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Unity of Good – Credo

 1	    Do you believe in man? 

  	    I believe in the individual man, for I understand that
 3	man is as definite and eternal as God, and that man is
  	coexistent with God, as being the eternally divine idea. 
  	This is demonstrable by the simple appeal to human
 6	consciousness. 
  	    But I believe less in the sinner, wrongly named man. 
  	The more I understand true humanhood, the more I see it
 9	to be sinless, — as ignorant of sin as is the perfect Maker. 
  	    To me the reality and substance of being are good, and
  	nothing else. Through the eternal reality of existence I
12	reach, in thought, a glorified consciousness of the only
  	living God and the genuine man. So long as I hold evil
  	in consciousness, I cannot be wholly good. 
15	    You cannot simultaneously serve the mammon of
  	materiality and the God of spirituality. There are not
  	two realities of being, two opposite states of existence. 
18	One should appear real to us, and the other unreal, or we
  	lose the Science of being. Standing in no basic Truth, we
  	make "the worse appear the better reason," and the un-
21	real masquerades as the real, in our thought. 
  	    Evil is without Principle. Being destitute of Principle,
  	it is devoid of Science. Hence it is undemonstrable, with-
24	out proof. This gives me a clearer right to call evil a nega-
  	tion, than to affirm it to be something which God sees and
  	knows, but which He straight...way commands mortals to
27	shun or relinquish, lest it destroy them. This notion of
 
   
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 1	the destructibility of Mind implies the possibility of its
  	defilement; but how can infinite Mind be defiled? 
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