XI. On Good and Evil

The piano as an example. It is made with hammer and saw. If you work on it any further after it is finished, it misses the point and the instrument perishes. Earthly selfishness is nothing more than a charitable principle in the lunar epoch. It is something bad in the earthly epoch. There is actually no evil. Evil is good - just in the wrong place. Evil arises from the fact that a cosmic principle of development appears in the wrong context. Evil only appears evil to us as long as we look at it in a limited way. But it brings about something good in another place, which balances it out. For every evil in the world, there is a corresponding good that restores balance. This is also the meaning of the saying: “Only the Father in heaven is perfect; why do you call me perfect?”