that evil has no claims and was never a claimant; for behold evil (or
devil) is, as Jesus said, "a murderer from the beginning, and the truth
abode not in him."

There was never a moment in which evil was real. This great fact concerning
all error brings with it another and more glorious truth, that good is
supreme. As there is none beside Him, and He is all good, there can be no
evil. Simply uttering this great thought is not enough! We must live it,
until God becomes the All and Only of our being. Having won through great
tribulation this cardinal point of divine Science, St. Paul said, "But now
we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that
we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the
letter."




IS MAN A PERSON?


Man is more than physical personality, or what we cognize through the
material senses. Mind is more than matter, even as the infinite idea of
Truth is beyond a finite belief. Man outlives finite mortal definitions of
himself, according to a law of "the survival of the fittest." Man is the
eternal idea of his divine Principle, or Father. He is neither matter nor a
mode of mortal mind, for he is spiritual and eternal, an immortal mode of
the divine Mind. Man is the image and likeness of God, coexistent and
coeternal with Him.

Man is not absorbed in Deity; for he is forever individual; but what this