The traditional reading needs evil to be a thing — a force, or an agent, that one could be delivered from. This series closed that option off several parts ago: Hallowed be Thy name identified cosmic adversaries as projections of humanity's own conflicts, and stated that God's love extends to all beings without exception.
So this line has been waiting to be explained, and here it is.
Evil as unfinished, not as opposed
Evil is described not as an eternal force set against God but as a temporary expression of unfinished development.
That is a specific claim and worth separating from the softer versions of it. It is not that evil is an illusion, or that harm does not matter. It is that evil is not a category of thing — it is a stage of something, and stages pass.
The video is careful with the next step, and this is where accounts like this usually overreach. Darkness, suffering and harmful actions belong to a larger process of learning — not because they are good in themselves, but because of what they eventually teach. That qualification is doing real work. Nothing here says the harm was fine, or deserved, or should not be prevented.
It is the same structure as the role of darkness: darkness in its raw form is what it looks like before it has been understood, and what it becomes afterwards is different in kind.
What the prayer is asking to be delivered from
The reframing that makes the line coherent: it is not a request to be rescued from something outside you.
It is a longing to be led out of the states of consciousness that create suffering — and the video names them. Fear. Selfishness. Hatred. Ignorance. The old animal tendencies still running in ourselves.
Every item on that list is internal. So the prayer is not asking for the world to be made safer; it is asking to stop being the kind of being that produces this. Which is consistent with everything the series has established — with temptation as mental laziness in the previous part, and with the framework in which asking for a changed capacity works and asking for rearranged circumstances does not.
Why this is not a comfortable line
Read this way, the request costs something.
You are not asking to be protected from other people's evil. You are asking to be taken out of your own — the fear, the selfishness, the readiness to think badly of someone. And as part 3 established, asking for that development means accepting the experiences that produce it.
The direction the whole thing points is stated plainly: human beings are gradually led toward love. Not by being shielded from darkness, but by being brought through it until it has finished teaching.
Part 9 closes the prayer: For Thine is the kingdom.
Key ideas
- Evil is presented as a temporary expression of unfinished development, not as a force opposed to God.
- Darkness and harm belong to a process of learning — explicitly not because they are good in themselves.
- What the prayer asks to be delivered from is internal: fear, selfishness, hatred, ignorance, and old animal tendencies.
- It is therefore a request to stop being the kind of being that produces suffering, not to be shielded from it.
- The stated direction is that human beings are gradually led toward love, by being brought through darkness rather than around it.
About this article. It summarises the video above from The Eternal World Picture. The writings of Martinus Thomsen are published by the Martinus Institute.
