The enemy is any person or force which retards your evolution, growth, unfoldment, and beauty. There are five things that we can say about the enemy.
First, the enemy or evil is a force which makes you ugly. If any force makes you physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually ugly, then it is a dark force. You are yielding yourself and cooperating with it.
Second, if any force takes your goodwill from you and replaces it with evil, it is the enemy.
Third, if anyone or any impression or suggestion makes you fight against righteousness or forces you to be unrighteous, it is evil.
Fourth, if anyone or anything tries to take your joy away from you and load you with grief, fear, or depression, know that it is evil.
Lastly, if anyone or anything takes away your rights or freedom and tries to make you a slave or a hostage of his self-interest or beliefs, know that it is evil.
These forces are everywhere. Because they are everywhere, you are used to them and so you can no longer see them. They are even present in your food and water, in your churches, in your sacred literature. They have penetrated into all layers of human experience. If you are smart, you will develop the great sense of discrimination.
Discrimination means to know exactly which path leads to your destination and which path leads to your destruction.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Battling Dark Forces
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