Good. Evil is not a creator. God, 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.
Evil. I am intelligent matter; and matter is
egoistic, having its own innate selfhood, and the
capacity to evolve mind. God is in matter, and
matter reproduces God. From Him come my
forms, near or remote. This is my honor, that God
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.
Good. You mistake, oh Evil! God 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:
