What is the way out? It is the Christian and scientific reduction of evil to its nothingness, whereby human thought is willing to lay off the claim of abstract evil, admit the fact of its ultimate nothingness, and set about the work of translating all these negative or inverted phenomena so that they eventually disappear in order to reappear within the reality of Spirit. That is an immense work before us all, but remember that it has been accomplished individually before, and that is the great comfort. A prophet such as Elijah, through spiritual sense alone, saw that it could be done to the point of final translation; he had no scientific language or equipment, he lived in a primitive age, but he proved that spiritual translation was a possibility. Jesus came along centuries later and proved it in full, by facing alone and fearlessly this whole argument of abstract evil in the form of the malice that would destroy him. Whereas Jesus faced this malice as an individual, to-day this same malice would destroy humanity, by perverting this development of nuclear physics as one of its means. So we see that no matter from what angle we regard the problem of evil, it is a self-destroying proposition. There is only one way out, the way of Spirit, of Christianity understood spiritually.

Let us go hack to the statement: "The good which the material senses see not is the only absolute good; the evil which these senses see not is the only absolute evil." That "absolute evil" is the supposed inversion of the one indivisible Infinite. Through a process of adding lie to lie it claims to evolve a subjective condition of itself, which appears to its own organized physical senses as the phenomenon of matter. In ages gone by, the process of evolution whereby the abstract evolved into the sensible or phenomenal was not understood, and consequently there was a gap between one and the other. Jesus understood it and demonstrated it, but he could not leave behind in his age a presentation of the process. Little by little it has become clear; Mrs. Eddy has filled in the apparent gulf between the mental and the physical, and has shown us that the phenomenon we call electricity is that which links the abstract evil unseen to the senses to the physical, which thereby becomes apparent to the organized physical senses of the human mind and body. Continuous research by the physicists and engineers has shown that matter is first of all reducible to molecule and atom, and out of this process of reduction has come forth the development of electricity and magnetism with their rightful and legitimate uses, one of which is to provide light and power. Then research has shown that the atom is divisible further into particles. It is still an open question whether the particle in its further analysis is corpuscular or whether it is in the nature of a wave motion or radiation. At any rate, whether one or the other, we are now dealing with such infinitesimals that they are wholly invisible to the human senses, even through the most powerful microscope.

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