We lie best when we lie to ourselves. We cloud reality when we believe that by ‘doing good deeds’ we are – almost by definition – ‘good’ people. This, even if we firmly believe that we do such things as a result of some positive change we’ve made in our heart, mind and soul. An abundance of ‘good deeds done’ – in thought, word, or deed – moves us to the precipice of deceit, where we become in danger of thinking too much of ourselves, launching us into a luciferic twilight where ‘loftiness’ and ‘softness’ becomes the façade of our outward self. We then walk as billboards of pink-lipped swine, gobbling up pearls of praise from those around us. How can we be ‘bad’ people when so many confirm the halo above our calcified third eye?
Then, of course, there is the ‘bad’, the -evil- in us. Anger to name just one. Anger is the peacock of many colors, each one eager to be plucked and cast toward anything, or anyone, that shakes our reality even the slightest. We believe we and we alone have built this city of self and are therefore obligated to defend it to the nth degree. We justify such anger because, after all, we are a good Christian and a Christian’s anger is always justified because beside us stands the Christ. Should we lash out and expose our error we have ready several justified allowances for our behavior. Anger and Christians, however, are not left alone in this colosseum of collusion and misappropriation of the image in which we were created. These two subjects of observation are simply just easy targets for this author, targets into which this individual has set his scope upon in this quest.
I have been working on an article that morphed into its own small website on the subject of Spiritual Alchemy. When this project has been completed, I will add a link here.