The Use of Evil

Annie Besant was a writer lecturer prominent Theosophist and women's rights activist of her time. She was a frequent contributor to various Theosophical publications of her day. This particular piece dates to 1910 and she takes a philosophical examination of the mysteries of evil as she puts it. She explains that there is a necessity for evil to exist that it serves certain purposes which she goes into detail about. She breaks evil into four categories: the origin of evil the relativity of evil the use of evil and the ending of evil.