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▼ SS Part Two: Chapter 17: Session 568, February 22, 1971 2/55 (4%) Speakers devil evil soul religions
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– Part Two
– Chapter 17: Probabilities, the Nature of Good and Evil, and Religious Symbolism
– Session 568, February 22, 1971, 9:19 P.M. Monday

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(9:30.) On the one hand, quite simply and in a way that you cannot presently understand, evil does not exist. However, you are obviously confronted with what seem to be quite evil effects. Now it has been said often that there is a god, so there must be a devil — or if there is good, there must be evil. This is like saying that because an apple has a top, it must have a bottom — but without any understanding of the fact that both are a portion of the apple. (Pause; one of many.)

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Some very old religions understood the hallucinatory nature of the devil concept, but even in Egyptian times, the simpler and more distorted ideas became prevalent, particularly with the masses of people. In some ways, men in those times could not understand the concept of a god without the concept of a devil.

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