A Colloquy.
IN Romans (ii. 15) we read the Apostle's description of mental processes wherein human thoughts are “meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.” If we observe our mental processes, we shall find that we are perpetually arguing with ourselves; yet each mortal is not two personalities, but one.
In like manner Good and Evil talk to one another; yet they are not two but one, for Evil is naught, and Good only is reality.
Evil. God hath said: “Ye shall eat of every tree
of the garden.” If you do not, your intellect will
be circumscribed, and the evidence of your personal
senses be denied. This would antagonize individual
consciousness and existence.
Good. The Lord is God. With Him is no
consciousness of evil, because there is nothing beside
Him, or outside of Him. Individual consciousness
in man is inseparable from Good. There is no