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          Published by CDTTT-The Committee for
          the Difussion of The Third Testament

                                        Issue of November 2002

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  TABLE OF CONTENTS:

               - First Word
               - The Nature of Good
               - The Nature of Evil
               - Last Word
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     -First Word

  Dearly beloved:

  As we promised in our past issue, in this delivery we shall
  cover the topic of evil and its nature. Of course, we can't
  do this without covering at same time the nature of good, so
  grab a cup of tea or coffee or whatever beverage makes you
  feel comfortable, read and then meditate and make your own
  conclusions.

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  - The Nature of Good

  Most people know, from the bottom of their spirit and heart,
  that all good emanates from God, although there are still
  some that do not have a clear concept of what good is. You
  can see that when you learn that all throughout history and
  up to this time and era, death, genocide, sorrow and terror
  are tools that some have believed are needed to enforce...
  good!

  In other words: They assume that evil is necessary so good
  can prevail.

  Thus, a holy war is born.

  But, is this true? Let's see.


       "All of you must know Me, so that no one will
       deny Me; you should know Me, so that your
       concept about God is established on the truth
       and then you will know that where Good is
       manifested, there I will be."


  Aha! There you go... but wait! It gets even better...

       "Good does not become confused with anything.
       Good is truth, it is love, it is charity, it
       is comprehension."

       "Good is precise, exact, definite. Know it so
       that you cannot be mistaken. Each man can go
       by on a different road, but if all of them
       coincide in one point, which is in Good, they
       will come to identify each other and unite.
       Not so when they insist on deceiving
       themselves, giving the appearance of bad to
       the rigtheous and disguising the righteous to
       the bad, as happens among men of this Era."


  Good is precise, exact, definite... as you can deduct from
  this, Good has no blurry borders.

  There are situations so confused, that it is easy to say:
  "Hey, who knows where Good is? Perhaps Good is relative after
  all". No, Good has nothing to do with relativity, but our
  perceptions sure do.

  So, the next time you find yourself in a situation where you
  are not quite sure what is the right thing to do, elevate and
  meditate so you can find which one of your options shall lead
  to perform the best deed possible. Ask yourself, what would
  the teacher of teachers do? If Jesus came to earth to give an
  example to mankind, what would He have done on a situation
  like this?

  Because as you probably are aware of, in these times of
  turmoil and spiritual need, in many ocassions we are forced
  to choose not between Good and evil, but instead, from an
  evil and a even greater evil.

  You see, Good is not just the absence of evil, Good comes
  from the divine nature, Good is not created, Good is to be
  performed through thoughts, words and deeds.

  So, in order to perform good deeds, we should erradicate evil
  from our lives and that, at this moment in human history,
  seems as an impossible task. But do not dispair, at the end
  Good shall prevail and we can advance toward that day when
  evil will be totally defeated.

  How can we help to achieve this wonderful goal?

       "There exists many ways to do Good; many ways
       to comfort and to serve. All are expressions
       of love, which is one only: Love, which is
       wisdom of the spirit."

       "I contemplate that, in the bosom of sects
       and religions, the ministers rise up telling
       their people: "Do Good," and truly I say to
       you: The only one who can say "Do Good" is I,
       because only I do Good for you; men should
       always say: "Let us do Good".

  Dear brethen: we all who sometimes act as evildoers, have no
  right to point fingers to anyone so when you see someone
  doing it, chances are that he or she is just probably
  covering his or her own tracks in the wrongful path.

  Today and tomorrow, in your life, you will find many
  opportunities to think and do good deeds which, as the Father
  says, are all expressions of love and keep always in mind
  that by doing them, we will contribute to the triumph of Good
  over evil.

  (All quotations taken from The Third Testament's Book of The
  True Life)

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  - The Nature of Evil

  Zoroastrians believed in a concept of Good and evil as a
  dualism. This dualism can take one of two forms: a cosmic
  dualism between Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu (an evil spirit
  of violence and death).

  Manicheism, which was started by Mani in the year 270 AD
  mixing some early Christian concepts with oriental theories,
  also speaks of the antagonism between two sides, the Good and
  the Bad. Of course, this is a very simplistic definition.

  Gnostics, a Christian sect of the early years of
  Christianity, believed that although Creation came from "The
  One", the good God that is, the world was created by the
  Demiurge, which means the artificer, the workman, the "god of
  the world".

  The Gnostics, however, were not satisfied merely to emphasize
  the distinction between the Supreme God, or God the Father,
  and the Demiurge, but in many of their systems they conceived
  the relation of the Demiurge to the Supreme God as one of
  actual antagonism, and the Demiurge became the
  personification of the power of evil, the Satan or fallen
  angel, with whom the faithful had to wage war to the end that
  they might be pleasing to the Good God. The Gnostic Demiurge
  then assumes a surprising likeness to Ahriman, the evil
  counter-creator of Ormuzd in Mazdean philosophy.

  It doesn't take a genius to find these ideas recreated in the
  sequence of the "Star Wars" movies, where "The Force" has two
  sides, the Force as the one that moves the good guys and the
  Dark Side of the Force, that embraces the bad guys, with the
  Emperor and Darth Vader as their most representative figures.

  But surprisingly enough, if you investigate, many people in
  the modern world and in Western civilization (if there is
  such a thing), have the same concept of good and evil as
  simple sides of the same coin.

  If not, where did the concept of a antagonist spirit (Satan,
  Lucifer or Star Wars' Emperor) that almost equals the good
  God in power and as a eternal creature came from?

  Surely Abraham, Issac, Jacob and Moses didn't believe in
  this. In fact, try to find the word Satan in the Old
  Testament before the Exile to Babylon. You can't... Why?

  Because Satan is a word of Chaldee origin (ma`bad) which can
  mean "the opposition" or "the accuser" depending of the
  context.

  Of course, it comes as no surprise that this idea fluorished
  among a culture that believed in the concept of the two gods,
  one good and another evil.

  But let's bring out the essential question: Where did evil
  come from?


       "The spirit has been tested in many forms
       from the beginning. If he has been tested by
       evil, do you per chance believe that the
       Father could have created evil to tempt His
       children? In truth I say: No."

       "Evil has been created first by the weakness,
       by the feebleness of the spirit and then by
       those of the flesh; by the spirit for not
       making use of its own fortitude and by the
       flesh for yielding to temptations. What has
       the Father done about this? To permit the
       evil elements to submit you to an ordeal."

       "Pride is the origin of many evils and
       suffering among the people of God."

       "Ever since the first disobedient one
       appeared before My Law, how much misery and
       how much darkness he has left in his wake!
       Since then, evil exists like an invisible
       force. I permitted that force to exist only
       to submit you to a test, and it is through
       yourselves that I want to exterminate it."

  So far, so good. Whew! EVIL IS NOT THE CREATION OF GOD! Just
  think about it!

  For it were, just imagine the kind of trouble we are in. Evil
  should then participate of the same atributtes as divinity:
  eternity, immutability ... and perfection.

  Hold on! Did we just mention perfection? Could there be
  something as perfect evil?

  Nah! No way, Jose! Nope, no, nyet. And if this is impossible,
  it is hard to understand how someone can possibly believe
  that evil can exist in God.

       "However, do not blame your faults and
       downfall on a certain being that will
       personify that force; keep in mind that for
       each temptation, there is a virtue within
       your spirit to combat evil."

  Oops... now this is bad news! Mmm... so, we cannot pass the
  bill on someone else of our trespasses and wrongdoings
  anymore? Oh, man!

  What's next?

       "Evil exists, and from it all vices and sins
       have derived. Sinners, or rather, those who
       practice evil, have always existed, as much
       on Earth, as in other realms or mansions.
       Therefore, why do you personify all existing
       evil on one being alone, and why do you
       confront him to the Divinity? I ask you: What
       is an impure being before My absolute and
       infinite power; and of what significance is
       your sin before My perfection?"

  Good grief! Thank God. And I mean it.

       "Sin did not originated on Earth. The spirits,
       upon emerging from God, some remained in
       righteousness, while others, deviating from
       that path, created a different one: the one
       of evil."

  Now I get it! So, we had a choice and we blew it! We must
  have been totally out of our minds to create a different path
  from that of the Father... Boy! Did we really blow it!

       "The words and parables, which, in a
       figurative sense, were given to you as a
       revelation in the first periods, have been
       interpreted erroneously by mankind. The
       intuition which men had about the
       supernatural, remained influenced by their
       imagination, and came to create around the
       force of evil, sciences, cults,
       superstitions, and myths, which have come up
       to this day."

  In other words, finally it is all about folkore. Probably the
  generations of centuries to come will look unto the beliefs
  of the humanity of this era regarding demons, devils or Satan
  as mere urban legends or myths. And why not? They are!

       "From God no demons can emerge; these you
       have forged in your mind. The concept you
       have of that being whom you constantly place
       before Me as an adversary, is false."

  And we believed all this time to be a mature society! But of
  course! From the divine mind nothing bad can emerge.

  Could God have created an evil being? Mmm... let's read
  Paul's opinion:

      "1st Timothy 4:4 For every creature of God
      is good..."

  So, those preachers that wave demons and Satan before the
  face of every living person in Earth are dead wrong after
  all!

  But if there is no devil to blame, then who is responsible
  for evil?

       "I have taught you to be vigilant and pray,
       so that you can free yourselves from
       temptation and evil influences, which can
       originate from humans, as well as spiritual
       beings."

       "I have told you to superimpose the spirit
       over the flesh, because it is a weak
       creature, who, at every turn, is in danger of
       stumbling if you are not watchful over it.
       The heart, the mind, and the senses, are an
       open door for the worldly passions to lash at
       the spirit."

       "If you have imagined that the beings in
       darkness are like monsters, I regard them
       only as imperfect children to whom I extend
       My hand to save them, for they are also My
       sons."

  Ok... every one of us is then responsible of our deeds,
  thoughts and words! Of course, if you submit this to a poll,
  people will vote for the other option around. It is always
  easier to blame someone else. Just as little children, our
  sorry excuse has always been: "The devil made me do it!"

       "Today you live in a time of chaos, of
       turmoil, but I have come to bring you an
       antidote for all evil, and I promise you, in
       compliance with My word of past eras, that
       peace will come like a radiant dawn to
       illuminate your spirit, and that no trace
       will remain of this era of suffering."

       "The destruction of evil, which you have
       wanted to eternalize in your world, and
       which, though you may not believe it, many
       have converted into their god, since they
       dedicate to it all the strength and thought
       of their being, should be your objective,
       fighting against it, inspired by the idea of
       finally exterminating it and casting it away
       from your life."

       "For that blessed fight, you must summon the
       utmost in faith, in will power, courage,
       strength, patience, and perseverance."

       "Neither in that battle will you be alone. I
       will put My strength in your arm and My light
       in your intelligence. I will perform miracles
       in each one of your deeds, when they are
       inspired in charity and love."

       "I, who knows your beginning and your future
       in eternity, gave the first men weapons with
       which they could fight against the forces of
       evil; but they despised them, they chose the
       battle of evil versus evil in which no one
       triumphs, because everyone will be defeated."

       "If you ask Me what were those weapons that I
       gave Humanity to fight against evil, I will
       tell you that they were the prayer, the
       perseverance in the law, and love for one
       another."

  What a set of wonderful news! Not only we have help in our
  battle against evil, which are those magnificent beings of
  light and love we call guardian angels, we also have powerful
  weapons within us!

       "I have spoken to you of the origin of the
       forces of good and evil and now I say to you:
       Those vibrations were to reach all the worlds
       that I was to form, to test the children of
       the Lord; but with it I did not look for your
       perfection. Proof of that is that I have
       always manifested Myself to My children,
       either speaking through the conscience,
       indoctrinating you through My envoys, or
       becoming man among My children, as I did in
       that Second Era through Jesus."

       "The Master says to you: It is not enough not
       to do evil. You must do Good, to be worthy of
       My Glory."

  It makes perfect sense. We must compensate the influence of
  evil not just by not doing it but by offsetting it, doing all
  the Good we are capable of.

       "The fruits of the reign of evil shall not
       prevail, but rather, it will be the light
       which will reign everywhere, and in every
       spirit."

  Wouldn't you love to be in that era?

  And you know what?

  You will.

  (All quotations taken from The Third Testament's Book of The
  True Life)
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  -Final Word:

  Again, we invite you to meditate and give a deep thought to
  these topics and then visit our discussion forum, where you
  can post your analysis and ideas as well as see those of our
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