tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post7511541477710309611..comments2024-03-26T16:24:34.218+00:00Comments on Meeting The Masters: Spirituality and EvilWilliam Wildbloodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-59106757349770338972019-05-01T16:38:28.644+00:002019-05-01T16:38:28.644+00:00Yes we may not like it but we put up with it becau...Yes we may not like it but we put up with it because we have been led to believe it is necessary. But the more we put up with it the more it becomes all pervasive and so many people's livelihoods depend on it that they become absorbed into the system and end up fully part of it. Unless you consciously stand against these things you become part of them In the end. William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-15224189444437127802019-05-01T16:28:09.479+00:002019-05-01T16:28:09.479+00:00"This evil is subtler than in the past with t..."This evil is subtler than in the past with the result that most people don't see it and go along with it, even seeing it as good since good it might appear to be according to a twisted metaphysics that denies the transcendent and the natural and spiritual orders of being that are rooted in that."<br /><br />In this resepct I have found *some* (as always!) of Steiner's analysis of Ahrimanic evil to be very valuable. <br /><br />For example: It is interesting that everybody 'feels' the evil of materialist bureaucracy, managerialism, reductionism ('nothing but-ism', the accountancy culture) as it is applied applied to the workplace, the family, marriage etc. We feel it when in the presence of recent architecture and design; or when filling in forms. <br /><br />We all feel this, yet fail to recognise its intrinsic evil to the extent that a large majority of people support it by their votes, their arguments, ideology - and their docile compliance. <br /><br />Thus, the mass and major evil of our time is not merely unnoticed, but actively implemented - despite that we feel it in our hearts: its cold, crushing anti-humanity. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.com