The Masters who Guided Helena Blavatsky: 12. On Evil

The Masters Who Guided Helena Blavatsky

12.

The Masters on Evil:  Letter No. 10.: Received Simla Sept 1882

“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 greed. 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. Food, sexual relations, drink are all natural necessities of life; yet excess brings on suffering, misery, mental and physical. Ambition, the desire for procuring happiness and comfort for those whom 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 egoist they bring untold misery on those around him; on nations as well as on individuals. All this then—food, wealth, ambition and a thousand others we have to leave unmentioned, becomes the source and cause of evil whether in its abundance or through its absence…….

…….I will point out the greatest, the chief cause of nearly two thirds of the evils that pursue humanity ever since that cause became a power. It is religion under whatever form and in whatsoever nation. It is the sacerdotal caste, the priesthood and the churches; it is in those illusions that man looks upon as sacred, that he has to search out the source of that multitude of evils which is the great curse of humanity  and that almost overwhelms humanity. Ignorance created gods and cunning took advantage of the opportunity.Look at India,Christendom, Islam, Judaism and Fetchism. It is priestly imposture that rendered these gods so terrible to man; it is religion that makes of him the selfish bigot, the fanatic that hates all mankind out of his own sect without rendering him any better or any moral for it……..