a
lie had an origin, it would be true, wouldn't it?"

He regarded her attentively, but without replying.

"But Jesus said that Satan was the father of lies. And Satan, since he
is the father of lies, must himself be a lie. You see, Padre, we can
go right back to the very first chapter in the Bible. First comes the
account of the real creation. Then comes the account as the human
mind looks at it. But that comes after the 'mist' had gone up from
the ground, from dirt, from matter. Don't you see? That mist was
error, the opposite of Good. It was evil, the opposite of God. It was
the human mind and all human thought, the opposite of the infinite
Mind, God, and His thought. The mist went up from matter. So every bit
of evil that you can possibly think of comes from the material,
physical senses. Evil is always a mist, hiding the good. Isn't it
so? The physical universe, the universe of matter, is the way the
human mind sees its thoughts of the spiritual universe that was
created by God. The human mind is just a bundle of these false
thoughts; and you yourself have said that the human consciousness
was a 'thought-activity, concerned with the activity of false
thought.' The human mind is the lie about the infinite mind. It is
the mistake, the illusion. It is like a mistake in mathematics. It
has no principle, and nothing to stand on. The minute you turn the
truth upon it, why, it vanishes."

"Well, then, _chiquita_, why don't people turn the truth upon it
everywhere?"

"Because they are mesmerized by the error, Padre. They sit looking at
these false thoughts and believing them true. Padre, all disease, all
evil, comes from the false thought in the human mind. It is that
thought externalized in the human consciousness. And when the human
mind turns from them, and puts them out, and lets the true thoughts
in, why--why, _then we will raise the dead_!"

"But, _chiquita_, the human body--if it has died--"

"Padre," she interrupted, "the human body and human mind are one and
the same. The body is in the mind. The body that you think you see is
but your thought of a body, and _is in your so-called human mind_!"

"Do you really understand that, child?"

"I _know_ it!" she exclaimed. "And so would you if you read your Bible
in the right way. Why--I had never seen a Bible until you gave me
yours. I didn't know what a book it was! And to think that it has been
in the world for thousands of years, and yet people still kill one