The divine order is the acme of mercy: it is neither questionable nor assailable: it is not evil producing good, [15] nor good ultimating in evil. Such an inference were impious. Holy Writ denounces him that declares, "Let us do evil, that good may come! whose damnation is just."
Good is not educed from its opposite: and Love divine [20] spurned, lessens not the hater's hatred nor the criminal's crime; nor reconciles justice to injustice; nor substitutes the suffering of the Godlike for the suffering due to sin. Neither spiritual bankruptcy nor a religious chancery can win high heaven, or the "Well done, good and faithful [25] servant,... enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."
Divine Love knows no hate; for hate, or the hater, is nothing: God never made it, and He made all that was made. The hater's pleasures are unreal; his sufferings, self-imposed; his existence is a parody, and he ends-- [30] with suicide.
The murder of the just Nazarite was incited by the
same spirit that in our time massacres our missionaries, [1] butchers the helpless Armenians, slaughters innocents. Evil was, and is, the illusion of breaking the First Com- mandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me:" it is either idolizing something and somebody, or hating [5] them: it is the spirit of idolatry, envy, jealousy, covet- ousness, superstition, lust, hypocrisy, _witchcraft_.
That man can break the forever-law of infinite Love, was, and is, the serpent's biggest lie! and ultimates in a religion of pagan priests bloated with crime; a religion [10] that demands human victims to be sacrificed to human passions and human gods, or tortured to appease the anger of a so-called god or a miscalled man or woman! The Assyrian Merodach, or the god of sin, was the "lucky god;" and the Babylonian Yawa, or Jehovah, was the [15] Jewish tribal deity. The _Christian's_ God is neither, and is too pure to behold iniquity.
Divine Science has rolled away the stone from the sepul- chre of our Lord; and there has risen to the awakened thought the majestic atonement of divine Love. The [20] at-one-ment with Christ has appeared--not through vicarious suffering, whereby the just obtain a pardon for the unjust,--but through the eternal law of justice; wherein sinners suffer for their own sins, repent, forsake sin, love God, and keep His commandments, thence to [25] receive the reward of righteousness: salvation from sin, not through the _death_ of a man, but through a divine _Life_, which is our Redeemer.