Sympathy for the Devil

"Please allow me to introduce myself,
I'm a man of wealth and taste.
I've been around for a long, long time,
Stole many a man's saving grace."

— Sympathy for the Devil

If God is denied a True place in this world, then who and what substitutes? Have we become somehow accepting of Evil over time? Is it that familiar and unquestioned? Consider this hypothetical situation: you are driving in your car, and by the side of the road is a "man" who appears to be quite hurt and in need of medical care; he will die if you do nothing to help him. But, he is actually Evil incarnate, "the devil." Would you help him? Most do-gooders could not resist helping him.

Neither can Evil resist helping itself to everything. In Zaire, the CIA helped put president Mobutu in power, where he remained for decades. He lived like a king in a huge and opulent palace, filled with priceless works of art and a gold statue of himself, in a country where people lived in mud huts and often had no clothes. Mobutu was one of the wealthiest men in the world, having ripped off all of the wealth his country produced in the last few decades, in the form of diamonds and gold. He owned at least fifteen chateaus in Europe, including a villa on the French Riviera where only the finest wine and champagne would do. He lived like a king while his people suffered. Zaire was in collapse; nothing worked there; a hospital had not been built in decades. Foreign aid money he received from the US went into his secret bank accounts. He made corruption the national policy, and routinely raided the central bank. Of course, he declared he had done nothing wrong; after all he felt so deserving of everything. The butcher Mobutu had the gall to deny all his evil and cruel exploitation, declaring that his wife engaged in social works of charity; and that they had certainly helped his people greatly. Sure, they have helped them suffer greatly.

Of course, this is not just a chance occurrence in some far off land; it is the way this world is run. In this fundamentally artificial world Evil steals everything of real value from the good; kleptocracy is the prevailing form of rulership. Since this world is saturated with evil, corruption, scandal, abuse, exploitation, deception, and illusions, there have to be people who are enacting these choices in their lives, and upon others. In other words, they promote evil, and conceal and deny the truth. Consider the US. Georges Clemenceau noted, "America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization." The cause of the ruinous "success" of America is relentless ego and ambition; damn the rest of the world. This is why the US has degenerated into a nation of consumers, people who exist only to consume the resources of the world, in very great disproportion to their numbers. Americans just feel so deserving of everything, due to limitless ego delusions of grandeur, and their greatest export sold worldwide: Illusions.

Those who have little or no attunement with what is right, good, and true, whose choices and actions are not aligned with the Light, perpetuate the darkness — not just for themselves, but for others, too. Evil, error, and wrong are sustained in every choice we make to:

• question nothing
• remain unaware
• deny the truth
• selfishly exploit our position or situation
• enact fallacious power or authority over others
• accept everything the way it is as the way it should be
• "love" or accept everyone based upon appearances
• react out of emotion or ego
• glorify scientific or technological "solutions" to our problems
• embrace/enforce religious dogma as the "answer" to problems
• believe political or governmental "solutions" to problems
• accept lies, deception, or abuse by any person or institution
• substitute "positive thinking" for true perceptions
• have blind faith in "experts," "authorities," and "leaders"
• ignore spiritual reality in favor of worldly illusions
• seek material "success" as the be all and end all of existence
• imagine that spiritual "gurus" have all your answers
• fail to think for your self, and "hope for the best"
• let the media or some other institution "interpret" reality for you
• turn to drugs, alcohol, and sex, for "comfort" rather than face reality
• look to the outer world to give you everything you "need"
• lose yourself in worthless pursuits rather than finding your true self
• be a doormat, let everyone walk all over you, and be "socially accepted"
• support the status quo; just have a "good" time
• deny there are problems that human beings cannot solve
• deny the existence of Evil. read more ...

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