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226 II. God is what the Scriptures declare Him to be, — Life, Truth, Love. God is Spirit, and Spirit is divine

Principle. Principle is divine Mind, and Mind is not both good and bad, for God is Mind; therefore Mind is Good only, and there is but one Mind because there is but one God.

III. God is Good, and evil cannot proceed from Good. The notion that evil and goodness can be combined in one

nature is a delusion of material sense, which must yield to Science. In the Saxon language good was the term for God. The Scriptures declare all that He made to be good, like Himself, — good in Principle and in idea. In infinite Good there is no room for evil.

IV. God is the only Life, and Life is no more in the forms which express it, than Substance is in its

shadow. If Life were in mortal man, or material things, it would be subject to their limitations and end in death. Life is the Creator reflected in His creations. If He dwelt within what He creates, God would not be reflected, but absorbed, and the Science of Being would be forever lost, — through a mortal sense of life which has beginning and end.

V. The Scriptures imply that God is All-in-all. From this it follows that nothing possesses reality or existence

except Mind, God. The Scriptures also declare that God is Spirit and Life. Therefore in Spirit all is harmony, and there can be no discord; and in Life there is no death. In infinite Good there is no evil. Everything in God's universe is His idea.

VI. God is individual, incorporeal, the universal Cause, the only Creator, and there is no other