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32. Evil is not a creator. , Good, is the only Creator. Evil is not conscious or conscientious Mind; it is not individual, not actual. Evil is not spiritual, and therefore has no groundwork in Life, whose only Source is Spirit. The elements which belong to the Eternal All, — Life, Truth, Love, — Evil can never take away.

. I am intelligent matter; and matter is egoistic, having its own innate selfhood, and the capacity to evolve mind. is in matter, and matter reproduces. From Him come my forms, near or remote. This is my honor, that is my author, authority, governor, disposer. I am proud to be in His outstretched hands, and I shirk all responsibility for myself as Evil, and for my varying manifestations.

. You mistake, oh Evil! is not your authority and law. Neither is He the author of the material changes, the phantasma, a belief in which leads to such teaching as we find in the hymn-verse so often sung in church: