Good v. Evil

What is the warfare of good versus evil that we seem to live in? Which is it that will win? I feel that within all of us we know and feel that good will win, but how long will this warfare continue? How would we feel if we knew that good was all there is?

I was walking around an art fair with artwork by elementary, middle, and highschoolers. It was a bright and beautiful day with lots of lovely families walking around looking at everything, supporting their children and friends and neighbors. I thought to myself, good is all there is, and immediately felt a sigh of relief. If we all knew that evil is not power because it in fact doesn’t exist we could all feel that sigh of relief – that feeling of safety, security, peace, neighborly love and kindness. The world would be and is a beautiful place.

How do we overcome this supposed evil? By understanding it’s nothingness. By understanding that evil is not a person, a place, an entity, or a power. It is the supposed opposite of good which has no opposite. Good is another name for God, and God, good, is all. Therefore there isn’t anything else. And there can only seem to be something else, called evil, by giving power and reality to something that doesn’t exist.

Since God is good and God created man is His own image and likeness, man is spiritual and is totally and completely good. Man can not be anything that God isn’t because man is the reflection of God. This is scientific truth. Therefore man is not evil and isn’t anything but good, the natural state of man’s existence.
In the chapter of Revelation in the New Testament, John refers to casting the red dragon out – the belief that there is evil, sin, disease, and death. This comes from belief that creation is material, that there is life and intelligence in matter and that matter can be a creator.

Many of these beliefs became solidified in the year 325A.D. in the Nicene Councils. In a political vote it was decided that God created man materially instead of spiritually. Those who said that creation was spiritual were shunned and cast out and their writings were buried. Some of these have been found in recent years (1945) and can be read in “The Nag Hammadi Library”.

When we learn that God is Spirit and created all, including man spiritually, we realize that there can be no sin or evil or death and these ideas are based on the belief that matter is real.

I love the story of a Rabbi that recently discovered these truths. His story can be watched here:
http://www.spirituality.com/video/louis/
He had been studying Jewish metaphysics, the Kabbalah, for 40 years and already had been taught that matter isn’t real in these teachings. He has expanding his understanding of divine metaphysics as the only science that is real and true because it’s basis and premise is on the spiritual.

There is much resistance to the idea (or fact) that matter isn’t real because it shows that we really have to change our thought and seek that which is spiritual if we want to be successful and prosper. It shows that because creation is spiritual that everyone is beautiful and perfect and all are entitled to health, harmony, supply, and happiness. This means that power can not be bought or achieved or attained through material means; there is no one person that is better or higher up than another. All are valuable and equal. No wonder this truth is met with a lot of resistance. But when we accept and learn this truth, we have profound and amazing changes in our lives and our experience. And we can work together to completely and finally cast out evil from our experience.

Christ Jesus came to redeem the human experience, and this experience can be redeemed. We can experience and have the kingdom of heaven on Earth as he taught. But it comes from knowing what is real and what isn’t real and thereby asserting our divine, spiritual authority over that which does not come from God, good.

Each day we progress closer to this truth and experience this reality right here and now. But each person must grapple with this and each school of thought must accept it. Science and religion must both accept that they both exist and are true but that science is spiritual and refers to the laws of God which govern the universe and religion is true and refers to Gods tender relationship with his creation. Both are right and true and necessary but from a spiritual premise and not material.

I look forward to the happy day when we shall all know this and have no more sorrow or suffering or pain. But we don’t have to wait until the hereafter. This can be experienced, understood, and demonstrated here and now.