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"Neither give place to the devil." When we see God
everywhere, we cannot consent to allow evil a place.
There is no place for it. When we see Truth clearly, we
cannot give error a place. When we recognize Love as
Infinite, we can find no place for fear. If Life is all,
death has no place. Seeing Perfection fill all, we can
grant no place to imperfection.
Truth revealed, shows us the One All, without any
opposite, and says to claims of evil. "Depart from me,
I never knew you;" which is to say, you are not of Truth.
Jesus said of the devil, the personification of all
error, "He was a murderer from the beginning, and
abode not in the truth, for there is no truth in him." "For he is a liar, and the Father of it." The origin of all evil is a lie. It says, There are two minds, two wills, two powers, etc., and all sorrow and trouble come from this falsehood.
Now we are beginning to separate and to cast away
from the self all that the I am is not, and to maintain
firmly that which I am.
This process into which I find myself drawn, began in the first dawn of spiritual consciousness. When man
awakened from the "dust," or from the wholly material
conception of himself, and "Became a living soul," (Gen. 2:7), he became alive to, or conscious of the
fact of his spiritual being. He heard Truth saying
then, even though he heard in feeble consciousness,
"Thou shalt not partake of the knowledge of good and
evil." -- Gen. 2:17. This is the interpretation we may find
beneath the letter of those words.
Later on, man receives the same instruction under
another figure. "Thou shalt not sow thy field with
mingled
seed." -- Lev. 19:19. "For what a man soweth
that shall he also reap." Another way of saying, Thou
