Evil Is the Infernal End of the Polarity of Spirit-Matter

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Black versus White Magic Series · 14 pages

The companion to the study of evil as illusion, and quite different in form: this one is built around an exchange of letters with T.G. Headley, printed with Blavatsky's replies, so the argument develops under pressure rather than in exposition. Its starting proposition is that what she calls devil-evil is a mighty motor in the struggle for life — not an entity but a pole, the infernal end of the polarity of spirit and matter.

Two threads run through the correspondence. The first concerns Christianity's transformation, and the claim that there are two Jesuses: the real one, a Master of Wisdom, and the figure travestied by pseudo-Christian fancy and dressed in pagan robes borrowed from the heathen gods. The second is metaphysical, and turns on a nice piece of reasoning about the Thorah — that the forever-concealed Logos arranged its forms so as to become manifest as the universe, and that if the Thorah could do so, the question of why Satan should not is harder to dismiss than it looks. It is the more demanding of the two studies, and the more rewarding.

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