Scholastic Theology elaborates the proposition that evil is a factor of good, and to believe in the reality of evil is accessory to a rounded sense of the existence of good.
This frail hypothesis is founded on the basis of material and mortal evidence, only what the senses confirm and human reason accepts. The science of Soul reverses this proposition, overturns the testimony of the five erring senses, and reveals in clearer divinity the existence only of good, that is God, and his idea. This postulate of divine science needs only to be conceded to afford opportunity for proof of its correctness, and the clearer discernment of good. Take the original term "God" and you will find it good; then define good as God, and you will find that good is Omnipotent, has all power; hence, there is no power left for evil; it filleth all space, being omnipresent. Divest your thought then of the mortal and material view which contradict the ever-presence and power of good, and take in only the immortal facts which include these, and where will you see or feel evil, or find its existence necessary to the origin or ultimate of good?
It is urged that man has fallen from his original estate of perfection into the imperfection that requires evil through which to understand good. Admitting this vague proposition, the science of man could never be learned, for we begin with the correct statement, the harmony and its Principle, to learn music; and if man has lost his Principle and its harmony, from the evidences before him he is incapable of knowing the facts of existence and its concomitants. What appears to him the necessity of evil, from this standpoint, is proven by the law of opposites without necessity. Good is the primitive principle of man; and evil, its opposite, has no principle, and is not the derivative of good; so evil is neither a primitive nor derivative, but is suppositional, in other words, a lie that is incapable of proof, therefore wholly problematical.
