the world; and that the proceeding Divine is the Holy Spirit." It is the Lord from eternity from whom are all essences, substances and forms, and it is the Divine proceeding or the Holy Spirit by which they are created, sustained, animated and actuated.
This "Statement of Being," however, does not explain the existence of evil, sin, suffering and sorrow, or anything contrary to the Lord from whom all things proceed. The Doctor however assumes that it does, and proceeds to rule out such things.
"Nothing of what we call evil, sin, suffering, sorrow and death can possibly have any source or causation in the divine life or any of its attributes, and there is no other origin for any real thing. They have, therefore no real independent existence. They are not negations of the Divine life, for that life is everywhere present and admits no negation. They are not perversions of the Divine life, for that life is infinitely perfect, and cannot be perverted. They are not living, real things at all, but false interpretations of the divine life, the creations of human fancy, the morbid products of the imagination—fantasies, shadows, dreams, nightmares, images, which seem to have life and power but have none. They produce on us all kinds of sensations as if they were real, but the sensations have no more real foundation than the sensations we experience in dreams."—Page 11.
Because evil cannot originate in the only good and true, which are in the Lord and from the Lord, therefore he concludes they are not; they are not negations, they are not
