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Rh and error has no real basis; it is a false belief. God is not the author of evil. The supposititious parent of evil is matter.

The Bible declares, “All things were made by Him [the Divine Word], and without Him was not anything made that was made.” This is the eternal verity of Divine Science. If sin, sickness, and death were understood as nothingness, they would disappear. As vapor that melts before the sun, evil should vanish before the reality of good. One must hide the other. How important, then, to choose good as the reality. Man is tributary to God, Spirit, and to nothing else. God's being is infinity, freedom, harmony, and boundless bliss.

Material sense never helped mortals to understand Spirit, God. Through spiritual sense only, man comprehends and loves Deity. The various contradictions of the Science of Mind, by the material senses, do not change the unseen Truth, forever intact. The forbidden fruit of knowledge, against which Wisdom warned man, is the testimony of matter, declaring Life, alias God, to be at the mercy of death, and good and evil capable of commingling. This is the significance of the Scripture concerning this Tree of Knowledge, this growth of material belief, — “In the day when thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.” Human hypotheses first assume the reality of sickness, sin, and death; and then assume the necessity of these evils, because of their admitted actuality.

These human verdicts are the procurers of all discord. If Soul sins it must be mortal. Sin has the elements of self-destruction. It cannot sustain itself. If sin is supported, God must uphold it; and this is impossible, since