Theos-Talk Archives (December 1996 Message tl00718)

On Sat, 28 Dec 96, John Straughn <JTarn@envirolink.org> wrote:

>When Eve bit into the fruit, she was basically
>saying to herself, "*I* want to know.  If *I* don't find out for *myself* what
>this is, I don't think I will ever be complete."  This was her first selfish
>act.  Selfishness was wrong.

I like Annie Besant's view of selfishness as being an inevitable step in
evolution, without which individuality would have been impossible.  I
recall reading, though, perhaps in "Masters and the Path," that free will
was an "experiment," implying that it was not inevitable.