Posted by Many people are starting to wonder whether malevolent, negative forces are intent on collapsing the world we live in. Financial collapse, food shortages, fuel shortages, the list is endless. Is it all planned? Can the process be stopped?
It should always be remembered however that actions that are not aligned with the cosmic laws will ultimately fail.
For assurance about the future, we need look no further than Annie Besant, a leading 19th century theosophist, who said in her book Man and His Bodies (first published in 1896) the following:
By the law of evolution, everything that is evil, however strong for the time it may seem, has within itself the germ of its own destruction, while everything that is good has in it the seed of immortality;
The secret of this lies in the fact that everything evil is inharmonious, that it sets itself against the cosmic law; it is therefore sooner or later broken up by that law, dashed into pieces against it, crushed into dust.
Everything that is good, on the other hand, being in harmony with the law, is taken on by it, carried forward; it becomes part of the stream of evolution, and therefore can never perish, can never be destroyed.
Here lie not only the hope of man but the certainty of his final triumph; however slow the growth, it is there; however long the way, it has its ending.
The individual which is our Self is evolving and cannot now be utterly destroyed; even though by our folly we may make the growth slower than it need be, none the less everything we contribute to it, however little, lasts in it forever and is our possession for all the ages that lie in front.
Evil has been written about for as long as humans have been able to write. Annie Besant’s uplifting and correct words have been replicated in different forms by many great writers.
A personal favourite is the plaintive cry of WB Yeats in his poem The Second Coming after the First World War.
Yeats wrote:
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world; the blood-dimmed tide is loosed; and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned; the best lack all conviction; while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Chinua Achebe’s classic book Things Fall Apart, written in 1958 about the disintegration of traditional African society under colonial pressures, which took its name from the Yeats poem, is yet another plaintive cry about the malevolent forces changing happy, stable, worlds.
It cannot be doubted that malevolent forces are in the ascendancy at the moment, attempting to change the world we live in. That day will pass.
It should always be remembered that under the cosmic laws, evil will eventually “fall apart”.
12 August 2022
[Book review: Annie Besant – “Man and His Bodies”]
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