Daily Meditation: Thursday, February 10, 2005

Evil - use to reinforce good. Grafts

02/10/2005

The human being can do little to oppose the forces of evil when they begin to manifest within him. He possesses neither the knowledge nor the capabilities necessary to conquer them. The best solution, then, is to allow good and evil to co-exist, and to use the energy and extremely powerful elements contained in evil to stimulate the forces of good. This is precisely how a graft works. What does a gardener do? To the stem of a wild young pear tree whose fruit is inedible, for example, he attaches the branch of a pear tree of good quality which will benefit from the vigour of the wild tree. In the same way, each of us can attach branches of the tree of good to the tree of evil within ourselves. Just as the forces of evil always try to seize the forces of good for their own purposes, so the good has every right to draw on the forces of evil and to use them in its work.