[Redbook5:128-129][19880529:1222]{Evil
Mind and Action}[29th
May 1988]
19880529.1222
Although
I have dealt with this before,* I am not sure whether I have set it
out in quite this way: that just as evil may be said to stain the
Soul, so it stains the action, making it a 'sin' or otherwise** (I
suppose that other degrees may also colour the action just as they
colour the Soul).*** This is why evil is more clearly identifiable,
and is felt to be more purely abhorrent by many, when its physical
component is less
(contrary to the usual analogy of physical and spiritual
Separation).****
What
I mean by this is that 'sins' (I use the word in the absence of any
other which conveys no more and no less that what I want to say)
where the emphasis is on the physical component – such as those
involving killing – allow of [sic]
greater flexibility in the motivation, in the Mind, which may be evil
(murder) or may not ([voluntary] euthanasia); whereas sins where the
emphasis is on the mental component – such as fraud – allow of
[sic]
less flexibility in the motivation, which may only be evil.#
*[See
e.g.? from/after [Redbook3:42-43][19870327:2157](THE
SELF, THE SOUL, AND THE SPIRIT)[27th
March 1987] ff (many).]
**So,
as no action is evil in itself; and as 'sins' are actions; so no
'sin' is evil in itself! – This is not
what I meant; the sin is the action and the (evil) intention
together. <891009>
***[See
next entry.]
****[Unclear
what is meant by this; possibly simply that the physical Separation
is more obvious and more clear-cut than the Spiritual separation.
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