Necessary Evil: Origin and Purpose,9780863154768

Necessary Evil: Origin and Purpose

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ISBN13: 9780863154768
ISBN10: 086315476X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-12-10
Publisher(s): Floris Books
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Table of Contents

Part One --- Essence and Origin of Evil
Does Evil Have Any Meaning?
11(5)
The unsolved riddle of evil
11(2)
If evil exists, then God exists
13(3)
The Two Sides of Evil
16(9)
The path of the golden mean
16(1)
Lucifer and Ahriman
17(2)
The double role of evil
19(3)
World contradictions
22(1)
The mean
23(2)
The Devil's Golden Hair --- Evil in Fairy Tales
25(6)
The attraction of evil --- the ethic of the path
26(1)
Transformation
27(1)
The good in evil
28(3)
The World of Angels
31(5)
From angels to Seraphim
31(2)
The highest God and `the gods'
33(1)
The place of Adversaries
34(2)
An Attempt to Understand the Origin of Evil
36(17)
Beings who have stayed behind
37(1)
Directive from God --- the sacrifice of angelic beings
38(1)
Rejection, abstention and renouncement
39(4)
Death as the consequence
43(2)
The question of meaning
45(3)
Summary
48(5)
Part Two --- The Adversaries in the Human Being
Suffering and Guilt
53(10)
Job --- suffering without guilt
53(1)
God and Satan
54(2)
Job's elevation
56(2)
The vision of God
58(5)
Evil in Human Beings
63(13)
Egotism: the intervention of Lucifer
63(5)
Fear: the chains of Ahriman
68(8)
Deeper Consequences of the Fall
76(15)
Original sin
76(1)
The many levels of the human being
76(1)
The `I'
77(1)
The origin of man
78(1)
The poisoning of human nature
79(1)
Ageing, death, hardening of the earth
80(2)
Sickness, suffering, and infirmity
82(1)
Hunger and thirst
82(1)
The human being: masculine --- feminine
83(2)
The bite into the apple
85(2)
Sexuality
87(1)
Blindness
88(1)
The sickness of sin
89(2)
Man: Good or Evil
91(6)
We come from above
91(1)
The higher `I'
92(1)
The choice of destiny by the higher self
93(2)
Man: the twofold being
95(2)
Overcoming Evil
97(22)
Motivation for good
97(2)
Strengthening the `I'
99(2)
The new Adam
101(1)
The expansion of egotism
101(5)
Exercises and learning
106(2)
The significance of art
108(2)
The helping presence of Christ
110(1)
Prayer
110(2)
Christ's presence in ritual
112(2)
Christ and the human `I'
114(1)
Thankfulness, trust instead of worry and fear
115(4)
Transformation through Destiny
119(15)
Extreme destinies: criminality and suicide
120(3)
Freedom and responsibility
123(2)
Raised for evil? The question of environmental influences
125(2)
The person next to me
127(1)
Redemption or self-redemption
128(3)
What is good?
131(3)
Healing the Sickness of Sin
134(23)
Death: the path to birth of the spirit
134(2)
The burden of work
136(2)
Spiritualization of the earthly
138(2)
Technology: not a means of healing, but a means of help
140(2)
The meaning of illness
142(2)
Greater social concern
144(1)
Between animal and angel
145(2)
Conceiving and knowledge
147(2)
Destiny or karmic relationships
149(1)
Marriage
150(4)
Job today
154(3)
The Human Being in the Future
157(10)
Suppression, sublimation and transformation
159(8)
Part Three --- Destiny and Evil
Evil in the Evolution of Mankind
167(15)
Progression of the Fall into sin
168(1)
The time after the flood
169(1)
When the time was fulfilled
170(2)
Renaissance and the present: increasing evil
172(5)
The Antichrist
177(3)
Outlook
180(2)
Michael's Battle and the Reappearance of Christ
182(11)
The fall of the dragon
182(2)
The Second Coming of Christ
184(4)
How can God allow suffering?
188(2)
The higher good
190(1)
The seed of resurrection
191(2)
The Overcoming and Redemption of Evil: Questions for the Future
193(12)
Christ and evil
193(2)
Christians and evil
195(2)
The armour of God
197(1)
Love evil into the good
198(2)
Redemption of evil?
200(5)
Further Reading 205(2)
Endnotes 207(6)
Index 213

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