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1 "That which is relative evil can be harmonized into an Absolute Good." Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge (Zolar)

2 "We can see in the darkness if we will look through the eyes of God." My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone (Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)

3 "No creature is evil by nature." An Introduction to Philosophy (Jacques Maritain)

4 "Evil is after all only an impelling sense of difference, leading inevitably to separative action." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

5 "Good encompasses evil and transmutes it, showing its place in the total scheme of things." The Way Things Are (Huston Smith, edited by Phil Cousineau)

6 "Our job is not to set up a battleground to eradicate evil, but to search out its spark of holiness. Our task is not to destroy but to build, not to hate but to find a place of yielding, not to polarize but to discover the points of commonality so that we can work together. Learn this lesson, dear friends, it will serve you well." God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism (Rabbi David A. Cooper)

7 "The Hebrew Bible, including Daniel, the last-written of its twenty books, knows nothing of an evil principle independent of God. Satan in the Book of Job is an authorized accuser, sanctioned by Yahweh, and not a devil or a being who can operate of his own will, or for his own purposes." Omens of Millennium (Harold Bloom)

8 "I feel that the Shylocks, the Judases, and even the Devil, are broken spokes in the great wheel of good which shall in due time be made whole." The Story of My Life (Helen Keller)

9 "Bisection and lessening of symmetry, that's the poodle's core. Dividing in two is a very old attribute of the devil. The word 'doubtful' is supposed to have originally meant 'twofold'." Wolfgang Pauli, 1945 winner of Nobel Prize in Physics Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists (Ken Wilber, editor)

10 "Why not plunge into union with the Great Goddess Kali? Discover your spiritual anxiety to be without the slightest ground." Ramprasad, 18th century Bengali mystic The Essential Mystics (Andrew Harvey)

11 "Seeking for the good in evil will, in time, transmute the evil into good." Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, or Christian Occult Science (Max Heindel)

12 "One of the toughest roots of all evil is unconsciousness, and I could wish that the saying of Jesus, 'Man, if thou knowest what thou doest, thou art blessed, but if thou knowest not, thou art accursed, and a transgressor of the law,' were still in the gospels….It might well be the motto for a new morality." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

13 "There is no evil that cannot be turned to the good that is in us all." Duncton Found (William Horwood)

14 "I feel sure in my bones there is no such thing as absolute evil, for evil is in essence only a dearth of good, a deficiency from certain viewpoints, a negative quality, a relative value....….Some might say a completely white page is purer and more perfect than one with many black marks upon it. But of course a pure page is also a blank page and worthless because it conveys no meaning." Seven Mysteries of Life, An Exploration in Science and Philosophy (Guy Murchie)

15 "In the presence of him who has perfected harmlessness, all enmity ceases." The Light of the Soul (Alice A. Bailey)

16 "Chaos is a friend and a teacher and an integral part or prelude to new birth. Therefore, it is not to be feared or compulsively controlled." A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity (Matthew Fox)

17 "We need to realize more deeply that the whole process is a divine one, and that evil, so called, is but an illusion and an inherent part of duality, giving place in time and out of time to a divine reality. Evil is due to wrong perception and erroneous interpretation of that which is perceived." A Treatise on White Magic (Alice A. Bailey)

18 "Oh, God, what's it all about? In my view, even blackness and despair has been designed into God's system. You may not completely believe or even remember this in this moment, but on some level, a part of you has actually created all of it." Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., 'The Soul and Quantum Physics' Experiencing the Soul (Eliot Jay Rosen, editor)

19 "According to the Jewish Kabbalah teachings, evil occurs when the function of discrimination or judgment (Gevurah) is separated from its natural complement – loving kindness or mercy (Hesed). The implication is that discriminative judgment must be integrated with kindness or compassion for this opposition to be transformed. A similar moral attitude is implied by the Buddhist teachings that advocate a balanced integration of discriminative wisdom and compassion." The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience (Ralph Metzner)

20 "The mystery of the devil will eventually be seen to be that of the light of God's countenance, which reveals that which is undesirable and must be changed and renounced, and which thus transforms life by the light that God's nature pours forth." Esoteric Psychology II (Alice A. Bailey)

21 "What is called good is perfect, and what is called bad is just as perfect.' Walt Whitman Varieties of Religious Experience, The (William James)

22 "Good and evil are the light and shade of the same thing." Duncton Found (William Horwood)

23 “It is not a question of ‘killing’ or destroying evil, but rather of recognizing it, in order to reequilibrate it and transmute it into the good by harnessing its energies: one can say, of ultimately redeeming it.” Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity (Peter Roche deCoppens)

24 "Evil has no positive nature; what we call evil is merely the lack of something that is good." The City of God (St. Augustine)

25 "In every evil we must seek out the elements that allow us to transform it into good." How To Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation (Rudolf Steiner)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite