LAW OF THREE (83) THE FORCE OF EVIL
"And the Lord God commanded the man, saying. Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; (Genesis2:16) But of the three of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die. (Genesis 2:17)
After the fall God put Adam and Eve out of the garden lest they would eat from the tree of life (Genesis 3:24);
Death entered human awareness.
Genesis 4, describes the first murder in human history. Cain the first born son of Adam and Eve killed his brother Abel out of jealousy. God had accepted Abel's offer while rejecting Cain's.
War became a permanent feature in human history. Nations and groups of people unknown to each feel drawn to mutual butchery moved by the fear of each other.
Does war serve a purpose? Yes, war sustains the illusory world of duality. the world of separation and repetition. The justification for war is simple. Leading politicians proclaim that the purpose of war is to eliminate bad people. Others declared war on Terror. Laura Freixas in a recent article chose an interesting headding: I hate therefore I am" and described how leaders have easy solutions to complex problems: if there is a problem, it must be caused by somebody else (eg..immigrants) and can only be resolved by eliminating them.
War does not resolve conflicts. It keeps conflicts going on until they reaches a point of equilibrium, or when the warring forces exhaust themselves and run out of men and weapons. At which point a temporary truce ensues just to repair forces and prepare ammunitions for the next conflict.
During a state of equilibrium it is possible to notice a shift in the behaviour of the players in which aggressors and their victims change roles. People that at once were passive victims of genocide may later in time become active perpetrators of the same atrocities. A curious feature of duality
The True Self is capable of all good and evil. St John of the Cross refers to the transformative stage of the soul in the Night of Spirit when the individual soul realises that he/she is capable of all evil. A humbling awakening and a sudden realisation of the hopelessness of the human condition.
