ia. His life had been wrecked by holding to the belief of
evil as a power, real and intelligent. He began to see the light; but
he did not overcome fear sufficiently to make his demonstration and
break the imaginary bonds which held him. He saw, but he did not
prove. He will, some day. And, Doctor, you and everybody else will
have to do the same. For, unless Jesus uttered the most malicious
falsehoods ever voiced, every human being will have to take every
step that he took, make every demonstration that he made, and prove
all that he proved, before mortals will cease to consume with
disease, perish miserably in accidents, and sink with broken lives
into graves that do _not_ afford a gateway to immortal life! My God is
infinite, eternal, unchanging mind. The god of the preachers,
judging from their sermons preached here, is a human, mental
concept, embodying spirit and matter, knowing good and evil, and
changing with every caprice of their own unstable mentalities. My
religion is the Christianity of the Master, love. Oh, how this poor
world needs it, yearns for it! The love that demonstrates the
nothingness of evil, and drives it out of human experience! The love
that heals the sick, raises the dead, binds up broken hearts! The
love that will not quench the religious instincts of children, and
falsely educate them to know all manner of evil; but that teaches
them to recognize it for what it is, the lie about God, and then
shows them how to overcome it, even as Jesus did. My God is truth.
Is truth real? Ah, yes, you say. But error is the opposite of truth.
Then can error, evil, be real? No, not if you will be consistent.
Again, God is infinite. But God is spirit. Then all is spirit and
spirit's manifestation--is it not true? What, then, becomes of the
evil that men hug to their bosoms, even while it gnaws into their
hearts? It is the opposite of good, of mind, of truth, God. And
the opposite of truth is supposition. Is it not so? And the
supposition is--where? In your mentality. And you can put it out
whenever you are willing to drop your ceremonials and your theories,
and will open your mentality to truth, which will make you free,
even as the Master said. That is my religion, Doctor. Those are
the religious views which you have been sent by Madam Elwin to
investigate. Am I a heretic? Or unevangelical?"

She waited a few moments for the doctor to reply. Then, as he remained
silent, she went up to him and held out her ha