"God is the Father of Mind and of Mind only." Mind creates its own environments. Evil and matter are modes of consciousness. God is the all of true consciousness. For man to know himself—herself—is to know God: for man was created in the image and likeness of Good, not of Evil.
Whence then this false consciousness of being which testifies of evil? Is it not a perverted Good,—hence without entity as evil? Good and evil cannot rest upon an equal basis of fact. "Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers." What man needs is to "come to himself"—to remember that God is his Father.
The recognition of this relation begets both humility and confidence. Nothing can annul this relation and its obligations. If it is obscured, whose the guilt? Has God departed from Man, or has man separated himself from God? Neither. "Your sins have separated between you and God," declare the Scriptures; yet Paul affirms that nothing can separate us from the love of God; which love is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Both are true; the one is according to mortal sense, appearance; the other is in spiritual sense.
