{Evil Mind and Action}[29th May 1988]

[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)[27^th 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. <20180309>]

#{→ VI. [] 125, etc.}

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