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 3	    Do you believe in matter? 

  	    I believe in matter only as I believe in evil, that it is
  	something to be denied and destroyed to human conscious-
 6	ness, and is unknown to the Divine. We should watch
  	and pray that we enter not into the temptation of panthe-
  	istic belief in matter as sensible mind. We should sub-
 9	jugate it as Jesus did, by a dominant understanding of
  	Spirit. 
  	    At best, matter is only a phenomenon of mortal mind,
12	of which evil is the highest degree; but really there is no
  	such thing as mortal mind, — though we are compelled
  	to use the phrase in the endeavor to express the underlying
15	thought. 
  	    In reality there are no material states or stages of con-
  	sciousness, and matter has neither Mind nor sensation. 
18	Like evil, it is destitute of Mind, for Mind is God. 
  	    The less consciousness of evil or matter mortals have,
  	the easier it is for them to evade sin, sickness, and death,
21	 — which are but states of false belief, — and awake from
  	the troubled dream, a consciousness which is without
  	Mind or Maker. 
24	    Matter and evil cannot be conscious, and consciousness
  	should not be evil. Adopt this rule of Science, and you
  	will discover the material origin, growth, maturity, and
27	death of sinners, as the history of man, disappears, and the
 
   
Unity of Good – Credo                                                                51


 1	everlasting facts of being appear, wherein ma...n is the re-
  	flection of immutable good. 
 3	    Reasoning from false premises, — that Life is material,
  	that immortal Soul is sinful, and hence that sin is eternal,
  	 — the reality of being is neither seen, felt, heard, nor un-
 6	derstood. Human philosophy and human reason can
  	never make one hair white or black, except in belief;
  	whereas the demonstration of God, as in Christian Science,
 9	is gained through Christ as perfect manhood. 
  	    In pantheism the world is bereft of its God, whose
  	place is ill supplied by the pretentious usurpation, by
12	matter, of the heavenly sovereignty. 
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