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"As wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of the Lord." (Read "The Everlasting Fire," in Bible Selections, page 88, and "Universal Salvation," page 84.)

When the time of judgment or discernment comes, the evil is represented as "trembling" in fear of its doom, as in Isa. 33: 14, 15. In Rev. 12: 12, we read: "The devil is come to you in great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time."

This shows evil to be of temporal duration, and that which is temporal is not, scientifically speaking, Truth.

We have read of the monk who so lost thought of himself that he saw Love as a flood of Light filling everything. In the midst of this bright vision, a dark figure arose. Contemplating it for a moment, he cried out, "Satan, thee, too, I love!" and immediately the "shadow" disappeared, absorbed in Light. "He shall swallow up death in victory."

The judgment day, or light of Understanding, brings with it, or is itself, the purifying fire that cleanses our thinking of all false conceptions. Truth baptizes us "with the Holy Ghost and with fire." It is through complete immersion in Consciousness that beliefs contrary to Truth are "consumed." This is the Christ baptism. One sees not evil after this baptism. "The Lord is in the midst ' thou shalt not see evil."

We cannot have the "Light" without the "fire." Welcome both. The "fire" is not necessarily