[Redbook4:68][19870821:1020b]{Evil
at Hungerford [continued]}[21st
August 1987]
19870821.1020
[continued]
Accustomed
as we are to look for a motive for crime, and to an extent to judge
the evil of the offence by the nature of the motive as well as the
seriousness of the act, it is sometimes hard for us to grasp the
possibility of crime without apparent motive.* In a sense this is
right: there is a reason for everything.
But
we like to be able to connect the victim of the offence with the
offender by the motive, if it is not to be classified as an accident.
The principle of extreme Separation makes precisely this connection,
as it encompasses the whole Universe within its scope: the action of
a man like Ryan** is limited only by the limitations of the weapons
available to him. His driving force is pure Anger***, directed
everywhere (although he had just enough of Light left to spare the
children in Savernake)****.
*As
+C is detachment from self and concentration on others, so perhaps
its diametric opposite A~ is detachment from others and
concentration on oneself. <891001> [For
consistency, the +C should probably be represented here as I~; or
possibly A~ should be represented as +Mk. <20160810>]
**[The
perpetrator of the Hungerford massacre – see last previous entry.]
***But one witness described him
as looking like 'a frightened maniac', I think: frightened perhaps of
his own possession# by the anger, and its consequences....
****[Forest.]{or
perhaps he had forgotten about them.}
#{but
see [[Redbook4:86-87][19871003:1650#]{Spirits}[3rd
October 1987],]p.87,
re
possession by evil Spirits.}
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