Christian Science Index for Matter
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1 | Prayer Treatment | Matter | Matter Basis | Rawson, Frederick L | Material Basis | Show all | There is no material basis, the only basis is spiritual, for the only foundation is God ; the only thoughts are God’s thoughts, divine and holy thoughts, which are always coming to man. Nothing exists except Spirit and the manifestation of Spirit, all is spiritual and perfect. There is no material world, only God’s world, the world of reality, perfect and divine. There is no want of knowledge of Truth, man knows Truth and loves Truth and rejoices in Truth. There is no mortal mind to keep man off his true basis, for there is only one Mind, God, good ; man is always on a spiritual basis ; he has spiritual perception, spiritual discernment, spiritual understanding, and knows Truth. | ||
2 | Prayer Treatment | Matter | Material Body | Rawson, Frederick L | Material Body | Show all | There is no material body, man’s body is the body of thought, the infinite combinations of ideas which have come to man, and of which man is conscious whenever needed. Man’s body can never be affected by matter, man’s body is spiritual, the glorious body which gives man joy and happiness ; fashioned like unto bis glorious body" (Phil. 3 : 21). | ||
3 | Prayer Treatment | Matter | Material Man | Rawson, Frederick L | Material Man | Show all | There is no material man, man is divine, a perfect being, in a perfect world, governed by a perfect God, “God’s spiritual idea, individual, perfect, eternal" (S. & H. p. 115). The only man there is now, ever was or ever will be is spiritual and perfect, reflecting Life, Truth, Love, Mind, Soul, Spirit, intelligence, substance and Principle. Man is consciousness, God’s consciousness, knowing nothing unlike God, being co-existent and co eternal with God, ever re-presenting perfect, spiritual ideas in the divine order of being, God’s thinking, knowing, acting, conscious, existent idea of Himself; in quality reflecting all that God is. “Tbe sinless joy,—tbe perfect harmony and immortality of Life, possessing unlimited divine beauty and goodness without a single bodily pleasure or pain,—constitutes the only veritable, indestructible man, whose being is spiritual” (S. & H. p. 76). There is no matter, only Spirit and the infinite manifestation of Spirit, pure, perfect, divine and holy. “Immortal man was and is God’s image or idea, even the infinite expression of infinite Mind, and immortal man is coexistent and coeternal with that Mind” (S. &. H. p. 336). Man cannot be conscious of anything material, man thinks only of God’s spiritual ideas which are continually unfolding to him, for man is God’s consciousness by means of which God thinks and knows, and man knows Truth and rejoices in Truth. There is nothing but God, nothing but Truth. “His truth enduretb to all generations” (Ps. 100 : 5). | ||
4 | Prayer Treatment | Matter | Matter ~ A Shadow | MBEI | Matter a Shadow | Treat Mp3 | 16 | Show all | 02/03/2024 -- (This is not Extemporaneous but reading the text of the author) Matter a Shadow ~ The Christian Science Journal August, 1888 Vol. 6 No. 5 Page 224 THE answer to the oft-repeated question, Is there no matter? involves another question, What is matter? The word matter is defined, by standard authority, as the material, or substance, out of which any object or thing is made, — substance which changes in form according to the evolution of physical law, as seen in the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, in their various stages of birth, growth, and decay. Matter is also spoken of as something which relates to the metaphysical, as well as physical, world. --- Click media for complete details. |
5 | Prayer Treatment | Matter | Spirit ~ The Only Substance | MBEI | Spirit ~ Not Obese Matter but the Only Substance | Treat Mp3 | 74 | Show all | 02/01/2024 ~ Spirit is not Obese (any Excess) Matter 1. Introduction MP3 2. All treatment standards PDF 3. Spirit is the opposite of matter and only one of them can be real. There are not two opposites of any topic in which both of them can be real. Therefore, one must do the research at the onset of when the topic occurs to one. How do we overcome the total belief of life, truth and intelligence in matter? For more details CLICK the media. |
6 | Prayer Treatment | Matter | Life Understood | Rawson, Frederick L | Is the Real Man Material Or Spiritual? | chpt pdf | Show all | 8 Pgs ~ IS THE REAL MAN MATERIAL OR SPIRITUAL ? ~ "Call no man your father upon the earth; for one is your Father, which is in heaven" (Matt. 23:9). For ages man has been cajoled and generally hypnotized into the belief that he is a material being, liable to sin, sickness, worries, troubles, and ultimate death. There is not a word of truth in it. It is a misapprehension of existence, absolutely false. -- Please CLICK media to view or download complete details. | |
7 | Prayer Treatment | Matter | Life Understood | Rawson, Frederick L | The Non-Reality of Matter | chpt pdf | Show all | 7 Pgs ~ THE NON-REALITY OF MATTER ~ "When Bishop Berkeley said there was no matter and proved it, it was no matter what he meant" (Byron). Up to recent years the indestructibility of matter was regarded as a dogma, to cast a doubt on which would have been regarded as rank heresy, while to advance the suspicion that there is, perhaps, no such thing as matter, but that all phenomena are merely due to force, as is accepted by the scientific world to-day -- Please CLICK media to view or download complete details. |
8 | Prayer Treatment | Matter | Matter | Eddy, Mary Baker | Matter ~ There Is No Matter | Show all | '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. | ||
9 | Prayer Treatment | Matter | Is there no matter? | Eddy, Mary Baker | Non-Existence of Matter | Show all | Is there no matter? All is Mind. According to the Scriptures and Christian 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 extinguishes forever the works of darkness by His marvelous light. The five material senses testify to the existence of matter. The spiritual senses afford no such evidence, but deny the testimony of the material senses. Which 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 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. 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 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 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 in matter is pantheism. Soul is the only real consciousness which recognizes being. The body does not see, hear, smell, or taste. Human belief says that it does; but destroy this belief of seeing with the eye, and we could not see materially; and so it is with each of the physical senses. 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 organized matter, and you must either become non-existent, or exist in Mind only; and this latter conclusion is the simple solution of the problem of being, and leads to the equal inference that there is no matter. |
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10 | Prayer Treatment | Matter | Statement that being is spiritual, and not material | Eddy, Mary Baker | Scientific statement - What is the scientific statement of being? | Show all | Question. — What is the scientific statement of being? Answer. — There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual. |