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keep on and on and on. The Unseen, as fast as it becomes seen, is no longer unseen, but seen. And for this reason a new departure is necessary every once in a while.

As we rise to higher realms, the Heaven of last week or last year,becomes the earth of today that is to be overcome.

The seeming of evil on earth is all there is of it, for the Immortal is all there ever was or ever will be in reality or in Truth. I, even I, am he, and beside me there is no other. The process is a continual one, ever and always. His work is perfect.

The song of Moses the law giver.

Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak,
And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
My doctrine shall drop as the rain,

My speech shall distil as the dew,

As the small rain upon the tender herb,
And as the shower upon the grass.

Because I will publish the name of the Lord:
Ascribe ye greatness unto our God.

He is the Rock, his way is perfect,

For all his ways are judgment:

A God of Truth and without iniquity,

Just and right is he.

They have corrupted themselves,

Their spot is not the spot of his children:

They are a perverse and crooked generation.

Listen to me, my ideas shall come down so softly and easily and gently that even the tiniest sprout will not feel the weight of it; will not feel that anything has come to it but gladness and joy; like the dew gathering on the rose leaf it will not feel bowed down but refreshed, uplifted and strong, because it feels that it is resting on the bosom of its Mother, that is the Rock. Know that it is perfect. That a perfect God must make his work perfect; the Truth in whom is no lie, the Good in whom is no evil, a God of Truth in

whom is no iniquity: What then? Why they have corrupted themselves. Do you see evil because I am Good, or is thine eye evil because I am Good? Their spot is not the spot of his children, they are a perverse and crooked generation. Why do you think other than I tell you? Why do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy Father that hath bought thee? Hath he not made thee and established thee?

To those that believed in anything but God, or Good, he said, But Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness: then he forsook God which made him and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God: to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. Of the Rock that begot thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. And when the Lord saw it he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his Sons and Daughters. And he said I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation; children in whom is no faith.

How true those words are for this generation, but it is simply picturing forth what the law sees with the eye of sense.

O, That we all realized the omnipresence of the Rock; the Omnipresence of the Lord; the Omnipresence of God; the Omnipresence of Perfection. That we realized the Perfection of all things, then there would be no sense of anything but Perfection; then there would not be any seeming imperfection; then there would not be any seeming reality in evil; then there would be no seeming evil.

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There is no evil because the Good is everywhere. Cast out of your mind the thought of evil and you won't see any. A little child don't see any evil until it is taught it, and except ye become as little children ye cannot enter into the knowledge of God's presence. God is here all about us, there isn't anything else but God anywhere. Beside him there is no thing. He is our Rock and Strength.

They have corrupted themselves. They have thought evil, and that is all the evil there is. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thought of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowl of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord for Noah was a just man and perfect and walked with God.

God saw that every imagination of the thought of man's. heart was only evil continually, that the wickedness of man was great. God saw that every imagination of man's thoughts was only evil. He did not see any evil, but the imagination of man, whose thoughts run to do that which was not right, and for that reason he perisheth off from the face of the earth; and for this same reason he is continually perishing.

It is the thinking evil in his heart that leads down to the way of death. It is opposite to the way of life. If the wickedness, which is the imagination of the thoughts of the heart to do evil continually, leadeth down through the dark valley of the shadow of death, then by analogy, if nothing else, the opposite or to think good should lead up to life, and it would please the Lord: but, to put it stronger,

the account goes on to state that Noah found grace. The promise of God is grace. Noah was a just man and perfect, and he walked with God.

As we study these verses we find that it is the evil thoughts and imaginations, that grieve the heart; that is all the wickedness that God saw, the imagination of the thoughts, which were and are a grief in man's heart; and for this reason the Master said, that it is the evil thoughts that defile the man; that seem to destroy him. That is the flood that is continually sweeping over the earth. If we give place to evil thoughts they will be a grief or a weeping of the heart, a flood of evil things will come upon us. Give no place in your heart for any evil thoughts, they are nothing but imaginary conditions. Every evil thought of any kind is a grief of the heart. Think no evil nor speak any. It is not the condition that God, the Good, made or makes, it is the state of ignorance or darkness that comprehendeth nothing.

The good comprehendeth not evil, but puts it out. It is merely a condition or state of mind. There is no such thing in reality as evil, and anyone or anything, man, beast, fowl, any evil thought that flies overhead or crawls underneath, shall be swept away as by a mighty rush of waters; because when the waters come, they will be found to have no foundation in Truth; for they are no thing, simply an imagination, a thought that is not lasting: but the true thoughts will stand forever, they are the house that is built upon the Rock, or the structure that is erected on the Truth.

As Noah was a just and perfect man and walked with. God, so every one must live up to their ideas of justice and perfection; and as they do they will find that they are walking with God, and he will lead them into that perfect condition, that condition that Noah found; the ark of

safety. All we have to do is to stop imagining evil, thinking evil, speaking evil. When any evil thought comes flying to us or creeping over us, we need not let it tarry or live in us. Stop thinking about it, turn away from it, deny that it has any presence or power over you. Think about something good, speak about something good, study about something good; and Loldly stand and deny that there is any such thing as evil.

The Master said, Resist not evil, he was speaking of the outward or of what others might do to you. Do not evil back, or resist not back, let it have no power over you, either by holding it in your thoughts or seeing it in others. Don't give it any place, anywhere: first cast it out of your cwn mind, and then you shall see more clearly to put it out of others. If we say, I am good but others are evil, we acknowledge it as having power some where; we do not give God the Omnipresence he claims. Think no evil for yourself, think no evil about others; be perfect, be just, be good and do good. The Master said, Be ye therefore perfect as your Father in Heaven is Perfect.

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