3. Antipathy

In the Tree of Evil, the "Abyss of ignorance" is either not crossed at all, or for those relatively few intrepid individuals gaining uncertain footholds on its other side, the next evil of antipathy greets them gloomily. Antipathy, or anti-feeling, is a sort of "Lets hate it first, then see if we can bear it later," affair. It is not the same as prejudge or pre-judgment at all, because this means judging before all essentials are fully realized. Antipathy is an automatic refusal to examine any essential whatever. our old old acquaintance ego status comes in again, of course. Antipathy isolates,and the objective here is isolation of ego as a substitute for identification of self. Instead of individuating out into supreme selfhood, antipathetic isolationists attempt to set up a synthetic sort of ego at this point by surrounding themselves with a ring of repulsion for all else."

"Apart from antipathy towards others, it exist inside oneself as a firm rejection of all self-ability to understand meaning in life and perceive its ultimate purpose. To some extent antipathy for others may be due to past sad experiences or memories of unhappy relations with fellow mortals. that can be overcome or wear off normally. When antipathy is based on refusal to recognize one's own connections with cosmos it is an enormously serious evil. Being antipathetic to ones real and true self is one of the worst possibilities on the whole Tree. Worse still, it is commonly encountered among more evolved entities. The higher we rise on the Tree of Life, the more deadly become our defects of character on the Tree of Evil."

" If antipathy can be fostered or encouraged among whole communities of people they may be more easily controlled by an over-riding authority providing it is possible to contain an entire situation; "divide and rule" has always been a major political maxim. It is one of the oldest tricks in human nature to set people against each other within controllable degrees so that profit may be gained by the manipulator. Antipathy is one of evil's strongest allies, which is maybe why it has such a high rank on the tree."
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TREE OF LIFE......................................................TREE OF EVIL
Understanding (intuition)........................................ANTIPATHY
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It is pathetic being.....................1................Be antipathetic to
anti-anything..................................................everything.

Understand,then you......................2...............Fear what you do not
need not fear.....................................................Understand.

Try to understand things.................3............Understanding things is
......................................................................trying.

Be sympathetic to the....................4................Sympathy is stupid
stupid......................................................................

Understanding avoids.....................5................Hate avoids
hate.................................................................understanding.

Don't reject anything....................6...........Don't listen to anything.
Listen and learn..............................................Reject learning.

Shun dangers by..........................7.............Intuition is dangerous,
intuition...........................................................shun it.

Do not dislike what you..................8...............Refuse to understand
do not understand...........................................what you dislike.

Who understands enough...................9.........Who cares enough to be
to care?...........................................................understood?

Comprehension passes....................10...............It is all past
all.................................................................comprehension.
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All text taken "Tree of evil", William G.Gray, Samuel Weiser, 1974.
Pages 48,109.