Review

This work by a distinguished writer of the western Esoteric Tradition, presents us with profound insights into the dynamics of good and evil and the polarities of power. This book holds up to the light idolatrous projections from the unawakened collective human unconscious. To seek is to find and awaken our true selves, our authentic human-and-divine core. Highly recommended reading.

Prof. John Rossner, PhD. Founder-president I.I.I.H.S

This book really helped me understand the nature of evil. Not the type of evil that is easy to identify, but subtle evil, the type of evil that hides behind a "pretty face." I consulted this book to try to understand why so many spiritual authors are twisting information and misleading the public. Mr. Gray gave me an outstanding overview on this complicated issue. Mr. Gray describes evil through the images of the Kabbalah, the first realm is the greed-lust barrier, beyond that is the realm he calls ugliness. Here is a direct quote from the book, "By ugliness we are to understand inharmony, unbalance, distortion, inaccuracy and allied meanings. For instance, this would signify that untruth could be classifed as ugly, so might any form of deliberate misrepresentation .... another form of materialism ..." This description really hit the mark for me, although I still wondered about the people who read distortion and inaccuracy and BELIEVED it. Mr. Gray describes Ignorance as one of the greatest of all evils. I had been concerned about seekers who read one or two books on a complicated subject like the Kabbalah, Mary Magdalene or Gnosis and had been mislead by the author, but clearly this falls under the catagory of Ignorance. So, keep reading! If you have an interest in a subject like Mary Magdalene, don't stop at one book, read a dozen or so on a subject, that way you won't fall victim to an author who has an agenda other than to enlighten you.

To deny that there is evil in the world is truly niave, 911, the recent bombings in England, child molesters, etc. Evil surrounds us, the most common thing someone says about a neighbor convicted of a henious crime is "he seemed like such a nice guy". Evil often puts on a pleasing face, evil works through ignorant people and evil is everywhere.

By Kelly Fleming "Gypsy Goddess" (High Desert)