46.
Understanding the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil
NOTE: This
is an excerpt from the book The
Least You Should Know About Life.
The choice between the mind of Christ and the mind of anti-christ is
actually found behind the symbols in the story of the Garden of Eden.
The God in the garden was a spiritual teacher who had become one with
the universal Christ mind and thus represented the cosmic Christ. He
was tutoring Adam and Eve (as symbols for a large group of co-creators)
on the path to personal Christhood. This path leads co-creators (who
start out with a limited self-awareness and an identity as separate
beings) to become one with their source and reclaim their true identity
as sons and daughters of God. That is why the Bible says about the Christ,
“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become
the sons of God” (John 1:12). Thus, the path to Christhood is
the Path of Oneness.
As part of that path, students had to face and overcome the temptation
to use the mind of anti-christ to separate themselves from their teacher
and their source instead of seeking oneness with their source. This
is symbolized by the “fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.”
The key to understanding the true meaning behind the symbol is to realize
a subtle but all-important distinction. When you see the world through
the mind of Christ, you clearly see that the Creator is the source of
everything, and thus there is an underlying oneness behind all appearances.
You see the Creator’s purpose and you see that following his laws
is to your own benefit. You also see that your own higher Being made
the choice to create the Conscious You because it wanted to be part
of God’s creation. Thus, there is no conflict between God’s
purpose and your own higher desires. In the mind of Christ, there is
an absolute standard for separating good and evil, meaning what is real
and unreal. The Christ mind knows that what is one with God’s
purpose and laws is real and what is separated from God’s purpose
and laws is unreal.
When you see the world through the mind of anti-christ, you cannot see
the underlying oneness of all life, God’s purpose and God’s
laws. Thus, the mind of anti-christ does not see reality; it sees an
image of reality that it has created and projected upon reality. This
is described in the first two of the ten commandments, “3 Thou
shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee
any graven image” (Exodus, Chapter 20). The meaning is that when
you see the world through the mind of anti-christ, you create a mental
image of how you want God to be, and you project that image upon God,
thus worshiping an idol before the real Creator who is beyond form.
To the mind of anti-christ there is no absolute standard for separating
good and evil. Good and evil have become relative terms, and they exist
only in relation to each other. Good is the opposite of evil which is
the opposite of good. Yet the mind of anti-christ defines both good
and evil, and both of them are separated from reality, meaning that
what is humanly good is not in harmony with God’s absolute good.
This is what makes it possible for people to create a veil of illusions
that separates them from their source and makes them forget their origin.
This is why people can believe they are sophisticated animals instead
of spiritual beings or that they are miserable sinners instead of sons
and daughters of God. It can even make people believe they are very
religious and guaranteed to be saved, whereas they are still trapped
in the mind of separation and thus cannot enter the kingdom of God that
is within them. That is why Jesus talked about a true and a false path:
13
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is
the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in
thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth
unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew, Chapter
7)
This is a
concept that will require serious contemplation before you fully internalize
it. The reason being that you have grown up in a society that is influenced
by the mind of anti-christ in many subtle ways. This has caused various
institutions to define their own “truth” which they claim
to be infallible. It is precisely because so many groups of people each
claim to have their own infallible “truth” – instead
of reaching for a clear vision of God’s truth – that there
are so many conflicts on this planet that seemingly cannot be resolved.
It is such man-made “truths” that make it possible for two
groups of people to kill each other in the name of the same God. However,
this is not because of a flaw in religion itself but a flaw in humankind’s
approach to religion.
The fact is that all problems seen on this planet were created because
people had become blinded by the mind of anti-christ. And the reason
so many problems and conflicts seem to have no resolution is because
people continue to look at the situation through the relative, dualistic
logic of the mind of anti-christ. It is an eternal law that you cannot
solve a problem with the same state of consciousness that created the
problem. There is a solution to every problem seen on Earth, but in
order to find the ultimate solution, you must first raise your consciousness
above the consciousness that created the problem. And since all problems
spring from the mind of anti-christ, you must first reach for the mind
of Christ. That is why Jesus said, “First cast out the beam out
of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote
out of thy brother’s eye” (Matthew 7:5).
There are
millions of people who volunteered to come into embodiment at this precise
time in history because they wanted to help solve the many problems
on Earth and help bring society into a new and better age, even a Golden
Age of peace and prosperity. Yet in order for this to happen, humankind
must fully learn the lesson people were meant to learn from Jesus and
his mission. The main lesson is that there is an alternative to the
relativistic, dualistic “truth” of the mind of anti-christ.
The mind of anti-christ always thinks in terms of two opposites, and
one must be right and the other wrong. Jesus was saying that as long
as your vision is divided, both opposites are wrong, “The light
of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole
body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also
is full of darkness” (Luke 11:34).
The evil eye is a vision divided by the relative opposites of the mind
of anti-christ. Thus, in order for you to fulfill your personal mission
and Divine plan, you must first raise your consciousness so you can
begin to see beyond the veil created by the dualistic vision of the
mind of anti-christ. And only when your eye is single, meaning your
vision undivided by the relative opposites, will you see clearly how
to solve your personal problems and larger problems. Only when a critical
mass of people attain this one vision of the Christ mind, will they
be able to raise society into a better age. Thus, the starting point
is to purify your mind of the illusions of anti-christ and reach for
the vision of Christ—and then you will find the solutions to the
problems you are here to solve. As Jesus said, “But seek ye first
the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall
be added unto you” (Matthew 6:33). The kingdom of God is the Christ
consciousness, and when you have it, the solution to all problems will
be added unto you. Again, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible;
but with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26). Only through
the mind of Christ can you be with God.
47.
Why is there evil in the world?
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