Why does error hate Truth? Why did the Jews, in the frenzy of madness, seek to lay hold of our Lord and slay Him? Had He given no testimony of the Fount of Love within Him but healing the sick, they had tolerated Him more easily—but the Jews believed this man assumed the prerogative of God by destroying alike sin and sickness.
How was this work accomplished? By the understanding of the omnipotence and omnipresence of Life, Truth and Love. He declared the kingdom of heaven within man—and now, at hand—and at this declaration of the nothingness and unreality of evil in any form, evil faded away.
To declare sin unreal; to demand of greed, hypocrisy, and lust, that they fall prostrate at the feet of Love; to demonstrate the falsity of a claim to Life in matter in both its statements, namely, of pleasure and pain; to make God (Good) manifest—this was his mission. "Dust to dust" was the mandate. Back to the nothingness of the lie from which it sprung, to perish, because melted by the fire of Love, or to die in agonies of its own self-imposed destruction.
