A belief in GOOD without EVIL is realistic; a state of GRACE exists for everyone; changing beliefs; emergence of the CONSCIOUS MIND with COMPASSION

The universe is of good intent; evil and destruction do NOT exist except as a scenario. Evidence of evil in the world appears to our senses in order to let us know the consequences of the beliefs we hold, but mankind will awaken from that sadness as from a bad dream.

Any misunderstandings, crimes, and atrocities, real as they are, are seldom committed out of any intent to be evil, but because of severe misinterpretations about the nature of good, and the means that can be taken towards its actualization.

Quite simply, a belief in the good without a belief in the evil may seem highly unrealistic to you. This belief, however, is the best kind of insurance that you can have, both during physical life and afterwards.

It may outrage your intellect, and the evidence of your physical senses may shout that it is untrue, yet a belief in good without a belief in evil is actually highly realistic

You were born into a state of grace. It is impossible for you to leave it. You will die in a state of grace whether or not special words are spoken for you, or water or oil or milk is poured upon your head.

You share this blessing with the animals and all other living things. You cannot fall out of grace, nor can it be taken from you.

You can ignore it. You can hold beliefs that blind you to its existence. You will still be graced but unable to perceive your own uniqueness and integrity, and blind also to other attributes with which you are automatically gifted.

A state of grace exists for everyone when you are fairly happy and content in your daily joyful life. It is practically speaking the cause of your sense of well being and accomplishment.

It is a condition of your existence. Often it may seem your conscience tells you that you have “fallen out of grace” and that some inner, mysterious joyous sense of support no longer sustains you. But conscience is an untrustworthy guide speaking through the mouths of mothers, fathers, teachers and the clergy – all from distant years and each of whom had their “own” ideas of what was “right or wrong” or “good and evil”. These people are of course fallible.

As a child you look towards adults as “godlike” and their words fall with great weight because you are at their mercy for support and it was quiet necessary you accept those earlier beliefs from the elders before your conscious mind could form its own. These are the raw materials – the spiritual and mental fabric of ideas you have to work with.

But in adolescence some of the beliefs will be easily abandoned or altered to fit the expanding pattern of your experiences as you grow older. Still other beliefs will remain with certain changes. The beliefs must be revised to fit your new image while the main pattern remains the same.

Look at the colorful concepts the idea of original sin and the way they affect your behaviors and experience. The concept existed long before Christianity initiation and was told in various forms throughout centuries and in all civilizations.

It is actually a tale symbolically representing the “birth of the conscious mind” in the species as a whole and the emergence of self-responsibility. It also stands for the separation of the SELF who perceives – and therefore judges and value – from the OBJECT which is perceived and evaluated. It portrays the new consciousness seeing itself unique and separate, thus man came forth as a creature of distinction; abandoning all things which were given – no judgments or distinctions were necessary and all responsibilities were biologically foreordained.

Again the good and evil and the freedom of choice came to the species aid. The evil animal was the natural predator. Animals have a sense of justice that you do not understand and built-in to that innocent sense of integrity there is a biological compassion, understood at the deepest cellular levels.

For example, a cat playfully killing a mouse and eating it is NOT evil. It suffers no guilt. On biological levels, both animals understand the roles they play. This does not mean they will not struggle to live, but they have a built-in unconsciousness sense of unity with nature.

Man on a conscious level and with compassion achieved emotional realization.

The hunter is forced to emotionally identify with its prey. So to kill is to be killed. The balance of life sustains all. We are to preserve life consciously, then, as the animals preserve it unconsciously