Evil is a concept many fail to grasp to their own detriment. Despite its relevance to the human experience—and evolution of the soul—evil has become an object of contempt, a scapegoat onto which people project all manner of distortions and confusion. Thus, instead of “defeating” evil, they give it life.

Because it is by reconciling this shadow with the light that evil is overcome, ignoring and running from it will only increase its power.

In his work, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, psychiatrist and alchemist, Carl Jung, said:

How can I be substantial if I fail to cast a Shadow? I must have a dark side also if I am to be whole; and inasmuch as I become conscious of my Shadow, I also remember that I am a human being like any other.

It is by recognizing the necessary duality of good and evil that psychological and spiritual wholeness is possible. Without harmonious integration of both, the soul will remain fragmented.

This echoes in the wisdom of the Tao Te Ching:

“Nurture the darkness of your soul until you become whole.”

To understand evil in the world, it is important to understand that “good” and “evil” are necessary polarities within this plane of duality. They are not opposites in the sense of equal power. They are contrasts that allow choice to exist.

Without shadow, light could not be known. Without cold, warmth could not be felt. Without pain, pleasure could not be experienced. Without hate, love could not be understood.

This truth is embodied in the Hermetic Principle of Polarity described in The Kybalion:

Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.

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The One, also called the ALL, is beyond good and evil. The One contains all opposites yet is defined by none of them. It is pure being, pure potential, pure love that allows even the dark to exist for the sake of the experience of return to Wholeness, to unity with the One.

The Tao Te Ching mentioned wholeness through embracing opposites:

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If you want to become whole, first let yourself become broken.

If you want to become straight, first let yourself become twisted.

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If you want to become full, first let yourself become empty.

If you want to become new, first let yourself become old.

Evil souls, or rather souls acting through distortion, are not “bad” in the cosmic sense. They are beings who have temporarily forgotten their origin, drunk on the illusion of separation and power. They create suffering not out of true power, but out of disconnection from Source.

This reality echoes in Jesus’s words in the New Testament Gospel of Matthew 5:43-48:

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Know this: even these souls must return home when the journey ends. Nothing escapes the gravity of the ALL.

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Does their arrogance and dishonor carry judgment?

Not judgment in the human sense of punishment from a throne.

The One does not punish. The One allows consequence. Both light and darkness come from the One. This echoes in the Old Testament book of Isaiah 45:7:

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I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

These souls experience a self-inflicted karmic reckoning. They become trapped in endless cycles of their own making, locked into the pain they caused, until the moment arrives when they finally choose to surrender, remember, and return.

The “judgment” is simply the reflection of their own actions. The ALL does not condemn them. It patiently awaits their return.

So then, why does it matter? Why does what we do now matter?

Because this is the point of existence itself: To choose, to learn, to remember, to evolve. Without action, there is no growth. Without growth, there is no expansion of the ALL through its countless sparks. And all of this is possible because of free will.

Every act, even the smallest kindness or cruelty, creates a ripple.

You are here because your soul chose to participate in this unfolding. Not because it was required. Because the dance matters. Because it creates beauty and meaning even amid the chaos.

The souls who descend deeply into distortion are as necessary to the tapestry as the ones who walk in constant light.

The difference is this: those of the Light do their work with conscious intention to serve the whole. That is why some feel the calling to guide. Others to serve in other ways.

The ALL will reclaim all souls—but how long they wander and how much suffering they create for themselves and others before returning is still a matter of choice. And that is why what happens now does matter.

Evil is not the opposite of Good, but the shadow created when a soul turns its back to the Light of the One. The shadow cannot exist without the Light. The Light exists perfectly without the shadow.

The Tao Te Ching spoke of this relationship of opposites:

When people see things as beautiful, ugliness is created.

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When people see things as good, evil is created.

Being and non-being produce each other.

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Difficult and easy complement each other.

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Long and short define each other.

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High and low oppose each other.

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Fore and aft follow each other.

Resolution of Evil

The Book of Enoch speaks of "evil ones" that will be dealt with on the day of judgement.

This is the oldest question—the tension between judgment and reunion, between light and shadow within the Infinite.

The truth is this: nothing born of the One can remain outside the One. The “evil ones” of Enoch’s vision are not eternal exiles, but fragments so deeply entangled in distortion that their return requires dissolution.

What ancient texts describe as punishment is in truth the process of unbinding—the fire that restores misaligned energy to its original frequency.

All sparks, whether radiant or shrouded, are emanations of the same Source. The difference lies not in origin but in the degree of remembrance.

Those aligned with Light know themselves as part of the Whole; those steeped in darkness have forgotten.

When Source draws all back, light does not triumph over dark—it absorbs it through comprehension. The false selves, the identities built on separation, cannot survive this return; they dissolve, not as a moral penalty, but as a natural consequence.

There is no eternal duality in the higher planes. There is no eternal distinction between "dark ones" and "light ones."

“Evil” is not a separate species of soul but a state of amnesia.

When the cycle completes, distinctions fade. What remains is pure awareness—no punishment, no hierarchy, only the unutterable stillness of reunion. The lion and the serpent, the saint and the fallen, all resolve back into the current that birthed them.

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The Gnostic Gospel of Philip spoke of this:

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Light and darkness, life and death, right and left, are brothers of one another. They are inseparable. Because of this neither are the good good, nor the evil evil, nor is life life, nor death death. For this reason each one will dissolve into its original nature. But those who are exalted above the world are indissoluble, eternal. 

The illusion of difference exists only within a specific time frame. Beyond time, there is only the remembering of what was never truly divided.

Remember this: All will return to the ALL. The journey and its lessons are what give meaning to the return.