for all that appears in the flesh, both good and evil,
which seems to confound our logic and understanding. We are
in human consciousness the fruit of a tree that stemmed
from the soil of Being. The laws instituted in the aeons
and ages of the past still prevail in the present.
Interpreting Being from a personal standpoint, we have
ignored the principles and laws at the very foundation of
all creation and substituted a personal God, and many
contradictions have followed. Now through the unfoldment of
the spiritual man implanted in us in the beginning we are
discerning the unchangeable laws of the good and the
absolute necessity of conforming to them.
So we see that Jesus taught plainly that God functions in
and through man and nature instead of being a person
somewhere in the skies; also that we demonstrate God by
making His Spirit manifest in our life. "He that hath seen
me hath seen the Father." Socrates was asked, "What is a
good man?" He replied, "A man who does good." Again he was
asked, "What is good?" " What the good man does," he
replied.
No extended definition of good is necessary to those who
follow Jesus; even converted savages understand good and do
it. The universal desire among awakened Christians to love
God and man is part of the law constantly operating through man when he finds his right relation to God.
The status of evil is that of a parasite. It has no
permanent life of itself; its whole existence depends on
the life it borrows from its parent, and when its
connection with the parent is severed nothing remains.
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