Evil counterfeits Good; it says, "I am Truth," when it is a lie; it says, "I am Love," but Love is spiritual, and sensuous love is material; wherefore it is hate instead of love, for the five senses give man pain, sickness, sin, and death; pleasure that is false, life that leads unto death, joy that becomes sorrow. Love that is not the procurator of happiness declares itself the antipodes of Love, and Love punishes the joys of this false sense of love, chastens its affection, purifies it, and turns it into the opposite channels.
Material life is the antipodes of spiritual Life; it mocks the bliss of spiritual being; it is bereft of its permanence and peace.When human sense is quickened to behold the error—the error of Life, Truth, Love regarded as material and not spiritual, or that they are both material and spiritual, it is able for the first time to discern the Science of Good. But it must first see the error of its present course to be able to behold the facts of Truth, outside of the error, and vice versa. When it discovers the Truth it uncovers the error, and quickens the true consciousness of God, Good. May the human shadows of thought lengthen as they approach the Light until they are lost in Light, and no night is there.
In Science sickness is healed upon the same Principle and rule that sin is. To know the belief of the patient, and what has produced it, enables the practitioner to act more understandingly in destroying it. Thus it is in healing the moral sickness; the malicious mental operation must be understood to destroy it and its effects. There is not sufficient spiritual power in the human thought to-day to heal the sick or the sinful through the divine energies alone; one must either get out of himself and into God so far that his consciousness is the reflection of the divine, or he must through argument and the human consciousness of both evil and Good work from that standpoint.
