Theos-Talk Archives (July 1999 Message tt00058)

clint mccray wrote:

> --- Mark Kusek <mark@withoutwalls.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > The moral choice for good or evil actions is a
> > consequence of the
> > evolution of individual personality or lower self
> > ego consciousness. In
> > order to have a sense of (personal) "self and other"
> > we need a field of
> > opposites to manifest that in. Good and evil are
> > just one set of relative
> > polarities that define the field. It is said by the
> > wisdom tradition that
> > there can be no wrong action but in the astral body.
>
> > Please explain this statement on astral wrong.

I'll write more on this when I get home from the office.


> > But the big idea is that duality is necessary for
> > the formation of a sense
> > of self and other. Good and evil are a consequential
> > pair of that
> > necessity. It is a part of the plan, so to speak.
> > Archetypal maya, but
> > apparently real for the unawake. Malice began with
> > duality.
> >
> So, what you are saying is that evil is a necessary option and came to
> be thus when all other options were made?
> Would you say apathy is one grade of evil.

More or less. Evil came into existence as a potentiality when the field
for evolution was first defined at the manvantaric dawn, as did all other
potential pairs of opposites. It enters the sphere of man's consciousness
as a potentiality with the development of the personal ego. It is always
relative and subject to a point of view.


> > Wisdom and compassion are the skillful forces
> > watching out for the
> > mislead.
> >
> >Are these actual beings, or the state that each individual can choose,
> or both?

If I understand your question, I would say both. They are qualitative
aspects of true nature. As such they exist as potencies. You as a person,
can choose to relate to them much like the same way you can choose to
relate to the true nature within you. Others have as well and won the
victory of attainment, transcending the personal identification and
becoming such. Therefore you could call them beings also. The higher
hierarchies, as impersonal agents of true nature, act as transmitters and
posits of these potencies for the unattained.

Honor to the Compassionate and Wise.

Regards,
Mark



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