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The Legend of Lilith: The Origins of Evil and the Fall of Man
CHAPTER 5
THE NATURE OF EVIL
hings are not always as they seem. Reality and Truth are always multilayered and the boundaries of what is good and
evil are not always so clear cut and become blurred. What may seem good could in reality be evil and vice versa.
Whatever appears to be evil or even unpleasant, not only fulfills a vital purpose, the cleansing of an organism, but also
serves to remove the useless Force and Form from the main area of a particular activity where it may be of great use to the
plan of the Creator. Like excretions from the body, it is unpleasant but necessary or the mechanism would become
blocked by waste material and cause the body to die.
It is important to understand that Ayn Sof is beyond good and evil. We must not attribute goodness to IT as to do so
would exclude evil, and thus would leave IT deficient or lacking something. Ayn Sof embraces everything, including the
totality of good and evil. The old dichotomy views good and evil on opposite ends of a pole. The new paradigm suggests
that Elohim is in every direction, represented by the archetype of light, and HaSatan is represented by the archetype of
veils. From this worldview evil is defined as anything that dims the light. Dr. Carl Jung writes:
• “I begin with nothingness. Nothingness is the same as fullness. In infinity full is no better than empty. Nothingness
is both empty and full.” 54
The nothingness of Ayn Sof follows the Endless One’s unknowability by the human mind. It is eternally unknowable.
Ayn Sof cannot be spoken of in any language and cannot be conceived by the mind. Ayn Sof has no being and does not
exist. Ayn Sof transcends every distinction between being and nothingness. It is the absolute unlimited entity. Existence
implies limitation, something rather than nothing. Ayn Sof is not nothing in the ordinary sense of the word. Ayn Sof transcends
the entire existence-non-existence distinction. It includes everything and nothing. It is an infinite, undifferentiated
unity or imagine an infinitely extending empty void.
• “Supposed someone merged with or became the whole universe, and so came to include everything that exists
.Even then, he would not be unlimited-he still would be that particular universe. We must imagine something that
somehow includes all possibilities, all possible universes, and excludes nothing. This something not only is not limited
to some portion of actuality while excluding the rest, it is also not limited to that one portion of possibility
which is all of actuality.” Robert Nozick, philosopher
• “Ayn Sof has more being than any other being in the world, but since it is simple, and all other simple things are
complex when compared with its simplicity, so in comparison is called nothing.”-Scholem, Kabbalah.
• “ Ayn Sof is the principle in which everything hidden and visible meet, and as such it is the common root of both
faith and unbelief”-Azriel, Scholem ,Origins of Kabbalah, pp.441-442
• “The revelation of anything is actually through its opposite.”- R. Aaron Ha-Levi
This radical new viewpoint says that evil is not a thing; rather, it is related to awareness. Money can be good or evil, depending
upon what we do with it. A bad seed can produce a poisonous fruit, or it can be converted into something useful.
Mold can be discarded as harmful, but certain kinds of mold become penicillin. The notions of good and evil imply their
opposites, or, have their opposite built into their very essence.
If we try to define material objects, we invoke a host of ideas (weight, space, density, etc.) that leads to conclusions concerning
that object that cannot be understood except via its opposite. The logical conclusion is that “good” (beneficial to
the world) is also “evil” (as the world is an estrangement from the ultimate good-Elohim). Concepts swing over into their
opposites as we try to understand them more definitively. Ayn Sof is thus the limit at which all concepts deconstruct and
54 Jung taught that the Creator represents both good and evil, persona and shadow, a coincidence of opposites. This is the opposite of
the Gnostics. Gnosticism holds to a dualism of good immateriality and evil matter; while for Jung good and evil originate and end in
the same Source, are mutually dependent upon one another, and simply identified with spirit and matter.
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