Do you believe in God?

I believe more in Him than do most Christians, for I have no faith in any other thing or being.  He sustains my individuality.  Nay, more—­He is my individuality and my Life.  Because He lives, I live.  He heals all my ills, destroys my iniquities, deprives death of its sting, and robs the grave of its victory.

To me God is All.  He is best understood as Supreme Being, as infinite and conscious Life, as the affectionate Father and Mother of all He creates; but this divine Parent no more enters into His creation than the human father enters into his child.  His creation is not the Ego, but the reflection of the Ego.  The Ego is God Himself, the infinite Soul.

I believe that of which I am conscious through the understanding, however faintly able to demonstrate Truth and Love.

Do you believe in man?

I believe in the individual man, for I understand that 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 consciousness.

But I believe less in the sinner, wrongly named man.  The more I understand true humanhood, the more I see it 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 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.

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.  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 unreal masquerades as the real, in our thought.

Evil is without Principle.  Being destitute of Principle, it is devoid of Science.  Hence it is undemonstrable, without proof.  This gives me a clearer right to call evil a negation, than to affirm it to be something which God sees and knows, but which He straightway commands mortals to shun or relinquish, lest it destroy them.  This notion of the destructibility of Mind implies the possibility of its defilement; but how can infinite Mind be defiled?

Do you believe in matter?

I believe in matter only as I believe in evil, that it is something to be denied and destroyed to human consciousness, and is unknown to the Divine.  We should watch and pray that we enter not into the temptation of pantheistic belief in matter as sensible mind.  We should subjugate it as Jesus did, by a dominant understanding of Spirit.

At best, matter is only a phenomenon of mortal mind, of which evil is the highest degree; but really there is no such thing as mortal mind,—­though we are compelled to use the phrase in the endeavor to express the underlying thought.