Article June 26, 1920 Issue

Indifference

Gustavus S. Paine

It is only the belief in matter that would claim to be indifferent to the advantage of spirituality. Since this belief, in all its phases, is conceived of in a merely supposititious mortal mind, it has no real power to be or to continue. Any sense that matter is pleasant or inevitable is sheer illusion. Now illusion, of course, having no ability to do anything, has no power to ignore what is essential. All that is possible for nothingness is to be proved nothing by the truth. In this process, nothing is destroyed, but the fact of Spirit is demonstrated as the reality. Belief that one does not know or want the truth has no chance to avoid actually ever present Principle. Ignorance can never hide itself, but is forever nullified by genuine understanding. The very supposition that there is a carnal mind, which could believe in matter, has to be superseded once and for all by the divine Mind and its whole expression.

This divine Mind, or Principle, is inexorable in its requirement of right action, for it is the only source of true and permanent activity. In the entire scheme of this one perfect Principle there is no room for matter or belief in matter, for human indifference or for refusal to accept the allness which is forever all there is. Though these are rather bare statements of fact, they can easily be proved. There is nothing merely dogmatic about them. To show the nonentity of any negative attitude, it is necessary simply to demonstrate that the all-inclusive truth of Spirit and its spiritual manifestation is established. By positive and exact reasoning in accord with the one Principle, which alone is Love, one can always eliminate what has never been anything but a supposed negation.

That there is the absolute Principle of true living, the very fact of living itself proves. Without true Life and its expression, there could not even seem to be any form of existence whatever. The counterfeit, no matter how seemingly insistent, cannot really fool any one into denying the genuine. There has to be the true for the false to claim to imitate. Even one who supposes himself indifferent to living succeeds only, in the last analysis, in being indifferent to what he considers a sham and a delusion rather than to the spiritual actuality. There is no getting away from spiritual Life as the one source of complete satisfaction. Sooner or later, therefore, each one, glad to have turned away from falsity, must turn to what is really spiritual, and find the entirely accurate and undeniable explanation of what Life is. Any sense of delay, doubt, or reluctance of any sort, has to vanish before the provable desirability of spiritual good. The one infinite Life includes all happy activity and endures despite any seeming.

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