evil
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- evil (130:1.5-6) (132:2sec). See also error; evolution: principle of evolution; iniquity; mistakes; misunderstandings; rebellion (spiritual); sin
- Adjusters pilot God-conscious mortals away from (110:1.2)
- almost every human being has a pet e. (163:2.7)
- always results when personal evaluations are elevated to absolutes (19:1.4) (100:1.1)
- Cano assured Eve persons with good motives could do no e. (75:4.5)
- choosing to become children of e. (162:7.3)
- dealing with evil
- 3 ways of resisting e. (159:5.11-14)
- avoid e. by seeing things as they are (131:3.3)
- do not fight e. with its own weapons (140:8.7)
- do not to others what you would not have done to you (131:1.7)
- fear not resistance of e. (191:4.4)
- fret not because of evildoers (131:1.9) (131:2.8) (141:7.11)
- friendship is insurance against e. (160:2.9)
- go forward in righteousness or retrogress into e. (156:2.6)
- hate e. (126:4.3-4)
- love of truth necessary for victory over e. (179:4.5)
- meditation brings deliverance from e. (131:4.7)
- nonresistance to e. (141:3.8) (180:5.9)
- overcome e. with good (130:2.4) (131:1.7) (131:3.6) (133:7.12) (140:6.9) (156:5.5) (159:5.10) (194:3.11)
- permit e. to run full course of own bankruptcy (54:5.14)
- prayer mobilizes soul to withstand e. (196:0.10)
- privilege to cleanse ourselves from all e. (143:2.6)
- see e. against background of ultimate good (195:5.12)
- Socrates taught not to return e. for e. (98:2.6)
- spiritual rebirth essential to deliverance from e. (148:4.6,8)
- when no opening for e., sin cannot be entertained (43:4.9)
- defined as
- darkness which follows rejection of light (130:1.5)
- gravity-resisting on mental and spiritual levels (56:10.14)
- having origin in misuse, distortion, perversion (111:6.3)
- immature choosing which, when willfully endorsed, becomes sin (3:5.15) (130:1.5-6)
- imperfect obedience to Father’s will (130:4.11) (148:4.3)
- inevitable if creature is to be free (3:5.13) (54:3.1) (75:8.6-7) (130:4.13-15) (132:2.10)
- inherently, automatically suicidal when undiluted (2:3.5)
- originating in imperfection (105:6.4)
- partial creativity tending toward disintegration (111:4.11)
- partial realization of, or maladjustment to, universe realities (67:1.4) (75:4.3)
- produced by contrastive perfection, imperfection (54:0.1-2)
- remoteness from divinity (3:6.2)
- righteous ends are e. when achieved in wrong way (75:4.6)
- seeing sin where there is no sin, or no sin where there is sin (131:3.3)
- stimulative of choosing between truth and error (55:3.10)
- suggesting deficiency of wisdom (67:1.4-5)
- transgression of law (48:6.33)
- deliver us from e. (144:5.18)
- God does not create e. (54:0.2)
- human likes and dislikes do not determine e. (100:3.2)
- human nature tends toward e. (53:8.9) (143:2.5) (148:4.6) (156:5.8) (188:4.5)
- isolated and purely selfish pleasures are relative e. (100:3.4)
- Jesus
- abhorred everything which savored of e. (133:3.6)
- did not advertise e. by forbidding it (127:4.2) (140:8.21) (195:5.13)
- had little to say about vices (140:8.21)
- love of Jesus swallows up all e. (188:5.2)
- refused to compromise with e. (136:8.8)
- would not serve e. that worship of God might result (136:9.3)
- most destructive of personality status is betrayal and disloyalty to confiding friends (67:1.3)
- partial knowledge is potentially e. (2:7.4)
- result of evil
- escaping duty, we go under control of e. (130:1.2)
- e. of one augments tribulation of all (12:7.11)
- e. proceeding from heart defiles (153:3.5)
- e. results when lesser is chosen over greater (16:7.7)
- good cannot result from e. to one who does evil (54:4.7)
- pain and sorrow follow in path of e. (131:3.3)
- time lag of mercy before fruition of e. (2:3.5) (54:4,5secs) (131:3.5)
Cross-references
- See also error
- See also evolution: principle of evolution
- See also iniquity
- See also mistakes
- See also misunderstandings
- See also rebellion (spiritual)
- See also sin
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