Life, Truth, and Love for All

We have ever since the beginning of mortal history, come to accept everything around us as matter. We are on the same level in believing that matter holds all issues of life, fulfills our substance, gives us pleasure, as well as pain, constitutes our workings, functionings, successes, and reality. However, throughout history, there have been a few wise thinkers who found that there is something beyond matter that should be considered. They found a higher reality, and dedicated their activities to following divine Spirit where all substance, reality, good, truth are found to be spiritual, not material.

In her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy explains matter, and Spirit in scientific detail. After reading this book we cannot help but see matter and reality in a different light: the light of spirituality, which Mary Baker Eddy, Jesus, and many others have explained and demonstrated.

On page 468 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy says that, “There is no life, truth, intellegence nor substance in matter.” The entire book unfolds the meaning, and issues with this statement, as well as how to demonstrate this in our everyday lives. Many have been healed from physical, emotional, financial, familial, and sinful discomforts by contemplating the profound meaning of this profound statement.

Let us think in light of Mary Baker Eddy’s book. If Spirit is All, then matter must be the suppositional opposite, and unreal. If Spirit is All, matter cannot have substance, since there is nothing beyond or outside of All. If Spirit is All, and Spirit is God, and God is good, then matter cannot be unlike good, and become evil, sick, diseased, limited, diminished, exhausted, depleted, because, there is no matter. All is Spirit. Spirit is our substance, reality, good, strength, understanding, being, life, and the truth of who we are and reflect. Why? Why do I believe this? Because of logic. Spirit is God, and God is all, and all must be spiritual. Where does that put matter and all the many issues surrounding matter? It puts it nowhere, nothing, no issue, no person, no reality. There simply is no matter.

Try thinking for one hour on that statement, “There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter.” After that, go the next sentence, which is the next step in unfolding reality: “All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all.” Now we have to have something in place of matter if we claim there is no matter. We do. It is the allness, goodness, purity, reality, and condition of Spirit, God.

There is so much opportunity out there to demonstration Mary Baker Eddy’s works. We, as students of her writings, need to focus on the Scientific Statement of Being throughout our work days, and not just when we think we have the time. It needs to be our thinking structure and used in what ever setting we find ourselves in. We have a choice between immortal truth, or mortal error. We can choose between accepting Spirituality, or materiality. We can agree with either the first creation story in Genesis, in which God, Spirit made and evolved all, and made man in His spiritual image and likeness, or we can accept man as a miserable sinner, prone to all evil, limitations, illnesses, and disabilities.

Mary Baker Eddy shows that matter is apparent only to lead us to the perfect, harmonious reality of Spirit, inexhaustible good. Where there is truth, there has to be a lie to demonstrate that truth is true. Life cannot be understood as Life without the suppositonal opposite of Life, which is death. Spirit cannot be understood without knowing Spirit’s suppostional opposite, matter. Spirit and matter are eternal opposites. Both cannot be true, or real, because Spirit is All, since Spirit is God, good, and matter could not come forth from its opposite, Spirit.