All true Science represents a moral and spiritual force,
which holds the earth in its orbit. This force is Spirit,
that can "bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades," and 12
"loose the bands of Orion."
There is no material science, if by that term you mean
material intelligence. God is infinite Mind, hence there 15
is no other Mind. Good is Mind, but evil is not Mind.
Good is not in evil, but in God only. Spirit is not in matter,
but in Spirit only. Law is not in matter, but in Mind only. 18
_Is there no matter?_
All is Mind. According to the Scriptures and Christian
Science, all is God, and there is naught beside Him. "God 21
is Spirit;" and we can only learn and love Him through
His spirit, which brings out the fruits of Spirit and ex-
tinguishes forever the works of darkness by His marvel- 24
lous light.
The five material senses testify to the existence of
matter. The spiritual senses afford no such evidence, 1
but deny the testimony of the material senses. Which
testimony is correct? The Bible says: "Let God be 3
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 6
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, 9
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 12
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 15
called matter, or matter without Mind.
Matter without Mind is a moral impossibility. Mind
in matter is pantheism. Soul is the only real conscious- 18
ness which cognizes 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 21
not see materially; and so it is with each of the physical
senses.
Accepting the verdict of these material senses, we should 24
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-exist- 27
ent, or exist in Mind only; and this latter conclusion is
the simple solution of the problem of being, and leads to 1
the equal inference that there is no matter.
_The sweet sounds and glories of earth and sky, assum-_ 3
_ing manifold forms and colors, -- are they not tangible and_
_material?_
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