In this article, I will transcribe what Master Kuthumi wrote about evil
in the book The Mahatmas Letters.
WHAT IS EVIL?
Master Kuthumi replied:
« Evil has no existence
per se and is but the absence of good and exists but for him who is made
its victim. It proceeds from two causes, and no more than good is it an
independent cause in Nature.
Nature is destitute of goodness
or malice; she follows only immutable laws when she either gives life and joy,
or sends suffering and death, and destroys what she has created.
Nature has an antidote for every
poison and her laws a reward for every suffering. The butterfly devoured by a
bird becomes that bird, and the little bird killed by an animal goes into a
higher form. It is the blind law of necessity and the eternal fitness of
things, and hence cannot be called Evil in Nature.
The real evil proceeds from human
intelligence and its origin rests entirely with reasoning man who dissociates
himself from Nature. Humanity then alone is the true source of evil.
Evil is the exaggeration of good,
the progeny of human selfishness and greediness. Think profoundly and you will
find that save death — which is no evil but a necessary law, and accidents
which will always find their reward in a future life — the origin of
every evil whether small or great is in human action, in man whose intelligence
makes him the one free agent in Nature.
It is not nature that creates
diseases, but man. The latter's mission and destiny in the economy of nature is
to die his natural death brought by old age. Save accident, neither a savage
nor a wild (free) animal die of disease.
Food, sexual relations, drink,
are all natural necessities of life; yet excess in them brings on disease,
misery, suffering, mental and physical, and the latter are transmitted as the
greatest evils to future generations, the progeny of the culprits.
Ambition, the desire of securing
happiness and comfort for those we love, by obtaining honours and riches, are
praiseworthy natural feelings but when they transform man into an ambitious
cruel tyrant, a miser, a selfish egotist they bring untold misery on those
around him, on nations as well as on individuals.
All this then — food, wealth,
ambition, and a thousand other things we have to leave unmentioned — becomes
the source and cause of evil whether in its abundance or through its absence.
Become a glutton, a debauchee, a tyrant, and you become the originator of
diseases, of human suffering and misery. Lack all this and you starve, you are
despised as a nobody and the majority of the herd, your fellow men, make
of you a sufferer your whole life.
Therefore it is neither nature
nor an imaginary Deity that has to be blamed, but human nature made vile by selfishness. »
(ML 10, p.56-57)
This affirmation that evil does not exist by itself, but is created by
men themselves, I have also found in other high teachings. For example, in the
book Talking with Angel by Gitta Mallasz, the angels explained
that evil is nothing other than energy that is not in its correct place.
And Master Pasteur also explained that all the calamities that hurt
humanity are a consequence of the bad vibrations generated by humans themselves,
but the day when people will learn to live in harmony, then Earth will become a
planetary paradise.
EVIL IN THE COSMOS
Master Kuthumi wrote:
« And now to your
extraordinary hypothesis that Evil with its attendant train of sin and
suffering is not the result of men, but may be perchance the wise scheme of
the moral Governor of the Universe.
Conceivable as the idea may seem
to you trained in the pernicious fallacy of the Christian — "the ways of
the Lord are inscrutable" — it is utterly inconceivable for me. Must I
repeat again that the best Adepts have searched the Universe during milleniums
and found nowhere the slightest trace of such a Machiavellian schemer — but
throughout, the same immutable, inexorable law.
You must excuse me therefore if I
positively decline to lose my time over such childish speculations. »
(ML 22, p.142-143)
Esotericism explains that there are hierarchies of dark beings, but
these are not "the enemies of God" as is promulgated by Christianity
and other similar religions, because these dark beings were also created by God
and have a role to play within the creation.
EVIL ON THE PLANET EARTH
At cosmic level, evil not exist as an independent malevolent force, but this
independent malevolent force exist on Earth created by men themselves, and on
this matter, Master Kuthumi wrote the following:
« Morya thinks that for your purposes I better
give you a few more details upon Atlantis since it is greatly connected with evil if not with its
origin. »
(ML 23B, p.156)
Although, it is known that inexorably several humans will transform into
black magicians throughout the evolution of humanity, in the case of Earth, the
events that happened during Atlantis were those that generated the most
powerful black magicians who they have emerged on our planet.
But even though black magicians generate much evil, the Transhimalayan Masters
cannot prevent that evil because they must respect the free will available to
humans (including that of black magicians).
And that is why Master Morya wrote:
« [We cannot counteract the work of the black magicians]
who are on earth whose evil results we try to palliate but
whose work we have no right to meddle with so long as they do not cross our path. »
(ML 134, p.463)
And the evil generated by black magicians make also humans evolve, and
that is why Master Kuthumi said:
« The world moves and
lives under the shadow of the deadly upas-tree of Evil; yet its dripping is
dangerous to, and can reach only those whose higher and middle natures are as
much susceptible of infection as their lower one. Its venomous seed can
germinate but in a willing, well prepared soil. »
(ML 64, p.359)
« However, we will go on
in that periodical work of ours; we will not allow ourselves to be baffled in
our philanthropic attempts until that day when the foundations of a new
continent of thought are so firmly built that no amount of opposition and
ignorant malice guided by the Brethren of the Shadow will be found to prevail. »
(ML 9, p.51)
EVIL IN MAN
Master Kuthumi said:
« Viewed from our
standpoint the evil is far greater on the spiritual than on the material side
of man. »
(ML 11, p.64)
« The potency for evil is as great in man —
aye greater — than the potentiality for good. »
(ML 20C, p.130)
And that is why before wanting to walk the initiatory path, the disciple
first has to completely eliminate all germs of evil that may be inside him.
And it is the reason that Master Kuthumi replied to Mr. Sinnett:
« You were told,
however, that the path to Occult Sciences has to be trodden laboriously and
crossed at the danger of life; that every new step in it leading to the final
goal, is surrounded by pit-falls and cruel thorns; that the pilgrim who
ventures upon it is made first to confront and conquer the thousand and one furies who keep
watch over its adamantine gates and entrance — furies called Doubt, Skepticism,
Scorn, Ridicule, Envy and finally Temptation — especially the latter; and that
he, who would see beyond
had to first destroy this living wall; that he must be possessed of a heart and
soul clad in steel, and of an iron, never failing determination and yet be meek
and gentle, humble and have shut out from his heart every human passion, that
leads to evil.
Are you all this?
Have you ever begun a course of
training which would lead to it? »
(ML 62, p.352)
HOW TO EVALUATE THE EVIL?
Master Kuthumi indicated that a higher level of consciousness is needed
to be able to measure evil correctly:
« Good and evil are not to
be measured by events on the lower or physical plane. »
(ML 68, p.372)
And this is because we do not have the ability to know when damage is
caused by karmic reasons and when it is caused by the evil of others.
HOW TO RESPOND TO EVIL?
Master Kuthumi mentioned:
« And that, though we
may not say with the Christians, "Return good for evil" — we repeat
with Confucius — "Return good for good; for evil — justice." »
(ML 85, p.401)
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