imagination. What some may call reason-fear, when they think they
are extremely sensible, is simply fear, and nothing but fear, and
it is due to imagination, not to reason.

"But," you say, "are there not all sorts of evils in the world,
and do they not threaten us, and should we not forefend against
them? In this forefending, how can we escape fear?"

These questions show how thoroughly fear is knit into our very
lives.

Now this is precisely the point. Fear has no rightful place with
any rightful living, because the WHITE LIFE alone is rightful, and
in that life reason-assurance only is possible, and, therefore,
rightful.

The best way in which to forefend against evil is to deny it and
cast out the fiction.

This entire question of evil is at your command. Evil exists
because other people admit its existence. If all were to live the
WHITE LIFE, each person might rightly declare, "There is no evil."
The only real evil is that which can hurt your best self. When
anything hurts your best self, it is your self that hurts your
self. The only evil in the Universe is some one's act hurting
others, but more, hurting self. If to you evil is, then, it is
yourself. You can so live the sublime WHITE LIFE of harmony as to
be able to say: "So far as I am concerned, evil has gone out of
the world. There is no evil to me."