring the utmost patience and perseverance, even to the absolute degree. For Inconscience, in essence, although a contingent reality, local and temporal, and therefore transient, is nonetheless the hardest, most obdurate and resistant reality: it lies thick and heavy upon the human vehicle. It is massed layer upon layer. Its first formation in the higher altitudes of the mind is perhaps like a thin fluid deposit; it begins as anindividualised separative consciousness stressing more and more its exclusiveness. Through the lower ranges of the mind and the vitality it crystallises and condenses gradually; in the worlds of thinking and feeling, enjoying and dynamic activity, it has still a malleable and mixed consistency, but when it reaches and possesses the physical being, it becomes the impervious solid obscurity that Matter presents.
The root of the Cosmic Evil is in Matter. From there it shoots up and overshadows the upper layers of our being and consciousness. Even if the mind is cleaned, the vital cleared, still if the physical consciousness is not sufficiently probed into, purified and reclaimed, then nothing permanent is done, one would build upon sand. All efforts, spiritual or other, at the regeneration and reformation of mankind and a good many individual endeavours too have come to a sorry end, because the foundation was not laid sufficiently deep and secure. One must dig into Matter as far down as possiblelike Rishi Agastya in the Vedaeven to the other end. For there is another mystery there, perhaps the Mystery of mysteries. The deeper you go down into Matter, as you clear up the jungle and bring in the higher light, you discover and unlock strange and mighty energies of consciousness secreted there, even like the uranium pile in the atomic world. It is revealed to you that Inconscience is not total absence of consciousness, it is simply consciousness asleep, in-gathered, entranced. And this nether consciousness is, after all, one with the supreme Consciousness. It is itself the best weapon to bring about its own transformation. Not only the higher self, but the lower self too must be salvaged and saved by its own selftman tmnam uddharet.
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God made man, the spirit become flesh: this is Grace, the benediction of the Holy One upon the sinful earth. The working of Grace in one of its characteristic movements has been beautifully envisaged in esoteric Christianity. The burden of sin that is to say, of weakness, impurity and ignorancelies so heavy upon man, the force of gravitation is so absolute, that it is divine intervention alone, and in the most physical sense, which can save him. God takes upon himself man's load and relieves him of it: thus freed he can soar up easily and join the company of the Happy in heaven alongside God. This is the ransom paid by God to His Enemy, the vicarious atonement suffered by the Divine, the cross he has to bear when he comes upon this earth, into this vale of tears. I t is said, in terms of human feeling, pity so moved him that he left the happy abode of heaven, came down among men and lived like one of them, sharing their sorrow and pain and, what is divine, taking up the Evil into himself, drinking, as it were, out of the poisoned bowl, so that man, frail mortal creature, may escape his doom.
This way too, as all other ways, has indeed been the way of escape. God came down in order to take away some men with him. They were the blessed ones, but the normal humanity remains as it is, as it has been, on the whole. The few that pass beyond do not seem to leave any trace here below. There was no regeneration of mankind, no reformation of earthly life.
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The integral Divine not merely suffers (as in the Christian tradition) a body material, He accepts it in his supernal delight, for it is his own being and substance: it is He in essence and it will become He in actuality. When he comes into the world, it is not as though it were a foreign country; he comes to his own,only he seeks to rebuild it on another scale, the scale of unity and infinity, instead of the present scale of separativism and finiteness. He comes among men not simply because he is' moved by human miseries; he is no extra-terrestrial person, a bigger human being, but is himself this earth, this world, all these miseries; he is woven into the fabric of the universe, he is the warp and woof that constitute creation. It is not a mere movement of sympathy or benevolence that actuates him, it is a total and absolute identification that is the ground and motive of his activity. When he assumes the frame of mortality, it is not that something outside and totally incongruous is entering into him, it is part and parcel of himself, it is himself in one of his functions and phases. Consequently, his work in and upon the material world and life may be viewed as that of self-purification and self-illumination, self-discipline and selfrealisation. Also, the horrors of material existence, being part of the cosmic play and portion of his infinity, naturally find shelter in the individual divine incarnation, are encompassed in his human embodiment. It is the energy of his own consciousness that brought out or developed even this erring earth from within it: that same energy is now available, stored up in the individual formation, for the recreation of that earth. The advent and acceptance of material existence meant, as a kind of necessity in a given scheme of divine manifestation, the appearance and play of Evil, the negation of the very divinity. Absolute Consciousness brought forth absolute unconsciousness the inconscientbecause of its own self-pressure, a play of an increasingly exclusive concentration and rigid objectivisation. That same consciousness repeats its story in the individual incarnation: it plunges into the material life and matter and identifies itself with Evil. But it is then like a pressed or tightened spring; it works at its highest potential. In other words, the Divine in the body now works to divinise the body itself, to make of the negation a concrete affirmation. The inconscient will be embodied consciousness.
The humanist said, Nothing human I reckon foreign to me," In a deeper and more absolute sense the divine Mystic of the integral Yoga says the same. He is indeed humanity incarnate, the whole mankind condensed and epitomised in his single body. Mankind as imbedded in ignorance and inconscience, the conscious soul lost in the dark depths of dead matter, is he and his whole labour consists in working in and through that obscure "gravitational" mass, to evoke and bring down the totality of the superconscient force, the creative delight which he is essentially in his inmost and topmost being. The labour within himself is conterminous with the cosmic labour, and the change effected in his being and nature means a parallel change in the world outside, at least a ready possibility of the change. All the pains and weaknesses normal humanity suffers from, the heritage of an inconscient earthly existence, the Divine takes into his incarnated bodyall and more and to the highest degreeinto a crucible as it were, and works out there the alchemy. The natural man individually shares also each other's burden in some way, for all are interconnected in lifeaction at one point has a reaction at all other points: only the sharing is done unconsciously and is suffered or imposed than accepted and it tends to be at a minimum. An ordinary mortal would break under a greater pressure. It is the Avatar who comes forward and carries on his shoulders the entire burden of earthly inconscience.
05.03 - Bypaths of Souls Journey, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There are thus chains linking the typal beings in the world above with their human embodiments in the physical world; an archetype in the series of emanations branches out, as it were, into its commensurables and cognates in human bodies. Hence it is quite natural that many persons, human embodiments, may have so to say one common ancestor in the typal being (that gives their spiritual gotra); they all belong to the same geneological tree. Souls aspiring and ascending to the higher and fuller consciousness, because of their affinity, because together they have to fulfil a special role, serve a particular purpose in the cosmic plan, because of their spiritual consanguinity, call on the same godhead as their Master-soul or Over-soul, the Soul of their souls. Their growth and development are along similar or parallel lines, they are moulded and shaped in the pattern set by the original being. This must not be understood to mean that a soul is bound exclusively to its own family and cannot step out of its geneological system. As I have said in the beginning, souls are not material particles hard and rigid and shut out from each other, they are not obliged to obey the law of impenetrability that two bodies cannot occupy the same place at the same time. They meet, touch, interchange, interpenetrate, even coalesce, although they may not belong to the same family but follow different lines of, evolution. Apart from the fact that in the ultimate reality each is in all and all is in each, not only so, each is all and all is eachthus beings on no account can be kept in water-tight compartmentsapart from this spiritual truth, there is also a more normal and apparent give and take between souls. The phenomenon known as "possession", for example, is a case in point. "Possession", however, need not be always a ghostly possession in the modern sense of the possession by Evil spirits, it may be also in a good sense, the sense that the word carried among mediaeval mystics, viz.,spiritual.
We say commonly souls are immortal. But in an occult sense souls are or may be mortal too. When the Vedantin speaks of laya or the Buddhist of nya, what else is it? It is nothing but the annihilation of the soul, even if it is in the Brahman or some Absolute. But we are not referring to that here. There is a merger of souls, and a dissolution of souls in a somewhat different manner, not on the highest metaphysical heights, but even here below among the growing developing souls embodied upon earth. That is to say, one soul may unite with another and both form one single entity and embodiment.
05.05 - Man the Prototype, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Measure of Time The Role of Evil
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part FiveMan the Prototype
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The Measure of Time The Role of Evil
05.05 - Of Some Supreme Mysteries, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The pseudo-gods are not always Evil, nor do they lead men only to perdition: their worship may often be useful, even salutary. But what these beings will not allow is to let man pass beyond a given frontier; they will not suffer him to rise in the scale of consciousness higher than a certain limit. Any attempt or turn towards a transcending of that limit they watch with jealous vigilance and suppress it with vehemence, even with violence. Within their domain, subject to their dharma, they accord to their worshippers prosperity and power, some-times perhaps even a certain elevation of consciousness.
The lesser gods and the pseudo-gods are none other than the various forces that reign in the world of the mental, the vital or the physical consciousness. These are the three planes that, in the cosmic as well as in the human scale, form the fundamental notes of the Inferior Hemisphere of Nature.
05.06 - The Role of Evil, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
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Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part FiveThe Role of Evil
The Role of Evil
The advent or the presence of Evil upon earth has introduced certain factors in human life that have enriched it, increased even its value. Certain experiences would not have been there, intimate and revelatory experiences, but for this Dark Shadow. One can, of course, conceive a line of growth and development in which it is all light and delight, everything is good and for the good. But then a whole domain of experience and realisation would have been missed. There are certain experiences that one would not like not to have had at all, even though that may mean paying and paying heavily.
Evil is Evil, no doubt; it is not divine and it is not an illusion. It is a real blot on the fair face of creation. Its existence cannot be justified in the sense that it is the right thing and has to be welcomed and maintained, since it forms part of the universal symphony. Not even in the sense that it is a test and a trial set by the Divine for the righteous to prove their merit. It has not been put there with a set purpose, but that once given, it has been the occasion of a miracle, it offered the opportunity for the manifestation of something unique, great and grandiose, marvellous and beautiful. The presence of Evil moved the DivineGiustizia masse il mio alto Fattorel1and Grace was born. He descended, the Aloof and the Transcendent, in all his love and compassion down into this vale of tears: he descended straight into our midst without halting anywhere in the infinite gradation that marks the distance between the highest and the lowest, he descended from the very highest into the very lowest, demanding nothing, asking for no condition whatsoever from the soul in Ignorance, from the earth under the grip of Evil. Thus it was that Life lodged itself in the home of death, Light found its way into the far cavern of obscurity and inconscience, and Delight bloomed in the core of misery. Hope was lit, a flame rising from the nether gloom towards the Dawn. But for the spirit of denial we would not have seen this close and intimate figure of the gracious Mother.
Justice moved my great maker
05.07 - Man and Superman, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Role of Evil True Charity
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part FiveMan and Superman
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The Role of Evil True Charity
05.07 - The Observer and the Observed, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In the old world, before Science was born, sufficient distinction or discrimination was not made between the observer and the observed. The observer mixed himself up or identified himself with what he observed and the result was not a scientific statement but a poetic description. Personal feelings, ideas, judgments entered into the presentation of facts and the whole mass passed as truth, the process often being given the high-sounding name of Intuition, Vision or Revelation but whose real name is fancy. And if there happened to be truth off act somewhere, it was almost by chance. Once we thought of the eclipse being due to the greed of a demon, and pestilence due to the Evil eye of a wicked goddess. The universe was born out of an egg, the cosmos consisted of concentric circles of worlds that were meant to reward the virtuous and punish the sinner in graded degrees. These are some of the very well-known instances of pathetic fallacy, that is to say, introducing the element of personal sentiment in our appreciation of events and objects. Even today Nazi race history and Soviet Genetics carry that unscientific prescientific tradition.
Science was born the day when the observer cut himself aloof from the observed. Not only so, not only he is to stand aside, outside the field of observation and be a bare recorder, but that he must let the observed record itself, that is, be its own observer. Modern Science means not so much the observer narrating the story of the observed but the observed telling its own story. The first step is well exemplified in the story of Galileo. When hot discussion was going on and people insisted on sayingas Aristotle decided and common sense declared that heavier bodies most naturally fall quicker from a height, it was this prince of experimenters who straightaway took two different weights, went up the tower of Pisa and let them drop and astounded the people by showing that both travel with equal speed and fall to the ground at the same time.
05.11 - The Soul of a Nation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There are periods in the life cycle of a nation, critical moments, when it is in deadly peril, when its very existence is threatened, attacked by enemy forces either from within or from without. Such was the case when, for example, Britain was invaded by the Spanish Armada or when France was being subjugated by England. Those were very anxious times, but in each instance the soul of the nation came forward and inspired the nation to react and go through the ordeal and survive. Jeanne d'Arc may be considered as the embodiment of France's national soul, as on a still earlier occasion that same soul embodied itself in St. Genevieve. But a nation may fall on much more Evil days, namely, when it loses contact with its very soul, goes astray, its life movement taking a wrong curve. A nation can deny its soul, even as an individual may and the result is disaster. Germany is a terrible example of such a tragedy in our own day.
India is offering a spectacle, of another tragedy. What is happening here is the attack of a disease that is convulsing the body politic: it seems to be a cancerous disease, the limbs seeking to grow independently at the expense of each other. The patient is passing through a very critical period and it is indeed a question of life and death. But we hopewe are : sure that the soul of this ancient nation will assert itself and I through whatever vicissitudes re-establish health and harmony: for that soul's mission is yet to be done.
05.13 - Darshana and Philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There is one concept in Whitehead which seems rather strange to us; it is surely a product of the brain-mind. God, according to him, is not the creator: he is only the Redeemer, he is a shaper but not the source and origin of things. That is because he thinks that if God is made the creator of the world, he would be held responsible for the Evil there. This difficulty comes when one thinks of God too much in the popular anthropomorphic way, like someone seated above the world and passing judgment upon a world which is not his doing. God is perhaps a lover of the world, but not its Mastera certain Christian outlook says. According to Sri Aurobindo, God is a triple reality in his transcendental, cosmic and individual aspect. In creating the world, God creates, that is to say, manifests himself. And Evil is an evolute in the process of God's self-creation through self-limitation: it proceeds to self-annihilation and even self-transmutation in a farther process of God's self-unfoldment in world and Nature.
To return to our main theme, we should point out, however, that in Europe too at one time (during the whole Middle Age, the Age of Scholasticism) philosophy was considered only as a handmaid of Religion, it had to echo and amplify and reason out the dogmas (which were sometimes real spiritual experiences or revelations); but the New Illumination came and philosophy declared her autonomy, only that autonomy did not last long. For today in Europe, Philosophy has become the handmaid of Science. It was natural, since Reason is not a self-sufficient faculty, it is mediatory and must be ancillary either to something above it 'or something below iteither to Revelation or to sense-perception.
05.18 - Man to be Surpassed, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The limitation of such a human ideal is for us evident. We demand a total surpassing of man, although that does not mean a rejection of man. Unless human life is built upon foundations quite other than what they are now, we say there can be no permanent or radical remedy to the ills it suffers from. Hence we are for utter transcendence; for, the highest height it is possible for the consciousness to reach and the being to dwell in, even the experience of Brahman or un-mitigated Absolute of the Mayavadin or the Zero, Shunyam of the Buddhist not excluded. Since it is there that the true foundations of creation lie hidden and it is from there that a new world has to be recreated, a new humanity reshaped. The very stuff of human nature has to be changed, not only what is considered as bad in it but what is valued as good also. For beyond good and Evil is Nature Divine. Man has to find out this divine nature and dissolve his human nature into that, remould it, reshape it in that pattern. So long as human consciousness remains too human, it will be always branded with the bar sinister of all earthly things. Man has to grow into the immortal seated within mortality, into the light that shines inviolate on the other side of the darkness we live in. That immortality, that light one has to bring down here on earth and in ourselves, and out of it build a new earth and a new human self and life.
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05.29 - Vengeance is Mine, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
One who seeks to live in God's consciousness cannot take the law into his own hands; he must leave it all to God. When he takes up the self-appointed task of remedying the situation, "resisting Evil" as Christ termed it, he invites resistance from the other side which takes up its own counter-measures. The principle of revancheor vendetta, practised by nations and families, has not been a success, as history has amply proved. It is a seesaw movement, a vicious circle without issue. Not only so, the movement gathers momentum and increases in violence and confusion the farther it proceeds on its career. That is why Christ uttered his warning: and Buddha too declared that enmity cannot be appeased by enmity, it can be appeased only by the want of enmity. The truth is true not only in respect of two enemy forces of the same quality and on the same plane, but also with regard to the antagonism between higher and lower forces, between Good and Evil.
Do we then propose taking it all lying down, it may be asked? Is martyrdom then our ideal? Not so, for we do not believe that Evil forces can be appeased or conquered or transformed by yielding to them, letting them free to have their own way. Otherwise Krishna would not have enjoined and inspired (almost incited) Arjuna to enter on a bloody battle. Still forces, whether good or bad, are conquered or quelled or transformed truly and permanently by forces that belong not to the same level of being or consciousness, but to a higher one. Instead of working in a parallelogram of forces, we must take recourse, as it were, to a pyramid of forces. We know of the ideal of soul-force standing against and seeking to persuade or peacefully subdue brute force. It is not an impossibility; only we must be able really to get to the true soul and not a semblance or substitute of it. The true soul is .man's spiritual or divine being the consciousness in which man is one in substance and nature with God. It is not a mere thought formation, a mental and moral ideal. The only force that can succeed against a lower or undivine force is God's own force and the success can be complete and absolute by the calling in or intervention of God's force in its highest status. Anything less than that will be no more than a temporary lull or adjustment.
The world is not changed in spite of many efforts, because man is always taking to human means, he is not allowing God to do God's work, but putting his own individual initiative in God's place, taking perhaps God's name on the lips with a secret, unconscious feeling that unless he himself does something nothing will be donekarthamiti manyate. Human means may achieve at its best a compromise, but no permanent solution: it is often the beginning of a worse situation, a greater disharmony and conflictpeace, it has been said, is only a preparation for war. That vicious circle can be and has to be cut by the razor-blade consciousness of the aspirant to life divine who by the clear and tranquil energy of his tapascan call down a divine interference in mortal affairs.
05.30 - Theres a Divinity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
That is what man can do at his best, and even at his worst, rough-hew. Ignorant as he is, crude as his instruments are, he can do no better (and happily, no worse either). The ideals he has do not go very far, not much beyond his nosethey are limited by his senses, by his notions, by his immediate reactions to the circumstances of the moment. Even when the ends are commendable, the purposes decent, even when he is happily inspired, the materials and means at his disposal are crude and he uses them in a rough and ready manner. What he can achieve in this direction is not even a near but a very far approximate. And when he is otherwise inspired, when suggestions and impulsions come to him from the Hostiles, well, he hews his way, as Hitler didand some others are doing nowto wrong ends; even there he does not succeed wholly, realises his design very partially, grosso modo. The stone club in the hand of the palaeolithic man and the atom bomb in the hand of the modern are equally rough instruments, and the ends which they serve, whether for good or for Evil, are also gross, neither far-visioned nor deep inspired, but superficial, strait and narrow, blindly immediate. In either case, however, the Divine remains unaffected, firmly seated behind and in and through both, in and through their ignorant and perverse wills, it is His Will that works itself out and finds fulfilment in the end. Whether one is for or against the Divine, whether one is a God or an Asura, each in his own way contri butes to the progressive realisation of the Cosmic Purpose. From a certain point of view even it may seem as though nothing helps or hinders, all are like a straw in a rushing current.
In our human reckoning, we seem to help the evolutionary course sometimes and sometimes hamper it with our efforts in so far as they are well directed or ill directed. In the practice of spiritual life too, one may be tempted to find a measurable proportion between the personal endeavour and the attainment. However that may be, at the end of all human efforts, the finishing touch always comes from the Divine Grace. Whether we succeed or fail, whatever be the human judgment of the situation, the Grace is sure to intervene in the final stage: to success it will bring more success giving it the peak of fulfilment, and failure too it will transmute into a glorious triumph.
06.01 - The Word of Fate, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Whether it seem good or Evil to men's eyes,
Only for good the secret Will can work.
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If wings of Evil brood above that house,
Then also speak, that we may turn aside
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What Evil thing stood smiling by the way
And wore the beauty of the Shalwa boy?
06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
When Evil twinned with good on earthly soil.
Then first appeared the malady of mind,
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Old forms of Evil cling to the world's soul:
War making nought the sweet smiling calm of life,
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Against the Evil that rises from the gulfs,
Against the world's Ignorance and its obstinate strength,
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Life's Evil smites, he is stricken with the world's pain:
A million wounds gape in his secret heart.
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A whisper lures to Evil the human heart,
It seals up wisdom's eyes, the soul's regard,
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Yet till the Evil is slain in its own home
And Light invades the world's inconscient base
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He fronts Evil and good with calm and equal eyes.
He too must grapple with the riddling Sphinx
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The heart of Evil must be bared to his eyes,
He must learn its cosmic dark necessity,
07.01 - The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And knew not of the Evil drawing near.
Lingering some days upon the forest verge
07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This Evil Nature housed in human hearts,
A foreign inhabitant, a dangerous guest:
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A momentary Evil's almightiness
Has straddled the straight path of Nature's acts.
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The Evil cast from our hearts once more we face;
Our dead selves come to slay our living soul.
07.03 - The Entry into the Inner Countries, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In Evil we light the deathless flame of good
And hold the torch of knowledge on ignorant roads;
07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
All that is left me is my Evil thoughts,
My sordid quarrel against God and man,
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I was made for Evil, Evil is my lot;
Evil I must be and by Evil live;
Nought other can I do but be myself;
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And the crookedness and Evil in man's heart
Is stronger than Reason, profounder than the Pit,
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The cosmic Evil is too deep to unroot,
The cosmic suffering is too vast to heal.
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Where Good and Evil are close bedfellows
And Light is by Darkness dogged at every step,
07.05 - The Finding of the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
All moods unlovely, Evil and untrue
Forsake their stations in fierce disarray
07.10 - Diseases and Accidents, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Symbolic Ignorance The Problem of Evil
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part SevenDiseases and Accidents
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The Symbolic Ignorance The Problem of Evil
07.11 - The Problem of Evil, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
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Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part SevenThe Problem of Evil
The Problem of Evil
God has created the world, the material world as it is? Yes and No, more No than Yes. For he has not created it directly. There have been many creators, rather formateurs, form-makers, in between the world and God, who joined in the work of creation. Who are they? They have been given various names. Creation generally follows a principle of gradation. It is done step by step, world rising out of world successively. Each world is a particular state of being, a particular mode of consciousness. Each state is inhabited by entities, individualities, personalities and each one has created a world around him or assisted in the creation of certain types or species upon earth. The last of these creators or fashioners are those of the vital. At the top are those of what Sri Aurobindo calls the Overmind. It was these that created, that is to say, gave the first forms to earthly beings and things. They sent out their emanations and these again theirs in their turn and so on. Thus it was not the Divine Will which acted directly upon Matter and gave the world the form it could or should have had. There are layers and planes, graded intermediaries through which the Will has had to act. I spoke of the over-mental and the vital plane. There is also the mental plane between them. There are mental beings who are also creators, giving form to some beings that have taken body upon earth.
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You can of course ask how these intermediaries themselves came into being, not out of the Divine? Intermediaries come out of other still higher and higher intermediaries till the chain reaches the Supreme. Originally, that is to say, if you trace back to the original source, there is there, of course, only the Divine. Then how has the deformation come in? I explained to you once that if you do not remain one with the Divine, under his direct influence, do not follow the movement of creation or expansion exactly as the Divine wills, this rupture of contact is sufficient to bring about the greatest Evil of all, division. Even the most luminous, the most powerful beings may decide to follow their own movement instead of obeying the divine movement. They may be in themselves marvellous beings, and human beings, if they saw them, would take them for the Divine himself, yet they can, since they follow their own will and work not in harmony with the universe, be the source of the greatest disorders. There is nothing that is not the Divine, only there comes about a disorder, that is to say, each thing is not in its proper place. The problem is, how this is to be remedied.
As to the question why this deviation, this Evil at all, I can say, first of all, what you call Evil may be only what is not convenient to you, but from the standpoint of universal arrangement that may be the most convenient. Secondly, the thing might have been just an accident, so to say, in the beginning. And what we are concerned with is not so much its why or even how but with the remedy to be found for the Evil that is there. Viewing philosophically, however, we may note that the universe in which we live is evidently one movement out of many (actual and possible), that it follows its own law which is not the same elsewhere, that if the principle on which this universe has been created is that of free will, then you cannot prevent the disorderly movement from taking place until a knowledge comes and illumines the choice. If one is free to choose, one may choose the wrong thing, not necessarily the right thing, for if it were decided beforeh and that the choice must be always good and in the right direction, then the choice would no longer be free.
But in reality these questions cannot be adequately answered in that way. It is a problem to which mental answersof which the mental formulations evenonly serve to diminish the dimensions of the problem; the question itself reduces the problem to a more or less elementary formula corresponding only vaguely and superficially and incompletely to the reality of things.
07.12 - This Ugliness in the World, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Problem of Evil Divine Justice
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Part SevenThis Ugliness in the World
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Everything in the world has at its source a supreme truth, how is it then that the world has become ugly in its expression? Why are things at all ugly? Because there are other things that intervene between the Source and the manifestation. For example, if I asked you: Do you know your true being? what would you say? You do not know; it would be wonderful if you did. It is the same with all beings and things. And yet you are already a sufficiently developed being, a thinking being, and have gone through many stages of refinement; you are not quite the lizard crawling on the wall! Still you cannot tell what is the truth of your being. That is the secret of the deformation in the world. It is because there is all the unconsciousness the Inconscient that has been created by the fact of separation from one's origin. It is this inconscience which prevents the Source from manifesting in its own nature, although it is there always. It is there, therefore that all things exist, the world exists; but in its expression it is deformed, because it has to manifest itself through inconscience, through ignorance and obscurity. But how did it come about? The will to create was originally a will that projected itself towards individual formation; what it arrived at, however, was not the true individual (or individualisation) but a breaking up of the solid unity into infinitesimal fragments. The original indivisible unity became a sum of infinitely divided unities. These unities or units were individualisations of things separate and feeling and acting as such. It is precisely the feeling of separation from others that gives you the impression that you are an individual. Otherwise you would feel that you were only a fluid mass. That is to say, you are no longer conscious simply of your rigid outer form and all that cuts you off from others and makes of you a separate individual, you are conscious of the vital forces that move about everywhere, of the inconscient that is the foundation of all, you have the impression that you are a moving mass with all kinds of contradictory movements in it, which cannot be separated from each other. You would not have the impression that you are an individual being, but that you are something like one note or vibration in a whole complex. The original will was to form individual beings capable of becoming conscious again of their divine origin. This process of individualisation created the necessity that to be an individual one must feel oneself separate: that is why one is cut off from the original consciousness, at least apparently, and is fallen into inconscience. For the Life of life is the Origin alone and if it is separated from that source, consciousness naturally turns into unconsciousness and you lose trace of the truth of your being. That is the process of the creation or formation of the world by which the pure origin does not manifest directly in its essence and purity, but through deformation, that is to say, unconsciousness and ignorance. That is how ugliness came in, death and disease, wickedness and misery and all. It is the movement, I say, brought in by the necessity of individual formation that has produced these things, each and every one of them, that is the one source of the multiple Evil in all its modes and vibrations. I do not say this was indispensable that problem I may take up later on. But for the moment I direct you to the source in order to show the remedy. And there is no point in questioning why it is so. As I said, the only way to settle the world problem is to be conscious again, to recover the lost consciousness. Of course, if you say like some religions that good is good and Evil is Evil and they will always remain so, then there is no longer any problem. An eternal struggle binds the two together and whichever wins for the moment will make the world a little better at one moment and a little worse at another. But the two exist, continue to exist eternally and indissolubly intertwined. But you have seen it is not like that; one can come out of the tangle into the perfect unity of the truth, for it is that which is the only and original source.
It is this perfect truth, let me repeat, that has scattered itself abroad, into these innumerable little atoms, into these insignificant brain cells which, in spite of all their ignorance, are still moved by a secret stir of consciousness: these little specks of darkness reach out towards light which they can find, for it is within them. They will arrive at what they seek. It may take time more or less, but they will reach in the end. That is then the remedy: it lies in the very heart of Evil itself.
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The Problem of Evil Divine Justice
07.13 - Divine Justice, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
To judge by appearances, by apparent success is an act of complete ignorance. Even in the case of a person hardened to the core, who has apparently the utmost success, there is a counterpart: exactly this hardening, this Evil that is put up thicker and thicker between the outer consciousness and the inner truth becomes also more and more unbearable. The outer success has to be paid for very dearly. One must be very great, very pure, one must have a very high, very unselfish spiritual consciousness to be able to succeed and yet not be affected. There is nothing so difficult to bear than success. That is the true test in life. When you are not successful, you turn very naturally to yourself, go within you, seek there comfort for the outer failure. And they who have the Flame within them and the Divine helping them truly, that is to say, if they are mature enough to get the help, if they are ready to follow the path, must expect blows coming upon them one after another, because that helps. Indeed that is the most powerful, most direct and most effective help. But if you have 'Success, take care! Ask yourself, at what price you have had it? What is the thing you have paid for the success? Of course, there are people of a different kind. They who have gone beyond, who are conscious of their soul, who are entirely surrender they can succeed and success does not touch them. But one has to rise very high to be able to shoulder the burden of success. It is perhaps the last and final test that the Divine puts to anyone. He says: Now that you are noble and high and unselfish, you belong to Me alone. I shall make you triumph. We shall see if you can bear the blow!
To the Asuras too the Divine gives what they ask for. Generally it is in that way that their end comes all the sooner. An Asura is a conscious being. He knows that he has an end. He knows that the attitude he has taken in this universe will necessarily destroy him after a time. Of course the Asura's time is much longer than human time. Even then he knows that there will come an end for him, for he has cut himself from Eternity. What he seeks is to carry out his desires to the utmost extent possible till the day of his doom, when the final defeat comes. And very possibly if he is allowed his way the defeat will be hastened. That is why exactly when great things are about to happen, at that moment the adverse forces become the most active, most violently active and apparently the most successful. They are given a free field as it were to rush to their doom.
07.15 - Divine Disgust, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Naturally, the poison will not have the same effect upon the Divine as upon man. For there is an essential difference between a state of ignorance and a state of knowledge. Something untoward happens to you in your normal state of ignorance, it has a certain character and brings mentally certain results: but the same thing happening to you in a state of knowledge will not carry the same effect. For example, take a very material thing, a blow, a right royal physical blow, well, if you are in a state of inconscience and ignorance, as you usually are, you will have to suffer the full consequence which in its turn depends wholly upon the force of the blow, who or what gave the blow and the helplessness of the object. But the the same blow delivered in the same way by the same agent but upon a being who is conscious and full of knowledge, will produce instantly a reaction reducing the natural consequences to a minimum, even annulling the consequences altogether; for the reaction here is a reaction of knowledge, of light and not that of ignorance, of obscurity. On the moral level the action can be clearly noticed. For example, you can receive an emotional shock, not in egoistic blindness, that is to say, identifying yourself with it or drowned in it; you can hold it away from you, look at it in an objective manner, see what it is, note the nature of its vibration, etc., etc., and then you put the light of your knowledge, the ultra-violet ray, as it were, of truth upon it. As a result, there comes a new disposition, the shock loses its effectivity. Even so, the physical result of a physical blow can be obviated. If that were not possible what would be the utility of the Divine taking upon himself the Evil thing. Evil would continue in the same way and the world continue suffering in the same way. Precisely because the obscure vibrations are transformed into vibrations of light in the divine consciousness that the Divine takes upon and within himself all the ills of the world.
In the case of the physical occurrence, the knowledge I speak of is the inner knowledge of the body cells, their existence, composition, distribution and the knowledge of the consequences of the blow, its natural and expected effects. Also at the same time there should be the knowledge of what the cells should be like, how they ought to react to the blow. And the procedure adopted too is quite different from that of physical Nature which takes hours, days, months to repair a damage; the inner knowledge can do the thing immediately. This inner knowledge can be brought down from its highest source. Instead of the mere psychological knowledge, one can call down the supramental knowledge and focus it upon the part of the body endangered. If the elements of the body, the cells come under the influence of the force of truth and receive it, then there can be an immediate new ordering of the elements according to the higher law. That will bring about not only the cure from the blow received, the mending of the accident, but initiate a big progress in the general consciousness. This power to comm and the consciousness has no limit. If you have committed an error, even a grave error, and if you can yet call upon the consciousness of truth, this power of the supramental and allow it to work, it will give you an occasion to make a formidable progress. In other words, never be discouraged if you have blundered, blundered even more than once. Only you must keep your will firm, and take sometimes the unshakable resolution not to repeat. Rest assured you will in the end triumph over your difficulty.
07.19 - Bad Thought-Formation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A bad thought is a bad act. You may not know it, but an Evil thought is truly an Evil act. If you think ill of a man and wish him ill, you are responsible for the mishaps that may befall him to the same degree as when you do him an ill turn. Unfortunately, an Evil thought is not a recognised crime and nobody intervenes when you think ill. Not only so, there are a good many people who consider it a play to excite wicked thoughts in others. They do so (innocently, they think) sometimes through sheer stupidity, more often through vanity, through an air of self-importance for having said something interesting.
When you have a bad thought, you make an Evil formation and you carry it about you or throw it out. It happens some-times that when you pass by a man, you suddenly feel unwell, you may not connect the two and you may know nothing of the matter, but in fact the man may have been entertaining an Evil thought and it has pounced upon you.
When you find out the cause, then what you have to do is to chase it away, as if it were a fly. The flies are sometimes very troublesome, the more you drive them away the more they come and take it as an amusing game. But if you are serious and have the will, you succeed in driving them out. In the same manner when an Evil formation seeks to possess or touch you, push it away immediately, push it away again and again till it disappears.
Why should there be a bad will at all, you ask?
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There are many things in the world you do not approve of. Some people who, as they put it, wish to have the knowledge, want to find out why it is so. It is a line of knowledge. But I say it is much more important to find out how to make things otherwise than they are at present. That is exactly the problem Buddha set before himself. He sat under a tree and continued till he found the solution. The solution, however, is not very satisfactory: You say, the world is bad, let us then do away with the world; but to whose profit, as Sri Aurobindo asks very pertinently? The world will no longer be bad, since it will exist no more. The world will have to be rolled back into its origin, the original pure existence or non-existence. Then man will be, in Sri Aurobindo's words, the all-powerful master of something that does not exist, an emperor without an empire, a king without a kingdom. It is a solution. But there are others, which are better. We consider ours to be the best. There are some who say, like the Buddha, Evil comes from ignorance, remove the ignorance and Evil will disappear. Others say that Evil comes from division, from separation; if the universe were not separated from its origin, there would be no Evil. Others again declare that it is an Evil will that is the cause of all, of separation and ignorance. Then the question is, where does this bad will come from? If it were at the origin of things, it must have been in the origin itself. And then some question the bad will itself,there is no such thing, essentially, fundamentally, it is pure illusion.
Do animals have a bad will?
I do not think so. Things spoken of in relation to animals as monstrous are not really due to a bad will. Let us take for example the insect world. Of all animals it is this species which seems to have most the attribute of wickedness, something akin to a bad will. It may, however, be simply that we are applying our own mode of consciousness to theirs, we impute bad will to an action which is not really of the kind. For example, there are insects whose larva can live only upon a living being; they have to feed upon a living creature, they do not get nourishment from dead flesh. So the parent insect before laying the eggs that are to become larvae first prepares the ground: it finds another insect or a small animal, stings into a nerve centre and paralyses it; then safely lays eggs in that paralysed body, which not being dead feeds the larvae when they come out of the eggs. All this looks very much Machiavellian. But nothing is reasoned out there, it is pure instinct. Would you call it bad will? It is simply the will to propagate. You can say perhaps that these insects are moved by a spirit of the species which is conscious and has a conscious will and that this will is an Evil will. These beings that create or form the various species of the insect worldmany working in a much more monstrous way than the example I have givenmust then truly be frightful, inspired by a perverse and diabolic imagination. Quite possible. For it is said that the origin of the insect world is in the vital; the builders of that world belong to the vital and not to the material plane of consciousness; in other words, they not only symbolise, but they represent and live the Evil will. They are fully conscious of their Evil will and they exercise that will deliberately and with a set purpose. Man's bad will is often only a reflection, an imitation of the bad will of vital beings which is a will clearly hostile to created world and whose express intention it is to make things as painful, as difficult, as ugly, as monstrous as possible. It is these beings, some say, that have created the insects. Even then, the insects cannot be described as representing the Evil will, since they do not do mischief purposely, they are moved by an unconscious will in them. The bad will is really that will which does Evil for the sake of doing Evil, which seeks to destroy for the sake of destroying, that takes pleasure in doing wrong. In the animal I do not think there is this kind of Evil will, especially in the higher species. What is there is the instinct of self-preservation, obscure and violent reactions, but not the kind of Evil that human will shows in the perverse human mental. I believe it is the human mind under the direct influence of vital beings that begins to work in the perverse way. Titans, Asuras are the beings of ill-will, they belong totally to the vital world and when they manifest themselves in this world of ours, they mean mischief, they do Evil for the sake of doing Evil, they destroy for the sake of destroying, they have the delight of negation.
What is instinct exactly? It is Nature's consciousness. Nature is conscious of her action; it is not an individual consciousness. It is a global or collective consciousness. There is also a consciousness of the species. Each species has its consciousness which is called sometimes the spirit of the species, that is to say, a conscious being presiding over a particular species. Nature is conscious in the sense that she knows what she wants, she knows her whither and her how, her end and the way to go towards it. To man much of Nature seems incoherent, because his consciousness is narrow and he has not an overall vision. When you look at the small details, the little fragments, you do not understand; you do not find any link, sequence, sense. But Nature has a conscious will, she is a conscious being. Perhaps the word being is too human. When we speak of Nature's being, we naturally think of the human being, only a little bigger, or perhaps much bigger but working more or less in the same way. But it is not so. Instead of the word being, I would prefer the word entity. The conscious entity that is Nature has a conscious will and it does things much more deliberately and purposively than map, and it has formidable forces at its disposal. Man speaks of blind and violent Nature. But it is man who is blind and violent, not nature. You say an earthquake is a terrible affair. Thousands of houses crash into dust, millions of people are killed, whole cities devastated, entire portions of earth are swallowed up etc., etc. Yes, from the human point of view Nature seems monstrous. But what has she done after all? When you get a knock on your body somewhere there appears a blue patch. Are you worried about it? Your earthquake is nothing more than a reshuffling of a cell in your body. You destroy thousands of cells every moment of your life. You are monstrous! That is the relative proportion. And consider, we are speaking of earth alone and earthly events. But what is this earth itself in the bosom of the universe? A point, a zero. You are walking on the ground and are not looking down. You place one step forward and then another and you trample thousands of innocent ants under your feet. If you were an ant you would have cried out, what a cruel and stupid force! Imagine other forces stalking about much bigger than yourself and under their casual steps millions of creatures like you are crushed, continents are pressed down and mountains kicked up. They do not even notice such catastrophic happenings! The only difference between man and ant is that man knows what happens to him and the ant does not. But even there are you sure?
07.31 - Images of Gods and Goddesses, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I have seen some of these forms in the vital world and also in the mental world; they are truly creations of man. There is a Power from beyond that manifests, but in this triple world of Ignorance man creates God Himself in his own image and beings that appear there are more or less the outcome of the creative human thought. So at times we do have things that are truly frightful. I have seen formations that are so obscure, so un-understandable, so inexpressive! There are some divine beings that are treated worse than the others. Take, for example, this poor Mahakali. What has man made of her, wildly terrible, a nightmare beyond imagination! Such creations however live in a very inferior world, in the lowest vital world; and if there is anything there of the original being, it is such a far off reflection that it is hardly recognisable. And yet it is that which is pulled by the human consciousness. When, for example, an image is made and installed and the priest calls down into it a form, an emanation of a god, through an inner invocation there is usually a whole ceremony in this connectionif the priest is someone having the power of evocation, then the thing succeeds (what Ramakrishna did in the Kali temple). But generally priests are people with the commonest ideas and the most traditional training and education; when they think of the gods they give them attributes and appearances which are popular, which belong normally to entities of the vital world, at best to mental formations but which do not represent in any way the truth of the beings behind. All the idols in temples or the household gods worshipped by the many are inhabited by beings who know only how to lead you to unhappiness and disaster. They are so far away from the divinity that one means to worship. There are certain family Kalis that are real monsters. I have even advised some to throw such an image into the Ganges to get rid of the Evil influence emanating from it. But of course it is always the fault of man and not of the divinity. For man wishes so much to make his gods in his own image.
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08.03 - Death in the Forest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And guard me with thy hands from Evil fate:
Perhaps because thou touchest, death may pass."
08.17 - Psychological Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It happens at times, if not quite often, that starting with a faith which you describe unshakable, the faith that the Divine alone does everything and can do everything, that whatever occurs in me or in others, everywhere, is the work of the Divine and of none other than the Divine and you continue to the logical end, apparently at least, till after a time you begin to accuse the Divine of the most frightful misdeeds, make him a veritable demon being the author or abettor of all the Evils in the world.
Or you say, you have faith in the Divine, but as to this world, you know what it is and you put no trust in it. You say: "In the first instance, I suffer much, I am unlucky, much more unlucky than any other person"one is always more miserable than one's neighbour, be sure"life has been unkind to me. Now, if the Divine is divine, all kindness, all generosity, all love and harmony, how is it that I am so unfortunate? The Divine must then be powerless. Otherwise, how can he leave me in unhappiness, if he is so kind?" That is the second stumbling-block. The third one is this. There are people who are too modest, full of an excessive and misguided humility, who say: "Surely the Divine has rejected me, I am good for nothing, He can do nothing with me, it is better for me to give it all up." Such difficulties will always crop up, if along with faith you do not have complete trust in the Divine.
08.23 - Sadhana Must be Done in the Body, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Ignorance is the source. Ignorance is the cause of all Evil. I think, however, that one becomes a coward when one is tamasic i.e. one fears to make an effort.
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08.27 - Value of Religious Exercises, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
From this standpoint it is good that for a time humanity should come out of the religious atmosphere, full of fear and blind superstitious submission by which the adverse forces have profited so monstrously. The age of negation, of atheism and positivism is from this view quite indispensable for man's liberation from sheer ignorance. It is only when you have come out of this, this abject submission to the Evil forces of the Vital that you can rise to truly spiritual heights and then become there collaborators and right instruments of the forces of the Truth and Consciousness and Power. The superstitions of the lower levels you must leave far behind to rise high.
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08.30 - Dealing with a Wrong Movement, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In the beginning you need a great perseverance in seeking out the thing. For normally when you are in search of these things, the mind comes in and deploys a thousand and one reasons and favourable explanations so that you may not pursue the enquiry. It tells you: "No, it is not your fault at all; it is the circumstances, it is the people, it is things coming from outside, it is this and it is that," all excellent excuses, and if you are not firm in your resolution, you let things go on and you remain where you were; the thing will come back to trouble you again and you have to begin all over once more. But if you have done the operation, everything is done with. Do not trust the mind and its explanations. It might inspire you to say: "Yes, yes, on other occasions it was like that, I admit, I was indeed in the wrong; but this time, I am sure, it is not my fault etc., etc." If you do not deal firmly with your adversary, it will be always there, hiding in the subconscient, lodged there comfortably, coming up any day you are off your guard. I have seen people cherishing the Evil in this way for more than thirty-five years. And if one does not go about it in the right way, there is no reason why the things should not continue life after life. The only safe way then is to do the operation, cost what it may. For it gives you the final relief. I say, when you throw the beam of light upon the spot, it burns, it seres. But you must bear it. You must have the sincerity that does not allow you to draw back, to cover up the place and retire. You must instead throw it wide open, receive the blow straight upon you.
I have told you to seek out the place where the hidden thing lies. The black thing has many a cosy corner in your being. There are people who have it in the head, some in the heart, others down below; but wherever it is when you track it down it has the same look, the little black creature rolled up, not bigger than a pea but hard and firmly set, a microbe-size snake coiled up. If it is something in the head it becomes somewhat difficult to discover. For the head is full of wrong ideas and it is not easy to put it into order for pursuing the right track. A comparatively easier place to discover and to cure is in the heart, though here it gives the greatest pain. But here it is found more easily and cured also most radically. Down below in the vital things are very confused and obscure. All things are mixed up in a veritable chaos. The movements are also more violent, more uncontrollable and ignorant. Here are all the movements of anger, pride, ambition, passion, all attachments and sentimentalities, the hunger that you call love. And there are a hundred others. There are as many kinds in the head too. There it is the perversions of thought, all the betrayals, the betrayals of your soul. It is inconceivable how one betrays one's soul, in how many ways, how persistently, the decisions, the points of view, the favourable explanations which your brain supplies to buttress you against your perception that you have done something wrong. You have to disentangle all this, put each thing in its place, throw upon each the light of your true consciousness and judgeburn, purify or transform.
08.33 - Opening to the Divine, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
One must have around oneself an atmosphere so condensed, condensed in a spirit of total surrender, that nothing can enter without being automatically filtered. There are wicked thoughts, Evil will about you, harmful formations sent out by bad people. The air pullulates with these: dark noisome bacilli. It is so troublesome to be always on the look-out, at every step to be on one's guard, to move slowly with care and caution and precautions; even then one is not sure. But if you cover yourself with the cloak of light, the light of a happy, sincere surrender, and aspiration, that is a wonderful filter, that gives you automatic protection. The undesirable forces not only cannot enter, they are thrown back upon their originator, the attackers themselves become their own victims.
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09.09 - The Origin, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There is only one Origin. This Origin is the Truth at its perfection, for it is the only thing that truly exists. It has exteriorised itself, projected itself, scattered itself, and by so doing has produced what we see, a mass of very fine, very brilliant brains in search of that which they have not yet found and which they find at last; for what they are in search of is within them. The remedy is within the heart of the Evil.
There is what we call the Truth, the foundation of all things, because if that was not there nothing would be. There is nothing which does not carry within it an eternal Truth, otherwise it would not be. The universe would not exist for one thousandth part of a second if it did not contain in itself a Truth.
10.01 - A Dream, #Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A poor man was sitting in a dark hut thinking of his miseries and of the injustice and wrongs that could be found in this world of Gods making. Out of abhimna he began to mutter to himself, As men do not want to cast a slur on Gods name, they put the blame on Karma. If my misfortunes are really due to the sins committed in my previous birth and if I was so great a sinner, then currents of Evil thoughts should still be passing through my mind. Can the mind of such a wicked person get cleansed so soon? And what about that Tinkari Sheel who has such colossal wealth and commands so many people! If there is anything like the fruits of Karma, then surely he must have been a famous saint and sadhu in his previous life; but I see no trace of that at all in his present birth. I dont think a bigger rogue existsone so cruel and crooked. All these tales about Karma are just clever inventions of God to console mans mind. Shyamsundar1 is very tricky; luckily he does not reveal himself to me, otherwise I would teach him such a lesson that he would stop playing these tricks.
As soon as he finished muttering, the man saw that his dark room was flooded with a dazzling light. After a while the luminous waves faded and he found in front of him a charming boy of a dusky complexion standing with a lamp in his hand, and smiling sweetly without saying a word. Noticing the musical anklets round his feet and the peacock plume, the man understood that Shyamsundar had revealed himself. At first he was at a loss what to do; for a moment he thought of bowing at his feet, but looking at the boys smiling face no longer felt like making his obeisance. At last he burst out with the words, Hullo, Keshta,2 what makes you come here? The boy replied with a smile, Well, didnt you call me? Just now you had the desire to whip me! That is why I am surrendering myself to you. Come along, whip me. The man was now even more confounded than before, but not with any repentance for the desire to whip the Divine: the idea of punishing instead of patting such a sweet youngster did not appeal to him. The boy spoke again, You see, Harimohon, those who, instead of fearing me, treat me as a friend, scold me out of affection and want to play with me, I love very much. I have created this world for my play only; I am always on the lookout for a suitable playmate. But, brother, I find no one. All are angry with me, make demands on me, want boons from me; they want honour, liberation, devotionnobody wants me. I give whatever they ask for. What am I to do? I have to please them; otherwise they will tear me to pieces. You too, I find, want something from me. You are vexed and want to whip some one. In order to satisfy that desire you have called me. Here I am, ready to be whipped. ye yath m prapadyante3, I accept whatever people offer me. But before you beat me, if you wish to know my ways, I shall explain them to you. Are you willing? Harimohon replied, Are you capable of that? I see that you can talk a good deal, but how am I to believe that a mere child like you can teach me something? The boy smiled again and said, Come, see whether I can or not.
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At once Harimohon could see into the mans mind. He saw, as in an opulent city ravaged by a victorious enemy, innumerable terrible-looking demons and ogres who had entered into that brilliant intelligence, disturbing its peace and composure, plundering its happiness. The old man had quarrelled with his young son and turned him out; the sorrow of losing his beloved child had cowed down his spirit, but anger, pride and vanity had shut the door of his heart and were guarding it. Forgiveness had no entry there. Hearing calumnies against his own daughter he had driven her away and was lamenting over the cherished one he had lost. He knew that she was chaste but the fear of social censure and a feeling of shame coupled with his own arrogance and selfishness had put a curb on his affection. Frightened by the memory of a thousand sins the old man was trembling, but he did not have the courage or the strength to mend his Evil ways. Now and then thoughts of death and of the other world came to him and filled him with terror. Harimohon saw also that from behind these morbid thoughts the hideous messenger of death was constantly peeping out and knocking at the door. Whenever this happened, the old mans heart sank and he frantically screamed with fear.
Horrified by this sight Harimohon looked at the boy and exclaimed, Why, Keshta! I used to think this man the happiest of all! The boy replied, Just there lies my power. Tell me now which of the two is mightierthis Tinkari Sheel or Sri Krishna, the master of Vaikuntha? Look, Harimohon, I too have the police, sentinels, government, law, justice, I too can play the game of being a king; do you like this game? No, my child, answered Harimohon, it is a very cruel game. Why, do you like it? The boy laughed and declared, I like all sorts of games; I like to whip as well as to be whipped. Then he continued. You see, Harimohon, people like you look at the outward appearance of things and have not yet cultivated the subtle power of looking inside. Therefore you grumble that you are miserable and Tinkari is happy. This man has no material want; still, compared to you, how much more this millionaire is suffering! Can you guess why? Happiness is a state of mind, misery also is a state of mind. Both are only mind-created. He Who possesses nothing, whose only possessions are difficulties, even he, if he wills, can be greatly happy. But just as you cannot find happiness after spending your days in dry piety, and as you are always dwelling upon your miseries so too this man who spends his days in sins which give him no real pleasure is now thinking only of his miseries. All this is the fleeting happiness of virtue and the fleeting misery of vice, or the fleeting misery of virtue and the fleeting happiness of vice. There is no joy in this conflict. The image of the abode of bliss is with me: he who comes to me, falls in love with me, wants me, lays his demands on me, torments mehe alone can succeed in getting my image of bliss. Harimohon went on eagerly listening to these words of Sri Krishna. The boy continued, And look here, Harimohon, dry piety has lost its charm for you, but in spite of that you cannot give it up, habit4 binds you to it; you cannot even conquer this petty vanity of being pious. This old man, on the other hand, gets no joy from his sins, yet he too cannot abandon them because he is habituated to them, and is suffering hells own agonies in this life. These are the bonds of virtue and vice; fixed and rigid notions, born of ignorance, are the ropes of these bonds. But the sufferings of that old man are indeed a happy sign. They will do him good and soon liberate him.
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But the next moment he saw to his dismay that the residents of the locality he was living in had neither mutual good-will nor any happiness; they considered the mechanical observance of social conventions the highest virtue. Instead of the ecstatic feeling that had been his in the beginning, he now had a feeling of suffering. It seemed to him as if he had been very thirsty but, lacking water, had been eating dust,only dust, infinite dust. He ran away from that place and went to another locality. There, in front of a grand mansion, a huge crowd had gathered; words of blessing were on every ones lips. Advancing he saw Tinkari Sheel seated on a verandah, distributing large amounts of money to the crowd; no one was going away empty-handed. Harimohon chuckled and thought, What is this dream? Tinkari Sheel is giving alms! Then he looked into Tinkaris mind. He saw that thousands of dissatisfactions and Evil impulses such as greed, jealousy, passion, selfishness were all astir there. For the sake of virtuous appearance and fame, out of vanity, Tinkari had kept them suppressed, kept them starving, instead of driving them away from within.
In the meantime someone took Harimohon on a swift visit to the other world. He saw the hells and heavens of the Hindus, those of the Christians, the Muslims and the Greeks, and also many other hells and heavens. Then he found himself sitting once more in his own hut, on the same old torn and dirty mattress with Shyamsundar in front of him. The boy remarked, It is quite late in the night; now if I dont return home I shall get a scolding, everybody will start beating me. Let me therefore be brief. The hells and the heavens you have visited are nothing but a dream-world, a creation of your mind. After death man goes to hell or heaven and somewhere works out the tendencies that existed in him during his last birth. In your previous birth you were only virtuous, love found no way into your heart; you loved neither God nor man. After leaving your body you had to work out your old trend of nature, and so lived in imagination among middle-class people in a world of dreams; and as you went on leading that life you ceased to like it any more. You became restless and came away from there only to live in a hell made of dust; finally you enjoyed the fruits of your virtues and, having exhausted them, took birth again. In that life, except for your formal alms-giving and your soulless superficial dealings, you never cared to relieve anyones wantstherefore you have so many wants in this life. And the reason why you are still going on with this soulless virtue is that you cannot exhaust the karma of virtues and vices in the world of dream, it has to be worked out in this world. On the other hand, Tinkari was charity itself in his past life and so, blessed by thousands of people, he has in this life become a millionaire and knows no poverty; but as he was not completely purified in his nature, his unsatisfied desires have to feed on vice. Do you follow now the system of Karma? There is no reward or punishment, but Evil creates Evil, and good creates good. This is Natures law. Vice is Evil, it produces misery; virtue is good, it leads to happiness. This procedure is meant for purification of nature, for the removal of Evil. You see, Harimohon, this earth is only a minute part of my world of infinite variety, but even then you take birth here in order to get rid of Evil by the help of Karma. When you are liberated from the hold of virtue and vice and enter the realm of Love, then only you are freed of this activity. In your next birth you too will get free. I shall send you my dear sister, Power, along with Knowledge, her companion; but on one condition,you should be my playmate, and must not ask for liberation. Are you ready to accept it? Harimohon replied, Well, Keshta, you have hypnotised me! I intensely feel like taking you on my lap and caressing you, as if I had no other desire in this life!
The boy laughed and asked, Did you follow what I said, Harimohon? Yes, I did, he replied, then thought for a while and said, O Keshta, again you are deceiving me. You never gave the reason why you created Evil! So saying, he caught hold of the boys hand. But the boy, setting himself free, rebuked Harimohon, Be off! Do you want to get out of me all my secrets in an hours time? Suddenly the boy blew out the lamp and said with a chuckle, Well, Harimohon, you have forgotten all about lashing me! Out of that fear I did not even sit on your lap, lest, angry with your outward miseries, you should teach me a lesson! I do not trust you any more. Harimohon stretched his arms forward, but the boy moved farther and said, No Harimohon, I reserve that bliss for your next birth. Good-bye. So saying, the boy disappeared into the dark night. Listening to the chime of Sri Krishnas musical anklets, Harimohon woke up gently. Then he began thinking, What sort of dream is this! I saw hell, I saw heaven, I called the Divine rude names, taking him to be a mere stripling, I even scolded him. How awful! But now I am feeling very peaceful. Then Harimohon began recollecting the charming image of the dusky-complexioned boy, and went on murmuring from time to time, How beautiful! How beautiful!
One of Sri Krishna's Name
1.002 - The Heifer, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
26. God does not shy away from making an example of a gnat, or something above it. As for those who believe, they know that it is the Truth from their Lord. But as for those who disbelieve, they say, “What did God intend by this example?” He leads astray many thereby, and He guides many thereby; but He misleads thereby only the Evildoers.
27. Those who violate God’s covenant after its confirmation, and sever what God has commanded to be joined, and commit Evil on earth. These are the losers.
28. How can you deny God, when you were dead and He gave you life, then He will put you to death, then He will bring you to life, then to Him you will be returned?
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95. But they will never wish for it, because of what their hands have forwarded. God is aware of the Evildoers.
96. You will find them, of all mankind, the most eager for life, even more than the polytheists. Every one of them wishes he could live a thousand years; but to be granted a long life will not nudge him from the punishment. God is Seeing of what they do.
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169. He commands you to do Evil and vice, and to say about God what you do not know.
170. And when it is said to them, “Follow what God has revealed,” they say, “We will follow what we found our ancestors following.” Even if their ancestors understood nothing, and were not guided?
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256. There shall be no compulsion in religion; the right way has become distinct from the wrong way. Whoever renounces Evil and believes in God has grasped the most trustworthy handle; which does not break. God is Hearing and Knowing.
257. God is the Lord of those who believe; He brings them out of darkness and into light. As for those who disbelieve, their lords are the Evil ones; they bring them out of light and into darkness—these are the inmates of the Fire, in which they will abide forever.
258. Have you not considered him who argued with Abraham about his Lord, because God had given him sovereignty? Abraham said, “My Lord is He who gives life and causes death.” He said, “I give life and cause death.” Abraham said, “God brings the sun from the East, so bring it from the West,” so the blasphemer was confounded. God does not guide the wrongdoing people.
1.003 - Family of Imran, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
30. On the Day when every soul finds all the good it has done presented. And as for the Evil it has done, it will wish there were a great distance between them. God cautions you of Himself. God is Kind towards the servants.
31. Say, “If you love God, then follow me, and God will love you, and will forgive you your sins.” God is Forgiving and Merciful.
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104. And let there be among you a community calling to virtue, and advocating righteousness, and deterring from Evil. These are the successful.
105. And do not be like those who separated and disputed after the clear proofs came to them; for them is a great punishment.
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114. They believe in God and the Last Day, and advocate righteousness and forbid Evil, and are quick to do good deeds. These are among the righteous.
115. Whatever good they do, they will not be denied it. God knows the righteous.
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140. If a wound afflicts you, a similar wound has afflicted the others. Such days We alternate between the people, that God may know those who believe, and take martyrs from among you. God does not love the Evildoers.
141. So that God may prove those who believe, and eliminate the disbelievers.
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151. We will throw terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, because they attribute to God partners for which He revealed no sanction. Their lodging is the Fire. Miserable is the lodging of the Evildoers.
152. God has fulfilled His promise to you, and you defeated them by His leave; until when you faltered, and disputed the command, and disobeyed after He had shown you what you like. Some of you want this world, and some of you want the next. Then He turned you away from them, to test you; but He pardoned you. God is Gracious towards the believers.
10.03 - Life in and Through Death, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
To live away from life and consequently away from death is one thing, comparatively easy; but to live in life and consequently in death is another thing, somewhat more difficult. To withdraw oneself from the field of death and retire in the immutability beyond or some form of it is what was attempted in the ancient days. But there has been side by side always a growing tendency in man to stay here in this vale of tears under the shadow of death, to live dangerously and face the Evil and conquer it here itself; for death is not a mere negation an annihilation of the reality, it is only a mask put over the reality or is its obverse. Tear off or remove the disguise, you will see the smiling radiant Godhead behind.
The gold is there, the purest gold, but it is crusted over with dross. The dross is to be eliminated and the noble metal freed. Indeed each element of the being wherever and whatever it is, each corpuscle, mental, vital or physical is ambivalentit is a polarised entity consisting of two parts or two ends, one pure, the other impure. The ancients thought that the whole creation is impure; the only pure substance is the Divine. The Sankhya posited clearly the demarcation between Purusha, the Conscious Being secreted above and behind and the entire Prakriti which is absolute unconsciousness. But as we have said, a new revelation has been slowly coming up which speaks of a different conclusion 'and a different destiny for man and the universe. Each element of the created universe has a double nature, it is both conscious and unconscious, it is both immortal and mortal. And furthermore, the two are not united or soldered together inextricably so that if one is eliminated the other gets eliminated automatically. Life and death appear to be bound together absolutely and eternally; in fact, however, it is not so. Even in life, Life can be established in its single pure reality free from the normal counterpoint of Death. Purusha is not the only conscious element in or above creation. Prakriti is not merely the unconscious being. The unconscious Prakriti is only the apparent aspect of the Higher Prakriti, the Para Prakriti, which is supremely conscious, for it is one with the Supreme Purusha.
10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
If brutal masks are there and Evil acts,
They are incidents of his vast and varied plot,
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His Good he sowed in Evil's monstrous bed,
Made error a door by which Truth could enter in,
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An Evil transmutation overtook
Her members till she knew herself no more.
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In spite of death and Evil circumstance
A will to live persists, a joy to be.
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A joy in Evil and a joy in good,
A joy in virtue and a joy in sin:
10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
That, bricked with Evil and good, wall in man's spirit
And, fissured houses, palace at once and jail,
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Almighty beyond good and Evil to dwell
Leaving the good to their fate in a wicked world
And Evil to reign in this enormous scene.
All opposition seems and strife and chance,
1.004 - Women, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
17. Repentance is available from God for those who commit Evil out of ignorance, and then repent soon after. These—God will relent towards them. God is Knowing and Wise.
18. But repentance is not available for those who commit Evils, until when death approaches one of them, he says, “Now I repent,” nor for those who die as disbelievers. These—We have prepared for them a painful torment.
19. O you who believe! It is not permitted for you to inherit women against their will. And do not coerce them in order to take away some of what you had given them, unless they commit a proven adultery. And live with them in kindness. If you dislike them, it may be that you dislike something in which God has placed much good.
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38. And those who spend their money to be seen by people, and believe neither in God nor in the Last Day. Whoever has Satan as a companion—what an Evil companion.
39. What would they have lost, had they believed in God and the Last Day, and gave out of what God has provided for them? God knows them very well.
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51. Have you not considered those who were given a share of the Book? They believe in superstition and Evil powers, and say of those who disbelieve, “These are better guided on the way than the believers.”
52. Those are they whom God has cursed. Whomever God curses, you will find no savior for him.
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76. Those who believe fight in the cause of God, while those who disbelieve fight in the cause of Evil. So fight the allies of the D Evil. Surely the strategy of the D Evil is weak.
77. Have you not considered those who were told, “Restrain your hands, and perform your prayers, and spend in regular charity”? But when fighting was ordained for them, a faction of them feared the people as God is ought to be feared, or even more. And they said, “Our Lord, why did You ordain fighting for us? If only You would postpone it for us for a short while.” Say, “The enjoyments of this life are brief, but the Hereafter is better for the righteous, and you will not be wronged one bit.”
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85. Whoever intercedes for a good cause has a share in it, and whoever intercedes for an Evil cause shares in its burdens. God keeps watch over everything.
86. When you are greeted with a greeting, respond with a better greeting, or return it. God keeps count of everything.
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110. Whoever commits Evil, or wrongs his soul, then implores God for forgiveness, will find God Forgiving and Merciful.
111. And Whoever earns a sin, earns it against himself. God is Aware and Wise.
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123. It is not in accordance with your wishes, nor in accordance with the wishes of the People of the Scripture. Whoever works Evil will pay for it, and will not find for himself, besides God, any protector or savior.
124. But whoever works righteousness, whether male or female, and is a believer—those will enter Paradise, and will not be wronged a whit.
1.005 - The Table, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
29. “I would rather you bear my sin and your sin, and you become among the inmates of the Fire. Such is the reward for the Evildoers.”
30. Then His soul prompted him to kill his brother, so he killed him, and became one of the losers.
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45. And We wrote for them in it: a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and an equal wound for a wound; but whoever forgoes it in charity, it will serve as atonement for him. Those who do not rule according to what God revealed are the Evildoers.
46. In their footsteps, We sent Jesus son of Mary, fulfilling the Torah that preceded him; and We gave him the Gospel, wherein is guidance and light, and confirming the Torah that preceded him, and guidance and counsel for the righteous.
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62. You see many of them competing with one another in sin and hostility, and their consuming of what is illicit. What they have been doing is truly Evil.
63. Why do the rabbis and the priests not prevent them from speaking sinfully and from consuming forbidden wealth? Evil is what they have been doing.
64. The Jews say, “God’s hand is tied.” It is their hands that are tied, and they are cursed for what they say. In fact, His hands are outstretched; He gives as He wills. Certainly, what was revealed to you from your Lord will increase many of them in defiance and blasphemy. And We placed between them enmity and hatred, until the Day of Resurrection. Whenever they kindle the fire of war, God extinguishes it. And they strive to spread corruption on earth. God does not love the corrupters.
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66. Had they observed the Torah, and the Gospel, and what was revealed to them from their Lord, they would have consumed amply from above them, and from beneath their feet. Among them is a moderate community, but Evil is what many of them are doing.
67. O Messenger, convey what was revealed to you from your Lord. But if you do not, then you would not have delivered His message. And God will protect you from the people. God does not guide the disbelieving people.
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79. They used not to prevent one another from the wrongs they used to commit. Evil is what they used to do.
80. You will see many of them befriending those who disbelieve. Terrible is what their souls prompts them to do. The wrath of God fell upon them, and in the torment they will remain.
1.006 - Livestock, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
136. And they set aside for God a share of the crops and the livestock He created, and they say, “This is for God,” according to their claim, “and this is for our idols.” But the share of their idols does not reach God, yet the share of God reaches their idols. Evil is their judgment.
137. Likewise, their idols entice many idolaters to kill their children, in order to lead them to their ruin, and confuse them in their religion. Had God willed, they would not have done it; so leave them to their fraud.
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160. Whoever comes up with a good deed will have ten times its like; and whoever comes up with an Evil deed will be repaid only with its equivalent—they will not be wronged.
161. Say, “My Lord has guided me to a straight path, an upright religion, the creed of Abraham the Monotheist, who was not a polytheist.”
1.007 - The Elevations, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
103. Then, after them, We sent Moses with Our miracles to Pharaoh and his establishment, but they denounced them. So consider the end of the Evildoers.
104. Moses said, “O Pharaoh, I am a messenger from the Lord of the Worlds.”
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131. When something good came their way, they said, “This is ours.” And when something bad happened to them, they ascribed the Evil omen to Moses and those with him. In fact, their omen is with God, but most of them do not know.
132. And they said, “No matter what sign you bring us, to bewitch us with, we will not believe in you.”
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157. Those who follow the Messenger, the Unlettered Prophet, whom they find mentioned in the Torah and the Gospel in their possession. He directs them to righteousness, and deters them from Evil, and allows for them all good things, and prohibits for them wickedness, and unloads the burdens and the shackles that are upon them. Those who believe in him, and respect him, and support him, and follow the light that came down with him—these are the successful.
158. Say, “O people, I am the Messenger of God to you all—He to whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. There is no god but He. He gives life and causes death.” So believe in God and His Messenger, the Unlettered Prophet, who believes in God and His words. And follow him, that you may be guided.
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165. Then, when they neglected what they were reminded of, We saved those who prohibited Evil, and We seized those who did wrong with a terrible punishment, because of their sinfulness.
166. Then, when they rebelled against the commands to refrain, We said to them, “Be despicable apes.”
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177. Evil is the metaphor of the people who reject Our signs and wrong themselves.
178. Whomever God guides is the guided one. And whomever He sends astray—these are the losers.
10.07 - The World is One, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The disturbing factor in the universal sway of unity is the sense of individualisation, the sense of ego. That is the dark ray that cuts across the radiant harmony and produces the apparent discordance and disunion with all its attendant and consequent Evil and bale.
The sense of separated and isolated existence, the feeling of a closed system that one assumes in opposition to others is the Maya of which the Vedanta speaks. It is real so long as it is taken to be real. But it possesses no inherent or absolute reality. A re-orientation or a remodelling of the individual self is the way towards re-establishing in the forefront, the background unity. Egoism, as it happens to be now, is the broken-up and scattered unity. Polarisation means precisely re-ordering and re-orienting the dispersal movement of ignorance and bringing into a new purposeful existence the unity that already exists.
1.008 - The Spoils, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
54. Such was the case with the people of Pharaoh, and those before them. They denied the signs of their Lord, so We annihilated them for their wrongs, and We drowned the people of Pharaoh—they were all Evildoers.
55. The worst of creatures in God's view are those who disbelieve. They have no faith.
1.009 - Repentance, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
9. They traded away God's revelations for a cheap price, so they barred others from His path. How Evil is what they did.
10. Towards a believer they respect neither kinship nor treaty. These are the transgressors.
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37. Postponement is an increase in disbelief—by which those who disbelieve are led astray. They allow it one year, and forbid it another year, in order to conform to the number made sacred by God, thus permitting what God has forbidden. The Evil of their deeds seems good to them. God does not guide the disbelieving people.
38. O you who believe! What is the matter with you, when it is said to you, “Mobilize in the cause of God,” you cling heavily to the earth? Do you prefer the present life to the Hereafter? The enjoyment of the present life, compared to the Hereafter, is only a little.
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53. Say, “Whether you spend willingly or unwillingly, it will not be accepted from you. You are Evil people.”
54. What prevents the acceptance of their contributions is nothing but the fact that they disbelieved in God and His Messenger, and that they do not approach the prayer except lazily, and that they do not spend except grudgingly.
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67. The hypocrite men and hypocrite women are of one another. They advocate Evil, and prohibit righteousness, and withhold their hands. They forgot God, so He forgot them. The hypocrites are the sinners.
68. God has promised the hypocrite men and hypocrite women, and the disbelievers, the Fire of Hell, abiding therein forever. It is their due. And God has cursed them. They will have a lasting punishment.
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71. The believing men and believing women are friends of one another. They advocate virtue, forbid Evil, perform the prayers, practice charity, and obey God and His Messenger. These—God will have mercy on them. God is Noble and Wise.
72. God promises the believers, men and women, gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein forever, and fine homes in the Gardens of Eden. But approval from God is even greater. That is the supreme achievement.
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112. Those who repent, those who worship, those who praise, those who journey, those who kneel, those who bow down, those who advocate righteousness and forbid Evil, and those who keep God’s limits—give good news to the believers.
113. It is not for the Prophet and those who believe to ask forgiveness for the polytheists, even if they are near relatives, after it has become clear to them that they are people of Hellfire.
1.00b - Introduction, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Numerous sects and religions do not understand the expression of magic otherwise than black art, witchcraft or conspiracy with Evil powers. It is therefore not astonishing that many people are frightened by a certain horror, whenever the word magic is pronounced. Jugglers, conjurers, and charlatans have discredited this term and, considering this circumstance, there is no surprise that magic knowledge has always been looked upon with a slight disregard.
Even in the remotest times the MAGUS has been regarded as one of the highest adepts and it might be of interest to learn that, as a matter of fact, the word magic is derived from this word. The so called sorcerers are by no means initiates but only imitators to the mysteries, who counting partly on the ignorance and partly on the credulity of the individuality or a whole nation in order to reach their selfish aims by, lies and fraud. The true magician will always despise such practices.
In reality, magic is a sacred science, it is, in the very true sense the sum of all knowledge because it teaches how to know and utilize the sovereign rules. There is no difference between magic and mystic or any other conception of the name. Wherever au thentic initiatio n is at stake, one has to proceed on the same basis, according to the same rules, irrespective of the name given by this or that creed. Considering the universal polarity rules of good and Evil, active and passive, light and shadow, each science can serve good as well as bad purposes. Let us take the example of a knife, an object that virtually ought to be used for cutting bread only, which, however, can become a dangerous weapon in the hands of a murderer. All depends on the character of the individual. This principle goes just as well for all the spheres of the occult sciences. In my book I have chosen the term of magician for all of my disciples, it being a symbol of the deepest initiation and the highest wisdom.
Many of the readers will know, of course, that the word tarot does not mean a game of cards, serving mantical purposes, but a symbolic book of initiation which contains the greatest secrets in a symbolic form. The first tablet of this book introduces the magician representing him as the master of the elements and offering the key to the first Arcanum, the secret of the ineffable name of Tetragrammaton*, the quabbalistic
1.00c - DIVISION C - THE ETHERIC BODY AND PRANA, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
We will now study the etheric body, and its ills and also its after death condition. This matter can be only briefly touched upon. All that may now be indicated is a general idea of the fundamental ailments to which the etheric may be subject, and the trend which applied medicine may later take when occult laws are better understood. One fact must here be brought outa fact but little comprehended or even apprehended. This is the significant fact that the ills of the etheric vehicle, in the case of the microcosm, will be found likewise in the Macrocosm. Herein lies the knowledge that ofttimes explains the apparent miseries of nature. Some of the great world Evils have their source in etheric ills, extending the idea of the etheric to planetary conditions and even to solar. As we touch upon the causes of etheric distress in man, their planetary and solar correspondences and reactions may perhaps be realised. We will need to bear carefully in mind when studying this matter, that all the diseases of the etheric body will appertain to its threefold purpose and be either:
a. Functional and thereby affecting its apprehension of prana,
1.00c - INTRODUCTION, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
all his good sides, minus his Evil sides, remained forever.
Logically stated this means that mans goal is the world; this
world carried a stage higher, and with elimination of its Evils
is the state they call heaven. This theory, on the face of it, is
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good without Evil, or Evil without good. To live in a world
where all is good and no Evil is what Sanskrit logicians call a
dream in the air. Another theory in modern times has been
1.00d - Introduction, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
It has come, it is bursting out all over the earth, even if the unseen flower still looks like a festering boil: students behead Gandhi's statue in Calcutta, the old gods crumble, minds fed on intellect and philosophy cry for destruction and invite the outl and Barbarians to help them break their own prison, just as the ancient Romans did; others call for chemical paradises any way is better than this one! And the earth gasps and groans through all its cracks, its countless cracks, through all the cells of its great body in transformation. The so-called Evil of our time is a new birth in disguise, which we do not know how to handle. We are before a new evolutionary crisis as radical as must have been the first human aberration among the great apes.
But since the terrestrial body is one, the remedy is one, like Truth, and a single point transmuted will transmute all the others. That point, however, is not to be found in the improvement of our laws, our systems or sciences, our religions, schools of thought or many-hued isms all those are part of the old Machinery; not a single nut needs to be tightened, added or improved anywhere: we are suffocating in the extreme. Moreover, that point has nothing to do with our intelligence that is what has contrived the whole Machine in the first place or even with improving Man, which would amount only to glorifying his weaknesses and past greatness. The imperfection of Man is not the last word of Nature, said Sri Aurobindo, but his perfection too is not the last peak of the Spirit. Indeed, this point lies in a future beyond the grasp of our intelligence, but it is growing in the depths of the being like the flowers of the flame tree when all its leaves have fallen.
1.00 - Main, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
They whom God hath endued with insight will readily recognize that the precepts laid down by God constitute the highest means for the maintenance of order in the world and the security of its peoples. He that turneth away from them is accounted among the abject and foolish. We, verily, have commanded you to refuse the dictates of your Evil passions and corrupt desires, and not to transgress the bounds which the Pen of the Most High hath fixed, for these are the breath of life unto all created things. The seas of Divine wisdom and Divine utterance have risen under the breath of the breeze of the All-Merciful. Hasten to drink your fill, O men of understanding! They that have violated the Covenant of God by breaking His commandments, and have turned back on their heels, these have erred grievously in the sight of God, the All-Possessing, the Most High.
O ye peoples of the world! Know assuredly that My commandments are the lamps of My loving providence among My servants, and the keys of My mercy for My creatures. Thus hath it been sent down from the heaven of the Will of your Lord, the Lord of Revelation. Were any man to taste the sweetness of the words which the lips of the All-Merciful have willed to utter, he would, though the treasures of the earth be in his possession, renounce them one and all, that he might vindicate the truth of even one of His commandments, shining above the Dayspring of His bountiful care and loving-kindness.
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Whoso layeth claim to a Revelation direct from God, ere the expiration of a full thousand years, such a man is assuredly a lying impostor. We pray God that He may graciously assist him to retract and repudiate such claim. Should he repent, God will, no doubt, forgive him. If, however, he persisteth in his error, God will, assuredly, send down one who will deal mercilessly with him. Terrible, indeed, is God in punishing! Whosoever interpreteth this verse otherwise than its obvious meaning is deprived of the Spirit of God and of His mercy which encompasseth all created things. Fear God, and follow not your idle fancies. Nay, rather, follow the bidding of your Lord, the Almighty, the All-Wise. Erelong shall clamorous voices be raised in most lands. Shun them, O My people, and follow not the iniquitous and Evil-hearted. This is that of which We gave you forewarning when We were dwelling in Iraq, then later while in the Land of Mystery, and now from this Resplendent Spot.
Be not dismayed, O peoples of the world, when the day-star of My beauty is set, and the heaven of My tabernacle is concealed from your eyes. Arise to further My Cause, and to exalt My Word amongst men. We are with you at all times, and shall streng then you through the power of truth. We are truly almighty. Whoso hath recognized Me will arise and serve Me with such determination that the powers of earth and heaven shall be unable to defeat his purpose.
The peoples of the world are fast asleep. Were they to wake from their slumber, they would hasten with eagerness unto God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. They would cast away everything they possess, be it all the treasures of the earth, that their Lord may remember them to the extent of addressing to them but one word. Such is the instruction given you by Him Who holdeth the knowledge of things hidden, in a Tablet which the eye of creation hath not seen, and which is revealed to none except His own Self, the omnipotent Protector of all worlds. So bewildered are they in the drunkenness of their Evil desires, that they are powerless to recognize the Lord of all being, Whose voice calleth aloud from every direction: "There is none other God but Me, the Mighty, the All-Wise."
Say: Rejoice not in the things ye possess; tonight they are yours, tomorrow others will possess them. Thus warneth you He Who is the All-Knowing, the All-Informed. Say: Can ye claim that what ye own is lasting or secure? Nay! By Myself, the All-Merciful, ye cannot, if ye be of them who judge fairly. The days of your life flee away as a breath of wind, and all your pomp and glory shall be folded up as were the pomp and glory of those gone before you. Reflect, O people!
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Amongst the people is he whose learning hath made him proud, and who hath been debarred thereby from recognizing My Name, the Self-Subsisting; who, when he heareth the tread of sandals following behind him, waxeth greater in his own esteem than Nimrod. Say: O rejected one! Where now is his abode? By God, it is the nethermost fire. Say: O concourse of divines! Hear ye not the shrill voice of My Most Exalted Pen? See ye not this Sun that shineth in refulgent splendour above the All-Glorious Horizon? For how long will ye worship the idols of your Evil passions? Forsake your vain imaginings, and turn yourselves unto God, your Everlasting Lord.
Endowments dedicated to charity revert to God, the Revealer of Signs. None hath the right to dispose of them without leave from Him Who is the Dawning-place of Revelation. After Him, this authority shall pass to the Aghsan, and after them to the House of Justice-should it be established in the world by then-that they may use these endowments for the benefit of the Places which have been exalted in this Cause, and for whatsoever hath been enjoined upon them by Him Who is the God of might and power. Otherwise, the endowments shall revert to the people of Baha who speak not except by His leave and judge not save in accordance with what God hath decreed in this Tablet-lo, they are the champions of victory betwixt heaven and earth-that they may use them in the manner that hath been laid down in the Book by God, the Mighty, the Bountiful.
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Consider the mercy of God and His gifts. He enjoineth upon you that which shall profit you, though He Himself can well dispense with all creatures. Your Evil doings can never harm Us, neither can your good works profit Us. We summon you wholly for the sake of God. To this every man of understanding and insight will testify.
If ye should hunt with beasts or birds of prey, invoke ye the Name of God when ye send them to pursue their quarry; for then whatever they catch shall be lawful unto you, even should ye find it to have died. He, verily, is the Omniscient, the All-Informed. Take heed, however, that ye hunt not to excess. Tread ye the path of justice and equity in all things. Thus biddeth you He Who is the Dawning-place of Revelation, would that ye might comprehend.
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O Land of Kaf and Ra!+F1 We, verily, behold thee in a state displeasing unto God, and see proceeding from thee that which is inscrutable to anyone save Him, the Omniscient, the All-Informed; and We perceive that which secretly and stealthily diffuseth from thee. With Us is the knowledge of all things, inscribed in a lucid Tablet. Sorrow not for that which hath befallen thee. Erelong will God raise up within thee men endued with mighty valour, who will magnify My Name with such constancy that neither will they be deterred by the Evil suggestions of the divines, nor will they be kept back by the insinuations of the sowers of doubt. With their own eyes will they behold God, and with their own lives will they render Him victorious. These, truly, are of those who are steadfast.
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1.00 - PREFACE - DESCENSUS AD INFERNOS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
Evil particularly group-fostered Evil come to play its role in the world?
I abandoned the traditions that supported me, at about the same time I left childhood. This meant that I
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Economic injustice was at the root of all Evil, as far as I was concerned. Such injustice could be
rectified, as a consequence of the re-arrangement of social organizations. I could play a part in that
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My concern with the general social and political insanity and Evil of the world sublimated by
temporary infatuation with utopian socialism and political machination returned with a vengeance. The
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general, around a single theme: that of nuclear war, and total devastation around the worst Evils that I, or
something in me, could imagine:
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I have been trying ever since then to make sense of the human capacity, my capacity, for Evil
particularly for those Evils associated with belief. I started by trying to make sense of my dreams. I couldnt
ignore them, after all. Perhaps they were trying to tell me something? I had nothing to lose by admitting the
1.00 - The way of what is to come, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
Giving laws, wanting improvements, making things easier, has all become wrong and Evil. May each one seek out his own way.
The way leads to mutual love in community. Men will come to see and feel the similarity and commonality of their ways.
10.10 - A Poem, #Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Vain ball, Evil creation man;
7 in vain ball cruelty notice monster
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When I see the good in Evil,
Cruelty, kindness, then salvation
1.010 - Jonah, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
27. As for those who have earned Evil deeds: a reward of similar Evil, and shame will cover them. They will have no defense against God—as if their faces are covered with dark patches of night. These are the inmates of the Fire, abiding therein forever.
28. On the Day when We will gather them altogether, then say to those who ascribed partners, “To your place, you and your partners.” Then We will separate between them, and their partners will say, “It was not us you were worshiping.”
1.011 - Hud, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
54. “We only say that some of our gods have possessed you with Evil.” He said, “I call God to witness, and you to witness, that I am innocent of what you associate.
55. Besides Him. So scheme against me, all of you, and do not hesitate.
1.012 - Joseph, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
24. She desired him, and he desired her, had he not seen the proof of his Lord. It was thus that We diverted Evil and indecency away from him. He was one of Our loyal servants.
25. As they raced towards the door, she tore his shirt from behind. At the door, they ran into her husband. She said, “What is the penalty for him who desired to dishonor your wife, except imprisonment or a painful punishment?”
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51. He said, “What was the matter with you, women, when you tried to seduce Joseph?” They said, “God forbid! We knew of no Evil committed by him.” The governor’s wife then said, “Now the truth is out. It was I who tried to seduce him, and he is telling the truth.”
52. “This is that he may know that I did not betray him in secret, and that God does not guide the scheming of the betrayers.”
53. “Yet I do not claim to be innocent. The soul commands Evil, except those on whom my Lord has mercy. Truly my Lord is Forgiving and Merciful.”
54. The king said, “Bring him to me, and I will reserve him for myself.” And when he spoke to him, he said, “This day you are with us established and secure.”
1.013 - Thunder, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
6. And they urge you to hasten Evil before good, though examples have passed away before them. Your Lord is full of forgiveness towards the people for their wrongdoings, yet your Lord is severe in retribution.
7. Those who disbelieve say, “Why was a miracle not sent down to him from his Lord?” You are only a warner, and to every community is a guide.
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22. And those who patiently seek the presence of their Lord, and pray regularly, and spend from Our provisions to them, secretly and openly, and repel Evil with good. These will have the Ultimate Home.
23. Everlasting Gardens, which they will enter, along with the righteous among their parents, and their spouses, and their descendants. And the angels will enter upon them from every gate.
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35. The likeness of the Garden promised to the righteous: rivers flowing beneath it; its food is perpetual, and so is its shade. Such is the sequel for those who guard against Evil, but the sequel of the disbelievers is the Fire.
36. Those to whom We gave the Scripture rejoice in what was revealed to you, while some factions reject parts of it. Say, “I am commanded to worship God, and to never associate anything with Him. To Him I invite, and to Him is my return.”
1.016 - The Bee, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
25. So let them carry their loads complete on the Day of Resurrection, and some of the loads of those they misguided without knowledge. Evil is what they carry.
26. Those before them also schemed, but God took their structures from the foundations, and the roof caved in on them. The punishment came at them from where they did not perceive.
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34. So the Evils of their deeds assailed them, and what they used to ridicule engulfed them.
35. The idolaters say, “Had God willed, we would not have worshiped anything besides Him, neither us, nor our ancestors, nor would we have prohibited anything besides His prohibitions.” Those before them did likewise. Are the messengers responsible for anything but clear communication?
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45. Do those who scheme Evils feel secure that God will not cause the earth to cave in with them, or that the punishment will not come upon them from where they do not perceive?
46. Or that He will not seize them during their activities? And they will not be able to prevent it.
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59. He hides from the people because of the bad news given to him. Shall he keep it in humiliation, or bury it in the dust? Evil is the decision they make.
60. Those who do not believe in the Hereafter set a bad example, while God sets the Highest Example. He is the Mighty, the Wise.
1.017 - The Night Journey, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
4. And We conveyed to the Children of Israel in the Scripture: You will commit Evil on earth twice, and you will rise to a great height.
5. When the first of the two promises came true, We sent against you servants of Ours, possessing great might, and they ransacked your homes. It was a promise fulfilled.
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7. If you work righteousness, you work righteousness for yourselves; and if you commit Evil, you do so against yourselves. Then, when the second promise comes true, they will make your faces filled with sorrow, and enter the Temple as they entered it the first time, and utterly destroy all that falls into their power.
8. Perhaps your Lord will have mercy on you. But if you revert, We will revert. We have made Hell a prison for the disbelievers.
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11. The human being prays for Evil as he prays for good. The human being is very hasty.
12. We have made the night and the day two wonders. We erased the wonder of the night, and made the wonder of the day revealing, that you may seek bounty from your Lord, and know the number of years, and the calculation. We have explained all things in detail.
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32. And do not come near adultery. It is immoral, and an Evil way.
33. And do not kill the soul which God has made sacred, except in the course of justice. If someone is killed unjustly, We have given his next of kin certain authority. But he should not be excessive in killing, for he will be supported.
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38. The Evil of all these is disliked by your Lord.
39. That is some of the wisdom your Lord has revealed to you. Do not set up with God another god, or else you will be thrown in Hell, rebuked and banished.
10.18 - Short Notes - 1- The Sense of Earthly Evolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Ignorance is usually equated with innocence. A child is ignorant, therefore he is innocent. Although it is said that ignorance of law is no excuse. Spiritually however, ignorance does not mean innocence. Ignorance or unconsciousness or inconsciencedifferent degrees of the same thing that is to say lack of consciousness, mean, at bottom, falsehood. It is through the ignorance that Maya, the great illusion, was born. Ignorance is false apprehension, it begins with the sense of separation, "I am other than the Divine." That is how Jiva is born in or through the ignorance. The world is separate from the Divine. That is how Matter is born as or in inconscience. And the creation appears as Evil. This sense of separation is a falsehood for in reality nothing is separate from the supreme Consciousness, all is That.
To regain the Truth-sense, to move upward in the cycle of ignorance and falsehood towards this Truth-sense is the world-labour and also human labour.
1.018 - The Cave, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
50. We said to the angels, “Bow down to Adam.” So they bowed down, except for Satan. He was of the jinn, and he defied the command of his Lord. Will you take him and his offspring as lords instead of Me, when they are an enemy to you? Evil is the exchange for the wrongdoers.
51. I did not call them to witness the creation of the heavens and the earth, nor their own creation; and I do not take the misleaders for assistants.
1.019 - Mary, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
28. O sister of Aaron, your father was not an Evil man, and your mother was not a whore.”
29. So she pointed to him. They said, “How can we speak to an infant in the crib?”
1.01 - Adam Kadmon and the Evolution, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
into its contrary cannot be corrected. The world is Evil and
only an escape into a Hereafter or into Nothing can put an
1.01 - A NOTE ON PROGRESS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
progress contributes to the sum of Evil: to effect change is to under-
mine the painfully established traditional order whereby the dis-
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quishing suffering and Evil here on earth. Alas, it is a forlorn hope;
for it seems certain that any outward upheaval or internal renova-
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face of Evil, is something quite other than an act of higher moral-
ity: it is a living organism. We cannot distinctly view its progress
1.01 - Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
source of all Evil thoughts. In the chambers of the heart dwell
the wicked blood-spirits, swift anger and sensual weakness. This
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themselves as heroes who are beyond good and Evil, and to
cut the Gordian knot instead of untying it. Nevertheless, the
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of spirits, the lifting of spells, the averting of the Evil omen,
propitiation, purification, and the production by sympathetic
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good and Evil." In centres of civilization this state shows itself
in the increasing insecurity of marriage. The American divorce
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good and Evil function together, presumably as an answer to the
still unresolved moral conflict in the Christian psyche. With this
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and Evil is, can be seen from the Indian aphoristic question:
"Who takes longer to reach perfection, the man who loves God,
1.01 - Description of the Castle, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
9.: As far as I can understand, the gate by which to enter this castle is prayer and meditation. I do not allude more to mental than to vocal prayer, for if it is prayer at all, the mind must take part in it. If a person neither considers to Whom he is addressing himself, what he asks, nor what he is who ventures to speak to God, although his lips may utter many words, I do not call it prayer.12' Sometimes, indeed, one may pray devoutly without making all these considerations through having practised them at other times. The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave-caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition-cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner. I trust His Majesty will prevent any of you, sisters, from doing so. Our habit in this Order of conversing about spiritual matters is a good preservative against such Evil ways.
10.: Let us speak no more of these crippled souls, who are in a most miserable and dangerous state, unless our Lord bid them rise, as He did the palsied man who had waited more than thirty years at the pool of Bethsaida.13' We will now think of the others who at last enter the precincts of the castle; they are still very worldly, yet have some desire to do right, and at times, though rarely, commend themselves to God's care. They think about their souls every now and then; although very busy, they pray a few times a month, with minds generally filled with a thousand other matters, for where their treasure is, there is their heart also.14' Still, occasionally they cast aside these cares; it is a great boon for them to realize to some extent the state of their souls, and to see that they will never reach the gate by the road they are following.
1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
_poor_ civilized man, while the savage, who has them not, is rich as a savage? If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man, and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages,it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. An average house in this neighborhood costs perhaps eight hundred dollars, and to lay up this sum will take from ten to fifteen years of the laborers life, even if he is not encumbered with a family;estimating the pecuniary value of every mans labor at one dollar a day, for if some receive more, others receive less;so that he must have spent more than half his life commonly before _his_ wigwam will be earned. If we suppose him to pay a rent instead, this is but a doubtful choice of Evils. Would the savage have been wise to exchange his wigwam for a palace on these terms?
It may be guessed that I reduce almost the whole advantage of holding this superfluous property as a fund in store against the future, so far as the individual is concerned, mainly to the defraying of funeral expenses. But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.
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I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in. The moon will not sour milk nor taint meat of mine, nor will the sun injure my furniture or fade my carpet, and if he is sometimes too warm a friend, I find it still better economy to retreat behind some curtain which nature has provided, than to add a single item to the details of housekeeping. A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of Evil.
Not long since I was present at the auction of a deacons effects, for his life had not been ineffectual:
The Evil that men do lives after them.
As usual, a great proportion was trumpery which had begun to accumulate in his fathers day. Among the rest was a dried tapeworm. And now, after lying half a century in his garret and other dust holes, these things were not burned; instead of a _bonfire_, or purifying destruction of them, there was an _auction_, or increasing of them. The neighbors eagerly collected to view them, bought them all, and carefully transported them to their garrets and dust holes, to lie there till their estates are settled, when they will start again. When a man dies he kicks the dust.
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Persevere, even if the world call it doing Evil, as it is most likely they will.
I am far from supposing that my case is a peculiar one; no doubt many of my readers would make a similar defence. At doing something,I will not engage that my neighbors shall pronounce it good,I do not hesitate to say that I should be a capital fellow to hire; but what that is, it is for my employer to find out. What _good_ I do, in the common sense of that word, must be aside from my main path, and for the most part wholly unintended. Men say, practically, Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought go about doing good. If I were to preach at all in this strain, I should say rather, Set about being good. As if the sun should stop when he had kindled his fires up to the splendor of a moon or a star of the sixth magnitude, and go about like a Robin
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African deserts called the simoom, which fills the mouth and nose and ears and eyes with dust till you are suffocated, for fear that I should get some of his good done to me,some of its virus mingled with my blood. No,in this case I would rather suffer Evil the natural way. A man is not a good _man_ to me because he will feed me if I should be starving, or warm me if I should be freezing, or pull me out of a ditch if I should ever fall into one. I can find you a Newfoundl and dog that will do as much. Philanthropy is not love for ones fellow-man in the broadest sense. Howard was no doubt an exceedingly kind and worthy man in his way, and has his reward; but, comparatively speaking, what are a hundred Howards to _us_, if their philanthropy do not help _us_ in our best estate, when we are most worthy to be helped? I never heard of a philanthropic meeting in which it was sincerely proposed to do any good to me, or the like of me.
The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of torture to their tormentors. Being superior to physical suffering, it sometimes chanced that they were superior to any consolation which the missionaries could offer; and the law to do as you would be done by fell with less persuasiveness on the ears of those who, for their part, did not care how they were done by, who loved their enemies after a new fashion, and came very near freely forgiving them all they did.
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I offered him, he had so many _intra_ ones. This ducking was the very thing he needed. Then I began to pity myself, and I saw that it would be a greater charity to bestow on me a flannel shirt than a whole slop-shop on him. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of Evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. It is the pious slave-breeder devoting the proceeds of every tenth slave to buy a Sundays liberty for the rest. Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there? You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; maybe you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it. Society recovers only a tenth part of the property then. Is this owing to the generosity of him in whose possession it is found, or to the remissness of the officers of justice?
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it. A robust poor man, one sunny day here in Concord, praised a fellow-townsman to me, because, as he said, he was kind to the poor; meaning himself. The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. I once heard a reverend lecturer on England, a man of learning and intelligence, after enumerating her scientific, literary, and political worthies, Shakespeare, Bacon, Cromwell, Milton, Newton, and others, speak next of her Christian heroes, whom, as if his profession required it of him, he elevated to a place far above all the rest, as the greatest of the great. They were Penn, Howard, and Mrs. Fry. Every one must feel the falsehood and cant of this. The last were not Englands best men and women; only, perhaps, her best philanthropists.
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Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring him forever. One would say that even the prophets and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed the hopes of man. There is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God. All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad and does me Evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it. If, then, we would indeed restore mankind by truly Indian, botanic, magnetic, or natural means, let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our own brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.
I read in the Gulistan, or Flower Garden, of Sheik Sadi of Shiraz, that
1.01 - Foreward, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The preoccupation of the Mystics was with self-knowledge and a profounder world-knowledge; they found out that in man there was a deeper self and inner being behind the surface of the outward physical man, which it was his highest business to discover and know. "Know thyself" was their great precept, just as in India to know the Self, the Atman became the great spiritual need, the highest thing for the human being. They found also a Truth, a Reality behind the outward aspects of the universe and to discover, follow, realise this Truth was their great aspiration. They discovered secrets and powers of Nature which were not those of the physical world but which could bring occult mastery over the physical world and physical things and to systematise this occult knowledge and power was also one of their strong preoccupations. But all this could only be safely done by a difficult and careful training, discipline, purification of the nature; it could not be done by the ordinary man. If men entered into these things without a severe test and training it would be dangerous to themselves and others; this knowledge, these powers could be misused, misinterpreted, turned from truth to falsehood, from good to Evil. A strict secrecy was therefore maintained, the knowledge handed down behind a veil from master to disciple. A veil of symbols was created behind which these mysteries could shelter, formulas of speech also which could be understood by the initiated but were either not known by others or were taken by them in an outward sense which carefully covered their true meaning and secret. This was the substance of Mysticism everywhere.
It has been the tradition in India from the earliest times that the Rishis, the poet-seers of the Veda, were men of this type, men with a great spiritual and occult knowledge not shared by ordinary human beings, men who handed down this knowledge and their powers by a secret initiation to their descendants and chosen disciples. It is a gratuitous assumption to suppose that this tradition was wholly unfounded, a superstition that arose suddenly or slowly formed in a void, with nothing whatever to support it; some foundation there must have been however small or however swelled by legend and the accretions of centuries. But if it is true, then inevitably the poet-seers must have expressed something of their secret knowledge, their mystic lore in their writings and such an element must be present, however well-concealed by an occult language or behind a technique of symbols, and if it is there it must be to some extent discoverable.
1.01 - Isha Upanishad, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
8. It is He that has gone abroad - That which is bright, bodiless, without scar of imperfection, without sinews, pure, unpierced by Evil. The Seer, the Thinker,8 the One who becomes everywhere, the Self-existent has ordered objects perfectly according to their nature from years sempiternal.
9. Into a blind darkness they enter who follow after the Ignorance, they as if into a greater darkness who devote themselves to the Knowledge alone.
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3 Shankara reads the line, "Thus in thee - it is not otherwise than thus - action cleaves not, a man." He interprets karman.i in the first line in the sense of Vedic sacrifices which are permitted to the ignorant as a means of escaping from Evil actions and their results and attaining to heaven, but the second karma in exactly the opposite sense, " Evil action". The verse, he tells us, represents a concession to the ignorant; the enlightened soul abandons works and the world and goes to the forest. The whole expression and construction in this rendering become forced and unnatural. The rendering I give seems to me the simple and straightforward sense of the Upanishad.
4 We have two readings, asurya, sunless, and asurya, Titanic or undivine. The third verse is, in the thought structure of the Upanishad, the starting-point for the final movement in the last four verses. Its suggestions are there taken up and worked out. The prayer to the Sun refers back in thought to the sunless worlds and their blind gloom, which are recalled in the ninth and twelfth verses. The sun and his rays are intimately connected in other Upanishads also with the worlds of Light and their natural opposite is the dark and sunless, not the Titanic worlds.
1.01 - MAPS OF EXPERIENCE - OBJECT AND MEANING, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
dryness are the classical qualities of the Egyptian Set (Greek Typhon), the Evil principle which, like the
alchemical sulphur, is closely connected with the d Evil. And just as Typhon has his kingdom in the
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cannot know what is good for him and what Evil: he believes in God, who alone knows. Christian
morality is a command: its origin is transcendental; it is beyond all criticism, all right to criticize; it
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really do believe they know, of their own accord, intuitively, what is good and Evil; if they
consequently think they no longer have need of Christianity as a guarantee of morality; that is merely
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speaking, our knowledge of good and Evil, our moral sensibility, that allows us this ability. It is our
mythological conventions, operating implicitly or explicitly, that guide our choices. But what are these
1.01 - MASTER AND DISCIPLE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTER (Smiling): "Oh, no! You mustn't go that far, my child! (Laughter). God dwells in all beings. But you may be intimate only with good people; you must keep away from the Evil-minded. God is even in the tiger; but you cannot embrace the tiger on that account. (Laughter). You may say, 'Why run away from a tiger, which is also a manifestation of God?' The answer to that is: 'Those who tell you to run away are also manifestations of God - and why shouldn't you listen to them?'
Parable of the "elephant God"
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MASTER: "A man living in society should make a show of tamas to protect himself from Evil-minded people. But he should not harm anybody in anticipation of harm likely to be done him.
Parable of the snake
1.01 - Necessity for knowledge of the whole human being for a genuine education., #The Essentials of Education, #unset, #Zen
When one human being encounters another, a fully conscious knowledge of each others being doesnt develop between them such a thing would be absurd. We couldnt begin to interact socially if we were to view one another such that we ask: Whats going on in that other person? But we all carry an unconscious knowledge4 of the other within ourselves as unconscious perceptions, feelings, and, most importantly, impulses that underlie the will. We will see that knowledge of human nature has suffered a great deal in the modern world, and this has given rise to many social Evils. In a sense, however, knowledge of human beings has only withdrawn to deeper levels of the unconscious than ever before. Nevertheless, it is still available to us, since, if it werent, we would pass each other with no means of understanding one another.
It is certainly true that when one person meets another whether or not we are aware of itsympathies and antipathies arise, and impressions are formed. They tell us whether the other person can be allowed to get close, or if we would prefer to stay clear of that other person. Other impressions arise as well. Imme- diately, we may say, This is an intelligent person, or that per- son is not very gifted. I could mention hundreds and hundreds of impressions that spring from the depths of the soul. During most of our life, such impressions are pushed back down again, where they become a part of our souls attitude toward the other person; we guide our behavior toward that person in terms of these first impressions. Then, too, what we call empathywhich is essentially one of the most significant impulses of human moralityalso belongs to such unconscious knowledge of other human beings.
1.01 - On knowledge of the soul, and how knowledge of the soul is the key to the knowledge of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
However, that knowledge of the soul which leads to the knowledge of God, is not of this kind. The knowledge which you need to possess is, to know what you are; how you are created; whence you are; for what you are here; whither you are going; in what your happiness consists, and what you must do to secure it; in what your misery consists, and what you must do to avoid it. And further, your internal qualities are distributed into animal, ferocious, demoniacal and angelic qualities. You need to know, therefore, what qualities predominate in your character, and in the predominance of which your true happiness consists. If your qualities are chiefly animal, the essence of which is to eat and drink, you will day and night seek after these things. If your qualities are of the ferocious kind, the essence of which is to tear and rend, to injure and destroy, you will act accordingly. If you are endowed chiefly with the qualities of d Evils, which consist in Evil machinations, deceit and delusion, then you should know and be aware of it, that you may turn towards the path of perfection. And if you possess angelic qualities, whose nature it is to worship God in sincerity and continually to await the vision of His beauty, then like them you should unceasingly, resting neither day or night, be zealous and strive that you may become worthy of the vision of the Lord. For know, O student of the mysteries! that man was created to stand at the door of service in frailty and weakness, [15] and wait for the opening of the door of spiritual union, and for the vision of beauty, as God declares in his holy word: "I have not created the genii and men except that they should worship me."1
These qualities, whether animal, or ferocious or demoniacal have been bestowed upon man, that by their means the body might be adapted to be a vehicle for the spirit, and that the spirit, by means of the body which is its vehicle, while herein this temporary home of earth, might seek after the knowledge and love of God, as the huntsman would seek to make the phœnix and the griffin his prey. Then, when it leaves this strange land for the region of spiritual friendship, it shall be worthy to partake of the mystery contained in the invitation, "enter in peace, O believers!"2 and which is in the homage, "Peace is the word they shall hear from the merciful Lord."3 People in general suppose that this refers to Paradise. Woe to him who has no portion in this knowledge! There is great danger in his path. The way of faith is veiled from his eyes.
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Since you have learned, O inquirer after the divine mysteries, the dignity and nobleness of the heart, know also that this precious jewel has been confided to you and wrapped in a veil, that you may preserve it from too close a contact with the world, and may lead it to perfection and to its place of rest, making it a partaker of manifest happiness in the eternal mansions. In the house of reunion you will have reached an eternal rest, where no Evil enters, a joy where no pain mingles, a strength without infirmity, a knowledge without doubt, and a vision of the Lord, the enjoyment of which shall be endless.
If the heart strive not after its own glory and dignity, but [40] inclines to the cares of the world and sensual pleasures, no creature is more feeble, infirm and contemptible than man. At one time he will be the slave of disappointment and melancholy, at another suffering from disease and misfortune; at one time exposed to hunger and thirst, and at another the slave of avarice or ambition. He is not indulged with the enjoyment of a single day in peace. And when he is disposed to partake of the pleasures of the world and stretches out his hand to them, for a long time he cannot succeed in freeing himself from calamity. Even the pleasure of eating will be attended with oppression and pain, and afterwards be followed by some adverse accident. In short, of whatever enjoyment he partakes, regret is sure to follow it. If we regard knowledge, power, will, beauty and grace of form as constituting the glory and honor of this world, what is the wisdom of man ? If his head pain him, he knows not the cause or the remedy. If he have pain at his heart, he knows not the occasion of it, or why it increases, or what will cure it. He sees the plants and medicines that could cure it, perhaps even holds them in his hands, and is not aware of it. He knows nothing of what will happen to him on the morrow, nor what action will be a source of enjoyment to him, nor what will be to him a source of pain. If you look only to the strength of a man, what is more impotent than he is. If a fly or mosquito molest him, he cannot get rid of it. If he is attacked by disease, he has no remedy to meet it with. He has no power to preserve himself from destruction. If you look at the firmness and resolution of man, what is more contemptible than he is ! If he see any thing more extra-ordinary than a piece of money, he changes color and loses his presence of mind. If a beggar meet him, he turns away, and dares not look him in the face. If you look at the form of man, you see that it is skin, drawn over blood and impurity....
1.01 - On renunciation of the world, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
Some people living carelessly in the world have asked me: We have wives and are beset with social cares, and how can we lead the solitary life? I replied to them: Do all the good you can; do not speak Evil of anyone; do not steal from anyone; do not lie to anyone; do not be arrogant towards anyone; do not hate any one; be sure you go to church; be compassionate to the needy; do not offend anyone; do not wreck another mans domestic happiness;3 and be content with what your own wives can give you. If you behave in this way you will not be far from the Kingdom of Heaven.
Let us charge into the good fight with joy and love without being afraid of our enemies. Though unseen themselves, they can look at the face of our soul, and if they see it altered by fear, they take up arms against us all the more fiercely. For the cunning creatures have observed that we are scared. So let us take up arms against them courageously. No one will fight with a resolute fighter.
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Offer to Christ the labours of your youth, and in your old age you will rejoice in the wealth of dispassion. What is gathered in youth nourishes and comforts those who are tired out in old age. In our youth let us labour ardently and let us run vigilantly, for the hour of death is unknown. We have very Evil and dangerous, cunning, unscrupulous foes, who hold fire in their hands and try to burn the temple of God with the flame that is in it. These foes are strong; they never sleep; they are incorporeal and invisible. Let no one when he is young listen to his enemies, the demons, when they say to him: Do not wear out your flesh lest you make it sick and weak. For you will scarcely find anyone, especially in the present generation, who is determined to mortify his flesh, although he might deprive
1 Psalm cxl, 4. The meaning is that in the midst of his sins he makes excuses for not becoming a monk. The excuses are not for his sins, but his sins are his excuses.
1.01 - SAMADHI PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
and Evil tendencies will suppress each other, and there will
remain the Soul, in all its glorious splendour, untrammelled
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this Evil company is just the heat that is necessary ot call them
out. In the same way we are told that good company will call
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good and Evil respectively, pacify the Chitta.
We must have these four sorts of ideas. We must have
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good we must be glad, if it is Evil we must be indifferent.
These attitudes of the mind towards the different subjects that
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our minds in this way. For instance, if a man does Evil to us,
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instantly we want to react Evil, and every reaction of Evil
shows that we are not able to hold the Chitta down; it comes
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reaction in the form of hatred or Evil is so much loss to the
mind, and every Evil thought or deed of hatred, or any thought
of reaction, if it is controlled, will be laid in our favour. It is
1.01 - Soul and God, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
So that your understanding becomes perfect, consider that your heart is both good and Evil. You ask, What? Should I also live Evil?
The spirit of the depths demands: The life that you could still live, you should live. Well-being decides, not your well-being, not the well-being of the others, but only well-being.
1.01 - THAT ARE THOU, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
That this insight into the nature of things and the origin of good and Evil is not confined exclusively to the saint, but is recognized obscurely by every human being, is proved by the very structure of our language. For language, as Richard Trench pointed out long ago, is often wiser, not merely than the vulgar, but even than the wisest of those who speak it. Sometimes it locks up truths which were once well known, but have been forgotten. In other cases it holds the germs of truths which, though they were never plainly discerned, the genius of its framers caught a glimpse of in a happy moment of divination. For example, how significant it is that in the Indo-European languages, as Darmsteter has pointed out, the root meaning two should connote badness. The Greek prefix dys- (as in dyspepsia) and the Latin dis- (as in dishonorable) are both derived from duo. The cognate bis- gives a pejorative sense to such modern French words as bvue (blunder, literally two-sight). Traces of that second which leads you astray can be found in dubious, doubt and Zweifel for to doubt is to be double-minded. Bunyan has his Mr. Facing-both-ways, and modern American slang its two-timers. Obscurely and unconsciously wise, our language confirms the findings of the mystics and proclaims the essential badness of divisiona word, incidentally, in which our old enemy two makes another decisive appearance.
Here it may be remarked that the cult of unity on the political level is only an idolatrous ersatz for the genuine religion of unity on the personal and spiritual levels. Totalitarian regimes justify their existence by means of a philosophy of political monism, according to which the state is God on earth, unification under the heel of the divine state is salvation, and all means to such unification, however intrinsically wicked, are right and may be used without scruple. This political monism leads in practice to excessive privilege and power for the few and oppression for the many, to discontent at home and war abroad. But excessive privilege and power are standing temptations to pride, greed, vanity and cruelty; oppression results in fear and envy; war breeds hatred, misery and despair. All such negative emotions are fatal to the spiritual life. Only the pure in heart and poor in spirit can come to the unitive knowledge of God. Hence, the attempt to impose more unity upon societies than their individual members are ready for makes it psychologically almost impossible for those individuals to realize their unity with the divine Ground and with one another.
1.01 - The King of the Wood, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
visited by more Evil dreams, than his. For year in, year out, in
summer and winter, in fair weather and in foul, he had to keep his
1.01 - The Lord of hosts, #Sefer Yetzirah The Book of Creation In Theory and Practice, #Anonymous, #Various
4) " Evil 10 "
9) " North "
1.01 - The Mental Fortress, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Thus, we shall not effect the passage with our own strength; if such were the condition, no one could do it, except spiritual athletes. But those athletes, filled with meditations and concentrations and asceticism, do not get out either, although they may seem to. They inflate their own spiritual ego (a kind worse than the other one, far more deceptive, because it is garbed in a grain of truth) and their illuminations are simply the luminous discharges of their own accumulated cloud. The logic of it is simple: one does not get out of the circle by the power of the circle, any more than the lotus rises above the mud by the power of the mud. A little bit of sun is needed. And because the ascetics and saints and founders of religions throughout the ages only reached the rarefied realms of the mental bubble, they created one church or another that amazingly resembled the closed system from which they originated, namely, a dogma, a set of rules, the Tables of the Law, a one and only prophet born in the blessed year 000, around whom revolved the beautiful story, forever fixed in the year 000, like the electrons around the nucleus, the stars around the Great Bear, and man around his navel. Or, if they did get out, it was only in spirit, leaving the earth and bodies to their habitual decay. Granted, each new hub was wiser, more luminous, worthy and virtuous than the preceding one, and it did help men, but it changed nothing in the mental circle, as we have seen, for thousands of years because its light was only the other side of one and the same shadow, the white of the black, the good of Evil, the virtue of a frightful misery that grips us all in the depths of our caves.
This implacable duality which assails the whole life of mental man a life that is only the life of death is obviously insoluble at the level of the Duality. One might as well fight the right hand with the left. Yet, that is exactly what the human mind has done, without much success, at all levels of its existence, offsetting its heaven with hell, matter with spirit, individualism with collectivism, or any other isms that proliferate in this sorry system. But one does not get out by the decrees of any ism pushed to its perfection: deprived of its heaven, our earth is a poor whirling machine; deprived of its matter, our heaven is a pale nebula filled with the silent medusas of the disembodied spirit; deprived of the individual, our societies are dreadful anthills; and deprived even of his sins, the individual loses a focus of tension that helped him to grow. The fact is, no idea, however lofty it may seem, has the power to undo the Artifice for the very good reason that the Artifice has its value and season. But it has also its season, like the winged seed tumbling over the prairies, until the day it finds its propitious ground and bursts open.
1.01 - THE OPPOSITES, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
[4] The elevation of the human figure to a king or a divinity, and on the other hand its representation in subhuman, theriomorphic form, are indications of the transconscious character of the pairs of opposites. They do not belong to the ego-personality but are supraordinate to it. The ego-personality occupies an intermediate position, like the anima inter bona et mala sita (soul placed between good and Evil). The pairs of opposites constitute the phenomenology of the paradoxical self, mans totality. That is why their symbolism makes use of cosmic expressions like coelum / terra.18 The intensity of the conflict is expressed in symbols like fire and water,19 height and depth,20 life and death.21
1.01 - The Path of Later On, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Owls, crows and bats fly out in all directions, screeching and circling around the head of the poor traveller who, dazed, downcast, overwhelmed, stands rooted to the spot, unable to move; suddenly, horror of horrors, he sees rising up before him terrible phantoms who bear the names of Desolation, Despair, Disgust with life, and amidst the ruins he even glimpses Suicide, pallid and dismal above a bottomless gulf. All these malignant spirits surround him, clutch him, propel him towards the yawning chasm. The poor youth tries to resist this irresistible force, he wants to draw back, to flee, to tear himself away from all these invisible arms entwining and clasping him. But it is too late; he moves on towards the fatal abyss. He feels drawn, hypnotized by it. He calls out; no voice answers to his cries. He grasps at the phantoms, everything gives way beneath him. With haggard eyes he scans the void, he calls out, he implores; the macabre laughter of Evil rings out at last.
The traveller is at the edge of the gulf. All his efforts have been in vain. After a supreme struggle he falls... from his bed. A young student had a long essay to prepare for the following morning. A little tired by his day's work, he had said to himself as he arrived home, "I shall work later." Soon afterwards he thought that if he went to bed early, he could get up early the next morning and quickly finish his task. "Let's go to bed," he said to himself, "I shall work better tomorrow; I shall sleep on it." He did not know how truly he spoke. His sleep was troubled by the terrible nightmare we have described, and his fall awoke him with a start. Thinking over what he had dreamt, he exclaimed, "But it's quite clear: the path is called the path of 'later on', the road is the road of 'tomorrow' and the great building the castle of 'nothing at all'." Elated at his cleverness, he set to work, vowing to himself that he would never put off until tomorrow what he could do today.
1.01 - To Watanabe Sukefusa, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
But even if you don't perform acts of filial devotion like these, of a caliber that elicits heavenly intervention, I devoutly hope you do not commit acts of an unfilial nature that will bring punishment down upon you. A person who ignores or refuses to acknowledge what takes place right under his nose and insists on merely doing as he pleases must be either a stupid man or an Evil one.
The people in the half-dozen stories I related, having turned away from reasonable courses of action, convinced themselves that their transgressions were minor and that any retri bution would be minor as well, and because of that they ended up receiving the severe judgment of heaven, dying very unfortunate deaths, leaving behind them names blackened forever as unfilial sons or daughters, and falling into the interminable suffering and torment of the Burning Hells. That this happened because they did not fear the wrath of the gods and were ignorant of heavenly retri bution is a matter each and every person should give the greatest care and consideration.
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The Book of Changes states, "Unless you are habitually good, you do not make a name for yourself; unless you are habitually bad, you do not ruin yourself." In other words, our fortune and misfortune result from the gradual accumulation of small increments of good or Evil deeds.
The events I have related may seem dubious to you, incredible and remote. But what about Kyza of Nakasato village, or Sajibei of Sawada village? Those incidents both took place in your own neighborhood. When young Sajibei clubbed his mother with an ax handle, he immediately took leave of his senses. Now over seventy years old, he lives miserably in the Grove of the Deva Guardians in
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Good deeds, no matter how many you perform, need no repentance. But Evil deeds, even minor ones, are a cause of endless regret and heartache. According to what is written in the sutras, even if a person erects a pagoda twenty yojanas in height, adorns it with the seven precious gems, and enshrines Buddha relics in it, so that every arhat in the world comes to revere it, the arising in his mind of even a single angry thought becomes a fire that will at once turn into a great, all-consuming conflagration. The fires of wrath and anger consume entire forests of merit and virtue.
Until now, your mother could not devote herself to good works because from the time you were born she lavished her every moment on you, caring for you and seeing that you were provided with everything necessary for your upbringing. If she did find time to enter the family altar room, the sutras and dharanis she recited were always dedicated to your good health and long life, without a thought for her own karmic future, and heedless of her own physical exhaustion. Now, having retired in recent years from her former busy life, she has time to spend quietly on Buddhist devotions-but you come around, hatching your malicious schemes to frustrate and upset her, spreading silly rumors at the yearend cleaning, thinking up ways to anger her at the busy year-end season. What a bitterly cruel thing to do.
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If you should feel that the words I have written here are reasonable, then take this letter and preserve it in a safe place. If you mend your ways, regretting your misdeeds and fearing their consequences, then this letter, inadequate as it is, will be an auspicious jewel of great worth- although even a jewel of incalculable price cannot dispel the delusion in a person's mind. No one can predict when another person with your bad habits will appear; it may even be your own son. If you preserve this letter and show it to him, it may influence him to cease his Evil ways, even to do good deeds as well.
If, on the other hand, you decide that what I have said is unreasonable nonsense, just toss the letter into the fire. From now on, everything will inevitably depend on your mind alone.
1.021 - The Prophets, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
77. And We supported him against the people who rejected Our signs. They were an Evil people, so We drowned them all.
78. And David and Solomon, when they gave judgment in the case of the field, when some people’s sheep wandered therein by night; and We were witnesses to their judgment.
1.02.3.1 - The Lord, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
imperfection, without sinews, pure, unpierced by Evil. The Seer, the Thinker, the One
who becomes everywhere, the Self-existent has ordered objects perfectly according to
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without sinews, pure, unpierced by Evil." To express the same
Absolute as cause, continent and governing Inhabitant of the
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It is pure, unpierced by Evil. What we call sin or Evil, is
merely excess and defect, wrong placement, inharmonious action and reaction. By its equality, by its inaction even while it
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parent of Evil.
Ignorance is a veil that separates the mind, body and life
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the mind feels itself pierced by the Evil that Ignorance creates. But
the Active Brahman is always Sachchidananda using for its selfbecoming the forms of mind, body and life. All their experiences
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pierced by the Evil. For It also is the One and sees everywhere
Oneness. It is not mastered by the Ignorance that It uses as a
1.02.3.2 - Knowledge and Ignorance, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
to the dualities of joy and sorrow, good and Evil, truth and error,
love and hatred, pleasure and suffering.
1.02.3.3 - Birth and Non-Birth, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
THE Evil OF THE EXTREMES
Neither attachment to Non-Birth nor attachment to Birth is the
1.023 - The Believers, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
96. Repel Evil by what is better. We are aware of what they describe.
97. And say, “My Lord, I seek refuge with You from the urgings of the d Evils.
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107. Our Lord! Bring us out of this. If we ever returned, we would truly be Evil.”
108. He will say, “Be despised therein, and do not speak to Me.
1.02.4.2 - Action and the Divine Will, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
the Evil dream of egoism, sin and suffering and transforms Life
into the Immortality, the good, the beatitude. The Vedic gods
10.24 - Savitri, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Ashwapati now observes with a clear vividness that all these worlds and the beings and forces that inhabit them are stricken as it were with a bar sinister branded upon their bodies. In spite of an inherent urge of ascension the way is not a straight road but devious and crooked breaking into by-lanes and blind alleys. There is a great corruption and perversion of natural movements towards Truth: falsehoods and pretensions, arrogance of blindness reign here in various degrees. Ashwapati sought to know the wherefore of it all. So he goes behind, dives down and comes into a region that seems to be the source and basis of all ignorance and obscurity and falsehood. He comes into the very heart of the Night, the abyss of consciousness. He meets there the Mother of Evil and the sons of darkness. He stands before
. . the gate of the false Infinite,
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I was made for Evil, Evil is my lot;
Evil I must be and by Evil live;
Naught other can I do, but be myself;
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But there are intermediaries. The fullness of the realisation depends on the fullness of the incarnation. The Evil in the body, the Evil in the vital, the Evil in the mind are, whatever their virulence and intransigence, subsidiary agents, for they serve only a mightier Lord. The first original Sin is Death, the God of Denial, of non-existence. That is the very sourcefons et origo the fount and origin of all the misfortune, the fate that terrestrial life involves. This demon, this anti-Divine has to be tracked and destroyed or dissolved into its original origin. This is the Nihil that negates the DivineAsat that seeks to nullify Sat and that has created this world of ignorance and misery, that is to say, in its outward pragmatic form. So Savitri sees the one source and knows the remedy. Therefore she pursues death, pursues him to the end, that is, to the end of death. The luminous energy of the Supreme faces now its own shadow and blazes it up. The flaming Light corrodes into the substance of the darkness and makes of it her own transfigured substance. This then is the gift that Savitri brings to man, the Divine's own immortality, transfusing the mortality that reigns now upon earth.
In view of the necessity of the age, for the crucial, critical and, in a way, final consummation of Nature's evolutionary urge, the Divine Himself has to come down in the fullness of His divinity; for only then can the earth be radically changed and wholly transformed. In the beginning the Divine once came down, but by sacrificing Himself, being pulverised, scattered and lost in the infinitesimals of a universal, material, unconsciousness. Once again He has to come down, but this time in the supreme glory of His victorious Luminosity.
1.025 - The Criterion, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
8. Or, “If only a treasure was dropped on him.” Or, “If only he had a garden from which he eats.” The Evildoers also say, “You are following but a man under spell.”
9. Look how they invent examples for you. They have gone astray, and cannot find a way.
1.027 - The Ant, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
11. But whoever has done wrong, and then substituted goodness in place of Evil. I am Forgiving and Merciful.
12. Put your hand inside your pocket, and it will come out white, without blemish—among nine miracles to Pharaoh and his people, for they are immoral people.”
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46. He said, “O my people, why are you quick to do Evil rather than good? If only you would seek God’s forgiveness, so that you may be shown mercy.”
47. They said, “We consider you an ill omen, and those with you.” He said, “Your omen is with God. In fact, you are a people being tested.”
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90. But whoever brings Evil—their faces will be tumbled into the Fire. Will you be rewarded except for what you used to do?
91. “I was commanded to worship the Lord of this town, who has sanctified it, and to Whom everything belongs; and I was commanded to be of those who submit.
1.028 - History, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
54. These will be given their reward twice, because they persevered; and they counter Evil with good; and from Our provisions to them, they give.
55. And when they hear vain talk, they avoid it, and say, “We have our deeds, and you have your deeds; peace be upon you; we do not desire the ignorant.”
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84. Whoever brings a virtue will receive better than it. But whoever brings Evil—the Evildoers will be rewarded only according to what they used to do.
85. He Who ordained the Quran for you will return you Home. Say, “My Lord knows best who comes with guidance, and who is in manifest error.”
1.029 - The Spider, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
45. Recite what is revealed to you of the Scripture, and perform the prayer. The prayer prevents indecencies and Evils. And the remembrance of God is greater. And God knows what you do.
46. And do not argue with the People of the Scripture except in the best manner possible, except those who do wrong among them. And say, “We believe in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to you; and our God and your God is One; and to Him we are submissive.”
1.02 - BEFORE THE CITY-GATE, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
Who heretofore, in Evil days,
Gave us so much of helping care.
1.02 - In the Beginning, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
They have been differently interpreted from varying points of view. But it is not with impunity that the true notion of the great Duality has been corrupted by so many religions and philosophies. Some of these, the better to exalt one of its two Puissances, have robbed the other of all character of divinity, and transforming complementary into contradictory principles have personified them sometimes as the two eternally active and eternally antagonistic powers of Good and Evil, or, again, have deified the Pure Spirit in opposition to the vileness of Matter, which is yet capable of being a field for the Spirits creative activity.
And wherever Philosophy has made itself, according to the ecclesiastical formula, the handmaid of Theology, it has ended by arriving at the entire negation of the Principle which Religion has abased.
1.02 - IN THE COMPANY OF DEVOTEES, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Explanation of Evil
A NEIGHBOUR: "Why does a man have sinful tendencies?"
MASTER: "In God's creation there are all sorts of things. He has created bad men as well as good men. It is He who gives us good tendencies, and it is He again who gives us Evil tendencies."
NEIGHBOUR: "In that case we aren't responsible for our sinful actions, are we?"
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Darkness is needed too. It reveals all the more the glory of light. There is no doubt that anger, lust, and greed are Evils. Why, then, has God created them? In order to create saints. A man becomes a saint by conquering the senses. Is there anything impossible for a man who has subdued his passions? He can even realize God, through His grace.
Again, see how His whole play of creation is perpetuated through lust.
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MASTER: "Certainly. But as I said just now, one must live in holy company and pray unceasingly. One should weep for God. When the impurities of the mind are thus washed away, one realizes God. The mind is like a needle covered with mud, and God is like a magnet. The needle cannot be united with the magnet unless it is free from mud. Tears wash away the mud, which is nothing but lust, anger, greed, and other Evil tendencies, and the inclination to worldly enjoyments as well. As soon as the mud is washed away, the magnet attracts the needle, that is to say, man realizes God. Only the pure in heart see God. A fever patient has an excess of the watery element in his system. What can quinine do for him unless that is removed?
"Why shouldn't one realize God while living in the world? But, as I said, one must live in holy company, pray to God, weeping for His grace, and now and then go into solitude.
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
own emotions, and the nature of our true being; to understand our capacity for great acts of Evil and great
acts of good and our motivations for participating in them.
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earth, the belly of the beast, the dragon, the Evil stepmo ther, the deep, the fecund, the pregnant, the valley,
the cleft, the cave, hell, death and the grave, the moon (ruler of the night and the myterious dark),
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possessed of great and dangerous potential, knowing good and Evil. The unknown cannot be described, by
definition. The known is too complicated to be understood. The knower the conscious individual human
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things. It is for this reason, in part, that the terror of the unknown, the tyranny of the state, and the Evil
aspect of man are contaminated with one another for this reason that the d Evil and the stranger are
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inquiry, exploration and transformation. The great story is, therefore, good vs. Evil, played out against the
endless flux of being, as it signifies. The forces of good have an eternal character (in the same way that
Platonic objects are represented, eternally, in supracelestial space); unfortunately, so do the forces of Evil.
This eternality exists because all members of the species Homo Sapiens are essentially equivalent, equal
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To avenge Apsu, Tiamat did this Evil.
How she got ready for the attack was revealed to Ea.
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Marduk fills Tiamat with an Evil wind, which distends her belly. When she opens her mouth, to
devour him, he lets an arrow fly, which tears her interior, and splits her heart. He subdues her, completely,
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wisely and fairly. His Evil brother, Seth who he did not understand268 rose up against him. Figure 23:
The Battle between Osiris and Seth in the Domain of Order portrays this conflict as a war in the
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to the existence of the immortal deity of Evil. Seth, the kings brother and opposite, represents the mythic
hostile twin or adversary who eternally opposes the process of creative encounter with the unknown;
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to the existence of immortal Evil. This blindness, and its resultant incaution, brings about (or at least
hastens) Osiris demise.
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to his rightful kingdom, to confront his Evil uncle. This process is schematically represented in Figure
25: The Birth and Return of Horus, Divine Son of Order and Chaos.
Horus fights a difficult battle with Seth as the forces of Evil are difficult to overcome and loses an
eye in the process. Seth is overcome, nonetheless; Horus recovers his eye. The story could quit there,
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Seth) is overcome by the mythic son, the hero who (temporarily) defeats the power of Evil, and who
rejuvenates the father. Marduk, the Mesopotamian supreme god, is by comparison a straightforward hero:
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father, he is capable of dealing with the problems of the present (that is, with the emergent Evil represented
by his uncle). Victorious over his uncle, he is nonetheless incomplete, as his youthful spirit lacks the
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but against wisdom Evil does not prevail.
She reaches mightily from one end of the earth to the other,
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rendered upon value. Such judgment constitutes a decision about the nature of good and Evil, from the
mythic or narrative viewpoint. Such determinations of value are decisions whose function is organization of
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with the genuine but stolen Water, masking their Evil souls with the appearance of benevolence, and
arrange to have their unfortunate sibling banished and killed. The huntsman assigned to do the killing
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Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is Evil in his sight? You have smitten Uriah
the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of
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Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will raise up Evil against you out of your own house; and I will take
your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the
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blindness to Evil. He is the personification of the authoritarian or totalitarian state, whose goal is
reduction of all who are currently living to manifestation of a single dead past personality. When
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secure means discarding simplistic theories which attri bute the existence of human suffering and Evil
purely to the state, or which presume that the state is all that is good, and that the individual should exist
1.02 - Of certain spiritual imperfections which beginners have with respect to the habit of pride., #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
2. In these persons the d Evil often increases the fervour that they have and the desire to perform these and other works more frequently, so that their pride and presumption may grow greater. For the d Evil knows quite well that all these works and virtues which they perform are not only valueless to them, but even become vices in them. And such a degree of Evil are some of these persons wont to reach that they would have none appear good save themselves; and thus, in deed and word, whenever the opportunity occurs, they condemn them and slander them, beholding the mote in their brother's eye and not considering the beam which is in their own;22 they strain at another's gnat and themselves swallow a camel.23
3. Sometimes, too, when their spiritual masters, such as confessors and superiors, do not approve of their spirit and behavior (for they are anxious that all they do shall be esteemed and praised), they consider that they do not understand them, or that, because they do not approve of this and comply with that, their confessors are themselves not spiritual. And so they immediately desire and contrive to find some one else who will fit in with their tastes; for as a rule they desire to speak of spiritual matters with those who they think will praise and esteem what they do, and they flee, as they would from death, from those who disabuse them in order to lead them into a safe road sometimes they even harbour ill-will against them. Presuming thus,24 they are wont to resolve much and accomplish very little. Sometimes they are anxious that others shall realize how spiritual and devout they are, to which end they occasionally give outward evidence thereof in movements, sighs and other ceremonies; and at times they are apt to fall into certain ecstasies, in public rather than in secret, wherein the d Evil aids them, and they are pleased that this should be noticed, and are often eager that it should be noticed more.25
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4. Many such persons desire to be the favourites of their confessors and to become intimate with them, as a result of which there beset them continual occasions of envy and disquiet.26 They are too much embarrassed to confess their sins nakedly, lest their confessors should think less of them, so they palliate them and make them appear less Evil, and thus it is to excuse themselves rather than to accuse themselves that they go to confession. And sometimes they seek another confessor to tell the wrongs that they have done, so that their own confessor shall think they have done nothing wrong at all, but only good; and thus they always take pleasure in telling him what is good, and sometimes in such terms as make it appear to be greater than it is rather than less, desiring that he may think them to be good, when it would be greater humility in them, as we shall say, to depreciate it, and to desire that neither he nor anyone else should consider them of account.
5. Some of these beginners, too, make little of their faults, and at other times become over-sad when they see themselves fall into them, thinking themselves to have been saints already; and thus they become angry and impatient with themselves, which is another imperfection. Often they beseech God, with great yearnings, that He will take from them their imperfections and faults, but they do this that they may find themselves at peace, and may not be troubled by them, rather than for God's sake; not realizing that, if He should take their imperfections from them, they would probably become prouder and more presumptuous still. They dislike praising others and love to be praised themselves; sometimes they seek out such praise. Herein they are like the foolish virgins, who, when their lamps could not be lit, sought oil from others.27
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They have no desire to speak of the things that they do, because they think so little of them that they are ashamed to speak of them even to their spiritual masters, since they seem to them to be things that merit not being spoken of. They are more anxious to speak of their faults and sins, or that these should be recognized rather than their virtues; and thus they incline to talk of their souls with those who account their actions and their spirituality of little value. This is a characteristic of the spirit which is simple, pure, genuine and very pleasing to God. For as the wise Spirit of God dwells in these humble souls, He moves them and inclines them to keep His treasures secretly within and likewise to cast out from themselves all Evil. God gives this grace to the humble, together with the other virtues, even as He denies it to the proud.
8. These souls will give their heart's blood to anyone that serves God, and will help others to serve Him as much as in them lies. The imperfections into which they see themselves fall they bear with humility, meekness of spirit and a loving fear of God, hoping in Him. But souls who in the beginning journey with this kind of perfection are, as I understand, and as has been said, a minority, and very few are those who we can be glad do not fall into the opposite errors. For this reason, as we shall afterwards say, God leads into the dark night those whom He desires to purify from all these imperfections so that He may bring them farther onward.
1.02 - On the Knowledge of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
The second class of errorists are those who deny a day of resurrection and assembly. They allege that man and other animals are like vegetables, and do not enter into another body when they die. They say, that a resurrection, in which spirits and bodies shall be reassembled in one place, is impossible, and that there will be neither discipline or punishment, recompense or reward. The errors of this sect arise from their inability to understand of themselves their own souls. They imagine that the spirit is an animal spirit only, and that the heart, which is in reality the spirit of man, is the place for the knowledge of God, and that no Evil can happen to it_ except that it will be separated from the body. They call this separation, death. This sect is unconcerned about this spirit, and in proof of this we shall discourse, if it please God, in the fourth chapter.
The third class of errorists are those who indeed believe in God and a future life, but whose faith is weak, because they do not understand the requirements of the law. They say that "God is able to do without our worship. There is neither any profit to God from our worship, or any injury done him by our disobedience. If we worship God, we shall learn what good it did in the future world; and if we do not worship him, there will neither be any advantage or harm. God himself so declares in his holy word, "Whosoever keep himself pure, does it for his own advantage," 1 and in another place, "He who does well, does it for his own profit." 2 Although it is better to worship God, yet as God has no need of our worship, therefore if we do not worship him, what harm is there in it ?" These ignorant people resemble the sick man, who when the physician says to him, "you should be abstinent, if you wish to be [59] cured of your malady," should answer, "what advantage is it to you whether I am abstinent or not"? Now though the sick man is right when he says that there is no advantage to the physician from his abstinence, yet if he is not abstinent, he will perish. This class regards obedience and transgression as of the same degree in value. But in the same manner as disease may occasion a man's destruction, so transgression defiles the heart, and will cause it to appear in the future world in a state of woe. And just as abstinence and medicine restore the body to health, so to avoid acts of transgression and sin and to be obedient to God, are means of securing salvation.
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The seventh form of error, beloved, is that of the class whose mistakes arise from ignorance and carelessness, while they have never heard any thing of these doubts of which we have been speaking. They merely wear the garments, cap and quilted robes of the mystics (soofees), and after learning some of their words and phrases, they pretend to have attained saintship and supernatural powers. And although apparently they have no Evil intentions, yet because they do not properly respect the holy law, but practice their devotions in a lax way, their course leads them to corrupt doctrines and errors. They are always inclined to do whatsoever their corrupt disposition would lead them to do, such as yielding to the love of frivolous practices, or to sensual indulgences, or assenting to transgression and sin. In the presence of the multitude, they put on a holy mien and do not approve of error and sin, but they do not withdraw their hearts from the pleasure of wine, nor from adulterous and licentious society, nor withdraw their hands from the business of gaining the world. Although in [65] these associations there may be no overt sin, yet they do not consider that such thoughts are but satanic suggestions and sensual importunities. They are not capable of distinguishing actions and circumstances, or right and wrong. Beloved, to this class belong those of whom God declares in his holy word, "We have covered their hearts with more than one envelop, that they may not understand the Koran and we have put deafness upon their ears. Even if thou shouldst call them to the right way, they would never follow it." 1It is better to talk with a sword, than to talk with this class of people, for they are not open to conviction....
1.02 - On the Service of the Soul, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
If your virtues hinder you from salvation, discard them, since they have become Evil to you. The slave to virtue finds the way as little as the slave to vices. 70 If you believe that you are the master of your soul, then become her servant. If you were her servant, make yourself her master, since she needs to be ruled. These should be your first steps.
During six further nights, the spirit of the depths was silent in me, since I swayed between fear, defiance, and nausea, and was wholly the prey of my passion. I could not and did not want to listen to the depths But on the seventh night, the spirit of the depths spoke to me. Look into your depths, pray to your depths, waken the dead. 71
1.02 - ON THE TEACHERS OF VIRTUE, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
"A little company is more welcome to me than Evil
company: but they must go and come at the right
1.02 - Outline of Practice, #The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, #Bodhidharma, #Buddhism
foresee when an Evil deed will bear its fruit. I accept it with an open
heart and without complaint of injustice." The sutras say, "When
1.02 - Prayer of Parashara to Vishnu, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
ga, a number of synonymes for this term, as, ###. They are also explained, though not very distinctly, to the following purport: "Manas is that which considers the consequences of acts to all creatures, and provides for their happiness. Mahat, the Great principle, is so termed from being the first of the created principles, and from its extension being greater than that of the rest. Mati is that which discriminates and distinguishes objects preparatory to their fruition by Soul. Brahmā implies that which effects the developement and augmentation of created things. Pur p. 15 is that by which the coñcurrence of nature occupies and fills all bodies. Buddhi is that which communicates to soul the knowledge of good and Evil. Khyāti is the means of individual fruition, or the faculty of discriminating objects by appropriate designations, and the like. Īśvara is that which knows all things as if they were present. Prajñā is that by which the properties of things are known. Chiti is that by which the consequences of acts and species of knowledge are selected for the use of soul. Smriti is the faculty of recognising all things, past, present, or to come. Samvit is that in which all things are found or known, and which is found or known in all things: and Vipura is that which is free from the effects of contrarieties, as of knowledge and ignorance, and the like. Mahat is also called Īśvara, from its exercising supremacy over all things; Bhāva, from its elementary existence; Eka, or 'the one,' from its singleness; Puruṣa, from its abiding within the body; and from its being ungenerated it is called Swayambhu." Now in this nomenclature we have chiefly two sets of words; one, as Manas, Buddhi, Mati, signifying mind, intelligence, knowledge, wisdom, design; and the other, as Brahmā, Īśvara, &c., denoting an active creator and ruler of the universe: as the Vāyu adds, 'Mahat, impelled by the desire to create, causes various creation:' and the Mahābhārata has, 'Mahat created Aha
kāra.' The Purāṇas generally employ the same expression, attributing to Mahat or Intelligence the 'act of creating. Mahat is therefore the divine mind in creative operation, the νοῦς ὁ διακόσμων τε καὶ πάντων ἀίτιος of Anaxagoras; an ordering and disposing mind, which was the cause of all things: The word itself suggests some relationship to the Phœnician Mot, which, like Mahat, was the first product of the mixture of spirit and matter, and the first rudiment of creation: "Ex connexione autem ejus spiritus prodiit mot . . . hinc seminium omnis creaturæ et omnium rerum creatio." Brucker, I. 240. Mot, it is true, . appears to be a purely material substance, whilst Mahat is an incorporeal substance; but they agree in their place in the cosmogony, and are something alike in name. How far also the Phœnician system has been accurately described, is matter of uncertainty. See Sā
1.02 - SADHANA PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
Samskara forms of Evil thoughts.
11. II ??ll
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good or Evil, as pain-bearing obstructions; they obstruct the
way to freedom of the Soul. It is the same with the Samskaras,
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good or Evil, and everywhere we go the atmosphere is full of
these materials, and that is how there came to the human
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receives all the Evils of the giver, and they come and lay
coating after coating on his mind, until it is hidden under all
sorts of coverings of Evil. If he does not receive the mind
becomes pure, and the first thing it gets is memory of past life.
1.02 - Skillful Means, #The Lotus Sutra, #Anonymous, #Various
From the Evils of the phenomenal world.
That is why the buddhas of the ten directions
1.02 - The Concept of the Collective Unconscious, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
of having good and Evil fairies who magically "adopt" them
at birth with blessings or curses, are given sponsors a "god-
1.02 - The Descent. Dante's Protest and Virgil's Appeal. The Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
But if the adversary of all Evil
Was courteous, thinking of the high effect
1.02 - The Divine Teacher, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
and hidden guide. That action is the action of a whole world of men and nations, some of whom have come as helpers of an effort and result by which they do not personally profit, and to these he is a leader, some as its opponents and to them he also is an opponent, the baffler of their designs and their slayer and he seems even to some of them an instigator of all Evil and destroyer of their old order and familiar world and secure conventions of virtue and good; some are representatives of that which has to be fulfilled and to them he is counsellor, helper, friend. Where the action pursues its natural course or the doers of the work have to suffer at the hands of its enemies and undergo the ordeals which prepare them for mastery, the
Avatar is unseen or appears only for occasional comfort and aid, but at every crisis his hand is felt, yet in such a way that all imagine themselves to be the protagonists and even Arjuna, his nearest friend and chief instrument, does not perceive that he is an instrument and has to confess at last that all the while he did not really know his divine Friend. He has received counsel from his wisdom, help from his power, has loved and been loved, has even adored without understanding his divine nature; but he has been guided like all others through his own egoism and the counsel, help and direction have been given in the language and received by the thoughts of the Ignorance. Until the moment when all has been pushed to the terrible issue of the struggle on the field of Kurukshetra and the Avatar stands at last, still not as fighter, but as the charioteer in the battle-car which carries the destiny of the fight, he has not revealed Himself even to those whom he has chosen.
1.02 - The Doctrine of the Mystics, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But the Dasyu is the natural enemy. These dividers, plunderers, harmful powers, these Danavas, sons of the Mother of division, are spoken of by the Rishis under many general appellations. There are Rakshasas; there are Eaters and Devourers, Wolves and Tearers; there are hurters and haters; there are dualisers; there are confiners or censurers. But we are given also many specific names. Vritra, the Serpent, is the grand Adversary; for he obstructs with his coils of darkness all possibility of divine existence and divine action. And even when Vritra is slain by the light, fiercer enemies arise out of him. Shushna afflicts us with his impure and ineffective force, Namuchi fights man by his weaknesses, and others too assail, each with his proper Evil. Then there are Vala and the Panis, miser traffickers in the sense-life, stealers and concealers of the higher Light and its illuminations which they can only darken and misuse, - an impious host who are jealous of their store and will not offer sacrifice to the Gods. These and other personalities - they are much more than personifications - of our ignorance, Evil, weakness and many limitations make constant war upon man; they encircle him from near or they shoot their arrows at him from afar or even dwell in his gated house in the place of the Gods and with their shapeless stammering mouths and their insufficient breath of force mar his self-expression. They must be expelled, overpowered, slain, thrust down into their nether darkness by the aid of the mighty and helpful deities.
1 This excerpt is reproduced from the 1946 edition of Hymns to the Mystic Fire. The complete essay which appeared in the Arya is published in The Secret of the Veda with Selected Hymns, Part Three. - Ed.
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Each of these primary deities has others associated with him who fulfil functions that arise from his own. For if the truth of Surya is to be established firmly in our mortal nature, there are previous conditions that are indispensable; a vast purity and clear wideness destructive of all sin and crooked falsehood, - and this is Varuna; a luminous power of love and comprehension leading and forming into harmony all our thoughts, acts and impulses, - this is Mitra; an immortal puissance of clear-discerning aspiration and endeavour, - this is Aryaman; a happy spontaneity of the right enjoyment of all things dispelling the Evil dream of sin and error and suffering, - this is Bhaga. These four are powers of the Truth of Surya.
For the whole bliss of Soma to be established perfectly in our nature a happy and enlightened and unmaimed condition of mind, vitality and body are necessary. This condition is given to us by the twin Ashwins; wedded to the daughter of Light, drinkers of honey, bringers of perfect satisfactions, healers of maim and malady they occupy our parts of knowledge and parts of action and prepare our mental, vital and physical being for an easy and victorious ascension.
1.02 - The Great Process, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
One has to admit to a major flaw in the method, and first, to a flaw in the goal pursued. What do we know of the goal, really, sunk in matter as we are, blinded by the onrush of the world? Our first immediate reaction is to cry, It can't be here! It's not here! Not in this mud, this Evil, this whirlwind, not in this dark and burdened world! We must get out at all costs, free ourselves from this weight of flesh and struggle and from that surreptitious erosion in which we seem to be eaten up by thousands of voracious trivialities. So we have proclaimed the Goal to be up above, in a heaven of liberated thoughts, a heaven of art and poetry and music any heaven at all is better than this darkness! We came here merely to earn the leisure for our own private heaven, bookish, religious, pictorial or aesthetic the long vacation of the Spirit free at last. So we have climbed and climbed, poeticized, intellectualized, evangelized; we have rid ourselves of all that might weigh us down, erected a protective wall around our eremite contemplations, our cloistered yoga, our private meditations, traced the white circle of the Spirit, like new spiritual witch doctors. Then we stepped into it, and here we are.
But, in so doing, we are perhaps making as great a mistake as that of the apprentice human in his first lake dwelling who would have claimed that the Goal, the mental heaven he was gropingly discovering, was not in the commonplaceness of daily life, in those tools to carve, those mouths to feed, those entangling nets, those countless snares, but in some ice cave or Australasian desert and who would have discarded his tools. Einstein's equations would never have seen the light of day. By losing his tools, man loses his goal; by discarding all the grossness and Evil and darkness and burden of life, we may go dozing off into the blissful (?) reaches of the Spirit, but we are completely outside the Goal, because the Goal might very well be right here, in this grossness and darkness and Evil and burden which are gross and dark and burdensome only because we look at them erroneously, as the apprentice human looked erroneously at his tools, unable to see how his tying that stone to that club was already tying the invisible train of our thought to the movement of Jupiter and Venus, and how the mental heaven actually teems everywhere here, in all our gestures and superfluous acts, just as our next heaven teems under our eyes, concealed only by our false spiritual look, imprisoned in the white circle of a so-called Spirit which is but our human approximation for the next stage of evolution. Life... Life alone is the field of our Yoga, exclaimed Sri Aurobindo.4
Yet the process, the Great Process, is here, just as it began as long ago as the Pleistocene era that idle little second, that introspection of the second kind but the movement revealed to the monkey and the movement revealed to the spiritualist of ages past (and surpassed) are in no way an indication of the next direction it is to take. There is no continuity that is a delusion! There is no refinement of the same movement, no improving upon the ape or man, no perfecting of the stone tool or the mental tool, no climbing higher peaks, no thinking loftier thoughts, no deeper meditations or discoveries that would be a glorification of the existing state, a sublimation of the old flesh, a sublime halo around the old beast there is SOMETHING ELSE, something radically different, a new threshold to cross, as different from ours as the threshold of plant life was from the animal, another discovery of the already-here, which will change our world as drastically as the human look changed the world of the caterpillar yet it is the same world, but seen with two different looks another Spirit, we might say, as different from the religious or intellectual spirit or the great naked Spirit on the heights of the Absolute, as man's thought is different from the first quivering of a wild rose under a ray of sunlight yet it is the same eternal Spirit but in a greater concretization of itself, for, in fact, the Spirit's true direction is not from the bottom up, but from the top down, and it becomes ever more in matter, because it is the world's very Matter, wrested bit by bit from our false caterpillar look and false human look and false spiritual look or, let us say, recognized little by little by our growing true look. This new threshold of vision depends first on a pause in our regular mental and visual routine and that is the Great Process, the movement of introspection of the second kind but the path is entirely new: this is a new life on earth, another discovery to make; and the less weighed down we are by past wisdom, past ascents, past illuminations, all the disciplines and virtues and old gilded frills of the Spirit, the freer we are and more open to the new, the more the path shall spring up under our feet, as if by magic, as if it sprang from that total desecration.
1.02 - The Human Soul, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
4.: O souls, redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ, take these things to heart; have mercy on yourselves! If you realize your pitiable condition, how can you refrain from trying to remove the darkness from the crystal of your souls? Remember, if death should take you now, you would never again enjoy the light of this Sun. O Jesus! how sad a sight must be a soul deprived of light! What a terrible state the chambers of this castle are in! How disorderly must be the senses-the inhabitants of the castle-the powers of the soul its magistrates, governors, and stewards-blind and uncontrolled as they are! In short, as the soil in which the tree is now planted is in the d Evil's domain, how can its fruit be anything but Evil? A man of great spiritual insight once told me he was not so much surprised at such a soul's wicked deeds as astonished that it did not commit even worse sins. May God in His mercy keep us from such great Evil, for nothing in this life merits the name of Evil in comparison with this, which delivers us over to Evil which is eternal.
5.: This is what we must dread and pray God to deliver us from, for we are weakness itself, and unless He guards the city, in vain shall we labour to defend it.20' The person of whom I spoke21' said that she had learnt two things from the vision granted her. The first was, a great fear of offending God; seeing how terrible were the consequences, she constantly begged Him to preserve her from falling into sin. Secondly, it was a mirror to teach her humility, for she saw that nothing good in us springs from ourselves but comes from the waters of grace near which the soul remains like a tree planted beside a river, and from that Sun which gives life to our works. She realized this so vividly that on seeing any good deed performed by herself or by other people she at once turned to God as to its fountain head-without whose help she knew well we can do nothing-and broke out into songs of praise to Him. Generally she forgot all about herself and only thought of God when she did any meritorious action.
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13.: From personal experience I could give you much information as to what happens in these first mansions. I will only say that you must not imagine there are only a few, but a number of rooms, for souls enter them by many different ways, and always with a good intention. The d Evil is so angry at this that he keeps legions of Evil spirits hidden in each room to stop the progress of Christians, whom, being ignorant of this, he entraps in a thousand ways. He cannot so easily deceive souls which dwell nearer to the King as he can beginners still absorbed in the world, immersed in its pleasures, and eager for its honours and distinctions. As the vassals of their souls, the senses and powers bestowed on them by God, are weak, such people are easily vanquished, although desirous not to offend God.
14.: Those conscious of being in this state must as often as possible have recourse to His Majesty, taking His Blessed Mother and the saints for their advocates to do battle for them, because we creatures possess little strength for self-defence. Indeed in every state of life all our help must come from God; may He in His mercy grant it us, Amen! What a miserable life we lead! As I have spoken more fully in other writings27' on the ill that results from ignoring the need of humility and self-knowledge, I will treat no more about it here, my daughters, although it is of the first importance. God grant that what I have said may be useful to you.
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17.: What then would become of a religious like ourselves, my daughters, if, after having escaped from all these impediments, and having entered much farther into the more secret mansion, she should, by her own fault, return to all this turmoil? Through her sins, many other people on whom God had bestowed great graces would culpably relapse into their wretched state. In our convents we are free from these exterior Evils; please God our minds may be as free from them, and may He deliver us from such ills.
18.: Do not trouble yourselves, my daughters, with cares which do not concern you. You must notice that the struggle with the demons continues through nearly all the mansions of this castle. True, in some of them, the guards, which, as I explained, are the powers of the soul, have strength for the combat, but we must be keenly on the watch against the d Evils's arts, lest he deceive us in the form of an angel of light. He creeps in gradually, in numberless ways, and does us much harm, though we do not discover it until too late.28
1.02 - The Magic Circle, #The Practice of Magical Evocation, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
A true magic circle represents the symbolic lay-out of the macrocosm and the microcosm, that is, of the perfect man. It stands for the Beginning and the Ending for the Alpha and the Omega, as well as for Eternity, which has no beginning and no end. The magic circle, therefore, is a symbolic diagram of the Infinite, of Divinity in all its aspects, as can be comprehended by the microcosm, i. e. by the true adept, the perfect magician. To draw a magic circle means to symbolize the Divine in His perfection, to get into contact with Him. This happens, above all, at the moment the magician is standing in the centre of the magic circle, for it is by this act that the contact with the Divinity is demonstrated graphically. It is the magician's contact with the macrocosm in his highest step of consciousness. Therefore, from the point of view of true magic, it is quite logical that standing in the centre of the magic circle is equivalent to being, in one's consciousness, a unity with the Universal Divinity. From this one can see clearly that a magic circle is not only a diagram for protection from unwanted negative influences, but security and inviolability are brought about by this conscious and spiritual contact with the Highest. The magician who stands in the centre of the magic circle is protected from any influence, no matter, whether good or Evil, for himself is, in fact, symbolizing the Divine in the universe. Furthermore, by standing in the centre of the magic circle, the magician also represents the Divinity in the microcosm and controls and rules the beings of the universe in a totalitarian manner.
The esoteric essence of the magician's standing in the centre of the magic circle is, therefore, quite different from that which the books on evocations usually maintain. If a magician standing in the centre of the magic circle were not conscious of the fact that he is, at that moment, symbolizing God the Divine and Infinite, he would not be able to practise any influence on any being whatsoever. The magician is, at that instant, a perfect magic authority whom all powers and beings must absolutely obey. His will and the orders he gives to beings or powers are equivalent to the will and orders of the Infinite, the Divine, and must therefore be unconditionally respected by the beings and powers the magician has conjured up. If the magician, during such an operation, has not the right attitude towards his doings, he degrades himself to a sorcerer, a charlatan, who simply mimics and has no true contact with the Highest. The magician's authority would, in such a case, be rather doubtful. Moreover, he would be in danger of losing his control over such beings and powers, or, what would even be worse, he could be mocked by them, not to speak of other unwanted and unforeseen surprises and accompanying phenomena that he would be exposed, especially if negative forces were involved.
1.02 - THE NATURE OF THE GROUND, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
The bodies of human beings are affected by the good or bad states of their minds. Analogously, the existence at the heart of things of a divine serenity and good will may be regarded as one of the reasons why the worlds sickness, though chronic, has not proved fatal. And if, in the psychic universe, there should be other and more than human consciousnesses obsessed by thoughts of Evil and egotism and rebellion, this would account, perhaps, for some of the quite extravagant and improbable wickedness of human behaviour.
The acts willed by our minds are accomplished either through the instrumentality of the physiological intelligence and the body, or, very exceptionally, and to a limited extent, by direct supernormal means of the PK variety. Analogously the physical situations willed by a divine Providence may be arranged by the perpetually creating Mind that sustains the universein which case Providence will appear to do its work by wholly natural means; or else, very exceptionally, the divine Mind may act directly on the universe from the outside, as it werein which case the workings of Providence and the gifts of grace will appear to be miraculous. Similarly, the divine Mind may choose to communicate with finite minds either by manipulating the world of men and things in ways, which the particular mind to be reached at that moment will find meaningful; or else there may be direct communication by something resembling thought transference.
1.02 - The Principle of Fire, #Initiation Into Hermetics, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
Bible we read: Fiat Lux There shall be light. The origin of the light, of course, is to be sought in the fire. Each element and therefore that of fire, too, has two polarities, i.e., the active and the passive one, which means positive (+) and negative (-). Plus will always signify the constructive, the creative, the productive sources whereas minus stands for all that is destructive or dissecting. There are always two basic qualities, which must be clearly distinguished in each element. Religions have always imputed the good to the active and the Evil to the passive side. But fundamentally spoken, there are no such things as good or bad; they are nothing but human conceptions. In the Universe there is neither good nor Evil, because everything has been created according to immutable rules, wherein the Divine Principle is reflected and only by knowing these rules, shall we be able to come near to the Divinity.
As mentioned before, the fiery principle owns the expansion, which I shall call electrical fluid for the sake of better comprehension. This definition does not just point to the roughly material electricity in spite of its having a certain analogy to it.
1.02 - THE PROBLEM OF SOCRATES, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
and had told him what he was, a crater full of Evil desires, the great
Master of Irony let fall one or two words more, which provide the key
1.02 - THE QUATERNIO AND THE MEDIATING ROLE OF MERCURIUS, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
[6] The quaternio in this case evidently consists of the two malefici, Mars and Saturn (Mars is the ruler of Aries, Saturn of Capricorn); the two dim lights would then be feminine ones, the moon (ruler of Cancer) and Venus (ruler of Libra). The opposites between which Ostanes stands are thus masculine / feminine on the one hand and good / Evil on the other. The way he speaks of the four luminarieshe does not know how to save himself from themsuggests that he is subject to Heimarmene, the compulsion of the stars; that is, to a transconscious factor beyond the reach of the human will. Apart from this compulsion, the injurious effect of the four planets is due to the fact that each of them exerts its specific influence on man and makes him a diversity of persons, whereas he should be one.26 It is presumably Hermes who points out to Ostanes that something incorruptible is in his nature which he shares with the Agathodaimon,27 something divine, obviously the germ of unity. This germ is the gold, the aurum philosophorum,28 the bird of Hermes or the son of the bird, who is the same as the filius philosophorum.29 He must be enclosed in the vas Hermeticum and heated until the moistness that still clings to him has departed, i.e., the humidum radicale (radical moisture), the prima materia, which is the original chaos and the sea (the unconscious). Some kind of coming to consciousness seems indicated. We know that the synthesis of the four was one of the main preoccupations of alchemy, as was, though to a lesser degree, the synthesis of the seven (metals, for instance). Thus in the same text Hermes says to the Sun:
. . . I cause to come out to thee the spirits of thy brethren [the planets], O Sun, and I make them for thee a crown the like of which was never seen; and I cause thee and them to be within me, and I will make thy kingdom vigorous.30
1.02 - The Refusal of the Call, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
Little Briar-rose (Sleeping Beauty) was put to sleep by a jeal ous hag (an unconscious Evil-mother image). And not only the child, her entire world went off to sleep; but at last, "after long, long years," there came a prince to wake her. "The king and queen (the conscious good-parent images), who had just come home and were entering the hall, began to fall asleep, and with them the whole estate. All the horses slept in the stalls, the dogs in the yard, the pigeons on the roof, the flies on the walls, yes, the fire that flickered on the hearth grew still and slumbered, and the roast ceased to simmer. And the cook, who was about to pull the hair of the scullery boy because he had forgotten some thing, let him go and fell off to sleep. And the wind went down, and not a leaf stirred in the trees. Then around the castle a hedge of thorns began to grow, which became taller every year, and finally shut off the whole estate. It grew up taller than the castle, so that nothing more was seen, not even the weathercock on the roof."
A Persian city once was "enstoned to stone"king and queen, soldiers, inhabitants, and allbecause its people refused the call of Allah. Lot's wife became a pillar of salt for looking back, when she had been summoned forth from her city by Jehovah.
1.02 - The Shadow, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
possibility for a man to recognize the relative Evil of his nature,
but it is a rare and shattering experience for him to gaze into
the face of absolute Evil.
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1.02 - The Stages of Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
Once the student has found the beginnings of spiritual vision by means of such exercises, he may proceed to the contemplation of man himself. Simple phenomena of human life must first be chosen. But before making any attempt in this direction it is imperative for the student to strive for the absolute purity of his moral character. He must banish all through of ever using knowledge gained in this way for his own personal benefit. He must be convinced that he would never, under any circumstances, avail himself in an Evil sense of any power he may gain over his fellow-creatures. For this reason, all who seek to discover through personal vision the secrets in
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1.030 - The Romans, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
10. Then, Evil was the end of those who committed Evil. That is because they rejected God’s revelations, and used to ridicule them.
11. God originates creation, and then repeats it. Then to Him you will be returned.
1.031 - Luqman, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
17. O my son, observe the prayer, advocate righteousness, forbid Evil, and be patient over what has befallen you. These are of the most honorable traits.
18. And do not treat people with arrogance, nor walk proudly on earth. God does not love the arrogant showoffs.
1.035 - Originator, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
8. What of him whose Evil deed was made attractive to him, and so he regards it as good? God leads astray whomever He wills, and He guides whomever He wills. Therefore, do not waste yourself sorrowing over them. God knows exactly what they do.
9. God is He who sends the winds, which agitate clouds, which We drive to a dead land, and thereby revive the ground after it had died. Likewise is the Resurrection.
10. Whoever desires honor—all honor belongs to God. To Him ascends speech that is pure, and He elevates righteous conduct. As for those who plot Evil, a terrible punishment awaits them, and the planning of these will fail.
11. God created you from dust, then from a small drop; then He made you pairs. No female conceives, or delivers, except with His knowledge. No living thing advances in years, or its life is shortened, except it be in a Record. That is surely easy for God.
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37. And they will scream therein, “Our Lord, let us out, and we will act righteously, differently from the way we used to act.” Did We not give you a life long enough, in which anyone who wanted to understand would have understood? And the warner did come to you. So taste. The Evildoers will have no helper.
38. God is the Knower of the future of the heavens and the earth. He knows what the hearts contain.
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43. Priding themselves on earth, and scheming Evil. But Evil scheming overwhelms none but its authors. Do they expect anything but the precedent of the ancients? You will not find any change in God’s practice, and you will not find any substitute to God’s practice.
44. Have they not journeyed in the land and observed the fate of those who preceded them? They were superior to them in strength. But nothing can defeat God in the heavens or on Earth. He is indeed Omniscient and Omnipotent.
10.35 - The Moral and the Spiritual, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"Is there anything essentially wrong, Evil in its very being and nature? Some religious traditions say, there is: Satan is such a thing, Ahriman is such a thing, and what else is my or mr?
However that may be, the sense of something essentially wrong is the fount and origin of the moral sense. The moral sense stems from and lives on the sense of sin and guilt.
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The Indian consciousness did not consider anything essentially Evil, anything irrevocably and eternally condemned to perdition. Even the Asura, the anti-Divine is viewed, in the last analysis of things, also as an aspect, a formation of the Divine himself. Diti and Aditi are sisters, twin aspects of the same Supreme Being. All the legends in narrating the life history of the Asura describe his end as a submission to the Divine Will and a merging in Him. An entire life of bitter hostility culminates in the same degree of love for the Divine. The process of enmity seems to have a deeper occult meaning conducive to the more perfect union with the Divine. We know in Savitri how Sri Aurobindo speaks of Death as only a mask of Immortality.
In fact, Evil, as we usually know it, as human mind construes it, is only a misplacement of a thing, a thing not in its placea thing need not be essentially wrong, it is wrong because it is not in its right place. Even things considered reprehensible by the moral sense are not so when they are viewed from another standpoint.
The moral consciousness seeks to rescue man from the animal consciousness. Its effort is to be delivered from the inferior vital instincts and rise to something higher, genuinely human. It does that or tries to do that by cultivating a feeling of repulsion, even of horror towards things that are sought to be rejected, cast out. The feeling of repulsion, of revulsion and horror, is indispensable to the growth and maintenance of the moral feeling.
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The Indian spiritual consciousness considers the secular distinction of good and Evil as otiose: both are maya, there must neither be attachment to the Good, nor repulsion from Evil, the two, dwandwas, belong to the same category of relativity, that is, unreality.
Indian artists and poets were steeped in that tradition, wholly inspired by that spirit. Orthodox morality often wonders, is even shocked at the frankness, the daring nonchalance in Indian art creations ,a familiar prudery would call it shamelessness and even vulgarity, but to the Indian view, 'the Brahmin and the cow and the elephant' are of equal value and merit. The movement conventional morality calls 'libidinous' has a nobler name in Indian tradition: it is dirasa, the first or primary delight of existence. As I have said, the modern consciousness finds it a horror and is therefore all the more fascinated by it and dives into it head foremost.
1.036 - Ya-Seen, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
18. They said, “We see an Evil omen in you; if you do not give up, we will stone you, and a painful punishment from us will befall you.”
19. They said, “Your Evil omen is upon you. Is it because you were reminded? But you are an extravagant people.”
20. Then a man came running from the remotest part of the city. He said, “O my people, follow the messengers.
1.039 - Throngs, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
24. What about someone who covers his face against the terrible misery of the Day of Resurrection? To the Evildoers it will be said, “Taste what you used to earn.”
25. Those before them also denied the truth, so the penalty came upon them from where they did not perceive.
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32. Who is more Evil than he who lies about God, and denies the truth when it has come to him? Is there not in Hell room for the ungrateful?
33. But he who promotes the truth, and testifies to it—these are the righteous.
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48. There will appear to them the Evils of their deeds, and they will be surrounded by what they used to ridicule.
49. When adversity touches the human being, he calls on Us. But then, when We favor him with a blessing from Us, he says, “I have attained this by virtue of my knowledge.” However, it is a test, but most of them do not know.
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51. The Evils of their deeds caught up with them. And the wrongdoers among these will also be afflicted by the Evils of what they earned, and they cannot prevent it.
52. Do they not know that God extends the provision to whomever He wills, and constricts it? In that are signs for people who believe.
1.03 - APPRENTICESHIP AND ENCULTURATION - ADOPTION OF A SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
consequence of the appropriation of mythological ideas. The philosophy attri buting individual Evil to the
pathology of social force constitutes one such partial story. Although society, the Great Father, has a
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attri bution of Evil to its effects, and degeneration of traditional skill and learning. This is sacrifice of the
Terrible Father, without recognition of the need for his resuscitation and is, therefore, an invitation to the
1.03 - Bloodstream Sermon, #The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, #Bodhidharma, #Buddhism
good or Evil. A buddha isn't energetic or lazy. A buddha is someone
who does nothing, someone who can't even focus his mind on a
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Still others commit all sorts of Evil deeds, claiming karma
doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is
empty, committing Evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of
endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold
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good or Evil, past or future. It's not true or false. It's not male or
female. It doesn't appear as a monk or a layman, an elder or a
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According to the sutras, Evil deeds result in hardships and
good deeds result in blessings. Angry people go to hell and happy
1.03 - BOOK THE THIRD, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Some call'd the Evils which Diana wrought,
Too great, and disproportion'd to the fault:
1.03 - Japa Yoga, #Amrita Gita, #Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #Hinduism
19. When you repeat the Mantra, have the feeling or mental attitude that the Lord is seated in your heart, that Sattva or purity is flowing from the Lord to your mind, that the Mantra purifies your heart, destroys desires and cravings and Evil thoughts.
20. Do not do the Japa in a hurried manner, just as a contractor tries to finish his work in a hurried way. Do it slowly with Bhava, one-pointedness of mind and single-minded devotion.
1.03 - On exile or pilgrimage, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
By much labour and effort a good and firm disposition is developed in us. But what is achieved with great labour can be lost in an instant. For Evil company doth corrupt good manners6, being at once worldly and disorderly.7 The man who associates with people of the world or approaches them
1 Psalm xxiii, 6.
1.03 - ON THE AFTERWORLDLY, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
of a god: colored smoke before the eyes of a dissatisfied deity. Good and Evil and joy and pain and I and
you-colored smoke this seemed to me before creative
1.03 - PERSONALITY, SANCTITY, DIVINE INCARNATION, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
The biographies of the saints testify unequivocally to the fact that spiritual training leads to a transcendence of personality, not merely in the special circumstances of battle, but in all circumstances and in relation to all creatures, so that the saint loves his enemies or, if he is a Buddhist, does not even recognize the existence of enemies, but treats all sentient beings, sub-human as well as human, with the same compassion and disinterested good will. Those who win through to the unitive knowledge of God set out upon their course from the most diverse starting points. One is a man, another a woman; one a born active, another a born contemplative. No two of them inherit the same temperament and physical constitution, and their lives are passed in material, moral and intellectual environments that are profoundly dissimilar. Nevertheless, insofar as they are saints, insofar as they possess the unitive knowledge that makes them perfect as their Father which is in heaven is perfect, they are all astonishingly alike. Their actions are uniformly selfless and they are constantly recollected, so that at every moment they know who they are and what is their true relation to the universe and its spiritual Ground. Of even plain average people it may be said that their name is Legionmuch more so of exceptionally complex personalities, who identify themselves with a wide diversity of moods, cravings and opinions. Saints, on the contrary, are neither double-minded nor half-hearted, but single and, however great their intellectual gifts, profoundly simple. The multiplicity of Legion has given place to one-pointedness not to any of those Evil one-pointednesses of ambition or covetousness, or lust for power and fame, not even to any of the nobler, but still all too human one-pointednesses of art, scholarship and science, regarded as ends in themselves, but to the supreme, more than human one-pointedness that is the very being of those souls who consciously and consistently pursue mans final end, the knowledge of eternal Reality. In one of the Pali scriptures there is a significant anecdote about the Brahman Drona who, seeing the Blessed One sitting at the foot of a tree, asked him, Are you a deva? And the Exalted One answered, I am not. Are you a gandharva? I am not, Are you a yaksha? I am not. Are you a man? I am not a man. On the Brahman asking what he might be, the Blessed One replied, Those Evil influences, those cravings, whose non-destruction would have individualized me as a deva, a gandharva, a yaksha (three types of supernatural being), or a man, I have completely annihilated. Know therefore that I am Buddha.
Here we may remark in passing that it is only the one-pointed, who are truly capable of worshipping one God. Monotheism as a theory can be entertained even by a person whose name is Legion. But when it comes to passing from theory to practice, from discursive knowledge about to immediate acquaintance with the one God, there cannot be monotheism except where there is singleness of heart. Knowledge is in the knower according to the mode of the knower. Where the knower is poly-psychic the universe he knows by immediate experience is polytheistic. The Buddha declined to make any statement in regard to the ultimate divine Reality. All he would talk about was Nirvana, which is the name of the experience that comes to the totally selfless and one-pointed. To this same experience others have given the name of union with Brahman, with Al Haqq, with the immanent and transcendent Godhead. Maintaining, in this matter, the attitude of a strict operationalist, the Buddha would speak only of the spiritual experience, not of the metaphysical entity presumed by the theologians of other religions, as also of later Buddhism, to be the object and (since in contemplation the knower, the known and the knowledge are all one) at the same time the subject and substance of that experience.
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When Evil increases,
I make myself a body.
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What we do depends in large measure upon what we think, and if what we do is Evil, there is good empirical reason for supposing that our thought patterns are inadequate to material. mental or spiritual reality. Because Christians believed that there had been only one Avatar, Christian history has been disgraced by more and bloother crusades, interdenominational wars, persecutions and proselytizing imperialism than has the history of Hinduism and Buddhism. Absurd and idolatrous doctrines, affirming the quasi-divine nature of sovereign states and their rulers, have led oriental, no less than Western, peoples into innumerable political wars; but because they have not believed in an exclusive revelation at one sole instant of time, or in the quasi-divinity of an ecclesiastical organization, oriental peoples have kept remarkably clear of the mass murder for religions sake, which has been so dreadfully frequent in Christendom. And while, in this important respect, the level of public morality has been lower in the West than in the East, the levels of exceptional sanctity and of ordinary individual morality have not, so far as one can judge from the available evidence, been any higher. If the tree is indeed known by its fruits, Christianitys departure from the norm of the Perennial Philosophy would seem to be philosophically unjustifiable.
The Logos passes out of eternity into time for no other purpose than to assist the beings, whose bodily form he takes, to pass out of time into eternity. If the Avatars appearance upon the stage of history is enormously important, this is due to the fact that by his teaching he points out, and by his being a channel of grace and divine power he actually is, the means by which human beings may transcend the limitations of history. The author of the Fourth Gospel affirms that the Word became flesh; but in another passage he adds that the flesh profiteth nothingnothing, that is to say, in itself, but a great deal, of course, as a means to the union with immanent and transcendent Spirit. In this context it is very interesting to consider the development of Buddhism. Under the forms of religious or mystical imagery, writes R. E. Johnston in his Buddhist China, the Mahayana expresses the universal, whereas Hinayana cannot set itself free from the domination of historical fact. In the words of an eminent orientalist, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, The Mahayanist believer is warnedprecisely as the worshipper of Krishna is warned in the Vaishnavite scriptures that the Krishna Lila is not a history, but a process for ever unfolded in the heart of man that matters of historical fact are without religious significance (except, we should add, insofar as they point to or themselves constitute the meanswhe ther remote or proximate, whether political, ethical or spiritualby which men may come to deliverance from selfness and the temporal order.)
1.03 - Self-Surrender in Works - The Way of The Gita, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Enslaved to appearances, bound to the dualities, tossed between good and Evil, sin and virtue, grief and joy, pain and pleasure, good fortune and ill fortune, success and failure, we follow helplessly the iron or gilt and iron round of the wheel of Maya. At best we have only the poor relative freedom which by us is ignorantly called free-will. But that is at bottom illusory, since it is the modes of Nature that express themselves through our personal will; it is force of Nature, grasping us, ungrasped by us that determines what we shall will and how we shall will it. Nature, not an independent ego, chooses what object we shall seek, whether by reasoned will or unreflecting impulse, at any moment of our existence. If, on the contrary, we live in the unifying reality of the Brahman, then we go beyond the ego and overstep Nature.
For then we get back to our true self and become the spirit; in the spirit we are above the impulsion of Nature, superior to her modes and forces. Attaining to a perfect equality in the soul, mind and heart, we realise our true self of oneness, one with all beings, one too with That which expresses itself in them and in all that we see and experience. This equality and this oneness are the indispensable twin foundation we must lay down for a divine being, a divine consciousness, a divine action. Not one with all, we are not spiritual, not divine. Not equal-souled to all things, happenings and creatures, we cannot see spiritually, cannot know divinely, cannot feel divinely towards others. The Supreme Power, the one Eternal and Infinite is equal to all things and to all beings; and because it is equal, it can act with an absolute wisdom according to the truth of its works and its force and according to the truth of each thing and of every creature.
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The sign of the immersion of the embodied soul in Prakriti is the limitation of consciousness to the ego. The vivid stamp of this limited consciousness can be seen in a constant inequality of the mind and heart and a confused conflict and disharmony in their varied reactions to the touches of experience. The human reactions sway perpetually between the dualities created by the soul's subjection to Nature and by its often intense but narrow struggle for mastery and enjoyment, a struggle for the most part ineffective. The soul circles in an unending round of Nature's alluring and distressing opposites, success and failure, good fortune and ill fortune, good and Evil, sin and virtue, joy and grief, pain and pleasure. It is only when, awaking from its immersion in Prakriti, it perceives its oneness with the One and its oneness with all existences that it can become free from these things and found its right relation to this executive world-Nature.
Then it becomes indifferent to her inferior modes, equal-minded to her dualities, capable of mastery and freedom; it is seated above her as the high-throned knower and witness filled with the calm intense unalloyed delight of his own eternal existence.
1.03 - Some Aspects of Modern Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
no small place among the host of Evils that assail the health of civilized
nations.
1.03 - Supernatural Aid, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
Southwest. It is used profusely in all ceremonials, both to drive Evil away and
to mark out the symbolical path of life. (For a discussion of the Navaho sym
1.03 - Sympathetic Magic, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
vegetation either for good or for Evil according to the good or the
bad character of his acts or states: for example, a fruitful woman
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the individual for good or Evil throughout life are often supposed
to be bound up with one or other of these portions of his person, so
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good greatly outweighed the Evil. For more mischief has probably
been wrought in the world by honest fools in high places than by
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art has done much Evil, it has also been the source of much good;
that if it is the child of error, it has yet been the mother of
1.03 - The Gate of Hell. The Inefficient or Indifferent. Pope Celestine V. The Shores of Acheron. Charon. The, #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
In similar wise the Evil seed of Adam
Throw themselves from that margin one by one,
1.03 - The Gods, Superior Beings and Adverse Forces, #Words Of The Mother III, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Your ego, at the slightest thing that displeases it, is in the habit of opening the door of your being to an Evil spirit of arrogant and impudent disbelief which passes its time in throwing mud and filth on all that is sacred and beautiful and especially on the aspiration of your soul and the help from the Divines Grace.
If this is allowed to continue, it will end in a sure catastrophe and ruin. Strong steps must be taken to put an end to this, and for that the collaboration of your soul is needed. It must wake up and join in the fight against the ego by resolutely closing the door to this Evil spirit.
9 April 1958
1.03 - THE GRAND OPTION, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
a Pessimism or Optimism? "Is the state of Being good or Evil?
That is to say, is it better to Be than not to Be?" Despite its abstract,
1.03 - THE ORPHAN, THE WIDOW, AND THE MOON, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
) of good and Evil.97 She is the moon.98 An inscription invokes her as the One, who art All.99 She is named
, the redemptrix.100 In Athenagoras she is the nature of the Aeon, whence all things grew and by which all things are.101
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Kether, the Crown, corresponds to the upward-growing root of the Tree of the Sefiroth.118 Yesod119 signifies the genital region of the Original Man, whose head is Kether. Malchuth, conforming to the archetypal pattern, is the underlying feminine principle.120 In this wicked world ruled by Evil Tifereth is not united with Malchuth.121 But the coming Messiah will reunite the King with the Queen, and this mating will restore to God his original unity.122 The Cabala develops an elaborate hierosgamos fantasy which expatiates on the union of the soul with the Sefiroth of the worlds of light and darkness, for the desire of the upper world for the God-fearing man is as the loving desire of a man for his wife, when he woos her.123 Conversely, the Shekinah is present in the sexual act:
The absconditus sponsus enters into the body of the woman and is joined with the abscondita sponsa. This is true also on the reverse side of the process, so that two spirits are melted together and are interchanged constantly between body and body. . . . In the indistinguishable state which arises it may be said almost that the male is with the female, neither male nor female,124 at least they are both or either. So is man affirmed to be composed of the world above, which is male, and of the female world below. The same is true of woman.125
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The identification of Malchuth with Luna forms a link with alchemy, and is another example of the process by which the patristic symbolism of sponsus and sponsa had been assimilated much earlier. At the same time, it is a repetition of the way the originally pagan hierosgamos was absorbed into the figurative language of the Church Fathers. But Vigenerus adds something that seems to be lacking in patristic allegory, namely the darkening of the other half of the moon during her opposition. When the moon turns upon us her fullest radiance, her other side is in complete darkness. This strict application of the Sol-Luna allegory might have been an embarrassment to the Church, although the idea of the dying Church does take account, to a certain extent, of the transience of all created things.130 I do not mention this fact in order to criticize the significance of the ecclesiastical Sol-Luna allegory. On the contrary I want to emphasize it, because the moon, standing on the borders of the sublunary world ruled by Evil, has a share not only in the world of light but also in the daemonic world of darkness, as our author clearly hints. That is why her changefulness is so significant symbolically: she is duplex and mutable like Mercurius, and is like him a mediator; hence their identification in alchemy.131 Though Mercurius has a bright side concerning whose spirituality alchemy leaves us in no doubt, he also has a dark side, and its roots go deep.
[20] The quotation from Vigenerus bears no little resemblance to a long passage on the phases of the moon in Augustine.132 Speaking of the unfavourable aspect of the moon, which is her changeability, he paraphrases Ecclesiasticus 27 : 12 with the words: The wise man remaineth stable as the sun, but a fool is changed as the moon,133 and poses the question: Who then is that fool who changeth as the moon, but Adam, in whom all have sinned?134 For Augustine, therefore, the moon is manifestly an ally of corruptible creatures, reflecting their folly and inconstancy. Since, for the men of antiquity and the Middle Ages, comparison with the stars or planets tacitly presupposes astrological causality, the sun causes constancy and wisdom, while the moon is the cause of change and folly (including lunacy).135 Augustine attaches to his remarks about the moon a moral observation concerning the relationship of man to the spiritual sun,136 just as Vigenerus did, who was obviously acquainted with Augustines epistles. He also mentions (Epistola LV, 10) the Church as Luna, and he connects the moon with the wounding by an arrow: Whence it is said: They have made ready their arrows in the quiver, to shoot in the darkness of the moon at the upright of heart.137 It is clear that Augustine did not understand the wounding as the activity of the new moon herself but, in accordance with the principle omne malum ab homine, as the result of mans wickedness. All the same, the addition in obscura luna, for which there is no warrant in the original text, shows how much the new moon is involved. This hint of the admitted dangerousness of the moon is confirmed when Augustine, a few sentences later on, cites Psalm 71 : 7: In his days justice shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon shall be destroyed.138 Instead of the strong interficiatur the Vulgate has the milder auferaturshall be taken away or fail.139 The violent way in which the moon is removed is explained by the interpretation that immediately follows: That is, the abundance of peace shall grow until it consumes all changefulness of mortality. From this it is evident that the moons nature expressly partakes of the changefulness of mortality, which is equivalent to death, and therefore the text continues: For then the last enemy, death, shall be destroyed, and whatever resists us on account of the weakness of the flesh shall be utterly consumed. Here the destruction of the moon is manifestly equivalent to the destruction of death.140 The moon and death significantly reveal their affinity. Death came into the world through original sin and the seductiveness of woman (= moon), and mutability led to corruptibility.141 To eliminate the moon from Creation is therefore as desirable as the elimination of death. This negative assessment of the moon takes full account of her dark side. The dying of the Church is also connected with the mystery of the moons darkness.142 Augustines cautious and perhaps not altogether unconscious disguising of the sinister aspect of the moon would be sufficiently explained by his respect for the Ecclesia-Luna equation.
1.03 - THE STUDY (The Exorcism), #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
Destruction,aught with Evil blent,
That is my proper element.
1.03 - The Syzygy - Anima and Animus, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
and ambivalences where good and Evil, success and ruin, hope
and despair, counterbalance one another. Because she is his
1.03 - To Layman Ishii, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
"It is the same for Dharma patricians exploring the secret depths. Proceeding straight ahead, pushing steadily forward, they bore into their minds with unbroken effort, never slackening or regressing. When the breakthrough suddenly arrives, they penetrate their own nature, the nature of others, the nature of sentient beings, the nature of Evil passions and enlightenment, the nature of the
Buddha-nature, the nature of the gods, the Bodhisattva-nature, the nature of sentient and nonsentient beings, the craving-ghost nature, the contentious spirit nature, the beast nature-they are all of them grasped in a single instant of thought. The great matter of their religious quest is completely and utterly resolved, and there is nothing left for them to do. They are freed from birth and death. What a thrilling moment it is!
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(translated "poisonous insects"). In Tso-chuan (Tso's Narrative), the oldest of the Chinese narrative histories, we read: "Chao-meng asked, 'What is the meaning of the word ku?' The physician answered, 'It refers to anything that causes excess, agitation, delusion, or trouble. The ideograph ku represents a jar filled with insects. The grub that insinuates its way into grain stock is also a destructive ku insect. In the Book of Changes, women who seduce men and the wind that topples trees in the mountains are also described as ku.'" The word also occurs in the records of the Sung master Hsu-t'ang: "There was a custom in the Fu-chien District prevalent since the T'ang dynasty of throwing various insects such as venomous snakes, lizards, and spiders together, waiting until only one of them remained alive, and then mixing its venom and blood into a potion to ward off Evil spirits or to kill people by casting a magic spell on them" (Dictionary of Zen Sayings, 121). In the Yuan dynasty medical treatise I-fang tai ch'eng lun: "It is said that people living in the mountain fastnesses of Min-kuang put three kinds of poisonous insects into a container and bury it in the ground on the fifth day of the fifth month. They allow the insects to devour each other until only one remains, called a ku.
They extract the poison from this insect, and when they want to harm someone, they put it into their food or drink."
1.03 - VISIT TO VIDYASAGAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"The world consists of the illusory duality of knowledge and ignorance. It contains knowledge and devotion, and also attachment to 'Woman and gold'; righteousness and unrighteousness; good and Evil. But Brahman is unattached to these. Good and Evil apply to the jiva, the individual soul, as do righteousness and unrighteousness; but Brahman is not at all affected by them.
"One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.
1.03 - YIBHOOTI PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
very seed of Evil; he attains Kaivalya.
118
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overtures of celestial beings, for fear of Evil again.
There are other dangers too; gods and other beings come to
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from Evil. Therefore a Samyama is given by which the
power of discrimination can be streng thened. This is by
1.040 - Forgiver, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
9. And shield them from the Evil deeds. Whomever You shield from the Evil deeds, on that Day, You have had mercy on him. That is the supreme achievement.”
10. Those who disbelieved will be addressed, “The loathing of God is greater than your loathing of yourselves—for you were invited to the faith, but you refused.”
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18. And warn them of the Day of Imminence, when the hearts are at the throats, choking them. The Evildoers will have no intimate friend, and no intercessor to be obeyed.
19. He knows the deceptions of the eyes, and what the hearts conceal.
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37. The pathways of the heavens, so that I may glance at the God of Moses; though I think he is lying.” Thus Pharaoh’s Evil deeds were made to appear good to him, and he was averted from the path. Pharaoh's guile was only in defeat.
38. The one who had believed said, “O my people, follow me, and I will guide you to the path of rectitude.”
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45. So God protected him from the Evils of their scheming, while a terrible torment besieged Pharaoh’s clan.
46. The Fire. They will be exposed to it morning and evening. And on the Day the Hour takes place: “Admit the clan of Pharaoh to the most intense agony.”
1.041 - Detailed, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
34. Good and Evil are not equal. Repel Evil with good, and the person who was your enemy becomes like an intimate friend.
35. But none will attain it except those who persevere, and none will attain it except the very fortunate.
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46. Whoever acts righteously does so for himself; and whoever works Evil does so against himself. Your Lord is not unjust to the servants.
47. To Him is referred the knowledge of the Hour. No fruit emerges from its sheath, and no female conceives or delivers, except with His knowledge. And on the Day when He calls out to them, “Where are My associates?” They will say, “We admit to you, none of us is a witness.”
1.042 - Consultation, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
45. And you will see them exposed to it, cowering from disgrace, looking with concealed eyes. Those who believed will say, “The losers are those who lost themselves and their families on the Day of Resurrection.” Indeed, the Evildoers are in a lasting torment.
46. They will have no allies to support them against God. Whomever God leaves astray has no way out.
1.043 - Decorations, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
38. Until, when he comes to Us, he will say, “If only there were between me and you the distance of the two Easts.” What an Evil companion!
39. It will not benefit you on that Day, since you did wrong. You are partners in the suffering.
1.044 - Smoke, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
37. Are they better, or the people of Tubba and those before them? We annihilated them. They were Evildoers.
38. We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them to play.
1.045 - Kneeling, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
15. Whoever does a good deed, it is for his soul; and whoever commits Evil, it is against it; then to your Lord you will be returned.
16. We gave the Children of Israel the Book, and wisdom, and prophecy; and We provided them with the good things; and We gave them advantage over all other people.
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21. Do those who perpetrate the Evil deeds assume that We will regard them as equal to those who believe and do righteous deeds, whether in their life or their death? Evil is their judgment!
22. God created the heavens and the earth with justice, so that every soul will be repaid for what it has earned. And they will not be wronged.
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33. The Evils of what they did will become evident to them, and the very thing they ridiculed will haunt them.
34. And it will be said, “Today We forget you, as you forgot the encounter of this Day of yours. Your abode is the Fire, and there are no saviors for you.
1.047 - Muhammad, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
14. Is he who stands upon evidence from his Lord, like someone whose Evil deed is made to appear good to him? And they follow their own desires?
15. The likeness of the Garden promised to the righteous: in it are rivers of pure water, and rivers of milk forever fresh, and rivers of wine delightful to the drinkers, and rivers of strained honey. And therein they will have of every fruit, and forgiveness from their Lord. Like one abiding in the Fire forever, and are given to drink boiling water, that cuts-up their bowels?
1.048 - Victory, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
6. And He will punish the hypocrites, male and female, and the idolaters, male and female, those who harbor Evil thoughts about God. They are surrounded by Evil; and God is angry with them, and has cursed them, and has prepared for them Hell—a miserable destination.
7. To God belong the troops of the heavens and the earth. God is Mighty and Wise.
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12. But you thought that the Messenger and the believers will never return to their families, and this seemed fine to your hearts; and you harbored Evil thoughts, and were uncivilized people.
13. He who does not believe in God and His Messenger—We have prepared for the disbelievers a Blazing Fire.
1.049 - The Chambers, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
11. O you who believe! No people shall ridicule other people, for they may be better than they. Nor shall any women ridicule other women, for they may be better than they. Nor shall you slander one another, nor shall you insult one another with names. Evil is the return to wickedness after having attained faith. Whoever does not repent—these are the wrongdoers.
12. O you who believe! Avoid most suspicion—some suspicion is sinful. And do not spy on one another, nor backbite one another. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would detest it. So remain mindful of God. God is Most Relenting, Most Merciful.
1.04 - ALCHEMY AND MANICHAEISM, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
(Cubricus); later he changed it to Manes, a Babylonian word meaning vessel.201 As a four-year-old boy he was sold as a slave to a rich widow. She came to love him, and later adopted him and made him her heir. Together with her wealth he inherited the serpents poison of his doctrine the four books of Scythianos, the original master of his adoptive father Terebinthos, named Budda.202 Of this Scythianos there is a legendary biography which equates him with Simon Magus;203 like him, he is said to have come to Jerusalem at the time of the apostles. He propounded a dualistic doctrine which, according to Epiphanius,204 was concerned with pairs of opposites: white and black, yellow and green, moist and dry, heaven and earth, night and day, soul and body, good and Evil, right and wrong. From these books Mani concocted his pernicious heresy which poisoned the nations. Cubricus is very like the alchemical Kybrius,205 Gabricus,206 Kibrich,207 Kybrich, Kibric,208 Kybrig, Kebrick,209 Alkibric,210 Kibrit,211 Kibrith,212 Gabricius, Gabrius,213 Thabritius, Thabritis,214 and so on.215 The Arabic word kibrit means sulphur.
[32] In the Aurora consurgens sulphur nigrum stands side by side with vetula, the first being a synonym for spirit and the second for soul. Together they form a pair roughly comparable to the d Evil and his grandmo ther. This relationship also occurs in Rosencreutzs Chymical Wedding,216 where a black king sits beside a veiled old woman. The black sulphur is a pejorative name for the active, masculine substance of Mercurius and points to its dark, saturnine nature, which is Evil.217 This is the wicked Moorish king of the Chymical Wedding, who makes the kings daughter his concubine (meretrix), the Ethiopian of other treatises,218 analogous to the Egyptian in the Passio Perpetuae,219 who from the Christian point of view is the d Evil. He is the activated darkness of matter, the umbra Solis (shadow of the sun), which represents the virginal-maternal prima materia. When the doctrine of the Increatum220 began to play a role in alchemy during the sixteenth century, it gave rise to a dualism which might be compared with the Manichaean teaching.221
[33] In the Manichaean system matter (hyle) is personified by the dark, fluid, human body of the Evil principle. As St. Augustine says, the substance of Evil had its own hideous and formless bulk, either gross which they called earth, or thin and tenuous like the air; for they imagine it to be some malignant mind creeping over the earth.222 The Manichaean doctrine of the Anthropos shares the dual form of its Christ figure with alchemy, in so far as the latter also has a dualistic redeemer: Christ as saviour of man (Microcosm), and the lapis Philosophorum as saviour of the Macrocosm. The doctrine presupposes on the one hand a Christ incapable of suffering (impatibilis), who takes care of souls, and on the other hand a Christ capable of suffering (patibilis),223 whose role is something like that of a spiritus vegetativus, or of Mercurius.224 This spirit is imprisoned in the body of the princes of darkness and is freed as follows by angelic beings who dwell in the sun and moon: assuming alternately male and female form they excite the desires of the wicked and cause them to break out in a sweat of fear, which falls upon the earth and fertilizes the vegetation.225 In this manner the heavenly light-material is freed from the dark bodies and passes into plant form.226
[34] The inflammation by desire has its analogy in the alchemists gradual warming of the substances that contain the arcanum. Here the symbol of the sweat-bath plays an important role, as the illustrations show.227 Just as for the Manichaeans the sweat of the archons signified rain,228 so for the alchemists sweat meant dew.229 In this connection we should also mention the strange legend reported in the Acta Archelai, concerning the apparatus which the son of the living Father invented to save human souls. He constructed a great wheel with twelve buckets which, as they revolved, scooped up the souls from the deep and deposited them on the moon-ship.230 In alchemy the rota is the symbol of the opus circulatorium. Like the alchemists, the Manichaeans had a virago, the male virgin Joel,231 who gave Eve a certain amount of the light-substance.232 The role she plays in regard to the princes of darkness corresponds to that of Mercurius duplex, who like her sets free the secret hidden in matter, the light above all lights, the filius philosophorum. I would not venture to decide how much in these parallels is to be ascribed directly to Manichaean tradition, how much to indirect influence, and how much to spontaneous revival.
1.04 - Descent into Future Hell, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
confusion. Your blood also will stream from many wounds in this frightful struggle. Your shock and doubt will be great, but from such torment the new life will be born. Birth is blood and torment. Your darkness, which you did not suspect since it was dead, will come to life and you will feel the crush of total Evil and the conflicts of life that still now lie buried in the matter of your body. But the serpents are dreadful Evil thoughts and feelings.
You thought you knew that abyss? Oh you clever people! It is another thing to experience it. Everything will happen to you. Think of all the frightful and d Evilish things that men have inflicted on their brothers. That should happen to you in your heart. Suffer it yourself through your own hand, and know that it is your own heinous and d Evilish hand that inflicts the suffering on you, but not your brother, who wrestles with his own d Evils. 97
1.04 - GOD IN THE WORLD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Of moral Evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
1.04 - Homage to the Twenty-one Taras, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
Overcoming all the great Evils.
16. Homage to you with joyous retinue,
1.04 - KAI VALYA PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
be Evils for him. No more pains.
30. dTT Uc||cRU|H--
thus through pleasure and pain, through good and Evil, the
infinite river of souls is flowing into the ocean of perfection,
1.04 - Of other imperfections which these beginners are apt to have with respect to the third sin, which is luxury., #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
3. The second cause whence these rebellions sometimes proceed is the d Evil, who, in order to disquiet and disturb the soul, at times when it is at prayer or is striving to pray, contrives to stir up these motions of impurity in its nature; and if the soul gives heed to any of these, they cause it great harm. For through fear of these not only do persons become lax in prayerwhich is the aim of the d Evil when he begins to strive with them but some give up prayer altogether, because they think that these things attack them more during that exercise than apart from it, which is true, since the d Evil attacks them then more than at other times, so that they may give up spiritual exercises. And not only so, but he succeeds in portraying to them very vividly things that are most foul and impure, and at times are very closely related to certain spiritual things and persons that are of profit to their souls, in order to terrify them and make them fearful; so that those who are affected by this dare not even look at anything or meditate upon anything, because they immediately encounter this temptation. And upon those who are inclined to melancholy this acts with such effect that they become greatly to be pitied since they are suffering so sadly; for this trial reaches such a point in certain persons, when they have this Evil humour, that they believe it to be clear that the d Evil is ever present with them and that they have no power to prevent this, although some of these persons can prevent his attack by dint of great effort and labour. When these impurities attack such souls through the medium of melancholy, they are not as a rule freed from them until they have been cured of that kind of humour, unless the dark night has entered the soul, and rids them of all impurities, one after another.36
34[Lit., 'recreation.']
1.04 - On blessed and ever-memorable obedience, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
Terrible indeed was the judgment of a good judge and shepherd which I once saw in a monastery. For while I was there, it happened that a robber applied for admission to the monastic life. And that most excellent pastor and physician ordered him to take seven days of complete rest, just to see the kind of life in the place. When the week had passed, the pastor called him and asked him privately: Would you like to live with us? And when he saw that he agreed to this with all sincerity, he then asked him what Evil he had done in the world. And when he saw that he readily confessed everything, he tried him still further, and said: I want you to tell this in the presence of all the brethren. But he really did hate his sin, and, scorning all shame, without the least hesitation he promised to do it. And if you like, he said, I will tell it in the middle of the city of Alexandria.
And so, the shepherd gathered all his sheep in the church, to the number of 230, and during Divine Service (for it was Sunday), after the reading of the Gospel, he introduced this irreproachable convict. He was dragged by several of the brethren, who gave him moderate blows. His hands were tied behind his back, he was dressed in a hair shirt, his head was sprinkled with ashes. All were astonished at the sight. And immediately a woeful cry rang out, for no one knew what was happening. Then, when the robber appeared at the doors of the church,4 that holy superior who had such love for souls, said to him in a loud voice: Stop! You are not worthy to enter here.
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I have seen others of those ever-memorable fathers with their angelic white hair attain to the deepest innocence and to wise simplicity, spontaneous and God-guided. (Just as an Evil man is somewhat double, one thing outwardly and another inwardly, so a simple person is not something double, but something of a unity.)1 Among them there are none who are fatuous and foolish, like old men in the world who are commonly called in their dotage. On the contrary, outwardly they are utterly gentle and kindly, radiant and sincere, and they have nothing hypocritical, affected or false about them either in speech or character (a thing not found in many); and inwardly, in their soul, like innocent babes, they make God Himself and their superior their very breath, and the eye of their mind keeps a bold and strict watch for demons and passions.
The whole of my life, dear and reverend father and God- loving community, would be insufficient to describe the heavenly life and virtue of those blessed monks. But yet it is better to adorn our treatise and rouse you to zeal in the love of God by their most laborious struggles than by my own paltry counsels; for beyond all dispute the inferior is adorned by the superior.2 Only this I ask, that you should not imagine that we are inventing what we write, for such a suspicion would detract from its value. But let us continue again what we were saying before.
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And I, like a most worthless person, did not miss the chance of tempting the old man. And when I asked him what he was thinking of when he was standing by the table, he said: I thought of the shepherd as the image of Christ, and I considered that I had not received the comm and from him at all, but from God. And so I stood praying, Father John, not as before a table of men, but as before the altar of God; and because of my faith and love for the shepherd, no Evil thought of him entered my mind, for Love does not resent an injury.3 But know this, Father, that if anyone surrenders himself to simplicity and voluntary innocence, then he no longer gives the d Evil either time or place to attack him.
About a bursar
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him who said to the Lord: O how many troubles and Evils hast Thou shown me! Yet Thou didst turn and revive me; and from the depths of the earth after I had fallen, again Thou broughtest me up.1
Blessed is he who, though maligned and disparaged every day, masters himself for the Lords sake. He will join the chorus of martyrs and boldly converse with the angels. Blessed is the monk who regards himself as hourly deserving every dishonour and disparagement. Blessed is he who mortifies his will to the end, and leaves the care of himself to his director in the Lord; for he will be placed at the right hand of the Crucified. He who will not accept a reproof, just or unjust, renounces his own salvation. But he who accepts it with an effort, or even without an effort, will soon receive the remission of his sins.
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Do not be so unreasonably silent as to annoy and embitter others. And do not be slow in your gait and actions when ordered to hasten. Otherwise, you will be worse than the possessed and the rebellious. Often I have seen, as Job says,1 souls suffering from slowness of character, but sometimes from eagerness. And I was amazed at the diversity of Evil.
He who is not alone but is with others cannot derive so much profit from psalmody as from prayer; for the confusion of voices renders the psalms indistinct.
1.04 - Reality Omnipresent, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
13:If we thus accept a positive basis for our harmony - and on what other can harmony be founded? - the various conceptual formulations of the Unknowable, each of them representing a truth beyond conception, must be understood as far as possible in their relation to each other and in their effect upon life, not separately, not exclusively, not so affirmed as to destroy or unduly diminish all other affirmations. The real Monism, the true Adwaita, is that which admits all things as the one Brahman and does not seek to bisect Its existence into two incompatible entities, an eternal Truth and an eternal Falsehood, Brahman and not-Brahman, Self and not-Self, a real Self and an unreal, yet perpetual Maya. If it be true that the Self alone exists, it must be also true that all is the Self. And if this Self, God or Brahman is no helpless state, no bounded power, no limited personality, but the self-conscient All, there must be some good and inherent reason in it for the manifestation, to discover which we must proceed on the hypothesis of some potency, some wisdom, some truth of being in all that is manifested. The discord and apparent Evil of the world must in their sphere be admitted, but not accepted as our conquerors. The deepest instinct of humanity seeks always and seeks wisely wisdom as the last word of the universal manifestation, not an eternal mockery and illusion, - a secret and finally triumphant good, not an all-creative and invincible Evil, - an ultimate victory and fulfilment, not the disappointed recoil of the soul from its great adventure.
14:For we cannot suppose that the sole Entity is compelled by something outside or other than Itself, since no such thing exists. Nor can we suppose that It submits unwillingly to something partial within Itself which is hostile to its whole Being, denied by It and yet too strong for It; for this would be only to erect in other language the same contradiction of an All and something other than the All. Even if we say that the universe exists merely because the Self in its absolute impartiality tolerates all things alike, viewing with indifference all actualities and all possibilities, yet is there something that wills the manifestation and supports it, and this cannot be something other than the All. Brahman is indivisible in all things and whatever is willed in the world has been ultimately willed by the Brahman. It is only our relative consciousness, alarmed or baffled by the phenomena of Evil, ignorance and pain in the cosmos, that seeks to deliver the Brahman from responsibility for Itself and its workings by erecting some opposite principle, Maya or Mara, conscious D Evil or self-existent principle of Evil. There is one Lord and Self and the many are only His representations and becomings.
15:If then the world is a dream or an illusion or a mistake, it is a dream originated and willed by the Self in its totality and not only originated and willed, but supported and perpetually entertained. Moreover, it is a dream existing in a Reality and the stuff of which it is made is that Reality, for Brahman must be the material of the world as well as its base and continent. If the gold of which the vessel is made is real, how shall we suppose that the vessel itself is a mirage? We see that these words, dream, illusion, are tricks of speech, habits of our relative consciousness; they represent a certain truth, even a great truth, but they also misrepresent it. Just as Non-Being turns out to be other than mere nullity, so the cosmic Dream turns out to be other than mere phantasm and hallucination of the mind. Phenomenon is not phantasm; phenomenon is the substantial form of a Truth.
1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
of individual life. Myths of the knowledge of good and Evil and the fall from paradise represent
emergence of this representational capacity, in the guise of a historical event. The consequence of this
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and cognitive chaos. It is much more likely, in consequence, that a foreign viewpoint will appear Evil, or
will come to be defined as such, with passage of time (especially during times rendered unstable
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alternative or foreign viewpoint is in fact reasonably considered Evil (although this consideration is
dangerously one-sided), when viewed in terms of its potential destructive capacity, from within the strict
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I described my spiritual condition to myself in this way: my life is some kind of stupid and Evil
practical joke that someone is playing on me. In spite of the fact that I did not acknowledge the
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world as a stupid and Evil joke seemed to be the most natural way to describe my condition.407
Group identity inculcated morality and accepted interpretation serves to constrain the motivational
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impossible than a denial of life. According to rational knowledge, it followed that life is Evil, and people
know it. They do not have to live, yet they have lived and they do live, just as I myself had lived, even
though I had known for a long time that life is meaningless and Evil. According to faith, it followed that
in order to understand the meaning of life I would have to turn away from reason, the very thing for
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understands that there still remain unconquered Evil spirits, dangerous unknowns and threatening
possibilities. In taking creative action, he (re)encounters chaos, generates new myth-predicated behavioral
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knowledge of good and Evil, and consequent expulsion from paradise. This appearance is an event of
cosmic significance, driving the separation of heaven and earth, making human experience something
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eater thereof; and another tree which gave to the eater thereof a knowledge of good and Evil? I believe that
every man must hold these things for images, under which the hidden sense lies concealed.432
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death, contaminated by the unbearable and unreturnable gift of the knowledge of good and Evil. Myths of
redemption that is, of the ascent from chaos, of the return to paradise, or of the flight to heaven are
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struggles against Tiamat, monstrous goddess of death and the night; is Horus, who fights against Evil, and
redeems the father; is Christ, who transcends the past, and extends to all individuals identity with the divine
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to choose the path of Evil to choose spiritual death or to perish bodily altogether.
Myth equates the origin of the universe of experience with the partition of light from darkness because
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with knowledge of good and Evil. The ability to develop such knowledge appears in this story as a
heritable characteristic of the race, as the precondition for generation of knowledge of the objective
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gods, knowing good and Evil.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree
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even Evil so far as he sacrifices his crew and ship to it, but Evil or revenge are not the point of the quest.
The whale itself may be only a dumb brute, as the mate says, and even if it were malignantly
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inextricably associated with the tree). The world-tree as forbidden tree of knowledge of good and Evil is,
for example, the cross upon which Christ, the archetypal individual, crucified, suspended and tormented,
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association between the promise of knowledge and the appearance of Evil. The Edenic serpent occupies the
same categorical space in the Christian psyche as Lucifer, bringer of light, spirit of unbridled
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knowledge. Knowledge of morality, of good and Evil, presupposes the presence of alternative possibilities
for action, in a given situation means capacity for conceptualization of alternative ideals, towards which
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The animal, in its natural and constant environment, remains beyond (or before) good and Evil, gripped
by its biologically-determined destiny, which is the will of God, from the mythic perspective. The human
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And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and Evil: and now, lest
he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever:
1.04 - The Conditions of Esoteric Training, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
The above conditions are calculated to render the student strong enough to fulfill the further demands made on him during this training. If he fail in these conditions he will hesitate before each new demand, and without them he will lack that faith in man which he must possess. For all striving for truth must be founded on faith in and true love for man. But though this is the foundation it is not the source of all striving for truth, for such striving can only flow from the soul's own fountain-head of strength. And the love of man must gradually widen to a love for all living creatures, yes, for all existence. Through failure to fulfill the condition here given, the student will lack the perfect love for everything that fashions and creates, and the inclination to refrain from all destruction as such. He must so train himself that not only in his actions but also in his words, feelings, and thoughts he will never destroy anything for the sake of destruction. His joy must be in growth and life, and he must only lend his hand to destruction, when he is also able, through and by means of destruction, to promote new life. This does not mean that the student must simply look on while Evil runs riot, but rather
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that he must seek even in Evil that side through which he may transform it into good. He will then see more and more clearly that Evil and imperfection may best be combated by the creation of the good and the perfect. The student knows that out of nothing, nothing can be created, but also that the imperfect can be transformed into the perfect. Anyone developing within himself the disposition to create, will soon find himself capable of facing Evil in the right way.
It must be clearly realized that the purpose of this training is to build and not to destroy. The student should therefore bring with him the good will for sincere and devoted work, and not the intention to criticize and destroy. He should be capable of devotion, for he must learn what he does not yet know; he should look reverently on that which discloses itself. Work and devotion, these are the fundamental qualities which must be demanded of the student. Some come to realize that they are making no progress, though in their own opinion they are untiringly active. The reason is that they have not grasped the meaning of work and devotion in the right way. Work done for the sake of success will be the least successful,
1.04 - The Core of the Teaching, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Undoubtedly, the Gita does, like the Upanishads, teach the equality which rises above sin and virtue, beyond good and Evil, but only as a part of the Brahmic consciousness and for the man who is on the path and advanced enough to fulfil the supreme rule. It does not preach indifference to good and Evil for the ordinary life of man, where such a doctrine would have the most pernicious consequences. On the contrary it affirms that the doers of Evil shall not attain to God. Therefore if Arjuna simply seeks to fulfil in the best way the ordinary law of man's life, disinterested performance of what he feels to be a sin, a thing of Hell, will not help him, even though that sin be his duty as a soldier. He must refrain from what his conscience abhors though a thousand duties were shattered to pieces.
We must remember that duty is an idea which in practice rests upon social conceptions. We may extend the term beyond its proper connotation and talk of our duty to ourselves or we may, if we like, say in a transcendent sense that it was Buddha's duty to abandon all, or even that it is the ascetic's duty to sit motionless in a cave! But this is obviously to play with words.
1.04 - The Crossing of the First Threshold, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
beauty and ugliness, good and Evil, and all the other polarities
that bind the faculties to hope and fear, and link the organs of
1.04 - The Discovery of the Nation-Soul, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The great determining force has been the example and the aggression of Germany; the example, because no other nation has so self-consciously, so methodically, so intelligently, and from the external point of view so successfully sought to find, to dynamise, to live itself and make the most of its own power of being; its aggression, because the very nature and declared watchwords of the attack have tended to arouse a defensive self-consciousness in the assailed and forced them to perceive what was the source of this tremendous strength and to perceive too that they themselves must seek consciously an answering strength in the same deeper sources. Germany was for the time the most remarkable present instance of a nation preparing for the subjective stage because it had, in the first place, a certain kind of visionunfortunately intellectual rather than illuminated and the courage to follow itunfortunately again a vital and intellectual rather than a spiritual hardihood,and, secondly, being master of its destinies, was able to order its own life so as to express its self-vision. We must not be misled by appearances into thinking that the strength of Germany was created by Bismarck or directed by the Kaiser Wilhelm II. Rather the appearance of Bismarck was in many respects a misfortune for the growing nation because his rude and powerful hand precipitated its subjectivity into form and action at too early a stage; a longer period of incubation might have produced results less disastrous to itself, if less violently stimulative to humanity. The real source of this great subjective force which has been so much disfigured in its objective action, was not in Germanys statesmen and soldiers for the most part poor enough types of men but came from her great philosophers, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Nietzsche, from her great thinker and poet Goethe, from her great musicians, Beethoven and Wagner, and from all in the German soul and temperament which they represented. A nation whose master achievement has lain almost entirely in the two spheres of philosophy and music, is clearly predestined to lead in the turn to subjectivism and to produce a profound result for good or Evil on the beginnings of a subjective age.
This was one side of the predestination of Germany; the other is to be found in her scholars, educationists, scientists, organisers. It was the industry, the conscientious diligence, the fidelity to ideas, the honest and painstaking spirit of work for which the nation has been long famous. A people may be highly gifted in the subjective capacities, and yet if it neglects to cultivate this lower side of our complex nature, it will fail to build that bridge between the idea and imagination and the world of facts, between the vision and the force, which makes realisation possible; its higher powers may become a joy and inspiration to the world, but it will never take possession of its own world until it has learned the humbler lesson. In Germany the bridge was there, though it ran mostly through a dark tunnel with a gulf underneath; for there was no pure transmission from the subjective mind of the thinkers and singers to the objective mind of the scholars and organisers. The misapplication by Treitschke of the teaching of Nietzsche to national and international uses which would have profoundly disgusted the philosopher himself, is an example of this obscure transmission. But still a transmission there was. For more than a half-century Germany turned a deep eye of subjective introspection on herself and things and ideas in search of the truth of her own being and of the world, and for another half-century a patient eye of scientific research on the objective means for organising what she had or thought she had gained. And something was done, something indeed powerful and enormous, but also in certain directions, not in all, misshapen and disconcerting. Unfortunately, those directions were precisely the very central lines on which to go wrong is to miss the goal.
1.04 - The Gods of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The immediate or at any rate the earliest known successors of the Rishis, the compilers of the Brahmanas, the writers of theUpanishads give a clear & definite answer to this question.The Upanishads everywhere rest their highly spiritual & deeply mystic doctrines on the Veda.We read in the Isha Upanishad of Surya as the Sun God, but it is the Sun of spiritual illumination, of Agni as the Fire, but it is the inner fire that burns up all sin & crookedness. In the Kena Indra, Agni & Vayu seek to know the supreme Brahman and their greatness is estimated by the nearness with which they touched him,nedistham pasparsha. Uma the daughter of Himavan, the Woman, who reveals the truth to them is clearly enough no natural phenomenon. In the Brihadaranyaka, the most profound, subtle & mystical of human scriptures, the gods & Titans are the masters, respectively, of good and of Evil. In the Upanishads generally the word devah is used as almost synonymous with the forces & functions of sense, mind & intellect. The element of symbolism is equally clear. To the terms of the Vedic ritual, to their very syllables a profound significance is everywhere attached; several incidents related in the Upanishads show the deep sense then & before entertained that the sacrifices had a spiritual meaning which must be known if they were to be conducted with full profit or even with perfect safety. The Brahmanas everywhere are at pains to bring out a minute symbolism in the least circumstances of the ritual, in the clarified butter, the sacred grass, the dish, the ladle. Moreover, we see even in the earliest Upanishads already developed the firm outlines and minute details of an extraordinary psychology, physics, cosmology which demand an ancient development and centuries of Yogic practice and mystic speculation to account for their perfect form & clearness. This psychology, this physics, this cosmology persist almost unchanged through the whole history of Hinduism. We meet them in the Puranas; they are the foundation of the Tantra; they are still obscurely practised in various systems of Yoga. And throughout, they have rested on a declared Vedic foundation. The Pranava, the Gayatri, the three Vyahritis, the five sheaths, the five (or seven) psychological strata, (bhumi, kshiti of the Vedas), the worlds that await us, the gods who help & the demons who hinder go back to Vedic origins.All this may be a later mystic misconception of the hymns & their ritual, but the other hypothesis of direct & genuine derivation is also possible. If there was no common origin, if Greek & Indian separated during the naturalistic period of the common religion supposed to be recorded in the Vedas it is surprising that even the little we know of Greek rites & mysteries should show us ideas coincident with those of Indian Tantra & Yoga.
When we go back to the Veda itself, we find in the hymns which are to us most easily intelligible by the modernity of their language, similar & decisive indications. The moralistic conception of Varuna, for example, is admitted even by the Europeans. We even find the sense of sin, usually supposed to be an advanced religious conception, much more profoundly developed in prehistoric India than it was in any other old Aryan nation even in historic times. Surely, this is in itself a significant indication. Surely, this conception cannot have become so clear & strong without a previous history in the earlier hymns. Nor is it psychologically possible that a cult capable of so advanced an idea, should have been ignorant of all other moral & intellectual conceptions reverencing only natural forces & seeking only material ends. Neither can there have been a sudden leap filled up only by a very doubtful henotheism, a huge hiatus between the naturalism of early Veda and the transcendentalism of the Vedic Brahmavada admittedly present in the later hymns. The European interpretation in the face of such conflicting facts threatens to become a brilliant but shapeless monstrosity. And is there no symbolism in the details of the Vedic sacrifice? It seems to me that the peculiar language of the Veda has never been properly studied or appreciated in this connection. What are we to say of the Vedic anxiety to increase Indra by the Soma wine? Of the description of Soma as the amritam, the wine of immortality, & of its forces as the indavah or moon powers? Of the constant sense of the attacks delivered by the powers of Evil on the sacrifice? Of the extraordinary powers already attri buted to the mantra & the sacrifice? Have the neshtram potram, hotram of the Veda no symbolic significance? Is there no reason for the multiplication of functions at the sacrifice or for the subtle distinctions between Gayatrins, Arkins, Brahmas? These are questions that demand a careful consideration which has never yet been given for the problems they raise.
The present essays are merely intended to raise the subject, not to exhaust it, to offer suggestions, not to establish them. The theory of Vedic religion which I shall suggest in these pages, can only be substantiated if it is supported by a clear, full, simple, natural and harmonious rendering of the Veda standing on a sound philological basis, perfectly consistent in itself and proved in hymn after hymn without any hiatus or fatal objection. Such a substantiation I shall one day place before the public. The problem of Vedic interpretation depends, in my view, on three different tests, philological, historic and psychological. If the results of these three coincide, then only can we be sure that we have understood the Veda. But to erect this Delphic tripod of interpretation is no facile undertaking. It is easy to misuse philology. I hold no philology to be sound & valid which has only discovered one or two byelaws of sound modification and for the rest depends upon imagination & licentious conjecture,identifies for instance ethos with swadha, derives uloka from urvaloka or prachetasa from prachi and on the other [hand] ignores the numerous but definitely ascertainable caprices of Pracritic detrition between the European & Sanscrit tongues or considers a number of word-identities sufficient to justify inclusion in a single group of languages. By a scientific philology I mean a science which can trace the origins, growth & structure of the Sanscrit language, discover its primary, secondary & tertiary forms & the laws by which they develop from each other, trace intelligently the descent of every meaning of a word in Sanscrit from its original root sense, account for all similarities & identities of sense, discover the reason of unexpected divergences, trace the deviations which separated Greek & Latin from the Indian dialect, discover & define the connection of all three with the Dravidian forms of speech. Such a system of comparative philology could alone deserve to stand as a science side by side with the physical sciences and claim to speak with authority on the significance of doubtful words in the Vedic vocabulary. The development of such a science must always be a work of time & gigantic labour.
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We are no longer with Madhuchchhanda Vaiswamitra. It is Medhatithi of the Kanwas who has taken the word, a soul of great clearness & calmness who is full of a sort of vibrating peace. Yet we find the same strain, the same fixed ideas, the same subjective purpose & spiritual aspiration. A few words here & there in my translation may be challenged and given a different meaning. Throughout the Veda there are words like radhas etc to which I have given a sense based on reasons of context & philology but which must be allowed to remain conjectural till I am able to take up publicly the detailed examination of the language & substance of the Rigveda. But we have sumati again and the ever recurring vaja, the dhartara charshaninam, holders of actions, & rayah which certainly meant felicity in the Veda. It is clear from the third verse that Varuna and Indra are called to share in the felicity of the poets soul,that felicity is his material of sacrifice,anukamam tarpayetham, he says, Delight in it to your hearts content; and again in the seventh shloka he tells them, Vam aham huve chitraya radhase, a phrase which, in view of verse 3, I can only translate I call you for rich and varied ecstasy; for it is evidently meant to describe that felicity, that heart-filling satisfaction which he has already offered in the third sloka. In return he asks them to give victory. Always in the Veda there is the idea of the spiritual battle as well as the outer struggles of life, the battle with the jealous forces of Nature, with Vala, the grudging guardian of light, with the great obscuring dragon Vritra & his hosts, with the thieving Panis, with all the many forces that oppose mans evolution & support limitation and Evil. A great many of the words for sacrifice, mean also war and battle, in Sanscrit or in its kindred tongues.
Indra and Varuna are called to give victory, because both of them are samrat. The words samrat & swarat have in Veda an ascertained philosophical sense.One is swarat when, having self-mastery & self-knowledge, & being king over his whole system, physical, vital, mental & spiritual, free in his being, [one] is able to guide entirely the harmonious action of that being. Swarajya is spiritual Freedom. One is Samrat when one is master of the laws of being, ritam, rituh, vratani, and can therefore control all forces & creatures. Samrajya is divine Rule resembling the power of God over his world. Varuna especially is Samrat, master of the Law which he follows, governor of the heavens & all they contain, Raja Varuna, Varuna the King as he is often styled by Sunahshepa and other Rishis. He too, like Indra & Agni & the Visvadevas, is an upholder & supporter of mens actions, dharta charshaninam. Finally in the fifth sloka a distinction is drawn between Indra and Varuna of great importance for our purpose. The Rishi wishes, by their protection, to rise to the height of the inner Energies (yuvaku shachinam) and have the full vigour of right thoughts (yuvaku sumatinam) because they give then that fullness of inner plenty (vajadavnam) which is the first condition of enduring calm & perfection & then he says, Indrah sahasradavnam, Varunah shansyanam kratur bhavati ukthyah. Indra is the master-strength, desirable indeed, (ukthya, an object of prayer, of longing and aspiration) of one class of those boons (vara, varyani) for which the Rishis praise him, Varuna is the master-strength, equally desirable, of another class of these Vedic blessings. Those which Indra brings, give force, sahasram, the forceful being that is strong to endure & strong to overcome; those that attend the grace of Varuna are of a loftier & more ample description, they are shansya. The word shansa is frequently used; it is one of the fixed terms of Veda. Shall we translate it praise, the sense most suitable to the ritual explanation, the sense which the finally dominant ritualistic school gave to so many of the fixed terms of Veda? In that case Varuna must be urushansa, because he is widely praised, Agni narashansa because he is strongly praised or praised by men,ought not a wicked or cruel man to be nrishansa because he is praised by men?the Rishis call repeatedly on the gods to protect their praise, & Varuna here must be master of things that are praiseworthy. But these renderings can only be accepted, if we consent to the theory of the Rishis as semi-savage poets, feeble of brain, vague in speech, pointless in their style, using language for barbaric ornament rather than to express ideas. Here for instance there is a very powerful indicated contrast, indicated by the grammatical structure, the order & the rhythm, by the singular kratur bhavati, by the separation of Indra & Varuna who have hitherto been coupled, by the assignment of each governing nominative to its governed genitive and a careful balanced order of words, first giving the master Indra then his province sahasradavnam, exactly balancing them in the second half of the first line the master Varuna & then his province shansyanam, and the contrast thus pointed, in the closing pada of the Gayatri all the words that in their application are common at once to all these four separated & contrasted words in the first line. Here is no careless writer, but a style careful, full of economy, reserve, point, force, and the thought must surely correspond. But what is the contrast forced on us with such a marshalling of the stylists resources? That Indras boons are force-giving, Varunas praiseworthy, excellent, auspicious, what you will? There is not only a pointless contrast, but no contrast at all. No, shansa & shansya must be important, definite, pregnant Vedic terms expressing some prominent idea of the Vedic system. I shall show elsewhere that shansa is in its essential meaning self-expression, the bringing out of our sat or being that which is latent in it and manifesting it in our nature, in speech, in our general impulse & action. It has the connotation of self-expression, aspiration, temperament, expression of our ideas in speech; then divulgation, publication, praiseor in another direction, cursing. Varuna is urushansa because he is the master of wide self-expression, wide aspirations, a wide, calm & spacious temperament, Agni narashansa because he is master of strong self-expression, strong aspirations, a prevailing, forceful & masterful temperament;nrishansa had originally the same sense, but was afterwards diverted to express the fault to which such a temper is prone,tyranny, wrath & cruelty; the Rishis call to the gods to protect their shansa, that which by their yoga & yajna they have been able to bring out in themselves of being, faculty, power, joy,their self-expression. Similarly, shansya here means all that belongs to self-expression, all that is wide, noble, ample in the growth of a soul. It will follow from this rendering that Indra is a god of force, Varuna rather a god of being and as it appears from other epithets, of being when it is calm, noble, wide, self-knowing, self-mastering, moving freely in harmony with the Law of things because it is aware of that Law and accepts it. In that acceptance is his mighty strength; therefore is he even more than the gods of force the king, the giver of internal & external victory, rule, empire, samrajya to his votaries. This is Varuna.
1.04 - The Paths, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
The Tarot card is VI. - The Lovers. Ancient packs describe this as representing a man between two women, who arc Vice and Virtue, Lilith, the wife of the Evil Samael, and Eve. Modern cards, however, show a nude male and female figure, with an angel or a Cupid with outspread wings hovering above them.
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Olympus. Its Egyptian God bears out the idea of Justice for she is Maat, the Goddess of Truth, who in the Book of the Dead appears in the judgment scene of the weighing of the heart of the deceased. Nemesis, too, is a correspon- dence, as she measured out to mortals happiness and misery ; and here, too, is the Hindu concept of Yama, the personification of death and Hell where men had to expiate their Evil deeds.
The plant of Lamed is Aloe ; its animals the Spider and
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In connection with (a), however, we have Sebek, the crocodile god, signifying the grossest form of matter, and such correspondences as Assafcetida and all Evil odours, and the Hindu Tamo-gunam, the quality of slothfulness and inertia.
Its colour is Black, its plants the Ash and Nightshade, and its Yetsiratic title " The Administrative Intelligence ".
1.04 - The Praise, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
VICTOR: Tara gains victory over all that causes Evil.
Common Meaning
1.04 - The Sacrifice the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
For the Ishwari Shakti, divine Conscious-Force and World-Mother, becomes a mediatrix between the eternal One and the manifested Many. On one side, by the play of the energies which she brings from the One, she manifests the multiple Divine in the universe, involving and evolving its endless appearances out of her revealing substance; on the other by the reascending current of the same energies she leads back all towards That from which they have issued so that the soul in its evolutionary manifestation may more and more return towards the Divinity there or here put on its divine character. There is not in her, although she devises a cosmic mechanism, the character of an inconscient mechanical Executrix which we find in the first physiognomy of Prakriti, the Nature-Force; neither is there that sense of an Unreality, creatrix of illusions or semi-illusions, which is attached to our first view of Maya. It is at once clear to the experiencing soul that here is a conscious Power of one substance and nature with the Supreme from whom she came. If she seems to have plunged us into the Ignorance and Inconscience in pursuance of a plan we cannot yet interpret, if her forces present themselves as all these ambiguous forces of the universe, yet it becomes visible before long that she is working for the development of the Divine Consciousness in us and that she stands above drawing us to her own higher entity, revealing to us more and more the very essence of the Divine Knowledge, Will and Ananda. Even in the movements of the Ignorance the soul of the seeker becomes aware of her conscious guidance supporting his steps and leading them slowly or swiftly, straight or by many detours out of the darkness into the light of a greater consciousness, out of mortality into immortality, out of Evil and suffering towards a highest good and felicity of which as yet his human mind can form only a faint image. Thus her power is at once liberative and dynamic, creative, effective,creative not only of things as they are, but of things that are to be; for, eliminating the twisted and tangled movements of his lower consciousness made of the stuff of the Ignorance, it rebuilds and new-makes his soul and nature into the substance and forces of a higher divine Nature.
In this Duality too there is possible a separative experience. At one pole of it the seeker may be conscious only of the Master of Existence putting forth on him His energies of knowledge, power and bliss to liberate and divinise; the Shakti may appear to him only an impersonal Force expressive of these things or an attribute of the Ishwara. At the other pole he may encounter the World-Mother, creatrix of the universe, putting forth the Gods and the worlds and all things and existences out of her spirit-substance. Or even if he sees both aspects, it may be with an unequal separating vision, subordinating one to the other, regarding the Shakti only as a means for approaching the Ishwara. There results a one-sided tendency or a lack of balance, a power of effectuation not perfectly supported or a light of revelation not perfectly dynamic. It is when a complete union of the two sides of the Duality is effected and rules his consciousness that he begins to open to a fuller power that will draw him altogether out of the confused clash of Ideas and Forces here into a higher Truth and enable the descent of that Truth to illumine and deliver and act sovereignly upon this world of Ignorance. He has begun to lay his hand on the integral secret which in its fullness can be grasped only when he overpasses the double term that reigns here of Knowledge inextricably intertwined with an original Ignorance and crosses the border where spiritual mind disappears into supramental Gnosis. It is through this third and most dynamic dual aspect of the One that the seeker begins with the most integral completeness to enter into the deepest secret of the being of the Lord of the Sacrifice.
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This extreme opposition of view from the two poles of one Existence creates no fundamental difficulty for the seeker of the integral Yoga; for his whole experience has shown him the necessity of these double terms and their currents of Energy, negative and positive in relation to each other, for the manifestation of what is within the one Existence. For himself Personality and Impersonality have been the two wings of his spiritual ascension and he has the prevision that he will reach a height where their helpful interaction will pass into a fusion of their powers and disclose the integral Reality and release into action the original force of the Divine. Not only in the fundamental Aspects but in all the working of his sadhana he has felt their double truth and mutually complementary working. An impersonal Presence has dominated from above or penetrated and occupied his nature; a Light descending has suffused his mind, life-power, the very cells of his body, illumined them with knowledge, revealed him to himself down to his most disguised and unsuspected movements, exposing, purifying, destroying or brilliantly changing all that belonged to the Ignorance. A Force has poured into him in currents or like a sea, worked in his being and all its members, dissolved, new-made, reshaped, transfigured everywhere. A Bliss has invaded him and shown that it can make suffering and sorrow impossible and turn pain itself into divine pleasure. A Love without limits has joined him to all creatures or revealed to him a world of inseparable intimacy and unspeakable sweetness and beauty and begun to impose its law of perfection and its ecstasy even amidst the disharmony of terrestrial life. A spiritual Truth and Right have convicted the good and Evil of this world of imperfection or of falsehood and unveiled a supreme good and its clue of subtle harmony and its sublimation of action and feeling and knowledge. But behind all these and in them he has felt a Divinity who is all these things, a Bringer of Light, a Guide and All-Knower, a Master of Force, a Giver of Bliss, Friend, Helper, Father, Mother, Playmate in the world-game, an absolute Master of his being, his souls Beloved and Lover. All relations known to human personality are there in the souls contact with the Divine; but they rise towards superhuman levels and compel him towards a divine nature.
It is an integral knowledge that is being sought, an integral force, a total amplitude of union with the All and Infinite behind existence. For the seeker of the integral Yoga no single experience, no one Divine Aspect,however overwhelming to the human mind, sufficient for its capacity, easily accepted as the sole or the ultimate reality,can figure as the exclusive truth of the Eternal. For him the experience of the Divine Oneness carried to its extreme is more deeply embraced and amply fathomed by following out to the full the experience of the Divine Multiplicity. All that is true behind polytheism as well as behind monotheism falls within the scope of his seeking; but he passes beyond their superficial sense to human mind to grasp their mystic truth in the Divine. He sees what is aimed at by the jarring sects and philosophies and accepts each facet of the Reality in its own place, but rejects their narrownesses and errors and proceeds farther till he discovers the One Truth that binds them together. The reproach of anthropomorphism and anthropolatry cannot deter him,for he sees them to be prejudices of the ignorant and arrogant reasoning intelligence, the abstracting mind turning on itself in its own cramped circle. If human relations as practised now by man are full of smallness and perversity and ignorance, yet are they disfigured shadows of something in the Divine and by turning them to the Divine he finds that of which they are a shadow and brings it down for manifestation in life. It is through the human exceeding itself and opening itself to a supreme plenitude that the Divine must manifest itself here, since that comes inevitably in the course and process of the spiritual evolution, and therefore he will not despise or blind himself to the Godhead because it is lodged in a human body, mnu tanum ritam. Beyond the limited human conception of God, he will pass to the one divine Eternal, but also he will meet him in the faces of the Gods, his cosmic personalities supporting the World-Play, detect him behind the mask of the Vibhutis, embodied World-Forces or human Leaders, reverence and obey him in the Guru, worship him in the Avatar. This will be to him his exceeding good fortune if he can meet one who has realised or is becoming That which he seeks for and can by opening to it in this vessel of its manifestation himself realise it. For that is the most palpable sign of the growing fulfilment, the promise of the great mystery of the progressive Descent into Matter which is the secret sense of the material creation and the justification of terrestrial existence.
1.04 - THE STUDY (The Compact), #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
That round and round some fiend misleads to Evil plight,
While all about lie pastures fresh and green.
1.04 - What Arjuna Saw - the Dark Side of the Force, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
away the responsibility for all that seems to us Evil or terri-
ble on the shoulders of a semi-omnipotent D Evil, or to put
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niscient God in view of the existence of Evil and suffering. 14
13 Sri Aurobindo: Essays on the Gita, pp. 381-382.
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God being All-Good, who created pain and Evil? If we say
that pain is a trial and an ordeal, we do not solve the moral
1.05 - 2010 and 1956 - Doomsday?, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
ning at Creation and an end when Evil will be conquered
and Earth become an eternal Paradise.
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intervene in this world, overthrow the forces of Evil that
ran it, and bring in a new kingdom in which there would
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and dark. Blind to good and Evil, reckless of destruction,
omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way. 13
1.052 - Yoga Practice - A Series of Positive Steps, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
This philosophy of the twofold character of an object is vastly emphasised in the Tantra Shastra, where nothing in this world is to be regarded as Evil, unnecessary, useless or meaningless everything has a meaning of its own. And, the seed of this philosophy is recognised in a sutra of Patanjali himself: bhogpavargrtham dyam (II.18). The drisya, or the object, is for two purposes: for our enjoyment and bondage, and, under different conditions, also for our freedom.
Thus, a thing in this world is neither good nor bad. We cannot make any remark about any object in this world wholly, unlimitedly or unconditionally; all remarks about things are conditional. Things are useful, helpful and contri butory to the freedom of the soul under a given set of circumstances, but they are the opposite under a different set of circumstances. Not knowing this fact, the mind flitters from one thing to another thing. This is the character of what is known as rajas the principle of diversity and distraction. The remedy for this illness of distraction of the mind is austerity, or self-restraint. The great goal of yoga that has been described all this time will remain merely a will-o-the-wisp and will not be accessible to the mind if the condition necessary for the entry of consciousness into the supreme goal of yoga namely, freedom from distraction is not fulfilled.
1.053 - The Star, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
31. To God belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on earth. He will repay those who do Evil according to their deeds, and recompense those who do good with the best.
32. Those who avoid gross sins and indecencies—except for minor lapses—your Lord is of Vast Forgiveness. He knows you well, ever since He created you from the earth, and ever since you were embryos in your mothers’ wombs. So do not acclaim your own virtue; He is fully aware of the righteous.
1.057 - Iron, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
15. “Therefore, today no ransom will be accepted from you, nor from those who disbelieved. The Fire is your refuge. It is your companion—what an Evil fate!”
16. Is it not time for those who believe to surrender their hearts to the remembrance of God, and to the truth that has come down, and not be like those who were given the Book previously, but time became prolonged for them, so their hearts hardened, and many of them are sinners?
1.058 - The Argument, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
2. Those of you who estrange their wives by equating them with their mothers—they are not their mothers. Their mothers are none else but those who gave birth to them. What they say is Evil, and a blatant lie. But God is Pardoning and Forgiving.
3. Those who estrange their wives by equating them with their mothers, then go back on what they said, must set free a slave before they may touch one another. To this you are exhorted, and God is well aware of what you do.
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15. God has prepared for them a terrible punishment. Evil is what they used to do.
16. They took their oaths as a screen, and prevented others from God’s path. They will have a shameful punishment.
1.05 - Adam Kadmon, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
Its planet is Uranus, symbolizing altruism and the magical power in man, capable of nameless Evil as well as good, yet vital and necessary to his being ; moreover, it is capable of redemption, and when so redeemed, is the greatest power for possible good.
The third aspect of the immortal entity is Neschamah, or Intuition, the faculty for the Understanding of the Will of the Monad. In Theosophy, this is Higher or Buddhi-
1.05 - Bhakti Yoga, #Amrita Gita, #Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #Hinduism
12. Evil company is an enemy of devotion. Give up Evil company. Take recourse to Satsanga or company of the saints.
13. Pray to the Lord thus; O Adorable Lord of Compassion and Love! Give me faith and devotion.
1.05 - CHARITY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Systematically or in brief aphorism and parable, the masters of the spiritual life have described the nature of true charity and have distinguished it from the other, lower forms of love. Let us consider its principal characteristics in order. First, charity is disinterested, seeking no reward, nor allowing itself to be diminished by any return of Evil for its good. God is to be loved for Himself, not for his gifts, and persons and things are to be loved for Gods sake, because they are temples of the Holy Ghost. Moreover, since charity is disinterested, it must of necessity be universal.
Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love. Of all the motions and affections of the soul, love is the only one by means of which the creature, though not on equal terms, is able to treat with the Creator and to give back something resembling what has been given to it. When God loves, he only desires to be loved, knowing that love will render all those who love Him happy.
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In other words, the highest form of the love of God is an immediate spiritual intuition, by which knower, known and knowledge are made one. The means to, and earlier stages of, this supreme love-knowledge of Spirit by spirit are described by Shankara in the preceding verses of his philosophical poem, and consist in acts of a will directed towards the denial of selfness in thought, feeling and action, towards desirelessness and non-attachment or (to use the corresponding Christian term) holy indifference, towards a cheerful acceptance of affliction, without self-pity and without thought of returning Evil for Evil, and finally towards unsleeping and one-pointed mindfulness of the Godhead who is at once transcendent and, because transcendent, immanent in every soul.
It is plain that no distinct object whatever that pleases the will can be God; and, for that reason, if the will is to be united with Him, it must empty itself, cast away every disorderly affection of the desire, every satisfaction it may distinctly have, high and low, temporal and spiritual, so that, purified and cleansed from all unruly satisfactions, joys and desires, it may be wholly occupied, with all its affections, in loving God. For if the will can in any way comprehend God and be united with Him, it cannot be through any capacity of the desire, but only by love; and as all the delight, sweetness and joy, of which the will is sensible, is not love, it follows that none of these pleasing impressions can be the adequate means of uniting the will to God. These adequate means consist in an act of the will. And because an act of the will is quite distinct from feeling, it is by an act that the will is united with God and rests in Him; that act is love. This union is never wrought by feeling or exertion of the desire; for these remain in the soul as aims and ends. It is only as motives of love that feelings can be of service, if the will is bent on going onwards, and for nothing else.
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The distinguishing marks of charity are disinterestedness, tranquillity and humility. But where there is disinterestedness there is neither greed for personal advantage nor fear for personal loss or punishment; where there is tranquillity, there is neither craving nor aversion, but a steady will to conform to the divine Tao or Logos on every level of existence and a steady awareness of the divine Suchness and what should be ones own relations to it; and where there is humility there is no censoriousness and no glorification of the ego or any projected alter-ego at the expense of others, who are recognized as having the same weaknesses and faults, but also the same capacity for transcending them in the unitive knowledge of God, as one has oneself. From all this it follows that charity is the root and substance of morality, and that where there is little charity there will be much avoidable Evil. All this has been summed up in Augustines formula: Love, and do what you like. Among the later elaborations of the Augustinian theme we may cite the following from the writings of John Everard, one of those spiritually minded seventeenth-century divines whose teachings fell on the deaf ears of warring factions and, when the revolution and the military dictatorship were at an end, on the even deafer ears of Restoration clergymen and their successors in the Augustan age. (Just how deaf those ears could be we may judge by what Swift wrote of his beloved and morally perfect Houyhnhnms. The subject matter of their conversations, as of their poetry, consisted of such things as friendship and benevolence, the visible operations of nature or ancient traditions; the bounds and limits of virtue, the unerring rules of reason. Never once do the ideas of God, or charity, or deliverance engage their minds. Which shows sufficiently clearly what the Dean of St. Patricks thought of the religion by which he made his money.)
Turn the man loose who has found the living Guide within him, and then let him neglect the outward if he can! Just as you would say to a man who loves his wife with all tenderness, You are at liberty to beat her, hurt her or kill her, if you want to.
1.05 - Christ, A Symbol of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
opponent. Although the exclusion of the power of Evil was
something the Christian consciousness was well aware of, all it
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trine of the privatio boni first propounded by Origen, Evil was
characterized as a mere diminution of good and thus deprived
of substance. According to the teachings of the Church, Evil is
simply "the accidental lack of perfection." This assumption
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take Evil rather more substantially when one meets it on the
plane of empirical psychology. There it is simply the opposite
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problem of Evil on a broader basis than the Church Fathers. For
instance, one of the things they taught was that Christ "cast off
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imitating spirit of Evil who follows in Christ's footsteps like a
shadow following the body. This complementing of the bright
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lence, and the other, diametrically opposed to him, the son of the Evil demon, of
Satan and the d Evil) (Origen, Contra Celsum, VI, 45; in Migne, P.G., vol. 11, col.
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oportet." (Where there is Evil . . . there must needs be good contrary to the
Evil. . . . The one follows from the other; hence we must either do away with
both, and deny that good and Evil exist, or if we admit the one, and particularly
Evil, we must also admit the good.) (Contra Celsum, II, 51; in Migne, P.G., vol. 11,
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cipalities" down to the Evil spirits and impure demons "do not have it- the con-
trary virtue- substantially" ("non substantialiter id habeant scl. virtus adversaria"),
and that they were not created Evil but chose the condition of wickedness
("malitiae gradus") of their own free will. (De principiis, I, vin, 4; in Migne, P.G.,
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deprive Evil of substance. He comes very close to the Augustinian conception of
the privatio boni when he says: "Certum namque est malum esse bono carere"
(For it is certain that to be Evil means to be deprived of good). But this sentence
is immediately preceded by the following: "Recedere autem a bono, non aliud est
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fected in Evil) (De principiis, II, ix, 2; in Migne, P.G., vol. 11, cols. 226-27). This
shows clearly that an increase in the one means a diminution of the other, so
that good and Evil represent equivalent halves of an opposition.
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reality of Evil and can be found as early as Basil the Great
(330-79) and Dionysius the Areopagite (2nd half of the 4th
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tury), who says: "Nothing Evil was created by God; we ourselves
have produced all wickedness." 30 This view is also adopted by
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You must not look upon God as the author of the existence of Evil,
nor consider that Evil has any subsistence in itself [tStav inrooratnv
rov kclkov dvai\. For Evil does not subsist as a living being does, nor
can we set before our eyes any substantial essence [ovaiav ewiroo-Tarov]
thereof. For Evil is the privation [cn-ep^cn?] of good. . . . And thus
Evil does not inhere in its own substance [v ISia v-n-dpia], but arises
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as the wicked say who set up Evil for the equal of good . . . nor is
it created. For if all things are of God, how can Evil arise from
good? 33
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It is equally impious to say that Evil has its origin from God, be-
cause the contrary cannot proceed from the contrary. Life does not
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the maker of health. . . . Now if Evil is neither uncreated nor
created by God, whence comes its nature? That Evil exists no one
living in the world will deny. What shall we say, then? That Evil is
not a living and animated entity, but a condition [Sia&o-is] of the soul
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The idea of good and Evil, however, is the premise for any moral
judgment. They are a logically equivalent pair of opposites and,
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this standpoint we would have to assert that good and Evil, being
coexistent halves of a moral judgment, do not derive from one
another but are always there together. Evil, like good, belongs
to the category of human values, and we are the authors of moral
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called by one person good and by another Evil. Only in capital
cases is there anything like a consensus generalis. If we hold with
Basil that man is the author of Evil, we are saying in the same
breath that he is also the author of good. But man is first and
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hand that Evil has no substance of its own but arises from a
"mutilation of the soul," and if on the other hand he is con-
vinced that Evil really exists, then the relative reality of Evil is
grounded on a real "mutilation" of the soul which must have an
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free will, this proves firstly that Evil was in the world before
man, and therefore that man cannot be the sole author of it,
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independent existence of Evil must be denied even in face of the
eternity of the d Evil as asserted by dogma. The historical reason
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is no such thing as Evil.
John Chrysostom (c. 344-407) uses, instead of o-rep^ats (priva-
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from good, and therefore Evil is secondary in relation to good." 36
8 7 Dionysius the Areopagite gives a detailed explanation of Evil
in the fourth chapter of De divinis nominibus. Evil, he says, can-
not come from good, because if it came from good it would not
be Evil. But since everything that exists comes from good, every-
thing is in some way good, but " Evil does not exist at all" (to
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88 Evil in its nature is neither a thing nor does it bring anything
forth.
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That which has no existence is not altogether Evil, for the abso-
lutely non-existent will be nothing, unless it be thought of as sub-
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better. . . . Those things we call Evil, then, are defects in good
things, and quite incapable of existing in their own right outside
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ness of things. For what is Evil by reason of a defect must obviously
be good of its own nature. For a defect is something contrary to
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do so only by diminishing that thing's goodness. Evil therefore is
nothing but the privation of good. And thus it can have no existence
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which are good without any Evil in them, such as God himself, and
the higher celestial beings; but there can be no Evil things without
good. For if Evils cause no damage to anything, they are not Evils; if
they do damage something, they diminish its goodness; and if they
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nature is left to be damaged. And so there will be no Evil by which
it can be damaged, since there is then no nature left whose goodness
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nothing which was not created by him, whence arises Evil? Answer: Evil is not a
natural thing, it is rather the name given to the privation of good. Thus there can
be good without Evil, but there cannot be Evil without good, nor can there be Evil
where there is no good. . . . Therefore, when we call a thing good, we praise its
inherent nature; when we call a thing Evil, we blame not its nature, but some
defect in it contrary to its nature, which is good.)
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no Evil- in which, indeed, there can be no Evil. But it is impossible for a nature
to exist in which there is no good" (CLX).
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with this when he says: "The steel is not Evil; but the man who
uses the steel for a criminal purpose, he is Evil." 41
These quotations clearly exemplify the standpoint of Diony-
sius and Augustine: Evil has no substance or existence in itself,
since it is merely a diminution of good, which alone has sub-
stance. Evil is a vitium, a bad use of things as a result of errone-
ous decisions of the will (blindness due to Evil desire, etc.).
Thomas Aquinas, the great theoretician of the Church, says with
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through light. Hence also what Evil is must be known from the
nature of good. Now we have said above that good is everything
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be that Evil signifies a being, or any form or nature. Therefore it
must be that by the name of Evil is signified the absence of good. 42
Evil is not a being, whereas good is a being. 43
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not in good but in Evil. Even so, one could hardly conclude from
this that his striving is "essentially good."
94 Obviously Evil can be represented as a diminution of good,
but with this kind of logic one could just as well say: The tem-
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and just as cold is nothing but a diminution of warmth, so Evil
is nothing but a diminution of good. The privatio boni argu-
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created Evil. It merely created the good and the less good (which
last is simply called "worse" by laymen). 46 Just as we freeze
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95 It is probably from this tendency to deny any reality to Evil
that we get the axiom "Omne bonum a Deo, omne malum ab
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other demons as created by God were naturally good, but became Evil of their
own motion." Denzinger and Bannwart, Enchiridion symbolorum, p. 189.
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97 Psychology does not know what good and Evil are in them-
selves; it knows them only as judgments about relationships.
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certain point of view; Evil is its opposite. If the things we call
good are "really" good, then there must be Evil things that are
"real" too. It is evident that psychology is concerned with a
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are extremely Evil, that is to say dangerous. There are also things
in human nature which are very dangerous and which therefore
seem proportionately Evil to anyone standing in their line of
fire. It is pointless to gloss over these Evil things, because that
only lulls one into a sense of false security. Human nature is
capable of an infinite amount of Evil, and the Evil deeds are as
real as the good ones so far as human experience goes and so far
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consciousness makes no difference between good and Evil. Inside
the psychological realm one honestly does not know which of
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and Evil are usually the worst tormentors of mankind, because
they are twisted with the pain and fear of their own sickness.
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should not overlook the danger of the Evil lurking within them.
It is unfortunately only too real, which is why psychology must
insist on the reality of Evil and must reject any definition that
regards it as insignificant or actually non-existent. Psychology is
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derstands good and Evil as the right and left hand of God, and
views the whole of creation in terms of syzygies, or pairs of oppo-
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that the reality of Evil does not necessarily lead to Manichaean
dualism and so does not endanger the unity of the God-image.
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ent world should be given over to Evil [wovrjpu], because it is small
and passes quickly away. But he promised to preserve the future
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tendency to Evil was added from outside to the mixture willed
by God (/caTa rrjv tov deov fiovkrjcnv e|o> Trj Kpdau o~o(x(Si^r)Ktv). Thus
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rather difficult to attri bute the cause of Evil to the Creator in
so many words.
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firmly in the substantiality of Evil. This sudden realization
might well have led them to the dangerously anthropomorphic
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our shame and behold our Evil plight. Clo the thyself in thy
mercies, cover thyself in thy strength, wrap thyself in thy lov-
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conception of the Evil in human nature and for a too pessimistic
view of the human soul. To offset this, early Christianity, with
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tendency to attri bute Evil to the disposition (SmfleoW) of the soul,
and at the same time to give it a "non-existent" character. Since,
according to this author, Evil originates in human frivolity
73 Aurora, trans, by John Sparrow, p. 423.
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this is such a quantite negligeable that Evil vanishes altogether
in smoke. Frivolity as a cause of Evil is certainly a factor to be
taken seriously, but it is a factor that can be got rid of by a
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tively blind not to see the colossal role that Evil plays in the
world. Indeed, it took the intervention of God himself to deliver
humanity from the curse of Evil, for without his intervention
man would have been lost. If this paramount power of Evil is
imputed to the soul, the result can only be a negative inflation
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be it noted- Evil was a privatio boni. The idea of totality is, at any given time,
as total as one is oneself. Who can guarantee that our conception of totality is
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"I find then a law, that, when I would do good, Evil is present
with me." 95
1.05 - Hymns of Bharadwaja, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
12. O Prince of Riches, fix always in us that in which are the Gods, settle here many herds for the begotten son. In us may there be the happy things of true inspiration and the multitude of the large impulsions from which Evil is far.
13. O King, O Fire, let me enjoy by thee and thy princehood of the riches many riches in many ways; for, O Fire of many blessings, there are many treasures for thy worshipper in thee, the King.
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4. The mortal should grow in riches who achieves the work by the Thought for thee, the great giver; he is in the keeping of the Vast Heaven and crosses beyond the hostile powers and their Evil.
5. O Fire, when mortal man arrives by the fuel of thy flame to the way of the oblation and the sharpening of thy intensities, he increases his branching house, his house of the hundred of life.
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1. The mortal who longs for the Godhead shall take up his home with thee, O Fire, he is born into the Truth and a guardian of the Truth and comes to thy wide Light, - he in whom thou being Varuna takest with Mitra a common delight and thou guardest that mortal, O God, by thy casting away from him of Evil.
2. He has sacrificed with sacrifices, he has achieved his labour by his works, he has given to the Fire whose boons grow ever in opulence. And so there befalls him not the turning away of the Glorious Ones; Evil comes not to him nor the insolence of the adversary.
3. Faultless is thy seeing like the sun's; terrible marches thy thought when blazing with light thou neighest aloud like a force of battle. This Fire was born in the pleasant woodl and and is a rapturous dweller somewhere in the night.
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8. O Fire, thou journeyest happily to the treasures by paths where the wolf rends not, and carriest us beyond all Evils. These high things thou givest to the luminous wise; thou lavishest the bliss on him who voices thee with the word. May we revel in the rapture, strong with the strength of the Heroes, living a hundred winters.
SUKTA 5
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5. Found for those who from age to age speak the word that is new, the word that is a discovery of knowledge, O Fire, their glorious treasure; but cut him in twain who is a voice of Evil, cast him low by thy force of light like a tree with the thunderbolt, imperishable6 king.
6 Or, ageless
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31. The mortal of Evil movements who gives us over to the
stroke, guard us, O Fire, from him and his Evil.
dv Ej4yA pEr bAD-v d;ktm^ .
1.05 - ON ENJOYING AND SUFFERING THE PASSIONS, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
Once you suffered passions and called them Evil. But
now you have only your virtues left: they grew out of
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And nothing Evil grows out of you henceforth, unless
it be the Evil that grows out of the fight among your
virtues. My brother, if you are fortunate you have only
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My brother, are. war and battle Evil? But this Evil is
necessary; necessary are the envy and mistrust and
1.05 - On painstaking and true repentance which constitute the life of the holy convicts; and about the prison., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
We must carefully consider whether our conscience has ceased to accuse us, not as a result of purity, but because it is immersed in Evil. A sign of deliverance from our falls is the continual acknowledgment of our indebtedness.
Nothing equals or excels Gods mercies. Therefore he who despairs is committing suicide. A sign of true repentance is the acknowledgement that we deserve all the troubles, visible and invisible, that come to us, and even greater ones. Moses, after seeing God in the bush, returned again to Egypt, that is to darkness and to the brick-making of Pharaoh, symbolical of the spiritual pharaoh. But he went back again to the bush, and not only to the bush but also up the mountain. Whoever has known contemplation will never despair of himself. Job became a beggar, but he became twice as rich again.
--- Overview of noun evil
The noun evil has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (6) evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity ::: (morally objectionable behavior)
2. (4) evil ::: (that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune; "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare)
3. (3) evil, evilness ::: (the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world")
--- Overview of adj evil
The adj evil has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (9) evil ::: (morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds")
2. (1) evil, vicious ::: (having the nature of vice)
3. malefic, malevolent, malign, evil ::: (having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force")
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun evil
3 senses of evil
Sense 1
evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity
=> transgression, evildoing
=> wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus
=> activity
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
evil
=> bad, badness
=> quality
=> attribute
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
evil, evilness
=> immorality
=> quality
=> attribute
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun evil
3 senses of evil
Sense 1
evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity
=> deviltry, devilry
=> foul play
=> irreverence, violation
=> sexual immorality
Sense 2
evil
=> Four Horsemen
Sense 3
evil, evilness
=> malevolence, malevolency, malice
=> malignity, malignancy, malignance
=> maleficence, mischief, balefulness
=> worst
=> nefariousness, wickedness, vileness, ugliness
=> reprehensibility
=> villainy, villainousness
=> perversity, perverseness
=> error, wrongdoing
=> frailty, vice
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun evil
3 senses of evil
Sense 1
evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity
=> transgression, evildoing
Sense 2
evil
=> bad, badness
Sense 3
evil, evilness
=> immorality
--- Similarity of adj evil
3 senses of evil
Sense 1
evil (vs. good)
=> atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous
=> bad
=> black, dark, sinister
=> corruptive, perversive, pestiferous
=> demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy
=> despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched
=> devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian, mephistophelean
=> evil-minded
Also See-> bad#1; immoral#1; offensive#5; unrighteous#1; wicked#1; wrong#2
Sense 2
evil, vicious
=> wicked (vs. virtuous)
Sense 3
malefic, malevolent, malign, evil
=> maleficent (vs. beneficent)
--- Antonyms of adj evil
3 senses of evil
Sense 1
evil (vs. good)
good (vs. evil)
=> angelic, angelical, beatific, saintlike, saintly, sainted
=> goody-goody
=> redemptive, redeeming(prenominal), saving(prenominal)
=> white
Sense 2
evil, vicious
INDIRECT (VIA wicked) -> virtuous
Sense 3
malefic, malevolent, malign, evil
INDIRECT (VIA maleficent) -> beneficent
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun evil
3 senses of evil
Sense 1
evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity
-> transgression, evildoing
=> abomination
=> evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity
=> villainy
=> depravity, turpitude
=> vice
=> sin, sinning
=> terrorization, terrorisation
=> crime, offense, criminal offense, criminal offence, offence, law-breaking
=> crime
=> inside job
Sense 2
evil
-> bad, badness
=> unworthiness
=> undesirability
=> worse
=> evil
=> unsoundness
=> liability
=> inadvisability
Sense 3
evil, evilness
-> immorality
=> unrighteousness
=> corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction
=> corruptibility
=> licentiousness, wantonness
=> anomie, anomy
=> wrongness
=> evil, evilness
--- Pertainyms of adj evil
3 senses of evil
Sense 1
evil (vs. good)
Sense 2
evil, vicious
Sense 3
malefic, malevolent, malign, evil
--- Derived Forms of adj evil
2 of 3 senses of evil
Sense 1
evil (vs. good)
RELATED TO->(noun) evilness#1
=> evil, evilness
Sense 2
evil, vicious
RELATED TO->(noun) evilness#1
=> evil, evilness
--- Grep of noun evil
bean weevil
black weevil
blue devil
boll weevil
daredevil
devil
dust devil
evil
evil eye
evil spirit
evildoer
evildoing
evilness
flour weevil
king's evil
king devil
mountain devil
pea weevil
poor devil
printer's devil
red devil
rice weevil
seed weevil
she-devil
tasmanian devil
the devil
weevil