dea. This is demonstrable by the simple appeal to human
consciousness.

But I believe less in the sinner, wrongly named _man_. The more I
understand true humanhood, the more I see it to be sinless,--as ignorant of
sin as is the perfect Maker.

To me the reality and substance of being are _good_, and nothing else.
Through the eternal reality of existence I reach, in thought, a glorified
consciousness of the only living God and the genuine man. So long as I hold
evil in consciousness, I cannot be wholly good.

You cannot simultaneously serve the mammon of materiality and the God of
spirituality. There are not two realities of being, two opposite states of
existence. One should appear real to us, and the other unreal, or we lose
the Science of being. Standing in no basic Truth, we make "the worse appear
the better reason," and the unreal masquerades as the real, in our thought.

Evil is without Principle. Being destitute of Principle, it is devoid of
Science. Hence it is undemonstrable, without proof. This gives me a clearer
right to call evil a negation, than to affirm it to be something which God
sees and knows, but which He straightway commands mortals to shun or
relinquish, lest it destroy them. This notion of the destructibility of
Mind implies the possibility of its defilement; but how can infinite Mind
be defiled?

_Do you believe in matter_?

I believe in matter only as I believe in evil, that it is something to be
denied and destroyed to human consciousness, and is unknown to the Divine.
We should watch and pray that we enter not into the temptation of
pantheistic belief in matter as sensible mind. We should subjugate it as
Jesus did, by a dominant understanding of Spirit.

At best, matter is only a phenomenon of mortal mind, of which evil is the
highest degree; but really there is no such thing as _mortal mind_,--though
we are compelled to use the phrase in the endeavor to express the
underlying thought.

In reality there are no material states or stages of consciousness, and
matter has neither Mind nor sensation. Like evil, it is destitute of Mind,
for Mind is God.

The less consciousness of evil or matter mortals have, the easier it is for
them to evade sin, sickness, and death,--which are but states of false
belief,--and awake from the troubled dream, a consciousness which is
without Mind or Maker.

Matter and evil cannot be conscious, and consciousness should not be evil.
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