In the Bible it says love your enemies does that mean we should love the devil?

[MellowEd]

 

[Princess Arabia]

The "devil" is not the enemy. Thoughts are. Thoughts that created a devil.

Edited May 2 by Princess Arabia

[Princess Arabia]

1 hour ago, MellowEd said:

 

He says Satan is not full of hatred, he is hatred itself. Then says he if full of hatred. He hates every single soul. I guess hatred is full of hatred and hatred hates every single soul. That's like saying an orange is full of orange and is oranging.

[Breakingthewall]

Satan is the engine of movement, without it there is not evolution, just stillness. The imbalance, imperfection and suffering are needed to complete the cycles. The challenge for us is accepting this in the world and in ourselves, and love it as a positive thing. No fear for pain, suffering and misery since they are for the sake of the depth 

[An young being]

I don't know much in detail about the devil, but loving your enemies means understanding that your enemies are not in full control of their actions and decisions and being compassionate towards them for their nature, even if you have to take some decisions that results in hurting them. You should not seek to take action with revenge and other selfish emotions, but use your love to do what is good for both yourself, your enemy and the world.

Edited May 2 by An young being

[MellowEd]

 

Let's assume there is a hell since there are thousands of people sharing their experience about it. 

What would pure hate do if you tried to love it? 

[Aaron p]

The only way to get enlightened is to love the devil and love evil. But this is a subtle statement. What it means is there are no barriers between you and it

[Razard86]

The devil is just separation. When reality separates itself as an appearance within unity and creates sensations what we call physical to create the appearance of separation, that is what the devil is. So the birth of experience itself is devilry. It's not if you are conscious of the unity, but if you are not conscious of it then its devilry.

This is why lack of awareness creates things like war, genocide, slavery, dehumanization, propaganda, etc. 

Disorder/devilry is a part of the creation process, but only an unaware mind perpetuates disorder.

[James123]

On 5/2/2024 at 11:03 AM, MellowEd said:

 

You / ego is the Satan, it is not out, it is within. 

You are the biggest enemy of yourself. 

[Hojo]

When something appears to you it appears in mind. When you dont like someone you are not disliking them you are disliking your own mind.

[tuku747]

Running from your shadow again?

[TheAlchemist]

The "devil" is in your mind and will catch you, one way or another. Even the bliss of the dualistic heaven itself is fuelled by the screams of pain in hell. So unless you enter an ignorant state in heaven, you will still be aware of the duality that sustains your bliss and the devil will still be there haunting the back of your mind. By resisting it you are only denying the other half of reality. To succeed in your "goodness" you ultimately end up sacrificing most of mankind to Satan himself, through the belief that they burn in hell and somehow deserve it.

So once again, in the name of the ultimate "good", (which in the fundamentalist Christian sense means denial of evil), you end up committing the greatest evil, which is sacrifice of almost all mankind to the devil. 

Reality needs both sides to function my friend, the devil feeds off of resistance and denialn. We don't need to love the devil, but just understand it is a representation that is just another side of the same coin that all the "purity" and "goodness" is. The devil isn't ultimately real, only God is, but the Devil is an aspect of God.

The Absolute must include and transcend both. And what we call the devil can be integrated and "tamed" in healthy way through art and spiritual and philosophical insight. Until then, as long as the insistence on one-sidedness of reality and God continues, the ancient war machine maintains its momentum. 

Edited May 13 by TheAlchemist