Editorial August 24, 1974 Issue

Good Is Irreversible

Naomi Price

Errors are not permanent. Miscalculations, ignorant or careless mistakes, false beliefs and wrong actions arising out of these beliefs, can always be reversed. One may have to work to detect them and then to put them right by applying what is true, but they are reversible.

Truth, on the other hand, is permanent, irreversible, immutable. To mortal sense it may for a time seem to be distorted or hidden by error, but truth never becomes untrue. Truth is established forever and is unchangeable. And so, also, is good.

God is infinite Truth, infinite good. As the Bible says, "The Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else."^{ Deut. 4:39;} God is All, unchanging, immortal, and eternal. Good is always present and operative as surely as Truth is. Spiritual man, created by God, is invariably His perfect reflection. The law of divine Principle ensures for man perpetual harmony, which cannot even for a moment be turned to its opposite, discord. Happiness that proceeds from God, or good, can never really be turned into sorrow, love into hate, sufficiency into lack, prosperity into disaster, or life into death.