THE Absolute Truth is: “God is all and God is good, therefore, in reality, there is no evil.” If we will hold fast to this Eternal, Changeless Verity, regardless of appearance, our every day experience will be divine, real. To the exact extent that we deviate from this constant Truth we will be disappointed in our daily living.

All thinkers of whatever school are agreed that God is Omnipresent, Omnipotent, and Omniscient. And then, after having stated all of the Truth in those six magic words, they negate their statement and begin to deviate from the Absolute by going into detail.

Omni means all and all means only. If God is the only presence, then there is no other Being. If God is the only power, then there is no other power. If God is the only knowing, then there is no other intelligence. This issue each one much decide in the innermost depths of his own soul. Upon the decision hang happiness and despair. Take your choice.

Now let us take another view of this all-inclusive Truth. Since God is all and God is Good, then all must be good. Anything and everything that seems less than God’s Divine Perfection is delusion. It simply does not exist for it has no foundation in Being. “All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.” (John 1:3). That which seems less than divine perfection is merely the outpicturing of false ideas of sense consciousness and because the ideas are false, the out-pictured appearance is unreal. It has no power or presence other than that given to it, either consciously or unconsciously, by our faith in its reality. Whenever you meet an experience or condition that seems less than Divine Perfection, dissolve it with the Word of Truth. Tell it that it is unreal because it does not exist in Spirit and in Truth. We have the testimony of God Himself for this. “And God saw everything that He had made and, behold, it was very good.” (Gen. 1:3).

We quote glibly: “Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” But are we free? If not, then we do not really know the Absolute Truth. If we are not entirely free in every way we may rest assured that we are trying to adulterate God’s Truth with the doctrines of men—an utter impossibility. The healer who treats a patient for disease is deceiving both himself and his patient, for there is no disease. God is all and God is health, therefore all is health and there cannot possibly be any disease. What we call disease is an imperfect view of perfect Being. Can we conceive of God creating disease? Surely not. True healing is accomplished by simply knowing the Absolute Truth about the one who appeals for help.

The whole superstructure of the entire Practical Christianity movement rests upon this basic statement, God is all and God is good. Question any Truth Student and we will most likely find that he believes that God is the Good, everywhere present and immediately available at all times and places. Further interrogation will disclose that he is sure that God is able and willing to destroy the particular evil that is enslaving him—after a prolonged and desperate battle with the power of evil. Thus he is giving false power to the delusion: believing that there is some power other than God, the Good—and all of this after having affirmed that God is Omnipotent. “If thine eye be single (to the all-ness of God) thy whole body shall be full of light”—the Light of Truth. Can there be God, the Good, and evil? God, perfect health, and sickness? God, limitless abundance, and poverty? Surely not. Either God is all, or He is nothing. He is everywhere or nowhere. There is no absence of Life, Intelligence or Substance anywhere. All are omnipresent because all are manifestations of God.

Study the average text book on Christian Metaphysics and you will find much about each and every atom being permeated with life, intelligence and substance, or being the reflection of these characteristics of God. If God is all, how can He “permeate” Himself?

If God, being Omnipresent, fills all space, where is there any place to which He may “reflect” Himself? “Come, let us reason together, saith the Lord of Hosts,” and be forever healed of these false ideas.

Each and every atom is God-substance—God manifested, formulated. If it appears other than Divine Perfection it is still God—a distorted view of God caused by false thinking.

The up-to-date physicist has much to say about ether—luminiferous ether, he calls it. He has never seen this ether. He simply postulates its existence to account for results that he can see and measure. He assures us that this ether fills all space, but he does not know that what he calls ether, is God-substance. The very air we breathe is God-substance. Every time we inhale, God literally “breathes the breath of Life” into our nostrils. The scientist’s conception of space is another illusion. To him, space means emptiness. This presupposes the absence of God-substance, which is utterly impossible.

If there is any place where God does not exist, even for an instant, then God is not Omnipresent. If God is absent anywhere, He is absent everywhere and does not exist at all. If sin, sickness, want or any other negation is manifesting in our livingness today it is because we are believing in the delusion: believing in two powers, God the Good, and some other imaginary power which we name variously. If we think God and God only, then only God, in some form of His goodness, will manifest to our consciousness. “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee.” “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” “Even as thy faith, so be it unto thee.” “Thy faith hath made thee whole.”

God is everywhere present, always, and we form, reform and deform Him (in our imaginations) by our thinking, whether we know it or not. Our thoughts take form and are instantly filled with God-substance. God-substance is instantly and constantly subservient to our every thought. God-substance does not question the thought-forms it fills: we do the building of the form with our thinking. God fills the form with His substance. We hold dominion over all things by our thinking. Being not mere automatons, but free-will agents, we have the power to control our thoughts, if we have the courage. “To him that overcometh (and to no one else) will I grant to sit on My right hand.” We must choose every moment whom we will serve—God or mammon: mammon is delusion, everything that is not God, the Good. It is Satan, the Serpent, the Adversary, the Adverse Thinker, usurping, by our permission, conscious or unconscious, the glorious reality of God’s perfection. “All power is given unto Me” is as true of us, as it is of Jesus. He used His power constructively, faithfully: we use ours more or less adversely, doubtingly.

“Do the thing and you shall have the power.” We do not wait until we receive power: we do the thing and suddenly awaken to the fact that we have the power, always. Think God only and we will be conscious only of God, and His divine perfection. Think of the Adversary, of the illusory, impossible opposites of God, and they will seem very real so long as we place our faith in them and support them with our thought-power. The instant we really know and practice the Truth, they will disappear.

Denial is the means by which we cleanse our subconscious mind. Deny the lie and affirm the Truth and the Good of God, in whatever form we desire it, will instantly appear. To do this, we must be thoroughly convinced of the ALLNESS of God: this we cannot do so long as there is any doubt of the Absolute Truth of our affirmations. “What we believe to be true, holds us with a strength unyielding.”

Let us ever abide in the Holy Presence of our Father-God, at the center of our being, and joyously affirm: “God Only.”