As to the eighth thought-concentration of the Lord's Prayer, "But deliver us from the evil", actually it expresses only a supplement to or continuation of the seventh prayer. As I have mentioned already, it cannot be evil, in the absolute sense, to obtain realistic or practical experiences in fields where all other ways of getting knowledge are blocked, otherwise life would be totally brought to a standstill or cease. The only thing which might be described as an "evil" – although this description from an absolute cosmic point of view is not correct because everything is indeed very "good" – is just this: to expose oneself to bitter experience of suffering and injury, when actually we have knowledge enough to avoid it and therefore only experience it because of mental slackness or poor ability to reflect. This mental slackness or poor ability to reflect and the effects thereof are thus in reality the only things which in this connection can be described by the term "evil". The total effect of the seventh and eighth concentrations in the Lord's Prayer will therefore have to be expressed like this: "Help us not to let ourselves be lured into ignoring the material of our experiences, our knowledge or the rightful advice and guidance of others, but steadily to uphold our ability to avoid the "evil" or trouble of re-experiencing the sufferings and pains which in reality we have knowledge and skill enough to be able to avoid."