Is evil neccessary?

We often hear the term necessary evil. Why would evil be necessary?

All things work together for the good.

What if you were being stubborn.The good shepherd was trying to get you out of a rut onto a path that led to pasture. You being the stubborn sheep and the good shepherd being the Christos within. We need a good whack with the shepherds staff , it may seem at the moment cruel. Then on the path to the pasture we realize it was necessary to get to the pasture for nourishment.

We hear about terror in today's world , we hear about droughts and famine, we hear about hurricanes and tidal waves (tsunami) some causing total destruction. We see in some cultures they draw the face of a demon on these events. Even in our own lives we have micro events that seem to warrant that same face. This is the mindset that will get you into the rut , the mud.

Should we avoid caricature or drama ? .  How we react to a situation is in essence who we are or will become. If we need to paint a face on each dynamic in our lives , if we create drama out of each situation we may not get to pasture. Caricature and drama is what separates us from animals. Imagination makes us human. We do however get to choose which games we play. Stan Lee was one of the greatest humans , Walt Disney was one of the great humans - they expressed their ideology using imagination. If you want to find a true Zen master choose a great cartoonist. We find in ourselves this wonderful human experience called imagination. It can be used or abused.

Is imagination real? It can be .. New inventions , major innovation all of this came from imagination. Anything that is created came from imagination. Sometimes we think we have dejavu
because we experience something that somehow may have happened before. What actually occurred was you dared to imagine it, it then came into being.

Many including myself have been drawn into the caricature of ideology. Actually religion is really an ideology. We have an event and create a face on it to identify it. This caricature is then put into a dramatic play of sorts and acted upon. As we are purposely entertained by all of this the director will say this is real. We are then spun into an alternate reality that perhaps is a war between good and evil. This game is played out over and over until we arrive back at the beginning. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. Everything that was created was good, God the creator said it was.

Where then did evil come from? It did not come from God. Did the darkness and light get packaged together? Similar to the Tao where we have both darkness and light. Actually the Tao is right , to simplify all of this. The only questions that would remain will be:

Do we need the caricature ? Do we need the drama? Is evil necessary?

It does tend to make a clearer point this sort of mindset. We have energies that flow in our head , we feel them ebbing and residing patterns start to evolve.  We have an awakening which we call something like kundalini or maybe we say we have entered an alternate state of consciousness. We find a sort of butterfly effect can occur or we have a vision. All of this happens as a result of merely allowing it to happen. Evil happens because we allow it.  It is simply by our own permission.

When Job was being tested and wreaked out of his family and possessions it may seem most bothersome. In this story satan had a conference with God. The story goes as thus:
Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason."

In truth this story so upset me, I wanted to rip the pages out. Poor Job was allowed to be tormented. He was righteous and decent why? Even the Lord suggested he be considered as something to be devoured.

Because in the spiritual world we are considered food. Its seems to be a culinary art , we find that Christ however turns the tables on all this. He says go ahead and eat me. Do it as often as you like in remembrance of the Christ.

We can avoid evil by simply not allowing it. Deny it the pleasure of devouring you. Do not become part of the game - try another game. If you feel abused leave the game unless you feel it will bring you some value you absolutely need. It is your choice.

To be or not to be. We in essence allow things to happen. You may say some things are out of our control. Events happen we however create the drama , the caricature. We love cartoons , loony tunes.
We love caricature and drama. That is what separates us from animals. Animals just see things in reality and we live in a loony tune. Think about it , humans are all loony. It is their nature only some take it to the extreme.

Mystery , there is no mystery. Jesus never said, I am the mystery. He said, I am the light. Some say we are predestined , whatever happens is out of our control. We are merely players in these culinary games of eat or be eaten. Sounds barbaric to me , in actuality many things happen because we allow it. We have choice to be used or abused in some cases we are the user or abuser. We as a whole allow ourselves to be used or as an individual. We should always think of ourselves as one in part and in whole. If you hurt the least of these , I am offended.

Deny evil , it will cease to exist. Be patient wait upon the truth and the truth will set you free.

Peace,
Earl.