What Does Wicked Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses

There is a strange pleasure the ego takes in being wronged, and this is what delight in evil describes. A mind can come to treasure its grievances, to feel most itself when it is proving another guilty, because every accusation seems to place the blame safely outside and quiet the guilt within for a moment.

But the relief is false and never lasts. What the mind celebrates in condemning a brother is only its own fear, mirrored back and mistaken for justice, and the joy of attack is the surest sign that it has forgotten it could simply be at peace.

• The wicked: the figure the mind builds from its own projected guilt, the enemy it needs so it can go on believing the fault lies anywhere but home.

The thoughts of the righteous run true because righteousness is the right hemisphere of the brain, the seat of Christ consciousness, where perception arrives whole and unbent. The wicked are the lower, carnal mind, and its counsels are deceit because that mind exists to pull a person back into thinking, away from the still center. This is the old contest of Jacob and Esau played inside one head: the lower mind tricks the spirit into gambling away its divine inheritance for the quick appetite of the moment.

Right thinking is simply the higher hemisphere left clear. Deceit is the carnal mind talking a person out of that clarity, one plausible thought at a time.

• Wicked: the lower, carnal mind whose counsel is deceit because it exists to pull a person back into thought