Let's start with it, that people don't understand why there is so much wickedness on Earth? Others ask the question, how can God (if He exists) allows so much suffering and deprivation to be our fate? Why are there wars, famines, why can groups of people be oppressed economically, politically, etc.? Behind the questions, anyhow they are formulated, there is the insufficient understanding of duality as the basic principle that sustains the material world. 

Duality means that in our world, pairs of opposites exist separately and thus in independently experienced forms. In other words, in one moment we can experience goodness, beauty and joy, in another moment we can experience their opposite, evil, ugliness and sorrow. People imagine the Kingdom of Heaven (Paradise, Kingdom of God, etc.) as a place where only their preferred half of the opposite pair will be present, or they expect the Saviour (God's messenger, the Avatar) to create that place for them here on Earth. However, if we look closely at these qualities, we soon see that, from a human perspective, we often classify as good what is bad for others and bad what is good for others, and we do the same with the other members of the opposite pairs. Likewise, we disagree about what God is like, or what qualities the idyllic world we desire should have. The best example of this is provided by missionaries, priests, etc., who, in the name of a religion, try to tell us how to imagine God or the way to God. 

Those religions, systems of thought, which attribute darkness = evil to some force outside the created world, which operates independently of them, and fight against it, are extremely far from the Oneness view, since they themselves are stuck in dualistic thinking. It follows that Oneness can only be experienced by those who are in unity with both Light and Darkness. 

Now I would like to explicate a schema of thought that provides an illustrative explanation of the phenomena we observe in the dual world. Imagine that God is composed of spheres of light that are so closely connected and overlapping that there is no space between them. When these light particles emanate from Him, the fit is no longer tight, and the space, or void, that lies between the particles is born. The space that is not filled by light becomes darkness. In other words, darkness is the absence of light. It is clear that as we move away from the source, there will be more and more darkness, because the filling of space by light will not be continuous. Thus the darkness can be imagined in the following as defects in the light matrix, which come and go, can divide and merge, have information content, and thus take on the character of an entity, similar to light particles. 

If we look beyond human thinking, classifications, prejudices, and examine with pure consciousness what is the fundamental difference between Light and Darkness, we find that there is only one difference. Light entities have the capacity for pure love, and this lacks from Dark entities. To prove this, here is a quote from the Apostle Paul: 

"I can speak the language of men or of angels, if I have no love, I am a ringing ore or a clinking cymbal only. I may be a prophet, I may know all mysteries and all sciences; I may move mountains by faith, if I have not love I am not worth anything. I may distribute all I have among the needy, I may give my body as a burnt offering, if I have not love, it profiteth me nothing... Love never ceases." (Acts 13:1-9) (1 Cor 12:30-13:13). So, it is the absence of love, that results in all the differences we experience between Light and Darkness. 

If this is true, the only way to defeat the Darkness is to turn to it with love. From these thoughts, some conclusions can be drawn. What should we do if we want to move towards Oneness? We are all made up of a light matrix, but it is full of fault locations. These points of failure are the points of attack of darkness. Clearly, we cannot return to Pure Light as long as we have a point of attachment for the Darkness. Let us turn with love to our own dark points and direct light there. As the light within us increases and the darkness decreases, we become less and less affected with the darkness matrix. It is also clear that the duality of our world cannot be eliminated by us, either on an earthly or universal scale, because we did not create it. Our only option is to eliminate the duality within ourselves. 

Another conclusion that follows from these are, who is the Saviour? A Saviour can only be one who has already removed the last germ of darkness in himself/herself and is able to illuminate the darkness of others with his/her own light of love. It follows, therefore, that redemption applied neither in the past and will it apply nor in the future to everyone, but only to those who are able to receive the love-light. Knowing all these, let us examine the mystery of Jesus' crucifixion. On the cross, Jesus sublimated the darkness of his environment, that is, he transformed the evil that flowed towards him into love, and made it flow back to his environment. This meant complete salvation for the recipients then and there and the removal of some of the darkness for others. Let it be clear, whoever is present here on earth now was not redeemed, only the way was shown to them. 

We can all enter into the process of self-redemption by facing and understanding our own darkness and overcoming it. And we can be envoy of Light by reducing the darkness of others by increasing our love. Angels (Light-beings) and enlightened masters (those who have become Light-beings) help us to do this. Those who successfully practice the role of the Light-emissary, however, I caution against presenting themselves to the world as saviours, as avatars. For then the situation may arise where the Darkness itself appears and asks to be redeemed! If the self-proclaimed saviour-avatar embraces the Darkness, but cannot cope with it, and there is no Light-being above him/her to whom he/she can turn (and to whom can he/she turn if he/she has placed himself/herself on the highest site?), then this situation can easily turn into its opposite, and he/she becomes a successful envoy of the Darkness. It may take a while for him/her or someone else to notice this, and in that time, a pretty karma can be accumulated.

Margaret Rhasoda-Varga
UCCM head-master
(The art of living life II. excerpt)