"How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning! how - thou - didst weaken the nations! -
Thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into Heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God - I will ascend above the heights - I will be like the most High." Isaiah.

In the great Cosmos that encompasses not only our own Universe but others, there exists what is known loosely as Cosmic Evil. This Cosmic Evil, through its own subversive elements - "falling angels" - as well as incarnate and discarnate humans on Earth, create and propagate the evil discordance rampant in the world from aeons past, to this day.

Our Planet is not the only one in which Cosmic Evil is found, and though we have no available records to pinpoint our claim yet, in what occasionally was given to us, by Cosmic Beings, we can be reasonably sure of this Evil's manifestation in the great Cosmos.

In the great Temples of our Solar System, as well as in those of the Great Central Sun, Alpha and Omega and, no doubt, in other Systems of worlds, there are great Cosmic Libraries where accurate and extensive information in regards to this exist.

Though we cannot have access to these sources, the findings of our own astronomers, working on their yet imperfect instruments, do give us some idea of the presence of the Cosmic Evil, by reporting to the fact that in the Cosmos they see immense, in size, balloons floating
aimlessly in space.

Cosmic Beings have told us that these "balloons", at one time billions of years back, were living, evolving, magnificent Planets who had reached great spiritual heights but who, due to Cosmic
Evil, found themselves in a similar situation to that of our Earth, 4,500,000 years ago, with one difference;
in their case, there was no Sanat Kumara to rescue them.

The dissolution of a Planet does not occur overnight. It takes millions of years, but when its people fail, for a very, very long time, to emit Light, then the elements of which the Planet is composed dissolve, returning to their Sun for re-polarization in Systems yet to come. Before this takes place, however, the Angelic Host first withdraw, to be followed by the elementals of Air and Water.

Then, the Earth, failing toemit and emanate Life, the once vibrant Planet becomes a "dead" Planet, example of which we have our Moon which, eventually, will be another Cosmic "balloon" for the astronomers to report.

The "Cosmic Evil" is not the work of God, and was never meant to exist. In the quotation from the Book of Isaiah, given earlier, we saw how "Lucifer" fell. But whether "Lucifer" was the original perpetrator of all that evil, who could say?

"The Tibetan", the Ascended Master Djwhal Khul, in one of His majestic and soul-stirring books, states that the Cosmic Evil had its starting point in the "Moonchain", while the Moon was an active part of our Solar System.

But regardless, as to where this starting place was, the fact remains that the beginning was in the abnormal ambition of its author to be
"exalted and put his throne above the stars of God".

In the coming of the "laggards", and in their evil propensities, we have an example as to how the Cosmic Evil can and does operate.

The "laggards" were the unconscious representatives of evil, and unconsciously
transplanted, through example and action, their nefarious practices into the receptive consciousness of the "innocents".

In those days, in the Planets from which the "laggards" came, there were individuals who can
be compared to our own "super-scientists", and who could and did create technical life-forms, bodies, images like man's - but lacking the "Divine Spark" that united them with Divinity.

What effect these mechanical human contraptions had in the then human life is not known; and the Great Divine Director, from whose addresses this is taken, does not go further.

Scarcely, however, it can be presumed that any
good could come from "beings" without in them "the Spark of Divinity".
Earlier in these discussions, we alluded to the black magicians in Lemuria, capturing elemental life and through "precipitation", imprisoning them in animal bodies created by themselves.

In this performance, they impregnated their creations with all possible hatred against man, so that in that hatred they might
destroy those who "dared" to serve the Light. In Atlantis, later, as well as in Lemuria, fire elementals - Salamanders - were captured and were directed by these "black magicians" to bring death to as many people as possible; and that which was designed by God to bring comfort and light to life, was utilized by the nefarious activities of the kingdom of darkness.

As if this was not enough to give all the grief possible, there is another source, equally potent, which contributes to discord and the chaos.

This, like the one of the discarnates, is also invisible and works in subtler ways. It radiates evil and moves in clouds, formed by the evil thoughts and actions of myriad individuals who have lived and died, not only recently, but in the long, long past.

For an understanding of this, let's bear in mind that man, as an individualized "I AM" Presence, is the recipient of Divine Energy which manifests itself in feeling and thought.

Such being the case, these thoughts and feelings, as they are created and projected by the individual, are not dead, ephemeral, etheric bulbs, soon to be blown out into nothingness, but they have strength, stability, and vibration; and they are of such potency as the person who projected them put in them.

Now, if these projected energies happened
to be of a constructive nature, it is well and good; but, should it be the reverse, and had been projected by an individual of strong will and with an evil intent, then they become wandering energies, moving on to create and manifest evil.

They sail through the lower atmosphere and as they move on, by the Law of Attraction, attach into themselves new powers, which they get from others of similar vibration.

From then on, steadily and continuously, they increase in size and potency, becoming large, invisible clouds of evil influence, often reaching in diameter thousands of miles.

As they move through' the horizon, they
overshadow cities and countries, showering on them depression, fear, revenge, suspicion, lasciviousness and whatever else, originally, they got from their human creators.

Their movement is not rapid, neither is it violent, and this is due to the fact that first, they are impeded by the presence of other clouds of similar vibration which were built and projected before they did, and with which, now, they unite:

second, by the attraction and pulling they receive from individuals on Earth who, continuously project vibrations of similar nature to their own. In places and districts, where the projected
thought form and vibration are similar to these clouds, such as found in the "slums" of a city, or in the "underworld", these clouds are attracted more in there, increasing the evil propensities of these places.

When these clouds, with their Earthly starting point and accumulation, come together and operate in unison with similar energies of evil, projected from discarnates from the astral plane, the situation then really becomes dangerous.

On this particular side, we will not expand. Suffice to say, that the so-called "dead" have greater power and opportunity in the "grave", to do good or evil, all depending upon their evolvement.

Crimes, which were committed, and for which their perpetrators can give no reason for their
commitment, have their source and urging in the astral and psychic planes, the "instigator" being a former, living individual of a strong, revengeful propensity.