The Necessity of "Evil"

They say, ignorance is bliss. I say, ignorance is everything. Without it, we would be unable to perceive space and/or time at all. It is not the hindrance to experience that many presume. It is the reason for it!

And what is ignorance but "evil"? When you think about it, this makes perfect sense. So-called, "evil" is that which is opposed to God. And since "God" is "The Truth" (or "The Living Truth", as I like to say), anything that opposes the truth --- any truth --- opposes "God". And nothing opposes the truth more than ignorance.

We are all intimately familiar with the suffering that our ignorance can cause. What few are aware of though is the simple fact that like "evil", ignorance is the cause of all suffering. Not only is this a basic premise of Eastern religions and philosophies, it is also a self-evident truth, that ignorance itself very effectively conceals.

The way ignorance conceals itself is a fascinating subject all by itself (reminiscent of "the greatest trick the devil evil pulled..."), but one I'll presume for the moment to be already understood. The important thing to realize here is that ignorance and so-called "evil" are essentially one and the same thing. And that being established makes it possible to realize the necessity of "evil" in order for anything at all to even exist, in the sense that we commonly know existence (i.e. our ability to perceive experiences).

In order to make this clear, imagine a world without ignorance (and without "evil"). Such a world would be inhabited by beings (technically, A Being) that was by definition omniscient (all-knowing). Such a being (or beings) would be unable to perceive space and time at all, because to it/them no moment in time, nor place in space, would be prominent. All moments, all places, and thus all events, would be completely imperceptible due to the inability to separate one from the next.

When you thus think about it, the primary function of ignorance (again, like "evil") is to cause the perception of separation from one moment to the next, and from one place to the next. Without ignorance, there would be no way for us to "know" where, or when, we are. There'd simply be no basis for any limited sense of experience at all. We would simply be "God" (singular), and nothing more; there would be no "Creation" as we know it (by limited perception).

And thus, ignorance and "evil" must have been invented and created by "God" for the very sake of Creation itself!

Think about what that means. If properly realized, it could be the key to our universal salvation. And if not properly realized, the cause of a lot more suffering.

[J.D. August 5, 2018]