The power of steam that drives it into the ditch and wrecks it
is not evil, but a perfectly good power. So that which is
misplaced or applied in an incomplete or partial way is not
evil. There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people
who are off the track, but they do not need condemnation or
punishment; they only need to get upon the rails again.
That which is undeveloped or incomplete often appears to us as
evil because of the way we have trained ourselves to think. The
root of a bulb that shall produce a white lily is an unsightly
thing; one might look upon it with disgust. But how foolish we
should be to condemn the bulb for its appearance when we know
the lily is within it. The root is perfect after its kind; it
is a perfect but incomplete lily, and so we must learn to look
upon every man and woman, no matter how unlovely in outward
manifestation; they are perfect in their stage of being and
they are becoming complete.
Behold, it is all very good.
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