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