People refer to diabolical or satanic powers opposing God, powers of Darkness through which the socalled evil can exercise its power and bring mankind into "eternal damnation" or "hell". As the source of Darkness people picture to themselves quite another being than the Deity, namely the Devil. In doing so they believe to have rescued God from "losing face" because, if God were the source of Darkness or socalled Evil then, according to the ordinary human way of thinking, He could not possibly be all-loving, but had himself to be evil. However, when godfearing and religious man believes that Darkness - the opposite of Light - is something satanic or evil, he cannot possibly at the same time believe that "everything is very good".

As to the truth of this great, principal assertion "All is very good", physical science is unable to provide any documentery evidence or proof. And as long as it cannot do so it, too, remains imperfect and has to base its stand on the superstitious idea that everything is NOT very good. As long as terrestrial men, the naive and intelligent alike, deny life's principal assertion or the very foundation of happiness they are bound to experience a correspondingly lesser degree of happiness in life. When human beings are unable to realize that everything is vere good they very easily become disappointed, depressed, furious or vindictive on account of all what they find very bad. This is so because they are under the impression that in order to be concidered good a thing must be pleasant, too, i.e. it must be entirely to their own liking. If it is not, then it is bad. And as people differ greatly and as human experiences and attitudes differ so greatly from one person to another, then one may regard something as good which, to the other may be bad, and they might even begin to fight over it. And the result of this may be that he, who considered everything to be very bad, is victorious over his opponent and suddenly finds everything very good, while he who found everything very good now thinks that it is very bad. And it is very likely that they change their viewpoints several times without suspecting, that they have both not the slightest idea of what really IS very good. The only thing they know is what they perceive as pleasant or unpleasant for themselves.

That means in reality that to the same degree as one is unable to perceive life as perfect, or to see that everything is very good, to an even degree one will become the victim of pessimism which is synonymous with the opposite of happiness in life and peace of mind. To the same degree as one is unable to understand the truth of the scriptural assertion: "Everything is very good" one's outlook will be dark and one will become a victim of worry, disappointment, distress, hatered and depression.

So the final purpose of the living beings' sense-perception and life-experience is to become capable of seeing that everything is very good - even such disagreeable experiences as may befall him or her. Without the perception of this philosophy wars, calamities, suffering and pain never will come to an end. Without this view of life no permanent peace and no perfect world-civilisation can possibly be brought into existence, and no terrestrial being will ever be able to obtain perfect happiness or joi de vivre if this view of life has not become the spiritual foundation for him or her. Naturally this view of life must never be forced upon anybody and it is not something which people should be trained to believe. It is something which mental evolution alone can make people understand, because only insight and understanding can make this view of life become the spiritual foundation of mankind. When, however, this has been achieved then the living beings will be able to enter into the spirit of God's great plan for mankind, a plan that does not include anyone being consigned to "hell" or "damnation", nor that they should continue to burden each other with sorrows and suffering, reproaches, annoyances, disappointments, anger and hatered, but a plan which will eventually enable mankind to create "peace on earth and good will towards men" as written in the gospel for Christmas Day. This will not be achieved by means of miracles or dictatorship, but through each human being experiencing and manifesting the laws of life and thereby being one with the key-note of the universe, which is love.

But how can we possibly see the present world-situation in the light of life's great principal assertion: "All is very good"? World-wars and concentration-camps: are they "very good"? And what of ilness, crime, accidents, adversities, depression and egoism? Can such things rightfully be termed "very good"? They can - because all such things are just as good and natural as it is good and natural that an apple has to develop through a sour stage before it becomes ripe and sweet. Nobody can rightfully blame a child for behaving childishly, or an animal for behaving in a bestial manner! Nobody can possibly behave in a manner according to a stage of development that he or she has not yet attained, and terrestrial men have not yet become the real human beings they will one day be, and cannot therefore, at present behave as real human beings.

Through millions of years the earth has developed from a nebulous mass into its present state of a mineral globe supporting vegetable and animal life. Through evolution terrestrial man has arisen from out of the animal state and that in itself is very good. And it is also very good that out of present-day terrestrial humanity a real humane kingdom will eventually arise in which peace and love between the living beings will be the natural state of things. But how are terrestrial men going to learn that? In the only way possible - by experiencing themselves the consequences of the actions and thought-combinations of theirs that are of an unkind and warlike nature. Based on the cosmic principle of cycle and on the law of cause and effect, terrestrial man lives through one incarnation after the other, so reaping what he has sown, and the more substantial part of this harvest, pleasant as well as unpleasant, he experiences in relation to his neighbour. Taken together, all living beings represent to us the will of God which in the long run cannot be defied or opposed without our submitting to it at last. Is this, however, not synonymous with dictatorship? No, it is the only way to learn about our own true nature, and especially to learn that which gradually will cause us try to change ourselves instead of wanting to change others. To-day each individual person stands at the height of his evolution, and he cannot possibly be different from what he is at this very moment, no matter whether he be a criminal or a saint. None are, however, what they will become to-morrow, or in a year or in a thousand years' time. They will be changed by their life-experience, and gradually, according to their stage and rate of development, human beings will therefore take a more and more conscious and active part in the alteration of themselves. The wish to control our neighbour, to decide his actions and reactions, and to impress our own will upon him, our style of behaviour and philosophy of life - that is to terrestrial man one of the greatest impediments in his way towards the experience of true happiness in life - a happiness based not on what is happening to us, but on our own reactions to that which is happening.

As wrong acts produce pain and suffering, right acts are their opposites. As these opposites are acts producing harmony, natural happiness and joy, and as these acts together make up what we call love, the reply to the fundamental question asked above is identical with science and can be expressed in the words of Jesus "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself". As no one can serve God, which means be in contact with the laws of life, in any other way than loving his neighbour as himself, it is also scientific to say that carrying out these words is "fulfilment of the law".

As pain and suffering are the results of wrong acts resulting from wrong thinking and as wrong thinking is only caused by ignorance, the analysis of all the origins and originators of pain and suffering is shown to be science when summed up in the prophetic words "for they know not what they do".

As they do not know what they are doing, any intolerance, malicious criticism or vengeance against them is seen to be highly erroneous. As a consequence of this, those who pass judgment are not always less serious "sinners". Yet, as has been already mentioned, every "sin", that is, every wrong act finally brings disharmony, pain and suffering to its originator, and the two verses of the Bible that follow are scientific truths: "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged", and "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap". In the end, the reaping produces realization of the true cause of the pain and suffering - wrong thoughts and acts; and this realization inevitably results in real knowledge, that is, right thoughts and the right acts that follow from them, which give their originators the final highest peace, happiness and joy; in accordance with this no living being can perish; but all inevitably attain the highest bliss in life, the highest knowledge and perfect manifestation. So, no wrong thoughts and acts can remain useless; indirectly they finally produce the highest results mentioned, and, as a consequence of all this, the world plan is seen to be the culmination of logic, and its highest absolute, final result is identical with the highest unshakeable scientific truth which the Bible expresses in the words "Everything is very good".