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Matter ~ There is No Matter
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Matter ~ There is No Matter

    

10/15/2023 - EXCERPTS 
This is a reading of the above referenced article. Please adapt as a treatment by supplementing the text. For reference listen to any of the Mary Baker Eddy Institute Treatments.
1. GOD IS A SPIRIT ~ (or, more accurately translated, 'God is Spirit'), declares the Scripture (John iv. 24), 'and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.'
2. SIGHT ~ Mortal mind declares that matter sees through the organizations of matter, or that mind sees by means of matter. Disorganize the so-called material structure, and then mortal mind says, 'I cannot see;' and declares that matter is the master of mind, and that non-intelligence governs. Mortal mind admits that it sees only material images, pictured on the eye's retina.
3. TOUCH ~ Take another train of reasoning. Mortal mind says that matter cannot feel matter; yet put your finger on a burning coal, and the nerves, material nerves, do feel matter.
4. TASTE ~ Mortal mind says, 'I taste; and this is sweet, this is sour.' Let mortal mind change, and say that sour is sweet, and so it would be. If every mortal mind believed sweet to be sour, it would be so; for the qualities of matter are but qualities of mortal mind. Change the mind, and the quality changes. Destroy the belief, and the quality disappears.
5. FORCE ~ What is gravitation? Mortal mind says gravitation is a material power, or force. I ask, Which was first, matter or power? That which was f...
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