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In the beginning, there was no good or evil, light or darkness. That which existed was undefined. There was only good and light that existed. But the light wasn’t called light, or the good called good. It wasn’t called anything at all. It was simply it. The unnamed. All concepts and definitions existed in the universal mind. In order to define something, you have to manifest its opposite to compare with it. Pure good was simply what life is, until evil is manifested to define good so that good was no longer pure.
 
Adam and Eve could never know good and evil until they committed evil. The moment they did so, their eyes were opened. Evil could not exist in the presence of perfect good, therefore mankind needed evil to be removed in order for perfect good to be restored. The only one who could remove evil was the one who knew no sin, did no sin and in him was no sin. It was Jesus Christ the Son of God who came as the perfect good, the tree of life, to eliminate impure good and restore man to perfect good again.
 
Good and evil are the only opposites that exist in God’s holy law. The law is perfect but the law does not empower a being to follow it. It is the Spirit that empowers Man to follow the law. When Man follows the Spirit, he will naturally fulfill the law perfectly. That is why it takes the Holy Spirit for Man to follow perfect good. The Holy Spirit is the personal aspect of God. Without the Holy Spirit, Man is able to follow God’s universal law with the universal spirit, but not his holy law which is for a personal relationship.
 
God’s holy law defines good and evil in the perception of God as a person. To live according to his holy law is to follow him personally. Following his holy law is how we have a perfect relationship with him. But we do not follow his law by itself, we follow his law by following his person. When you choose to follow someone, you follow their thinking, their instructions and their reality. You can choose not to follow their thinking, instructions or reality. That is why following God personally is a free choice by you.
 
Other than God’s holy law, all other opposites exist for the fullness of experience. They are neither good nor evil but are neutral. Light was separated into a greater and lesser version of itself so that we may experience light and darkness. Everything else was separated into a greater and lesser version of itself so that we may experience more of it and less of it. Whenever we have two quantity experience of a thing, we are able to fully appreciate each of those quantities uniquely, in contrast with each other.
 
The soft enables us to appreciate the hard, and the hard enables us to appreciate the soft. The fast enables us to appreciate the slow, and the slow enables us to appreciate the fast. That is why we love a mix of opposite sensations for fullness of experience. We might say we want something, yet we also want its corresponding opposite in order to be fully satisfied. That is why human beings can seem contradictory, conflicting and complicated sometimes. But this secret resolves the mystery.
 
All opposites can be classified into feminine and masculine qualities. The feminine is dark, cold, wet, receptive, contracting and hidden. The masculine is bright, warm, dry, assertive, expansive and manifested. Feminine and masculine attract and repel each other at the same time. It is because the feminine and masculine seek to experience each other while keeping themselves apart of each other. The feminine and masculine are really a-part of each other. They are really opposite aspects of the same thing.
 
The measure of the pendulum’s swing to the right is the measure of the pendulum’s swing to the left. The greater the difference in quantities you experience about a particular thing with itself, the greater your appreciation will be about each aspect. For every bad quality that you may perceive about a situation no matter how intense it is, there is an equally intense amount of good quality about it if you see if from a different perspective. So rejoice to know that things are extremely good when extremely bad.
 
Understanding that contrast creates greater appreciation of a thing in comparism with its opposite, you can use contrast to increase other people’s appreciation of things. In order to expand something, first shrink it. In order to fill something, first empty it. People tend to appreciate what is given to them more when it is taken away. The good that they may have at first will appear to be greater after it is taken away and returned. We always appreciate what we have more when we know what it is like not having it.
 
We can use the power of contrast to perceive situations in ways that are useful to us. If you look clearly into every situation that comes your way, there is always a gift for you to receive. Unpleasant experiences help us notice what we love best in contrast to its absence in our life. Results that you do not desire help you to be more clear about what you truly desire. Every curse is a blessing in disguise. If you look at things in an empowering way, you can always align yourself with the flow of greatest good.
 
The contrast of opposites in God’s holy law enables us to how good it is to be like the personal aspect of God and how bad it is to be unlike the personal aspect of God. The closer we are to the Person of God which is The Lord, the more we are in alignment with his holy law. We have perfect alignment when we are one with the Holy Spirit of God. The contrast of opposites in all other aspects of consciousness is for fullness of experience in everything else. Know the universal and personal aspect of God fully.