There is but one power in the universe, and that is God. Good is omnipotent. Apparent evils are not entities or things of themselves; they are simply the apparent absence of good, just as darkness is an apparent absence of light. But God, our good, is omnipresent, therefore, the apparent absence of good – evil – is unreal; it is only an appearance of evil. There is no reality, life nor intelligence in matter for the ‘things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.’ Mary Baker Eddy (Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity and General Collectanea, p.264-265)
