  Scholastic theology elaborates the proposition that evil is a factor of good, and that to believe in the reality [15] of evil is essential to a rounded sense of the existence of good. This frail hypothesis is founded upon the basis of mate- rial and mortal evidence—only upon what the shifting mortal senses confirm and frail human reason accepts. [20] The Science of Soul reverses this proposition, overturns the testimony of the five erring senses, and reveals in clearer divinity the existence of good only; that is, of God and His idea. This postulate of divine Science only needs to be con- [25] ceded, to afford opportunity for proof of its correctness and the clearer discernment of good. Seek the Anglo-Saxon term for God, and you will find it to be good; then define good as God, and you will find that good is omnipotence, has all power; it fills [30] all space, being omnipresent; hence, there is neither place [1] nor power left for evil. Divest your thought, then, of the mortal and material view which contradicts the ever- presence and all-power of good; take in only the immor- tal facts which include these, and where will you see or [5] feel evil, or find its existence necessary either to the origin or ultimate of good? It is urged that, from his original state of perfec- tion, man has fallen into the imperfection that requires evil through which to develop good. Were we to [10] admit this vague proposition, the Science of man could never be learned; for in order to learn Science, we begin with the correct statement, with harmony and its Principle; and if man has lost his Principle and its harmony, from evidences before him he is inca- [15] pable of knowing the facts of existence and its con- comitants: therefore to him evil is as real and eternal as good, God! This awful deception is evil's umpire and empire, that good, God, understood, forcibly destroys. [20] What appears to mortals from their standpoint to be the necessity for evil, is proven by the law of opposites to be without necessity. Good is the primitive Princi- ple of man; and evil, good's opposite, has no Principle, and is not, and cannot be, the derivative of good. [25] Thus evil is neither a primitive nor a derivative, but is suppositional; in other words, a lie that is incapable of proof—therefore, wholly problematical. The Science of Truth annihilates error, deprives evil of all power, and thereby destroys all error, sin, sickness, [30] disease, and death. But the sinner is not sheltered from suffering from sin: he makes a great reality of evil, iden- tifies himself with it, fancies he finds pleasure in it, and [1] will reap what he sows; hence the sinner must endure the effects of his delusion until he awakes from it. |
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