process is repeated in our own mentality, and therefore we are
continually creating ex nihilo whether we know it or not.
Consequently, if we look upon evil as a force to be reckoned
with, and therefore requiring to be studied, we are in effect
creating it; while on the other hand if we realize that there is
only ONE force to be considered, and that absolutely good, we are
by the law of the creative process bringing that good into
manifestation. No doubt for this affirmative use of our creative
power it is necessary that we start from the basic conception of
a SINGLE originating power which is absolutely good and
life-giving; but if there were a self-originating power which was
destructive then no creation could ever have come into existence
at all, for the positive and negative self-originating powers
would cancel each other and the result would be zero. The fact,
therefore, of our own existence is a sufficient proof of the
singleness and goodness of the Originating Power, and from this
starting-point there is no second power to be taken into
consideration, and consequently we do not have to study the evil
that may arise out of existing or future circumstances, but
require to keep our minds fixed only upon the good which we
intend to create. There is a very simple reason for this. It is
that every new creation necessarily carries its own law with it
and by that law produces new conditions of its own. A balloon
affords a familiar illustration of my meaning. The balloon with
its freight weighs several hundredweight, yet the introduction of
a new factor, the gas, brings with it a law of its own which
entirely alters the conditions, and the force of gravity is so
completely overcome that the whole mass rises into the air. The
Law itself is never altered, but we have previously known it only
under limiting conditions. These conditions, however, are no part