The evil ego has but the visionary substance of matter. It lacks the
substance of Spirit,--Mind, Life, Soul. Mortal mind is self-creative and
self-sustained, until it becomes non-existent. It has no origin or
existence in Spirit, immortal Mind, or good. Matter is not truly conscious;
and mortal error, called _mind_, is not Godlike. These are the shadowy and
false, which neither think nor speak.

All Truth is from inspiration and revelation,--from Spirit, not from flesh.

We do not see much of the real man here, for he is God's man; while ours is
man's man.

I do not deny, I maintain, the individuality and reality of man; but I do
so on a divine Principle, not based on a human conception and birth. The
scientific man and his Maker are here; and you would be none other than
this man, if you would subordinate the fleshly perceptions to the spiritual
sense and source of being.

Jesus said, "I and my Father are one." He taught no selfhood as existent in
matter. In his identity there is no evil. Individuality and Life were real
to him only as spiritual and good, not as material or evil. This incensed
the rabbins against Jesus, because it was an indignity to their
personality; and this personality they regarded as both good and evil, as
is still claimed by the worldly-wise. To them evil was even more the ego
than was the good. Sin, sickness, and death were evil's concomitants. This
evil ego they believed must extend throughout the universe, as being
equally identical and self-conscious with God. This ego was in the
earthquake, thunderbolt, and tempest.