One thing I need some clarification on. Walking the middle path is a fundamental principle in Gnosis. The Pistis Sophia mentions how we must walk on both our right and left feet on our path. Obviously, we must avoid the snares of the tenebrous ones. But, the Pistis Sophia also mentions how saints are sincerely mistaken and they fail to leave the wheel of Samsara. Are we not supposed to practice goodwill and love? What does it mean to be neither good nor evil?
Accepted Answer
Comprehending beyond good and evil
opens the way to perfect skill.
Experiencing the dissolution of duality,
you embrace the highest view. - Milarepa
To become a Super Human Being, a Superman, is not easy. There is no doubt that the road which leads to the Superman is beyond good and evil.
A thing is good when it suits us and bad when it does not. Within the rhythms of poetry, crime is also concealed. There is much virtue in the villain and much evil in the virtuous.
The road which leads to the Superman is the path of the razor’s edge. This path is filled with perils from both within and without.
Evil is dangerous and good is also dangerous. The frightening path is beyond good and evil; it is terribly cruel.
Any moral code can detain us on our way toward the SUPER-MAN. Attachments to such and such yesterdays, to such and such scenes, can halt us on the road which leads to the Superman.
However wise norms and procedures may be, they can obstruct us in our progress toward becoming a Superman if they are bottled up in this or that fanaticism, in this or that prejudice, or in this or that idea.
The Superman can distinguish good from evil and evil from good; he grasps the sword of cosmic justice and is beyond both good and evil.
The Superman, having liquidated within himself all good and evil values, has become someone whom nobody understands; he is the ray, the flame of the Universal Spirit of life, resplendent in the countenance of Moses. - Samael Aun Weor
There are "Saints" and Buddhas (Pratyeka Buddhas) who practice a lot of good deeds and generate the forces required to experience a form of liberation. However they remain attached to their blissful experience of Nirvana, and therefore do not work to eliminate the totality of their karma; instead they return periodically into a new womb in order to work out more karma, and then again spend long periods in Nirvana.
Spiral Path: The path of gradual spiritual development chosen by the Pratyeka Buddhas. Such beings have developed the soul but not eliminated the ego. They are called saints, angels, buddhas, etc. but are not one hundred percent awakened. The Spiral Path is in stark contrast to the very difficult Straight Path (or Path of the Bodhisattva), chosen by very few, because it requires the rapid and complete elimination of all ego (karma). To learn more, study The Three Mountains by Samael Aun Weor. - Glossary
One of the problems with the Spiral Path is that the human soul can gain more karma instead of eliminating it, and thus the soul is pulled back into mistakes and suffering increases.
The one who walks The Straight Path does so after reaching the Fifth Initiation of Major Mysteries (see the Three Mountains). Until that time, the soul is really just evolving and devolving in the Wheel of Samsara. Good and Evil should be replaced with the terms Evolutionary and Devolutionary.
In order to reach Initiation, we need to work with the Three Factors, and part of this is sacrificing ourselves for humanity. We call these actions by any name we choose, such as love, but we must comprehend how our actions are affecting our inner and outer environments. We need to pay our debts with 'good' deeds, but we need to meditate in order to know if those deeds are actually 'good'. Are they paying debts are creating debts? Sometimes the action which pays are karma may seem very cruel to our outer environment, but very loving to our inner God.
Accepted Answer
Comprehending beyond good and evil
opens the way to perfect skill.
Experiencing the dissolution of duality,
you embrace the highest view. - Milarepa
To become a Super Human Being, a Superman, is not easy. There is no doubt that the road which leads to the Superman is beyond good and evil.
A thing is good when it suits us and bad when it does not. Within the rhythms of poetry, crime is also concealed. There is much virtue in the villain and much evil in the virtuous.
The road which leads to the Superman is the path of the razor’s edge. This path is filled with perils from both within and without.
Evil is dangerous and good is also dangerous. The frightening path is beyond good and evil; it is terribly cruel.
Any moral code can detain us on our way toward the SUPER-MAN. Attachments to such and such yesterdays, to such and such scenes, can halt us on the road which leads to the Superman.
However wise norms and procedures may be, they can obstruct us in our progress toward becoming a Superman if they are bottled up in this or that fanaticism, in this or that prejudice, or in this or that idea.
The Superman can distinguish good from evil and evil from good; he grasps the sword of cosmic justice and is beyond both good and evil.
The Superman, having liquidated within himself all good and evil values, has become someone whom nobody understands; he is the ray, the flame of the Universal Spirit of life, resplendent in the countenance of Moses. - Samael Aun Weor
There are "Saints" and Buddhas (Pratyeka Buddhas) who practice a lot of good deeds and generate the forces required to experience a form of liberation. However they remain attached to their blissful experience of Nirvana, and therefore do not work to eliminate the totality of their karma; instead they return periodically into a new womb in order to work out more karma, and then again spend long periods in Nirvana.
Spiral Path: The path of gradual spiritual development chosen by the Pratyeka Buddhas. Such beings have developed the soul but not eliminated the ego. They are called saints, angels, buddhas, etc. but are not one hundred percent awakened. The Spiral Path is in stark contrast to the very difficult Straight Path (or Path of the Bodhisattva), chosen by very few, because it requires the rapid and complete elimination of all ego (karma). To learn more, study The Three Mountains by Samael Aun Weor. - Glossary
One of the problems with the Spiral Path is that the human soul can gain more karma instead of eliminating it, and thus the soul is pulled back into mistakes and suffering increases.
The one who walks The Straight Path does so after reaching the Fifth Initiation of Major Mysteries (see the Three Mountains). Until that time, the soul is really just evolving and devolving in the Wheel of Samsara. Good and Evil should be replaced with the terms Evolutionary and Devolutionary.
In order to reach Initiation, we need to work with the Three Factors, and part of this is sacrificing ourselves for humanity. We call these actions by any name we choose, such as love, but we must comprehend how our actions are affecting our inner and outer environments. We need to pay our debts with 'good' deeds, but we need to meditate in order to know if those deeds are actually 'good'. Are they paying debts are creating debts? Sometimes the action which pays are karma may seem very cruel to our outer environment, but very loving to our inner God.
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