You bring up some good and challenging issues.)(Apollo the Good)( wrote:While I certainly don't disagree with other's explanations, I tend to agree with Godsmack's the most. I am confused when people say that there is no good and evil whatsoever. To me that doesn't make since because then our world would be based up anarchy. To kill someone is evil. To wish bad ill upon someone is evil. However, I believe magick is not inherently one polarity or the other. It is the use of that magick that deciphers one or the other. I believe there IS good and evil, you just have to decide which to act upon.
What we perceive as humans is far from the totality of all existence. For example, I believe that "evil" is much more dark and twisted than our minds could ever imagine. Just as pure good is more divine than a human could ever know.
Since we are on the topic, when it comes to polarity, when it exists within us, I don't believe that we are to live our life that way. I am actually confused about this topic. If an equal amount of light and dark dwells within our souls, are we at harmony and balance? To me, its hard to imagine. Because technically, if one were to do something absolutely wonderful for someone, then they would have to invite a little more darkness into themselves to maintain the homeostasis of that balance.
PS. These are all just my beliefs!!I love reading everyone else's. It is important than even when our perspectives differ, we all remember we are One:) Love you all
My answer isn't complete because my understanding isn't but here you go:
I say there is no good and evil only because evil is ignorance and forgetfulness of the devine within everything. This illusion really is evil but sometimes this thinking can distroy people's compassion, which everyone and everything of "evil" deserves because they really know no better. I see a person of evil actions really a childish soul, learning the ropes of life.
Now, I don't believe that an equal amount of dark is within us as light, but rather our innate goodness and light is covered up by this ignorant dark substance. This comes from god and is his own way of creating the ego so god can dance and play within himself. They say that at the end of each cycle god destroys this illusion and once again everything becomes apart of himself with no seperation of identity. Then the process is repeated again. I beleive that the more of this ignorance one can elliminate, the more power he/she recieves to minipulate things around them. 10,000 cities can be powered by the mind of one individual.
Now, we can't really understand these things fully, because we can't understand god. Many people would be driven to personify god and this would be doing him a great injustice. "Out of many thousands of persons who may indeaver to know me, hardly one knows me in truth."
But expcepting the facts that I listed above will lead one to surrender to god, and therefor, gradually, ignorance will be washed away. One will begin to see the connectedness of everything there is. And in this way, there is no evil.
If this doesn't make sense I will be more then happy to clarify.
Love,
Y0m
