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The "Tiniest Candle" Principle Restated:

How the unspiritual mind,
servile, impressed, and dazzled,
misconstrues the nature of Evil

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It would be helpful if our discussion on the nature of Evil were restated and summarized.

We have seen, with new "x-ray vision," in the "Devil Impersonation" and "Counterfeiting of God’s Work" Hypotheses, an unbecoming and subsuming deference afforded to Evil and the concept of "Satan."

"Satan" is the new Almighty and Omnipotent. "Satan" is the Invincible One who can do everything. "Satan" is not just "god of this world," as Fundamentalists believe, but, in terms of what he can accomplish, "the god of the universe."

But this idolatry, borne of superstitious mind and Small-Ego thought, is flatly contradicted by the apostle John's assessment of the inherent insubstantiality of Evil: 

John 1:5: “The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness; [but] the darkness could not put it out” (The Message translation).

 
I call it "The Tiniest Candle" Principle. The tiniest candle, the smallest flame, puts darkness to flight. But darkness has no such corresponding power over light. Light is something real and substantive; darkness, however, is merely the absence of light.

Darkness must begin to flee before the smallest encroachment of light, the tiniest candle, the smallest flame; but darkness has not the least such power over light. No one has ever seen a patch of darkness in the midst of light's glory - it's an impossibility; but it's everyday commonality to witness a tiny candle in the midst of, and beginning to defeat, the darkness.

decision is required

To those who believe in an infallible Bible, I must point out that the apostle John's dictum concerning the inherent beggarliness of Evil is inconsistent with a "Satan" as Almighty, Omnipotent, and Invincible - in other words, you can't have it both ways: you can't believe in an "infallible Bible" containing John's teaching on the weakness of Evil and then subscribe to the Omnipotence of "Satan," the Prince of Evil. These two don't go together.

here's what the "tiniest candle principle" means in our everyday lives

Evil is easy to defeat; it's a creampuff - no cosmic war in heaven is needed.

• Editor's note: This does not mean, in our world, that Brute Force cannot kill the body. But this, by no means, constitutes defeat. As Jesus said, "they can only kill your body," and that's not much. 

With every act of service, or even charitable intent, we add more light to our spirits. It might be the "tiniest candle" worth of luminosity, but that's enough to send Darkness packing.

• Editor's note: We would be well advised to take notice of scripture's emphasis on miniscule amounts - a mere penny's worth of debt and a single candle flame - the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophet's dictum: "Do not despise the day of small things."

How easy it is to defeat the Prince Of Darkness

The apostle John asserts that "darkness cannot put out the light"; no Evil has the least bit of power over us when we attune our minds and hearts to universal Absolute Goodness.

There is no Satan and demons, but there is, in fact, a vast host, untold millions, of troubled spirit-entities, discarnate human beings, who have not gone to the Light. Many of these morally-insane seek for those of similar "vibrational" evil-mind, in order to cause harm.

There is no need to fear any of these (temporarily) perverted ones. With a dismissive wave of the hand, the smallest candle-power of charitable purpose fends them off. These sordid cannot live in Love's aura, that higher vibrational essence. We learned this with the "Crystalline-Entity" principle.

And just as there can be no invasion inflicted upon our safe-and-secure homes in Summerland, so too, here and now, there can be no invasion, no conquering violation of our spirits, the sacred privacy of our own minds.

During our remaining time in this world, the influence of Evil can be unpleasant and nettlesome to our physical persons, but no real harm can come to us, the real us, as our protective armor might be the smallest candle of defense.

"Satan" is such a pathetic wimp, and Evil's only power over us is that which we allow.