The Will-To-Good Group

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On Anti-Christ and Devil

"In the last analysis, and from the standpoint of the Hierarchy, the present conflict between the personality of humanity (expressing the material values as the dominating factor in life experience) and the soul of humanity (expressing the spiritual values as the dominating factor in human affairs) is identical with the conflict which takes place within a human being's consciousness when he has reached the stage of discipleship and is faced with the problem of the pairs of opposites.  This conflict is expressed in many ways according to the point of view and the background of thought.  It can be called the conflict between Christ and anti-Christ but not as those who usually employ those phrases understand them.  No one nation is expressive of the spirit of anti-Christ, just as no one nation expresses the spirit of Christ.  Christ and the anti-Christ are the dualities of spirituality and materialism, both in the individual and in humanity as a whole.  Or you can speak of God and the Devil with the same basic implications.  For what is man himself but an expression of divinity (God) in a material form (the Devil), and what is matter but the medium through which divinity must eventually manifest in all its glory?  But when that takes place matter will no longer be a controlling factor but simply a medium of expression."

- The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, p 136-137,  by Alice A. Bailey

"Father Christmas is the embodiment of that which is selfless; his is the symbol of giving and of the Christ spirit; he therefore stands to man as a reminder of God, just as this other figment of the imagination, the devil with horns and tail, is a reminder of that which is not God, that which is not divine."

- From Bethlehem To Calvary, p 112,  by Alice A. Bailey

"The devil is the symbol of that which is not humanly divine for there are evil things done by man which, when done by an animal, are not so regarded...An animal may kill another animal in rage or in defense of its female, but when a man does the same thing it is called murder, and he is duly punished."

- From Bethlehem To Calvary p 112, by Alice A. Bailey