Part 71

3. Things are not “good” and “bad,” but better and worse. Therefore evil itself is proof of progress.

d. The will toward good is in the world and ourselves.

1. Dissatisfaction is the will toward progress.

2. We use all bad things for the great good that we love.

(This meeting might be divided into two, one on GOD, and one on PROGRESS.)

THIRD MEETING

Matter and Spirit

I. SHORT REVIEW:

a. What is the aim of life?

b. How do you explain good and bad?

II. ARE MATTER AND SPIRIT ANTAGONISTIC, OR LIKE GOOD AND BAD, TO BE EXPLAINED THROUGH EACH OTHER?

a. All matter has shape or idea:

1. Matter takes the shape of spirit.

2. We know only the spirit, or idea, because all things come to us through our senses.

3. Pure matter, if it exist, is a thing we cannot experience.

III. MATTER IS THE MEDIUM THROUGH WHICH SPIRIT EXPRESSES ITSELF:

a. Expression is the means for reaching understanding.

b. All expression, at present, is through so-called material means.

IV. SPIRIT CAN DO ALL THINGS IN THE FUTURE:

a. “Immovable” physical conditions are the result of will or spirit in the past.

1. Our ancestors.

2. The mental beginnings of all physical ills.

b. Spirit force is the only shaping force in a universe of spirit or will.

1. One can, therefore, control the physical.

2. One can shape one’s destiny.

FOURTH MEETING

Evolution

I. THE PLACE OF EVOLUTION IN A RELIGIOUS ENQUIRY: