Fw: The Source of Good and Evil

August 25, 2009

--- On Tue, 25/8/09, www ramanateaching org <sadasivananda wrote:

From Where Does Evil Come, and Who Made It?with the attachment"Love Embracing the Beloved"

To a throng of assembled masters of the Law, Jesus said:

There is one God from whose great Being came forth the seven Spirits that created the heaven and the earth; and manifest unto the sons of men are these great Spirits in the sun, and moon, and stars.

But in the sacred books we read that two among these seven are of superior strength; that one created all the good; the other one created all that is evil.

Jesus asketh, I pray you, honored masters; tell me how that evil can be born of that which is good?

One of the masters before Jesus arose and said, If you will answer me, your problem will be solved.

We all do recognize the fact that evil is. Whatever is must have a cause. If God, the One, made not this evil, then, where is the God who did?

And Jesus said, Whatever God, the One, has made is good, and like the first great Cause, the seven Spirits all are good, and everything that comes from their creative hands is good.

Now, all created things have colors, tones and forms their own; but certain tones, though good and pure themselves, when mixed, produce inharmonies, discordant tones.

And certain things, though good and pure, when mixed, produce discordant things, yea, poisonous things, that men call evil things.

So evil is the inharmonious blending of colors, tones, or forms of good.

Now, man is not all-wise, and yet has a will his own. He has the power, and he uses it, to mix God's good things in a multitude of ways, and every day he makes discordant sounds, and evil things.

And every tone and form, be it of good, or ill, becomes a living thing, a demon, sprite, or spirit of good or vicious kind.

Man makes his devil thus; and then becomes afraid of him and flees; his devil is emboldened, follows him away and casts him into torturing fires.

The devil and the burning fires are both the works of man, and none can put the fires out and dissipate the evil one, but man who made them both.

Then Jesus stood aside, and not a one answered him.

And he departed from the throng and went into a secret place to pray..

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Source: "The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ" by Levi, Chapter 39.

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