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Rh evil becomes more apparent and obnoxious, until it disappears from our lives. This fact proves our position, for every Scientific statement in Christianity has its proof. Error of statement leads to error in action.

God is not the creator of an evil mind. Indeed, evil is not Mind. We must learn that evil is the awful deception

and unreality of existence. Evil is not supreme; Good is not helpless; nor are the laws of matter primary, and the law of Spirit secondary. Without this lesson, we equally lose sight of the perfect Father and of the divine Principle of man.

Body is not first and Soul last, nor is evil mightier than Good. The Science of Being repudiates self-evident

impossibilities, such as the amalgamation of Truth and error in cause or effect. It separates the tares and wheat in time of harvest.

There is but one primal Cause. Therefore there can be no effect from any other cause; and there can be no

reality in aught which proceeds not from this great and only Cause. Sin, sickness, disease, and death belong not to the Science of Being. They are the errors, which presuppose the absence of reality.

The spiritual fact is the Scientific fact in all things. The spiritual fact, repeated in the action of man and the whole universe, is harmonious, and is the ideal of Truth. Spiritual facts are not inverted; the opposite discord, which bears no resemblance to spirituality, does not appear. The only evidence of this inversion is obtained from suppositional error, which affords no proof of God, Spirit, or the spiritual creation. Material sense defines all things materially, and has a finite sense of the Infinite.