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Matter ~ There Is No Matter 

'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.' If God is Spirit, and God is All, surely there can be no matter; for  the divine All must be Spirit. The tendency of Christianity is to spiritualize thought and action. The demonstrations of Jesus annulled the claims of matter, and overruled laws material as emphatically as they annihilated sin. -- Please CLICK media to view/Download complete details.

Sight

    Sight. Mortal mind declares that matter sees through
27	the organizations of matter, or that mind sees by means
 
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 1	of matter. Disorganize the so-called material structure,
  	and then mortal mind says, "I cannot see;" and declares
 3	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. 
 6	    What then is the line of the syllogism? It must be this:
  	That matter is not seen; that mortal mind cannot see
  	without matter; and therefore that the whole function
 9	of material sight is an illusion, a lie. 
  	    Here comes in the summary of the whole matter, where-
  	with we started:  that God is All, and God is Spirit; there-
12	fore there is nothing but Spirit; and consequently there
  	is no matter.

Touch

  	    Touch. Take another train of reasoning. Mortal mind
15	says that matter cannot feel matter; yet put your finger
  	on a burning coal, and the nerves, material nerves, do
  	feel matter. 
18	    Again I ask:   What evidence does mortal mind afford
  	that matter is substantial, is hot or cold? Take away
  	mortal mind, and matter could not feel what it calls sub-
21	stance. Take away matter, and mortal mind could not
  	cognize its own so-called substance, and this so-called
  	mind would have no identity. Nothing would remain to
24	be seen or felt. 
  	    What is substance? What is the reality of God and the
  	universe? Immortal Mind is the real substance, — Spirit,
27	Life, Truth, and Love. 

Taste

Unity of Good – There Is No Matter 

 1	    Taste. Mortal mind says, "I taste; and this is sweet,
  	this is sour." Let mortal mind change, and say that sour
 3	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
 6	the quality changes. Destroy the belief, and the quality
  	disappears. 
  	    The so-called material senses are found, upon examina-
 9	tion, to be mortally mental, instead of material. Reduced
  	to its proper denomination, matter is mortal mind; yet,
  	strictly speaking, there is no mortal mind, for Mind is
12	immortal, and is not matter, but Spirit.