not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.”
The doubtful or spurious evidence of the senses is not to be admitted,—especially when they testify concerning Spirit, whereof they are confessedly incompetent to speak.
Evil. But mortal mind and sin really exist!
Good. How can they exist, unless God has
created them? And how can He create anything so
wholly unlike Himself, and foreign to His nature?
An evil material mind, so-called, can conceive of
God only as like itself, and knowing both evil and
good; but a purely good and spiritual consciousness
has no sense whereby to cognize evil. Mortal mind
is the opposite of Immortal Mind, and sin the opposite
of goodness. I am the Infinite All. From me
proceedeth all Mind, all consciousness, all individuality,
all being. My Mind is Divine Good, and
can not drift into evil. To believe in minds many is
to depart from the Supreme sense of harmony. Your
assumptions insist that there is more than the one
Mind, more than the one God; but verily I say