0.0 – Christian Science – 16 Books by Mary Baker Eddy – Bk 4 – Rudimental Divine Science – Chpt 7 – Non-Existence of Matter

  	    Is there no matter? 

  	    All is Mind. According to the Scriptures and Christian
21	Science, all is God, and there is naught beside Him. "God
  	is Spirit;" and we can only learn and love Him through
  	His spirit, which brings out the fruits of Spirit and ex-
24	tinguishes forever the works of darkness by His marvel-
  	lous light. 
  	    The five material senses testify to the existence of
 
   
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 1	matter. The spiritual senses afford no such evidence,
  	but deny the testimony of the material senses. Which
 3	testimony is correct? The Bible says: "Let God be
  	true, and every man a liar." If, as the Scriptures imply,
  	God is All-in-all, then all must be Mind, since God is
 6	Mind. Therefore in divine Science there is no material
  	mortal man, for man is spiritual and eternal, he being
  	made in the image of Spirit, or  God. 
 9	    There is no material sense. Matter is inert, inanimate,
  	and sensationless, — considered apart from Mind. Lives
  	there a man who has ever found Soul in the body or in
12	matter, who has ever seen spiritual substance with the
  	eye, who has found sight in matter, hearing in the material
  	ear, or intelligence in non-intelligence? If there is any
15	such thing as matter, it must be either mind which is
  	called matter, or matter without Mind. 
  	    Matter without Mind is a moral impossibility. Mind
18	in matter is pantheism. Soul is the only real conscious-
  	ness which cognizes being. The body does not see, hear,
  	smell, or taste. Human belief says that it does; but
21	destroy this belief of seeing with the eye, and we could
  	not see materially; and so it is with each of the physical
  	senses. 
24	    Accepting the verdict of these material senses, we should
  	believe man and the universe to be the football of chance
  	and sinking into oblivion. Destroy the five senses as
27	organized matter, and you must either become non-exist-
  	ent, or exist in Mind only; and this latter conclusion is
 
   
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 1	the simple solution of the problem of being, and leads to
  	the equal inference that there is no matter. SHOW ALL