The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors

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The Neurochemical Basis for Evil
(1988)
The American philosopher William James has stated, "There is no
doubt that healthy mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine,
because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a
genuine portion of reality, and they may after all be the best key to life's
significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest level
of truth."
The Kabbalah, which literally means "lradition," is the sum of Jewish
mysticism, the tradition of things divine. The Book Bahir, an 1180 A.D.
document on the Kabbalah concerning Satan, states,
It teaches that there is in God a principle that is called 'Evil',
and it lies in the north of God, of it is written [Jer. 1:14]: 'Out
of the north the evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants
of the land,' that is to say, all evil that comes upon all the
inhabitants of the land breaks forth out of the north. And what
principle is this? It is the form of the hand [one of the seven
holy forms which represent God as the original man], and it has
many messengers, and all are named 'Evil' .... And it is they that
fling the world into guilt for the tobu is in the north, and the
tobu means precisely the evil that confuses men until they sin,
and it is the source of all man's evil impulses.
In early Egyptian (African) tradition, evil was associated with Set, the
. brother of Osiris ("Lord of the perfect black"). Set eventually killed his
brother Osiris and dismembered his body, which his sister/wife (Isis)
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