Spencer Heath Archive

Item 3014

January 13, 1936

Original is missing.

  The impermanent, the transient, the passing show is too much with us. We boast of our realism, but we are not realists; for we insist that those things that by their nature must crumble and decay are as real as, or even more real than, those that by their very constitution and mode of action must always live and eternally grow. What gives to evil its character as such is its impermanence, its disorganizing and disintegrating quality. It is not life; it is dis-organic.

  All life is God: it is energy, creative energy. Energy manifests itself in structures and its activities. Activities that enhance structures and evolve them into higher and more complex forms are creative activities. Those that disintegrate are evil and destructive; they dissolve the structures in which they operate and, with them, they pass away. Thus is evil essentially transitory and unreal. The wages of sin, of all destructive activity, is death. Creation is the divine activity, the living reality.