There have been great searchings, at various times, trying to discover the “origin of evil.”  Vast stores of uncanny legends, and tales of wonders have been handed down to us in explanation of this most baffling mystery.

The destructive force in nature had no “origin.”  Just as God, the Constructive Force, had none.  It was, as God was.  It is and always will be, while God and nature are.

It rides the whirlwind and the flood, and differentiates itself through the smallest minutia of the affairs of human life.  It is the primeval element, the “pure cussedness” which has to be conquered, or adjusted in every human being.  It essays to bar all progress; Ignorance and Superstition are its blinded handmaids.  It exacts the fearful penalties of scornfully misunderstood efforts, if not ostracism and persecution, for the use of the diviner faculties.  It is the spirit of unconquered ill.  It is the genius of the utterly selfish will of man.

But it is when it allies itself with the intellect and will of man, and becomes the motive power, and thus expresses itself in concrete form, as is often the case, that our sympathies are touched and our sense of justice aroused, and we feel our lack of protection from the “powers and principalities of the air.”  Our only refuge is in growing to and experiencing a perfect at-one-ment with the eternal law of the opposing, the Constructive Force—­God.  There is no protection, no safety, but in the Divine Love and Wisdom.

VIBRATION.

There was no beginning; there can be no ending.  There is a constant, undeviating process of changing and readjustment of all the forces of the universe.  All is vibration.  None of nature’s forces are at rest, at equilibrium.  Build you a fine dwelling, and ere it is finished for your occupancy, the disintegrating forces will have made a raid upon the material of which it is constructed.  Take notice of the signs of decomposition going on in everything around you—­the accumulation of fluff in your rooms, in the innermost of your garments, along the seams.  So also do the rocks and mountains yield themselves to dust, and so does all the planet reverberate with the resistless onward march of the law of progress, unfoldment, evolution from the lower to a higher form of expression.

Lands edging the seas and the inland waters, from their constant erosion, slip away and are lost.  Continents disappear, undermined by earthquakes and similar convulsions of nature, and new lands arise from the bowels of some faraway ocean to keep the balance even.

LIFE.