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A Colloquy.

IN Romans (ii. 15) we read the Apostle's description of mental processes wherein human thoughts are “meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.” If we observe our mental processes, we shall find that we are perpetually arguing with ourselves; yet each mortal is not two personalities, but one.

In like manner Good and Evil talk to one another; yet they are not two but one, for Evil is naught, and Good only is reality.


Evil. God hath said: “Ye shall eat of every tree of the garden.” If you do not, your intellect will be circumscribed, and the evidence of your personal senses be denied. This would antagonize individual consciousness and existence.


Good. The Lord is God. With Him is no consciousness of evil, because there is nothing beside Him, or outside of Him. Individual consciousness in man is inseparable from Good. There is no