Because it must be so. It is the only possibility that something exists. The forces of evil and good, which alternately and repeatedly take turns and mutually cause one another, in the same way that the chicken and egg do, are the ones that act inside everything in nature and bestir everything and force it all to be so.
Evil and good do not last eternally, but they eternally alternately recur one after another. Whenever and wherever evil appears, it will always have the meaning of desire (will) and intent to be free from it i.e. to pass to the state of good which, in the end, always, prevails. That good then becomes the cause of a new fall i.e. of the new gradual passing to the state of evil, because good is not a driving force. When good is reached it is the sign that the goal is reached and that moving is not necessary anymore. It is impossible as well, because there is no evil anymore as a driving force which urges movement i.e. getting rid of evil and reaching good. Afterward, there must come the new fall of consciousness from its movable, energetic, material, physical state to the same original state of stillness and rest. Afterward, the whole process keeps repeating in the same way.
How all this looks in practice we can learn about and understand only by way of observing and studying the existence of ourselves and our own conscious self, and its constant passing through countless different, mutually-causative physical and psychological states of both movement and non-movement and evil and good. Behind each of our physical movements and actions, even the smallest ones, there is the feeling of evil that makes us perform movement or action and all that is in order to realize good, i.e. to get rid of the feeling of evil.
To avoid confusion, we should mention that there are other words that we use to denote the concept of “evil.” One of these words is dissatisfaction. Similarly, the words desire or will can apply. When we have the desire/will to make a movement or to do something, that desire/will in ourselves is always manifested as the feeling of dissatisfaction/evil because we have not yet bestirred ourselves and done the wished-for thing. In the end, it will always cause us to arrive at the decision to bestir ourselves and to do it. All this is done in order to get rid of dissatisfaction because of inactiveness, and then to feel satisfaction/good because of activeness. For example, when our lungs and body lack oxygen and that endangers the existence of our consciousness and body, the feeling of evil/dissatisfaction will automatically appear in the form of suffocation with the meaning of desire/will to inhale which will in the end make us inhale and so prolong our survival and feel of satisfaction/good because of the inhalation. And when we inhale we cannot stay constantly in that state, because the feeling of dissatisfaction/evil will appear again, now in the form of lung fatigue due to prolonged inhalation, i.e. in the form of desire/will to exhale which will make us exhale i.e. return the lungs into the original state of stillness and rest with the meaning of satisfaction/good, the state of the lungs before inhaling. This psychophysical process of breathing will continue to be performed in the same way throughout our lives.
The stomach works according to the same principle as the lungs. Behind each filling and emptying of the stomach, there is a feeling of evil and good in the form of hunger and satiety which makes the stomach continuously be filled and emptied.
All our lives, we go to bed in the evening and get up and start moving and working in the morning – that is the result of dissatisfaction/evil in the form of feeling tired; and satisfaction/good in the form of being rested. When we feel dissatisfaction/evil in the form of feeling tired it will make us go to bed, fall asleep and take a rest, and feel satisfaction in sleeping and resting. And when we get rested and wake up, the feeling of being rested takes on the form of dissatisfaction, i.e. the wish to get up and move again, to work and get tired, will make us get up and start moving, work and get tired again and then to feel satisfaction in that cycle of moving and getting tired.
That happens to all the things in the universe because they are all self-preserving by repeating themselves again and again. That happens to the whole universe which, once rested, always and over and over again from the state of stillness and ashes rises with dissatisfaction/evil i.e. desire/will to bestir itself, develop and feel satisfaction/good in that. And then again being tired and feeling dissatisfaction/evil because it tears down and returns to the stillness state from which it started, now, in order to feel satisfaction in stillness and rest.
All this is understandable given that consciousness is not material, and must become material since only then in its movable, energetic/material state can it get experience/knowledge about itself and by it preserve itself i.e. its awareness. Therefore there is nothing else to do, but to exert itself, bestir itself and become material. And when it does that, exertion and movement over time make it tired, so it must stop again and take a rest. And so it does always and over and over again, indefinitely in the past and into future.
According to all that has been said here, the universe is not only one complex physical process (as has previously been thought) but it is at the same time a complex, an alive, and an aware psychological process.
As an illustration of all I have said about good and evil as forces containing the meaning of the cause and purpose of the existence of consciousness and the material world, it will be interesting to quote several parts from the book “Seth Material” written by an American medium Jane Roberts. Seth is a person from “higher” spheres of existence who communicates with Jane. Seth talks about the force of dissatisfaction/evil that appeared in the consciousness of the universe at the end of its stillness and rest phase, just before it began to bestir and develop, which caused it to bestir itself and begin development:
1. ‘However, it will sound contradictory to you: Nonexistence exists. That is a state which is not made up of nothingness, but it is a state in which possibilities are known and foreseen, but are not expressed. Vaguely through what you might term history, such a state existed a very long time ago. That was a state of agony in which, abilities, creativity and existence were known, however, methods, by which they could be expressed were not known’.
2. ‘All that exists has a memory of that state and it is in a constant moving force in relation to the animate creativity. Every personality, as a part of All that exists because of that also has a memory of that state’.
3. ‘Nevertheless, agony alone was used as a means and agony alone has served as a moving force, which was sufficiently strong, that a means of existence was initiated in itself by All that exists’.
4. ‘Imagine that you possessed, within yourself, knowledge of all the world masters of applied arts and that they have pulsated within you as a reality, but that you did not have the physical apparatus or knowledge by which to express yourself and that you suffered pain wishing to express them’.
5. ‘Longing, desire, and waiting manage all actions and are a basis for all realities. That is why, within All that exists, longing, desire, and waiting existed before all other realities. Then strength and vitality of these desires and waiting became so strong that they forced All that exists to find means of expressing itself’.
To these quotations we could now add the scientific theory of “The Big Bang”, i.e. to conclude that the great “desire” and “wish” of the consciousness of the universe with the meaning of evil or, as Seth says, with the meaning of “agony”, which preceded today’s universe, was the cause of overexertion of the consciousness of the universe and its bursting out in the form of “The Big Bang”. It was also the cause of its further development i.e. the cause of development of the movement and actions of all its parts and particles that we today name “life” and “universe”.