"Question: Dracula disguises himself in the form of many internal bats
which drain my energy and time, which could be used for real
self-elevation. Please expose one of these bad bats.
There was a wax museum that had figures of great historical people of the
past and they had a poll to see who was the most hated of all human beings
in history. You always have to have Hitler there, of course, and Stalin;
and they also had Dracula. Dracula won as the most hated human being of
all. Hitler and Stalin were real. Why do you suppose a fictitious figure, a
nobody won first prize? Why do you love to hate Dracula? Because you're
saying that you're not him. Dracula, by tradition and by act and by nature,
is evil. Now, because you are not a child of God yet, you try to get your
feeling of goodness by hating what you call evil. Dracula is evil, and if
you hate Dracula who is evil, that makes you good, right? Unright. There
you go again, getting an identity. I must be good, I hate badness.
It is badness to hate badness. To be a hater of any kind is to be one of
the vampires in the castle. Will you drop your identity? Let's talk about
hatred just a minute. Will you drop your identity as a hater? Will you drop
the thrill that you get from it? See, what is more draining to you yourself
- and to the people who, unfortunately, surround you when you're in a
hateful mood - what is more draining than hatred? Isn't it a theft of
energy that could be used for growing up, for becoming spiritually mature?
Everyone likes to slap the label of evil onto Dracula and other monsters
like that so that by comparison, you can be good and you can be righteous.
It does not make you good, it does not make you righteous. Only God is
good."
SOLVED The Mystery of Life Chap. 4, p. 104 (Previous version) Chap. 4, p. 77 (Current version)
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