Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00690)

Cass Silva wrote:

> Why is everyone so terrified of the negative in the world.

I agree, and I don't like those teachings which emphasize the role
of dark forces.

>If there are Dugpas and Gelupkas I want to understand where
they came from and what part they play in the overall scheme of
our evolution.

For example, exercizing evil emotions they promote development
of some elemental kingdoms. They sacrifice their own progress
to let evolve the life which is still even lower than a mineral!

«We speak of good forms and evil, and rightly, as regards our own
evolution. But from the wider standpoint of the kosmos, good and
evil are relative terms, and everything is very good in the sight of
the Supreme who lives in every one. How can a type come
into existence in which He cannot live? How can anything live and
move, save as it has its being in Him? Each type has its work;
each type has its place; the type of the Rakshasa as much as the
type of the Deva, of the Asura as much as of the Sura. Let
me give you one curious little simple example, which yet has a
certain graphic force. You have a pole you want to move, and that
pole is on a pivot, like the mountain which churned the ocean, a
pole with its two ends, positive and negative we will call them.
The positive end, we will say, is pushed in the direction of the river
(the river flowing beyond one end of the hall at Adyar). The
negative pole is pushed — in what direction? In the opposite. And
those who are pushing it have their faces turned in the opposite
direction. One man looks at the river, the other man has his back
to it, looking in the opposite direction. But the pole turns in the 
one
direction although they push in opposite directions. They are
working round the same circle, and the pole goes faster
because it is pushed from its two ends. There is the picture of our
universe. The positive force you call the Deva or Sura; his face is
turned, it seems, to God. The negative force you call the Rakshasa
or Asura; his face, it seems, is turned away from God.»
(A. Besant, "Avataras")

«The Dark Brothers are—remember this always— erring and misguided
yet still sons of the one Father though straying far, very far,
into the land of distances. The way back for them will be long,
but the mercy of evolution inevitably forces them back al ong the
path of return in cycles far ahead. Anyone who over-exalts the
concrete mind and permits it continuously to shut out the higher,
is in danger of straying on the left-hand path. Many so
stray...but come back, and then in the future avoid like errors
in the same way as a child once burnt avoids the fire. It is the
man who persists in spite of warning and of pain who eventually
becomes a brother of darkness.»
(A. Bailey, "Letters on occult meditation")