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Quote #7
For the ogre aspect of the father is a reflex of the victim's own ego —derived from the sensational nursery scene that has been left behind, but projected before; and the fixating idolatry of that pedagogical non-thing is itself the fault that keeps one steeped in a sense of sin, sealing the potentially adult spirit from a better balanced, more realistic view of the father, and therewith of the world. (119.1)
Again, good and evil here are just flip sides of an interior debate within the hero. He sees dad as a monster, and instead of revising that opinion and letting go of those childhood impressions, he keeps fighting. He has to let go of that idea in order to reconcile with the father figure and get his hands on the great Whatsit he's after.
Quote #8
He is the twice-born: he has become himself the father. And he's competent, consequently, now to enact himself the role of the initiator, the guide, the sun door, through whom one may pass from the infantile illusions of "good" and "evil" to an experience of the majesty of cosmic law, purged of hope and fear, and at peace in the understanding of the revelation of being. (125.5)
We've touched on this time and again, but this is the crux of it: good and evil are just sides of the same coin. Together, they keep the universe running in an endless cycle of change: creating, thriving, declining and destroying, only to create something entirely new and starting the cycle all over again.
Quote #9
The goal of the myth is to dispel the need for such life ignorance by effecting a reconciliation of the individual consciousness with the universal will. And this is effected through a realization of the true relationship of the passing phenomena of time to the imperishable life that lives and dies in all. (221.2)
Myth, he says, is supposed to help see and understand: defeating evil isn't the goal. It's understanding the role evil serves and transforming that energy into something possible and happy.