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The Ontology of Evil seeks explain what is the nature of evil using African theological, philosophical, and cosmological doctrine (first introduced as a question by the great African scholar St. Augustine) to raise and answer questions concerning the classic problem of evil. This problem is often looked at in this work from the bridge of African cosmology and symbolism based on the theological and cosmological doctrine found in the Egyptian Original and the near universal African spiritual understanding that there are more rational actors in God's Good Creation other than mere human beings. We will come to see in this project that on God's Superhighway of Unified Human Experience that both good and evil whose acolytes and devotees are permitted to travel (for the moment) on the same highway of experience and are necessarily engaged in a spiritual struggle to influence patterns of behavior (good or evil) that will (one or the other) dominate how life is lived on this Earth. The nature of Evil and more importantly how it came to be and how it operates on God's Superhighway of Unified Human Experience has been in some aspect the set of classic problems occupying the thoughts and minds of great scholars like St. Augustine of Hippo (a North African, 345 C.E. to 430 C.E.) with his privation theory of evil down to Edgar Sheffield Brightman (1884-1953), a philosophy of the Boston Personalist School of Thought under whom Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. studied for his doctorate at the Boston School of Theology. The contribution this books seeks to make is to give interested readers a new understanding of the Problem of Evil and how creating such an understanding will contribute to a better understanding of the Doctrine of God and the Doctrine of Man leading to the creation of a Theology of Evil allowing human persons to know that we are in a great struggle of Good and Evil on God's Superhighway of Unified Human Experience, and finally what role and rational aim that the Triune N