The act of eating is a service.

[Shin'Ar]

Patrick,Valtor,

The knowledge of good and evil is not a matter of criteria or categorization.

It is called knowledge because it is "knowing". Not the recall of past stored data or gathered information that one chooses to accept as truth or possibility.

This is flat out "knowing/knowledge", without doubt.

It is not a matter of opinion based upon what individual minds decide to be evil or good. This is a matter of "knowing the difference between the two."

That automatically assumes that each are definite opposing elements of creation. Not based in morality or understanding or emotional response. rather based in natural fact that like dark and light, back and white, big and small, there are opposites. And the fact that there are in between and blendings does not change the natural desi9gn of the universe in that there are also extreme opposites which cannot be the other. regardless of how much one would like to declare that everything is perfectly balanced in the Infinite All. we know this is not reality.

And we know when something is evil. Just like we know when a thing is good.

To love is good. Anyone want to argue that? Why? Because it is undeniable.

Indiscriminate murder is not good in any way regardless of the reason. We all "know" that.

So where does this knowledge comes from? And how do we know if we are instilled the proper degree of understanding it to earn harvest?

Well the second question I leave to those who know much more about the Ra Material than I, but the two are bound together in this one way that really answers both questions:

Harvest is the result of natural evolution. And so is this "knowing" of good and evil and all things natural.

The consciousness evolves through the experiencing of many various forms and realities. In ancient past any one fragmented consciousness was once unfragmented. That bond remains even though much of the access to those memories are out of reach at this stage. But in natural ways and subtleties there are natural aspects, attributes, and instincts that are a part of our consciousness that we are not even really aware of. That we love is one. That we fear is another. and that we know, instinctively reveals an aspect of our consciousness that relates to past experience.

In short we know the difference between good and evil because we have evolved.

The lion does not tear open the throat of the lamb to feast on self-gratification, and such is not evil. But the lion does not kill for the joy of killing just to walk away and leave the victim writhing half alive in agony. That would be evil. And that is the difference between the evolved consciousness of the human and the lower degree of the animal. The lion would not even consider an act of evil because greed and self gratification is not in its nature.

This is however the nature of man, and a result of our evolution. Why? Because choice and decision making is a large part of how we evolve.

The human that deliberately chooses to torment another life form for the sheer pleasure of self gratification, knows the evil in their choice because of the simple fact that it is the natural course of their evolution.

Coincidentally something I have just spoken to a friend is applicable here:

"These self gratifiers that seek only to get something for themselves out of this creation must learn the difference between the joy of self pleasure and the joy of giving to the All. Until then they travel the cycle of darkness in search of their own pleasures, all the while being the sole reason themselves why they cannot seem to find it."

The lion will never know the pleasure of deliberately going hungry to allow a mother to escape to return to her children because it has not evolved to the degree of such understanding and "knowledge".

So what does that say about the human who has, and yet still cares more about his 'animal' than his humanity?

Yes, we have choices to make that involve evolved thinking and the kind treatment of other beings. This is the Divine Process in which we are caught up. But we have lives to survive and many priorities to set. Let us not judge each other by where we set our priorities. Let us not judge another at all. Let us live according to what we know to be right and wrong, and let history judge us by the legacy we leave.

This is my humble, uninformed opinion and not a part of any doctrine or teaching of religious faith in any way. I have no intention of proselytizing to anyone. Each can take what they choose from the discussion. I have nothing to recruit anyone into except my own personal understanding.