The egotist must come down and learn, in humility, that God never made evil.  An evil ego, and his assumed power, are falsities.  These falsities need a denial.  The falsity is the teaching that matter can be conscious; and conscious matter implies pantheism.  This pantheism I unveil.  I try to show its all-pervading presence in certain forms of theology and philosophy, where it becomes error’s affirmative to Truth’s negative.  Anatomy and physiology make mind-matter a habitant of the cerebellum, whence it telegraphs and telephones over its own body, and goes forth into an imaginary sphere of its own creation and limitation, until it finally dies in order to better itself.  But Truth never dies, and death is not the goal which Truth seeks.

The evil ego has but the visionary substance of matter.  It lacks the substance of Spirit,—­Mind, Life, Soul.  Mortal mind is self-creative and self-sustained, until it becomes non-existent.  It has no origin or existence in Spirit, immortal Mind, or good.  Matter is not truly conscious; and mortal error, called mind, is not Godlike.  These are the shadowy and false, which neither think nor speak.

All Truth is from inspiration and revelation,—­from Spirit, not from flesh.

We do not see much of the real man here, for he is God’s man; while ours is man’s man.

I do not deny, I maintain, the individuality and reality of man; but I do so on a divine Principle, not based on a human conception and birth.  The scientific man and his Maker are here; and you would be none other than this man, if you would subordinate the fleshly perceptions to the spiritual sense and source of being.

Jesus said, “I and my Father are one.”  He taught no selfhood as existent in matter.  In his identity there is no evil.  Individuality and Life were real to him only as spiritual and good, not as material or evil.  This incensed the rabbins against Jesus, because it was an indignity to their personality; and this personality they regarded as both good and evil, as is still claimed by the worldly-wise.  To them evil was even more the ego than was the good.  Sin, sickness, and death were evil’s concomitants.  This evil ego they believed must extend throughout the universe, as being equally identical and self-conscious with God.  This ego was in the earthquake, thunderbolt, and tempest.

The Pharisees fought Jesus on this issue.  It furnished the battle-ground of the past, as it does of the present.  The fight was an effort to enthrone evil.  Jesus assumed the burden of disproof by destroying sin, sickness, and death, to sight and sense.

Nowhere in Scripture is evil connected with good, the being of God, and with every passing hour it is losing its false claim to existence or consciousness.  All that can exist is God and His idea.

Credo

It is fair to ask of every one a reason for the faith within.  Though it be but to repeat my twice-told tale,—­nay, the tale already told a hundred times,—­yet ask, and I will answer.