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CORRUPTION AND VIOLENCE ON THE EARTH

Symbolic of a state of estrangement from the Spirit, and of strife among the qualities of the lower nature.

"And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence." - GENESIS. vi. 11.

And the lower nature was gross and predominant. Corruption and violence correspond to the alienation and changes which occur through the approach of the spiritual activities which are to proceed from above.

"It must have been divinely ordained that we should be subject to the dominion of darkness, in which God dwells in his fullness, though we do not know it. We are curiously imprisoned within our own physical organizations, and with all our advance in knowledge how little we know of our own universe! ... We sit in darkness and the shadow of death. Ignorance is the root cause both of suffering and sin. We suffer because we do not know. Sin would be just as impossible as pain if men knew the truth about life and were able to pierce the darkness that conceals the face of God." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., Veil of Darkness.

 

See Also

CONFLICT
DARKNESS (Lower)
DELUGE
DEPRAVITY
EARTH (Primordial)
FLOOD (Noah)
STRIFE
SUFFERING
Vaivasvata
WICKEDNESS