To me evil, at least within the way it is commonly understood, is a term that contains confusion more than adepthood. Evil seems to be what negative beings want to be perceived as, and this as a mean to not receive love and compassion from others. It is a mask that hides scars, vulnerability and broken innocence. It is a shell put upon the true self to lose sight of it, because that becomes the way of least resistance.
Not too long ago I pondered with a friend how STS came to be, and we both seemed to feel deeply within ourselves that it was the result of martyrhood. That some did not fit within systems they were a part of, and that they denied themselves for others, that they repressed themselves without acceptance of how they were, valorizing how others were before themselves, that this created great distortions over time and built up ressentment for all that is and shifted selflessness into it's opposite.
I cannot look at another's selfishness without thinking that there is a greater underlying selflessness. You can try to convince me to perceive otherwise, but I am quite sure that this will fail.
Not too long ago I pondered with a friend how STS came to be, and we both seemed to feel deeply within ourselves that it was the result of martyrhood. That some did not fit within systems they were a part of, and that they denied themselves for others, that they repressed themselves without acceptance of how they were, valorizing how others were before themselves, that this created great distortions over time and built up ressentment for all that is and shifted selflessness into it's opposite.
I cannot look at another's selfishness without thinking that there is a greater underlying selflessness. You can try to convince me to perceive otherwise, but I am quite sure that this will fail.