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God's Faithful Agents - The Good and the Evil

I pray to The Lord of All Being to give me the wisdom and the words
to express what I want to say to you all now.

I pray that I will not be misunderstood.

I pray that these words keep us on the true and straight path.

There are many who equate God with "Light" and with "Good". God is
neither good nor bad. There are agents of God's Divine Will, some
call those agents angels. Some of those agents are light and sweet,
some of them are dark and terrible. They are both agents of the
Almighty, each have their task in creation.

That which is pleasant is not necessarily good for us. If we look
back at the times in our lives when we've made the most spiritual
progress it was usually at a time of crisis, as JP said. Awakening
is often preceded by crisis. Laura too spoke of this. Our Soul
destroys the world we lived in, everything comes crumbling down
around us and we feel that great evil has been done to us, great
injustice and unfairness has been perpetrated in our innocence.
Later we see that a new reality has been given to us to build. The
wise are filled with gratitude.

The job of the agents of God who bring destruction, pain and terror
is a harder job than the agents of God who bring us joy and pleasure,
comfort and abundace. Just as an employer gives his hardest jobs to
his most trusted and able employees, so God delegates the hardest
jobs to Its most trustworthy agents, angels if you will, the angels
of "darkness".

When confronted by the angels of Darkness, the most powerful of them
is the Satan, the Angel of Death, turn to God in gratitude and know
that we are being put in the care of the most trustworthy of God's
angels. We are not to worship the angels, or even to relate to them
directly. Prayers or any kinds of supplications are never to be
addressed to any of the agents of God, neither good nor bad, only to
God in Itself. Just know that although it hurts you are in the hands
of those who God trusts most to get you through to the next highest
level of your spiritual and yes, moral, development. These angles,
the angels of darkness, not light, are the ones entrusted with the
job of sharpening and deepening our vision.

Know that the angels of darkness love God with all their being, no
less than the angels of light do. Know too that it is with great
pain that they carry out their task, for they know it pains God to
cause us pain. They cause us pain in the same way that a doctor or a
midwife does - to save our lives and the life of the reality that we
are giving birth to.

Know that within ourselves too, we must integrate the good and the
evil to serve God. The good may be pleasant, but it is insipid. The
evil is painful, but it is powerful. We must integrate the power and
boldness of the evil with the good if we are to be strong for God's
sake and triumph over the many obstacles that our minds will put in
our way as we climb ever higher.

May God keep you and may you merit to be of so great a faith that you
allow yourself to freefall out of the world of illusion, knowing that
God's angels, the good and the evil alike, will catch you in their
minions and deliver you into God's heart.

See also: A Story About Moses

Please God, let my words be understood for a blessing.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat