"THE Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand." These inspired words of Isaiah should encourage all to refuse to be afraid of any manifestation of evil, of anything that cannot be true to the purpose, plan, or will of the infinite God, good.
Everything in human experience must either indicate the power of divine Mind, God, or else be the phenomenon of the supposititious carnal or mortal mind. The first is the effect of the one true cause; the other is illusion, to escape from which is the task of mortals.
It is logical to conclude that God's purpose or plan, the outcome of Mind, can be seen only in phenomena expressing the attributes and qualities of "the triune Principle,— Life, Truth, and Love,—named God," as Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 469). God's purpose is to express Himself. He could have no other purpose, since He, the I AM, is all there is, and there is therefore naught else to be expressed. And so everything that does not express God is illusion.
