| Message | IN HIS BOOK BIBLE MYSTRERY AND BIBLE MEANING, A 1913 PRINTING BY THOMAS TROWARD,WROTE OF THE DEVIL....IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO READ THE BIBLE AND IGNORE THE IMPORTANT PART WHICH IT ASSIGNS TO THE DEVIL.....WHAT,THEN,IS MENT BY THE DEVIL? WE MAY START WITH THE SELF-OBVIOUS PROPOSITION THAT 'GOD' AND THE 'DEVIL' MUST BE THE EXACT OPPOSITES OF EACH OTHER. WHATEVER GOD IS, THE DEVIL IS NOT. THEN, SINCE GOD ALONE IS, THE DEVIL IS NOT. SINCE GOD IS BEING, THE DEVIL IS NOT-BEING. AND SO WE ARE MET BY THE PARADOX THAT THOUGH THE BIBLE SAYS SO MUCH ABOUT THE DEVIL, YET THE DEVIL DOES NOT EXIST. IT IS PRECISELY THIS FACT OF NON-EXISTENCE THAT MAKES UP THE DEVIL; IT IS THAT POWER WHICH IN APPEARANCE IS,AND IN REALITY IS NOT; IN A WORD, IT IS THE POWER OF THE NEGATIVE...... II CORINTHIANS, v.20....IN OTHER WORDS, THAT ALL OUR GROWTH TOWARDS PERFECTED HUMANITY MUST BE BY RECOGNITION OF THE POSITIVE AND NOT BY RECOGNITION OF THE NEGATIVE....... SO I CAN REJOICE AND DO GOOD!!!!
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