All that has real existence emanates from the One Spirit, which is Principle, source or origin of existence. Man's real individuality is a reflection of Spirit, and is spiritual and perfect now, and his only real existence. The physical body and intellect is an imitation of God's man governed by Divine intelligence, and never had an origin or real existence. Temporal things never have origin. They have a beginning only in belief, and for that reason must have an end. That which emanates from Divine Principle never had a beginning and therefore will never have an end. The mortal, finite, material sense of the human being is what makes for him a material universe and a so-called physical man.
Whence comes to human consciousness this incarnation of evil? It is best answered by asking another question. Whence comes the incarnated ignorance of music or mathematics? We are never told in Scripture where evil came from. Jesus did not tell us; but he said to those splendid physical and intellectual scribes and Pharisees, who disputed the doctrine Spirit had revealed to him: "Ye are from beneath: I am from above: Ye are of this world: I am not of this world. . . . I speak that which I have seen with my Father: ye do that which ye have seen with your father. . . . But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth. . . . Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do; he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it."— John viii.
Here we see that Jesus is authority in this absolute division and classification. What he designates as murderer, devil, liar, Christian Science has termed "Malicious Animal Magnetism." The new name for Satan, as Christian Science is a new name for Christianity.
