wisdom teaches us that evil can be found in some form in the heart of every human being, but that it need not be feared and denied. A method is given by which we can see our “dark side” clearly, understand its roots and causes, and, most important, transform it. The result will be peace in the human heart, and only after this is achieved will there

When we repress our awareness of our own capacity for evil, we remain split within ourselves.

All spiritual work is a matter of gradually learning to shift our self-identification (who we believe we are) to the higher self and to learn to identify, but not identify with, the mask and the lower self.

Every time we relax into the feared or denied part of ourselves we go through a kind of “death”—of our idealized self-image, or who we thought we were—which leads us to a new, deeper level of inner life. Each such “death” prepares us for the great death, the death of the ego’s separation from God, where we come to the center of our own being, the p