The Notebooks of Paul Brunton 07 - Healing of the Self, The Negatives by Paul Brunton

Author:Paul Brunton [Brunton, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Philosophy
Published: 2018-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

3.3 Hatred And Violent Revolution

105

The forces of evil which are unloosed upon the world attain their maximum potency with the attainment of maximum hatred. Hence revolution based on hatred is not foolish; it is criminal.

106

Movements or men spreading hate or promoting violence to achieve a religious, political, or social aim fall into an ancient error – that the release of evil passions can increase and not hurt the general welfare.

107

I prefer evolution to revolution in political affairs. All revolutions are born of violence, hatred, and assassination whilst the attempt to establish and maintain them leads to oppression and despotism until their karma is exhausted. Evolution moves more slowly but also moves more peacefully, more bloodlessly.

108

Those who seek reform are too often too impatient: so they resort to revolution or violence. The price then may be exceedingly heavy. Even where the reform has been successfully brought about by such means, the success was due chiefly to other factors.

109

The vengeful hate-filled hysteria with which black leaders, leftist revolutionaries, and political fanatics try to arouse their young followers can only destroy them spiritually.

110

Agitators work up passions and hatreds and lead mobs to commit violent acts. It is thus that the first Alexandrian Library in ancient Egypt was destroyed.

111

Those youngsters who call hysterically for proletarian revolution, fill their minds with hate at the same time. This is as destructive to themselves as it is hurtful to others. If social injustices are repaired in the wrong spirit, new injustices replace the old ones. "Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven, and all these things shall be added unto you." That is, seek first the revolution in man himself, and then your quest of social justice will be aided by higher forces.

112

Those who demand liberty in order to destroy liberty itself are often in the noisy minority which claims that any attempt to protect liberty is an attack on "civil liberties"!

113

If those who denounce the world so strongly would then go on to renounce it, their attacks would be more convincing. The fact that most of them continue to stay in it, to live among all its evils (and attractions), is sufficient answer to their criticisms.

114

The mistake is to be so affected by the evils as not to see the good, so eager to destroy what is wrong that the right is destroyed along with it.

115

They are not evil in the fundamental sense of the word, all these men who commit crimes to further what they believe to be a righteous cause: they are mistaken.

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