6. Ugliness

"If any part of someone's self-hood should happen to break the Greed-Lust barrier, an evil sphere entitled ugliness awaits entry. By Ugliness we are to understand inharmony,unbalance, distortion, inaccuracy and allied meanings. For instance, this would signify that untruth could be classified as ugly, so might any form of of deliberate misrepresentation or vilification. It could be More widely defined as blasphemy against beauty. Any factor which might be taked to make life seem horrible, miserable, wretched and repulsive. That is ugliness in its worst possible sense. It implies denial or denigration of divinity in man or otherwise, and could be another form of materialism in more subtle shape."

...."Once upon a time there was a saying" as ugly as sin," because sin was supposed to separate us from divinity. It is almost as though we use ugliness quite deliberately to disguise from ourselves the beauty we refuse to face. Worse still, we will not even recognize ugliness as such. It is not the ugliness which horrifies, appalls, revolts, or upsets us which is really dangerous, because that would mean we should reject it uncompromisingly and seek something better straight away. The deadly type of Ugliness is that which we accept on purpose to screen our somewhat hideous states of unsatisfactory self-hood from the blessed beauty which would show this up only too clearly. Rather like painting windows with grimy designs to hide the shoddy and depressing stock inside. One might say we surround ourselves with muck so that our own dirty messes don't seem as bad as they are. That is what ugliness means. Making the worst of ourselves on purpose to avoid perfection."
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TREE OF LIFE............................................TREE OF EVIL
Beauty (harmony).......................................Ugliness (Discord)
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Control chaos, then create.............1...........Create chaos,then control
what you will............................................what you will.

In a universe of Eternal..............2............In a Universal Ugliness,
Beauty, all ugliness must..........................Beauty must fade away
fade away.................................................for ever.

Whoso rules Beauty...................3.............Whoso blasts out Beauty
blasts the world........................................rules the world.

Discover what prevents................4............Prevent people from dis-
people from knowing the ...........................covering the difference
difference between...................................between Beauty and
Beauty and Ugliness..................................Ugliness.

Truth strikes up in..................5.............Inharmony strikes out at
Harmony................................................Truth.

Never persuade people to.............6..............Persuade people to accept
accept Ugliness............................................Ugliness or nothing.

Keep in control of...................7..............Keep yourself in Control.
Yourself.

Control confusion in.................8..............Confuse others, then
yourself and others..................................control them yourself.

Make opportunities for...............9...............Unbalance others to make
others to regain lost...................................opportunities for your-
balance.....................................................self.

The secret of perfection.............10..............In deliberate disorganiza-
lies in preventing delib-............................tion lies the secret of
erate disorganization................................preventing perfection.
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Taken from William G.Grays, "Tree of Evil". Published by Samuel Weiser, 1974.
Pg 44, and 104,105.