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(for there can be no true Idea besides the Infinite One) are now to be cast down.

"And God saw that the imaginations of man's heart were only evil continually." (Gen. 6: 5.) Evil is but a false image a misconception of life. The Bible calls it "imagination." (Rom. 1: 21; 2 Cor. 10: 5.) Belief in the reality of evil is unbelief that is to be cast out.

Now "the axe is laid at the root of the tree," that everything that "the Father path not planted," may be "rooted up." Divine Love has never planted aught but the seed of its own Nature. Root out the belief of all else.

We do not work with the outer in Science; we learn to reform from within. To remove weeds from a garden, we would accomplish little by cutting off the tops. We know if we dig out the roots all else will disappear. Using pills and plasters for the body is like cutting off the tops of weeds without getting at and removing the hidden belief of ill.

The world believes in sin, sickness, death, fear and ignorance. All the world believes in the power of these, hence they are universal beliefs. These all represent beliefs in separation from God, and we see the fruit of these universal beliefs. "Behold I will bring evil upon these people, even the fruit of their thoughts." (Jer. 6: 19.) Our own beliefs are punishing us! As one expresses it, "We are not punished for sin but by sin." Sin is ignorance.