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We often seek to identify which elements of reality
are good and evil; where the elements of reality are
objects, people, places, tools, techniques, ideas,
creations, feelings, emotions, organizations, cultures,
sub-cultures, institutions, religions, ideologies, etc.,
which are regarded objectively if identified with evil and
identified with subjectively if identified with good. The
"good" is the focus of union, the "evil" is the focus of
objectification. The "good" is internalized, the "evil"
is excommunicated, objectified.
Union with the devil is the most unthinkable and evil
act. We must never love the devil. The devil must be
excommunicated and regarded with detached objectivity. The
same goes for the agents of the devil. We must never love
the devil's workers. They must be excommunicated along
with the devil and regarded with detached objectivity. We
must separate ourselves from the evil elements of reality.
The beginning of wisdom is to know which elements of
reality are "good" and which are "evil", and to fear the
right ones. Love casts out fear. We must fear the devil
and the devil's workers---and cast them out of our lives.
The essence of evil is the blockage of communication.
Elements of reality do not block communication---except as
those elements are related in nature. In fact, efforts to
identify "good" and "evil" elements tend to block
communication---for the categories "good" and "evil" are
used only to decide who/what should be excommunicated. It
is thus evil---to ask what is evil and what is good. It
is not good to ask who or what is evil, and who or what is
good. There are no good answers to such questions. They
do not lead to wisdom but to evil conscience, to evil
with-knowledge from the tree of knowledge which is in the
midst of "the garden."
Relationships, not elements, are alienative, sinful,
evil. To understand evil, we must consider relationships
and how they block or promote dialogue, and love. We
should particularly focus upon intimate personal
relationships; those which intimately involve people.
Consider relationships of disdain, arrogance, self-
righteousness, judgment, indifference, dis-affection,
dis-affirmation, forgetfulness, insensitivity, punishment,
bribery, reward, punishment, criticism, scorn, etc.
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