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shalt not believe in good and evil, for if thou dost, thou
shalt reap good and evil.
Jesus represented this condition of thought by a parable (Matt. 13:24-30). He illustrated the good seed by
"wheat," and the evil seed by "tares." He saw thought
as a field sown with mingled seed. The kingdom of
heaven, which is "within you," was planted with good
seed only; but men fell asleep, and in their sleep saw "an
enemy" planting tares! Asleep to Truth, we see an opposite to Truth. This is the "origin" of evil.
So good and evil are held side by side, (26) until
thought awakens to the fact of good as all; then it questions,"Whence the tares?" It did not know before, that the tares had no right to be there. Something is arousing thought, and it at once desires to separate the wheat from the tares.
This shall be done, Truth replies, "In the time of
harvest." Then "I will say to the reapers: Gather ye
together first the tares and bind them in bundles to burn
them, but gather the wheat into my barn."
Our first question has been, since Light revealed the
true nature of all things as good, "Whence then is evil?"
Truth answers: You have been asleep! The harvest is the
awakening time of thought. It is called in other places,
the Judgment day.
To judge is to discern, or distinguish between; and
our "Day of Judgment" is when by Divine Light within,
our thoughts are able to distinguish, and thus separate,
between the true and the false claim.
The "Reapers" are Divine Thoughts, directed by
Truth, in this sifting and separating. We understand
the process when we have entered into it.
What is Truth's directions. "Gather first the tares
