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incomplete aspiration. It is force going downward before it goes upward. The isolated fact is an evil, but taken with the whole it is an unquestioned good. Murder is an evil, but to the slayer and the slain there must come, through the Divine Alchemy, the ultimate good. Each will wade through deep pools of suffering in which the blood stains will be washed away, and though the murder is the direct cause of the suffering, it is good because it leads to an ultimate good.

Take a man at the moment of crime, in the act of murder for instance, and because he is what he is and the situation is what it is, there is but one course open to him. Because of past action he is brought to a point of culmination where nothing but the murder is possible to him. (liven the provocation and he is as certain to become a destructive agent as gunpowder at the touch of a burning match. It is the result of natural law, and in the case of the gunpowder it ends in natural law, whereas in the case of the man it does not, for spiritual law overlaps the event, gathers it into the sphere of the Divine and converts it into good. Now, that which can be converted into good must have in itself the elements of good. In a word Evil is but undeveloped good. A fiery new born planet seething upon its orbit is an evil thing