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The Legend of Lilith: The Origins of Evil and the Fall of Manfering, misfortune and destruction of mankind. There is only one approach to confront and eradicate evil;that is by shining the Light on them and their actions, revealing their true motivations and evil character.The building blocks of evil in society are: greed, envy, racial and religious prejudices, ignorance, greed,bigotry, elitism, individualism, greed, poverty, conducive social and economic conditions, in which thevalue of humankind is replaced with commercial profits and the Almighty Dollar9, where the public isconstantly bombarded with divisive messages of fear, hate, and violence, ranging from violent sportingevents resembling the ancient Greek/Roman games to fearful violent news and fearful, hateful violententertainment on television and the movies. These are the infectious germs that spread the virus of cruelty and hate among mankind. Cruelty is possible only when people do not recognize in one another theimage of the Creator that is the essence of their own being-hence they turn away from others; do not heartheir cries of pain. This powerful force is then spread and transferred from one generation to another. 10 “Human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly ourown ignorance about ourselves.” Carl SaganTo recognize if any given society has been infested and taken over by evil is not that difficult, just lookaround. We have all been distorted since early childhood. The non-recognition of others is the source ofpain and anger. We need to ask ourselves the question, “Are we our brother’s keeper?” The minute werecognize the “other” then we can recognize our obligation toward mutual concern. Preventing and eradicating evil is actually very easy. It begins with a simple self-examination, followed by self-correction andultimately self-realization. Change begins within you! Evil is not some inevitability that must be accepted,but a distortion that must be combated. Allowing the distortions and evil of the past prevents us from addressing the distortions and evil of the present.The Eternal One, according to the account in Bereshith (Genesis), looked at the world, “and behold, itwas very good-ve’hineh-tov me’od” (Genesis 1:31). The distortions, the evil, the cruelty, class structures,imperialism, murder, war, rape, the anger and hatred- these are not built into the fundamental structure ofthe true reality. The concepts of love, peace, justice, equality, healing, and transformation are not for“heaven”, but are for this physical world. This is the true message of the prophets to mankind and theworld in general. The message was directed to daily life, to the family, marketplace, and to the state. Religion used to cover up economic immorality was an affront to YHWH.9Yahshua called it “Mammon”. It is Mishnaic Hebrew and Aramaic for "riches." The word itself is given in theSermon on the Mount. "Ye cannot serve Elohim and mammon" (Matt. 6: 24). There is no evidence that there was aSyriac Elohim of this name, the modern idea that such a Elohim existed being derived from Milton's personificationof the name—"Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell from heaven" ("Paradise Lost," i. 679). The word occurs inAvot ii. 12, where almsgiving is called "the salt of mammon or riches." Gesenius suggests that the word was derivedfrom "maṭmon" ("treasure"), with assimilation of the "ṭet." The spelling with three "m's," however, is apparently notjustified; the Greek form with two is held by most scholars to be correct. In the Bible, "mammon" is not a demon butsimply an Aramaic word meaning "wealth" or "property." Originally, the word Mammon came from the ancientChaldean and actually has its roots in the word 'confidence.' At its most basic level, the word meant 'riches' or'wealth,' but it connoted an idea of personified wealth gained with avarice. It often took on a deified nature. In theMiddle Ages, Mammon gained the full-on demon status. Many local bishops and feudal lords benefited from the fearand trembling that peasants felt about gaining worldly wealth.10List of deaths attributed to genocide (all figures are in millions): Crusades 1.5; Slave trade 18, Native Americandecimation 20; Jewish Holocaust 6; Tibetan Genocide 1.2; Balkan Genocide 1.5; Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos 2.2. Inthe 20th century 80 million lives were lost to violence based in ethnic, religious, and philosophical conflicts – that is5 times more than lives lost due to natural disasters and AIDS.5

The Legend of Lilith: The Origins of Evil and the Fall of ManWhen the collective psyche of a nation is weakened because of a lack of resolve of its members, socialcohesion will break down. This psychological confusion and mental illness that afflicts individuals, begins to afflict the nation as a whole. When this occurs, a nation acts insane or as one possessed with anunclean spirit. This is a recipe for disaster and destruction to that nation, as other nations will prey upontheir weakened state and conquer them from without or within.The Torah is in the form of a book but it not a book. It is not a written text but a living text. Concealedwithin it is a living soul, a consciousness. It is alive; it is aware; it knows itself and its Creator, and itknows mankind. The Torah cannot be read like a book, as that only disguises its real intent. One has to gobehind the written text of the Torah and find its hidden secrets, as these are the paths to contacting its living essence. Then it will speak to you and you will hear the voice of the Torah, the inner voice of yourconsciousness, in the secret place where the conscious mind unites with the unconscious.Torah was given to create a stable and sane society and community. Torah is all about life in this worldand how life in other spiritual planes interacts with us here. Everything revolves around us here and now.Its instructions are not an end in itself. Torah was given to be a channel to bring about sanity, security,and stability to a nation, and the whole planet. The mitzvoth act as connections that bring heaven to earthand elevate the earth to the Heavens. Thus, our proper actions create a stability society. This results inphysical and psychological security, which enables our minds to give thanks to the Heavens.The commandments of the Torah are about social relations. True spirituality is not just about findingsome private truth, but about creating a world community that reflects and embodies the spiritual truthswe learn. The health of the human soul requires involvements in a community that is itself committed tohealing and transforming the social and political world even as it provides the means of healing and transforming individuals.The Torah commandments are also expressions of scientific universal principles. When the mitzvoth areobserved properly influences are created and there are subtle shifts in cosmic energies that affect the human consciousness and the environment. Knowing the meaning of a mitzvah is different than knowingwhat to do at the proper time. The commandments serve as archetypes that enable our true human essencereconnect with our higher self (the neshamah) or higher dimensional Source.The Torah commandments also assist us in calibrating our collective consciousness to the higher vibration of the alternate realities. When one observes the Torah, a transformation occurs within one psychologically, or one could say they become a new person within .Change has to come from within. This canonly occur when one’s external behavior is in harmony with the Creator. Change seldom arises independently from within; there is something we must do. Actions change the attitude, not the other way around.Mankind cannot be remorseful concerning its behavior as long as we continue our improper behavior. Wehave to consciously choose good over evil, right over wrong, and justice over injustice. The process oftikkun (rectification) means not only to stop creating damage, but repairing the damage we have createdby our actions and words.Torah speaks the language of the human soul. It tells us how to reconnect our hearts, souls, and minds tothe Source. The mitzvoth contain universal truths. They are metaphors, but rather scientific formulas forthe transformation of the consciousness that enable us to evolve. It is the human heart that gets confusedand misguided. When the heart is led astray, the higher human consciousness gets disconnected from theSource (the higher mind), and we become trapped on earth, exiled, and lost from our original Source6

The Legend of Lilith: The Origins of Evil and the Fall of ManThese ritual commandments have nothing to do with religion. Religion is an exercise of the mind. It is thestudy and practice of theology. Theology is a form of philosophy. Both are only mental gymnastics thattry to explain the reality of the finite world around us. Torah is not limited to these immature pursuits.Torah transcends the mind as it does this physical universe. So observing the mitzvoth should not becalled being religious; it should be called natural and at times supernatural. They are what make us humans created in the image of Elohim. One does not have to be religious to observe the Torah. Religion ismore about politics, money, culture, and ethnicity, than it is about true Torah observance. Mankind needsto be less religious and more Torah observant. Torah was not given to start a new religion. Religion doesnot exist in the Scriptures nor in the original Hebrew. Religion imprisons the mind and stops the spiritualevolution of the human soul. One has to make their personal exodus from psychological slavery into psychological freedom by passing over into a conscious embracing of the truth revealed in the Torah.The old understanding of being “commanded” was of commandments handed down from a mountain,but today any sense of commandment must come from within, from inside us. Doing a “mitzvah” is aworshipful act. This action puts us into a higher level of dialogue with the universe. We act out of the desire to communicate with the Holy One we have felt. Thus, as our practice deepens, our relationship withthe Creator grows more intimate. Each mitzvah consecrates us to Elohim.Religionists and philosophers have pondered the origins of evil for thousands of years, and yet they stillhave not arrived at a single consensus about what evil really is. The lack of clarity from Scriptural scholars defaults the ethical field to the world’s religions, traditions, politics, and ideologies. Most peoplelearn their ethics and morals from their parents, peers, church, and community. Indoctrinated in this matrix since birth, most people think that their cultural, religious, political, and personal views and opinionsare absolute and universal truths. They then seek to make their doctrines and beliefs universal by force,revolutions, reformations, and wars. We can know which ethic is the moral imperative for humanity if weapply wisdom, understanding, and knowledge (Chochmah, Binah, and Da’at). Yet this beginning point,even reason, is rejected by most of the world. They believe that their religious and political views are theonly truth because they came from their personal g-d and religious tradition. Their beliefs are ingrained totheir very core, and no amount of logic, reason, and evidence will shake their convictions that they alonehold the keys to all truth.Reasoning begins with premises that come from observation. We can observe that there nothing in human nature that makes one race of people masters over another set who are slaves. The moral default istherefore always equality among men. As recognized by John Locke and Thomas Jefferson, human beings are created as equals, with an equal moral worth, because human beings use reason in making choices in the pursuit of their goals.Our independent thinking and feeling, and the equal status of our subjective values, create a universalethic by which all acts which coercively harm others are evil. Harm consists of an invasion into one’sdomain, so if one is merely disgruntled with what others do, the offense is not a harm and not evil by theuniversal ethic. But those who believe only their own cultural ethic believe that offensive acts, such as thepractice of other religious beliefs or traditions, are evil and should be punished and destroyed. And then inpunishing the offense, the perpetrator commits the real evil by imposing himself as master, declaring thathis culture, government, economics, and religion are superior, and the other is inferior and evil.7

The Legend of Lilith: The Origins of Evil and the Fall of ManThe essence of evil is ignorantly greedy supremacy: imposing one’s subjective will on non-harmful human action. Evil takes place because the evil doers are ignorant of the universal ethic and because theylack love and compassion for their victims. The greatest evil seems to always come from the pursuit ofthe “greater good.” Nazis, Communists, and Socialists, traditionalists, religious supremacists, right wingconservative traditionalists all believe in their greater good and seek to impose it by force if necessary, notrealizing that this use of force is the real evil.The cognitive independence and moral equality of human beings makes all our values individually subjective, and therefore the concept of the “greater good” is fallacious. There cannot be any “greater good”but only the goods that individuals are interested in and personally value. To avoid evil, it is not enoughto intellectually understand that it is morally wrong to coercively harm others. One must also be instilledwith sympathy and compassion for others, an empathy that dissolves greed and makes it hurtful to oneselfto inflict harm on others.Good is just not the absence of evil - increasing the good in the world and in your life requires youractive participation and action. A person can achieve this goal by living their life in a way that recognizes the tenets of true spirituality, and by working to live a life with courage, compassion and criticalthought.There are two basic reasons why people commit evil. Some people are simply amoral. They lack sympathy and do not think there is any morality. To them their victims are merely animals. They think, if someone is weak or foolish enough to be a victim, they deserve no better than to be destroyed because of theirweakness.But most evil is committed by people who believe they are doing what is good. In most wars today, theattackers think they are serving the greater good of all mankind. If innocent people are killed, the attackers think that the victims are not really innocent, but guilty by association, and secondly, the bad of killingis more than offset by the greater good of the goal of their religion or government. In effect, these attackers make themselves the judge over others, assuming a superior position as master, judge, and executor.The avoidance of evil therefore requires that a person not make himself the supreme judge and jury overothers. Except in immediate defense against impending harm, justice requires an institutional process andobedience to the laws of Elohim. If everybody attacks every person who allegedly did bad, or is bad byassociation, we end up with chaos, as in today’s world.Unfortunately, few people are open to logical arguments over ethics. The indoctrination of religion, politics, and culture is so deep that very few people can overcome being imprisoned by those institutions andthe strongholds built in their minds. This is why evil has persisted since the beginning.Since the beginning of recorded history men have lusted for control of their fellows—the impulse seemingly part of the makeup of the half-animal, half-angel we call human. Until modern times brute force,propaganda, and religion were the most successful methods for the manipulation of human beings, but bythe turn of this century coercive methodology had advanced far beyond the sword, the inflammatory slogan and the stick and carrot of heaven and hell.1111The idea of Heaven and Hell as places where the good are rewarded and the evil punished after they die comes notfrom the Scriptures but from Plato. Here, from the Republic (c. 400 BCE), is the relevant part of Plato's myth of Er.After the reward or punishment described below, the souls are reincarnated. This myth is the foundation for Purgatory, for fiery devils as tormentors of the damned, and for the idea that people go up into the sky after they die. Thetraditional concept of Hell does NOT come from the inspired Hebrew or Greek manuscripts. It is a pagan myth8

The Legend of Lilith: The Origins of Evil and the Fall of Manadopted as Christian doctrine in the third century by church fathers. Yet, then as now, innocent people are taught thetraditional concept of Hell by trusted authority figures. That trust deters questions, so for hundreds of years themyth has perpetuated. The KJV and other translations have also perpetuated the myth by less than the most accuratetranslation of the word Hell. Where did the concept of eternal torture (punishing) come from? It is apparent theycome to us from early teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. From the Encyclopedia Americana: "The mainfeatures of hell as conceived by Hindu, Persian, Egyptian, Grecian, and Christian theologians are essentially thesame. The Western religious from Roman times through the Middle Ages borrowed the doctrine of eternal torturefrom the Pagan Philosophers. Certain writers of the Middle Ages had such tremendous influence on the Christianprofessing world, that their writings and teachings came to be generally accepted and believed, until it became thedoctrine of the Christian-professing world. Among these influential writers were Augustine and Dante Alighieri"Thomas Nelson Page describes in his 1923 book "Dante and His Influence" that Dante was not the first to conceiveof a journey into the Infernal regions:"Homer and Virgil had both pictured in immortal verse such an experienceand other poets had done the same"."But he [Dante] was the first to make such a journey the central thread onwhich to hang in epic form the whole of Human Life together with the conditions that brought it into being,"."Allthe preaching of the time was of a material or physical Inferno and Purgatory. None doubted the existence, or evenwithin limits the location of such places of punishment. Many Ages have passed since then without substantialchange of this fundamental idea, and up to a generation or two ago, it may be said to have been generally accepted,and even now is distinctly taught by a great portion of the body of the Church" Again from the Encyclopedia Americana:"Virgil, pagan Roman poet, 70-19 B.C. belonged to the national school of pagan Roman thought, influencedby the Greek writers. Christians of the Middle Ages, including Dante, believed he had received some measure ofdivine inspiration" Plato was a pagan Greek philosopher, born in Athens, 427 B.C.E., a student of Socrates also apagan. The traditional concept of sinners tormented for all eternity in a fiery hell is clearly from the imaginations ofPAGANS. Yahshua referred to "Gehenna," the valley of Hinnom, where garbage burned continually, corpses weresometimes deposited, and in earlier times, people had been sacrificed. He only referred to it to illustrate his lessonsabout spiritual growth and the earthly realm--that the earthly body was meaningless and would be thrown on thegarbage dump. Some suggest he was warning Yisrael that it must turn away from its earthly focus and reform bybeing more concerned with spiritual growth and the inner person, and if it didn't, the Jews would be destroyed infire. He was right, of course. Jerusalem and the temple were torched in 70 CE. He didn't refer to a hell as everlastingtorment. By the time of the first English translations of the Renewed Testament, the hell myth had been so wellrooted in church tradition that where the translators saw "Gehenna," they simply inserted "hell" as the translation.That led to the misconception about hell being in the Renewed Testament and in Yahshua's teaching. (From TheOrigin and History of the Doctrine of Endless Punishment by Thomas B. Thayer, 1855) “The word hell, in theOld Testament, is always a translation of the Hebrew word Sheol, which occurs sixty-four times, and is rendered"hell" thirty-two times, "grave" twenty-nine times, and "pit" three times. By examination of the Hebrew Scriptures itwill be found that its radical or primary meaning is the place or state of the dead. It is plain that it has here no reference to a place of endless torment after death. It is plain, then, from these citations that the word Sheol, "hell,"makes nothing for the doctrine of future unending punishment as a part of the Law penalties. It is never used byMoses or the Prophets in the sense of a place of torment after death; and in no way conflicts with the statement already proved, that the Law of Moses deals wholly in temporal rewards and punishments. Now no one believes insuch a hell as this. A material hell of fire, and torments by flame, have been long ago abandoned. And the Saviorcannot be understood as believing or teaching future torments, . . . We have now passed in review, as far as ourlimits will permit, the New Testament doctrine of hell, and we have not, surely, found it to be the doctrine of endlesspunishment, but something very wide from this.” CHAPMAN. [Mark Chapman, Oxford theologian and historian]"Sheol, in itself considered, has no connection with future punishment." Cited by Balfour, First Inquiry. DR. ALLEN says: "The term Sheol does not seem to mea

The Legend of Lilith: The Origins of Evil and the Fall of Man 3 eshayahu 34:14 And the wild-cats shall meet with the jackals, and the satyr 1 shall cry to his fellow 2; yea, the night-monster ( tylyl )3333 shall repose there 4, and shall find her a place of rest. 5 1 BDB Definition: 1) hairy (adjective) 2) he-goat, buck (noun masculine) 2a) as sacrificial animal 2b) satyr, may