The power
of steam that drives it into the ditch and wrecks it is not
evil, but a perfectly good power. So that which is misplaced or
applied in an incomplete or partial way is not evil. There are
no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are off the
track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they
only need to get upon the rails again.
That which
is undeveloped or incomplete often appears to us as evil
because of the way we have trained ourselves to think. The root
of a bulb that shall produce a white lily is an unsightly
thing; one might look upon it with disgust. But how foolish we
should be to condemn the bulb for its appearance when we know
the lily is within it. The root is perfect after its kind; it
is a perfect but incomplete lily, and so we must learn to look
upon every man and woman, no matter how unlovely in outward
manifestation; they are perfect in their stage of being and
they are becoming complete.
Behold, it
is all very good.
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