Course II - Teaching 15: Moral Stigmas

Here is the greatest weight, the heaviest burden of Mankind: moral stigmas of individuals. It is frightful to see in a child a fierce and murderous instinct that tomorrow will lead him to kill and destruct his fellow men. There are numberless men who come into being with one of these moral stigmas that only death can extirpate: vampires, degenerates, murderers, and individuals that instinctively can commit unprecedented evils.
Sometimes even in educated brains there are these little centers of evil that continuously urge a man to certain despicable action. A testimony of it is Rousseau, who had the courage to confess his inner evil.
But here a question arises: Here may sacrifice be suitable for them or for the rest of men if these poor fellows are unable to correct themselves, and others are unable to help them? Yes, Sacrifice is suitable. It is suitable for the former by continuous effort because, even failing, it opens a door to the near or distant future of redemption. And it is suitable for the rest of men in the form of tolerance with them.
But spiritual beings are those who are more obliged to overcome the instinctive disgust that those individuals produce and to try to tolerate their evils because the spiritual beings know the motive of all things and of their inexorable laws.
A good word or a good advice never will fall in the void because everything yields fruit in due time, and because these poor fellows, today slaves, could be luminaries in the future.