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Rh Paul said, “For the invisible things of Him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.” (Rom. i. 20.) When the Substance of Spirit appears in Metaphysical Science, the nothingness of matter is recognized. Where the Spirit of God is — and there is no place where God is not — evil becomes Nothing, the opposite of the Something of Spirit.

The only “I,” or “Us”; the only Spirit, Soul, Principle, Substance, Life, Truth, Love, the One God; not that which is in man, but the Divine Principle or God, of whom man is the full and perfect expression; Deity, which outlines, but is not outlined.

There can be but one Mind, because there is but one God; and if we claimed no other, and accepted no other, sin would be unknown.

The only exterminators of error are the great truths that Good, or God, is the only Mind; that His opposite — called Evil and Devil — is not Mind, is not Truth, but error, without Intelligence or Truth.

We can have but one Mind if that one is infinite. We bury the sense of infinitude, when we admit that, although God is infinite, evil has a place in this infinity; for it could have no place — where all space is filled with God — except in Him.

We lose the high signification of Omnipotence, when admitting that God, or Good, is omnipotent, and has all-power, yet that there is another power named Evil.

The belief that there is more than the One Mind is as pernicious to divine theology, as are ancient mythology and pagan idolatry. With one Father, even God, the