Text of the meditation
Evil is an experience, and not a power. If it, evil, were an independent power in the universe, it could not be transcended by any being. But though it is not real as a power, it is real as a condition, an experience, for all experience is of the nature of reality.
It is a state of ignorance, of undevelopment, and as such it recedes and disappears before the light of knowledge, as the intellectual ignorance of the child vanishes before gradually accumulating learning, or as darkness dissolves before the rising light. The painful experiences of evil pass away as the new experiences of good enter into and possess the field of consciousness.
The transcendent person is the one who is above and beyond the dominion of self; they have transcended evil.
James Allen (1864–1912), Book of Meditations for Every Day in the Year (1913) – public-domain text, gently modernised.
The original 1913 text is in the public domain.
