Falsehood and Evil are the byproduct of a world or cosmic movement, making their appearance somewhere in the involutionary-evolutionary process, it becoming inevitable because of the Ignorance. As far as the individual is concerned remove ignorance, the self-limiting knowledge of the Self, and these will simply fade away, will just depart. In the evolution out of the inconscient existence there rise up powers and beings who will not allow any progress towards manifestation of the divine possibilities, manifestation of light and love and beauty and joy. But the problem at the cosmic realm is, if these can be eliminated or dissolved for ever...   more »

If Falsehood, Error, Wrong, Evil are an “ugly contretemps” accepted by the bold and adventurous Spirit, then there has to be a significance in their appearance. Not only that; they seem to be natural and as if indispensable in the working of the individual as well as of the universe. It is thus that through death life progresses towards its higher and superconscient possibilities—until the higher and superconscient power herself starts operating in it directly. When we live in this dark and veiling ignorance, we miss the greater purpose these agents, these negatives play.

Explaining the Yoga of Beauty, Romain Rolland quotes a passage ascribed to Socrates. It is about the ascension of Beauty from the low vitalistic to the sublime and the impersonal: “…one must pass from the love of a beautiful form to the love of all beautiful forms or to physical beauty in general; then from love of beautiful bodies to the love of beautiful souls, beautiful actions, and beautiful thoughts. In this ascension of the spirit through moral beauty, a marvellous beauty will suddenly appear to him, eternal, exempt from all generation, from all corruption, absolutely beautiful: not consisting in either in a beautiful face, nor in any body nor any thought nor in any science; not residing anywhere but in itself, whether in heaven or on earth, but existing eternally in itself and for itself in its absolute and perfect unity.” ...   more »