A brother sends the following: There is a tendency abroad to claim that all the evil there is in an error is to name it. If you will not name it or think of it as real, then you may continue its practice and it is nothing at all.
In other words; if we will not think that the pleasures of sense, appetite, desire, and the covetings of self are evil then we may commit them. This reasoning carried out to its legitimate conclusion, would justify theft or murder, etc. The only sin or mischief consists in naming them appetite, desire, license, theft or murder, etc. It follows from this that all you have to do is to claim you have realized a height of attainment and you have realized it, no matter whether you have or not, and even though you have not gained the first iota in the way of real life, as reflection of Principle.
All of which means, as I conceive it that those who talk thus are deluding themselves with mere terms. The truth is that any evil is a real evil to us, until it perishes and is actually blotted out from consciousness. Merely saying it is blotted out or has perished, does not destroy it. So, claiming we have attained a realization before consciousness is fully permeated with the Truth is not at all the same thing as attainment.—
