Theos-Talk Archives (July 1999 Message tt00050)

Clint:
>I am wondering what is the motivation to torment and kill the
> innocent.  Why does this happen on the planet I live on?  Who are these
> people who believe it is the right thing to do?  How can anyone be
> motivated by "evil"?  What is this thing called evil.  To answer the
> Kama Rupa seems weak and undefined, unless to murder and maliciously
> torture and hurt is the natural way of the animal, and I don't see that
> in nature.  To say that it is simply a selfish motivation for power or
> a sense of power also seems unstable.  Are these people insane, is that
> the only acceptable explanation.  If not, what could their souls
> possibly gain from such malintent?

On page 235 of Blavatsky's KEY she says something like evil is rooted human
character and character is formed from many lives of thinking and feeling
along a certain line.  But the formation of evil (or good) character has a
multiplier factor based on intensity or power of a thought, the frequency of
repetition etc.  But even if one devoted many lifetimes to happily chopping
up people, would not one get repelled or at least bored eventually?   If
only "our" individual thoughts were involved -- maybe.  But HPB and her
gurus point out another source, an occult source, of evil (or good).   Those
are the elementals of similar evil quality that are attracted out of  the
astral light and affix their stimulating energies to us.  From that point on
these living evil forces show us pictures, give us impulses etc. that are so
powerful that many would be sorcerers, satanists are quite insane.  They
find it supremely difficult to rid themselves of these vital  forces of
destruction, which are not human.

It is rather like -- one strong bad thought attracts three elementals.  So
we then indulge in three bad thoughts -- which attract nine elementals and
so forth.

Conversely one powerful good thought attracts 7  good elementals and we
(hopefully) think 7 good thoughts -- which attract 49 more good ones etc.

These numbers and proportions were just made up by me to illustrate the
point.

There are also other occult things afoot, but it does really come down to
controlling our own mind and heart and what sort of qualities we radiate
into the atmosphere.

Nicholas


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