or appearance with the silent assertion, “There is no evil,” is to be a light in the midst of darkness, causing the evil to fly and the real good that was there all the time to come forward in all its strength and power.

Evil, a lie.

You are like one who continually says to false report, “That is not so,” and it cannot influence you because you will not believe in it. All evil is a lie, a delusion, and it has power to those only who believe in it. 
Thus Jesus defines evil and its author:

“He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and the father of it.”

No matter how true a statement may seem to be, if it is not true of God, then it must be known as a relative truth or a lie, and we are not to be deceived by it. One way to lift the mind from believing in evil is to look at the falsities squarely and fearlessly, and say: “You are not real, you are not true. It is nothing. It has no real and true creator, and I will not believe in it any longer.” But the most terse, effective, even drastic, denial that one can speak is embodied in those words, “There is no evil.”

If you believe the mirage on the desert is a reality, a real lake of waters surrounded by trees, then you will pursue it as long as you are deceived, and endure many sufferings and hardships through your ignorance. But the traveler who knows it to be nothing, says so, and cannot be deluded into following it nor led out of his way, no matter how fair it may be to look upon. So should we regard all evil and all this dream-world