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270 next lesson to learn is that, rightly understood, there is no evil.

Divine logic and revelation coincide. If we find this to be otherwise, we may be sure that we have misinterpreted revelation. Good itself never made evil, nor created aught else that could make evil; and Good, or God, is the only self-existent Creator. Evil is a belief. Destroy the belief, and the evil disappears. Because Mind is immortal, there can be no mortal mind. Therefore if we destroy mortal belief, there remains no evil.

Jesus would have stripped all disguise from error, had he been fully understood. By parable and argument he explained the impossibility of good producing evil; and he scientifically demonstrated this great fact, showing that sin, sickness, and death are illusive errors, which Truth, Life, and Love will destroy.

God, or Good, has not created a mind susceptible of creating evil, for evil is the opposing error, and not the Truth of creation.

As I understand it, the only evil, or devil, in the universe is made up of such erroneous beliefs as these: that man is a compound of both mind and matter; that a wicked mind can exist in a material form, and both form and mind can be created by the Divine Mind; that God is the author of sin, sickness, and death; and that Mind can be an entity within the cranium, with power to sin ad libitum. In other words, Satan is not a person, but an illusion.

It is pantheistic to suppose that brains are intelligent, or, in other words, that Mind is material. Pantheism is neither Christian nor scientific. The belief that Mind is