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236 The Divine Mind maintains all identity as distinct and eternal, from a blade of grass to a star. The question is, What are God's identities? What is Soul, and what are its reflections? Is Life, or Soul, in the thing formed? or is it the creative, governing Infinite Principle (outside of finite form) which all form but reflects?

Our suffering, sinning, dying conditions — that remain as long as the belief remains of Soul in body, or Intelligence in form — prove this material belief to be unnatural; while the sinless joy, the perfect harmony and immortality of Life (possessing unlimited divine beauty and goodness, without a single bodily pleasure or pain) constitute the only veritable being. This state of existence is scientific and intact, — a perfection attainable by those who have faith in Divine Science. Death can never hasten it, for death must be overcome, not yielded to, before mortals become immortals.

Rejecting a personal God, only to make a God of persons, is equally fatal to the Science of Being. The supposition that persons are spirits is a mistake, since Spirit is God, and there is but One. The belief in good or evil spirits belongs to the dark ages. There is no evil in Spirit. Nothing is real or eternal but God and His idea. Evil has no identity. It is neither person, place, nor thing, but is simply a belief and delusion. Unswerving adherence to right presents the true idea of manhood and womanhood. The pious Polycarp said, “I cannot turn at once from good to evil.” Neither do other mortals accomplish the change at a single bound.

Science never causes a retrograde step, a return to positions outgrown. If the so-called dead and living