Logically
stated, this means that man's goal is the world; this world meaning earth
carried to a state higher and with elimination of its evils is the state
they call heaven. This theory, on the face of it, is absurd and puerile
because it cannot be. There cannot be good without evil, or evil without
good. To live in a world where there is all good and no evil, is what
Sanskrit logicians call a 'dream in the air.'"
It is not necessary to argue here that there is no such thing as positive
evil.
St. Paul said: "I know and am persuaded that nothing is unclean of itself;
save that to him who accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is
unclean."
And again we are assured that "there is nothing good or bad, but thinking
makes it so;" which means that evil has no more foundation in reality than
has thought, and thought is ever-changing; transitory. Evil therefore may
be entirely eliminated by thought, since it is created by thought.
That there is a condition of mankind which has been alluded to as "evil" is
self-evident.
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