was stronger and made him yield to that hidden and persistent selfishness ever seeking to maintain complete control.

Thus he became aware that his greatest enemy was not some other person whom perhaps he had harmed or defrauded by such selfishness, but was that something within which was akin to the lowest phase of his own nature. When he listened to the voice of selfishness and not to that of his Higher Self—My Voice—it always brought harm, in that it made him suffer until his higher nature could again come into evidence, and could enable him to hear My Voice within, pointing out the sin he had committed against his brother, and the necessity of repentance.

And then he gradually became conscious that when he considered committing any selfish act, voices encouraging such act and suggesting ways and means poured into his mind from without, indicating he was being influenced by outside forces, thoughts from other minds, that were ever ready to push him on to his and others’ undoing—if he listened and yielded to them.

Thus far man has come, learning that the cause of evil is in himself, in that weakness or lack of character which usually has selfishness at its root; but he had yet to learn that the source of evil is really without himself. For evil is not in Me, whose mind is the only mind in man, but is inspired by the passions and thoughts sent forth by the forces of darkness, and which are ever seeking openings in self-separated human minds where selfishness, which is of their darkened nature, is allowed to rule unchecked.

Evil hates Truth as darkness hates light, and cannot exist where light is. Evil cannot manifest and thrive in the light of Truth, hence it must seek its own in order to live;