in other words, that all our growth towards Perfected Humanity must be by recognition of the Positive and not by recognition of the Negative. The prime fact of Negation is its Nothingness; but owing to the impossibility of ever divesting our Thought of its Creative Power, our conception of the Negative as something having a substantive existence of its own becomes a very real power indeed, and it is this power that the Bible calls "the Devil and Satan", the same old Serpent which we find beguiling Eve in the Book of Genesis. It is equally a mistake to say that there is an Evil Power or that there is not. Let us examine this paradox.

Only One Good

A little consideration will show us that it is impossible for there to be an Infinite and Universal Power of Evil, for unless the Infinite and Universal Power were Creative, nothing could exist. If it be creative, then it is the Life-Principle working always for self-expression, and to suppose the undifferentiated principle of Life acting otherwise than life-givingly would contradict the very idea of its livingness.

Whatever tends to expand and improve life is the Good, and therefore it is a primary intuition from which we cannot get away that the Infinite, Originating, and Maintaining Power can only be Good. But to find this absolute and unchangeable "Good", we require to get to the very bedrock of Being, to that