JPalmer
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05/16/2015 11:26...matter manifests mortality only—from Science and Health, first edition, by Mary Baker Glover, pages 355-356
All being is spiritual and not material, for this is the scientific statement of being, the basis of immortality, and we shall all ultimately learn this. Nor can we begin to understand Life a day too soon. Every theory opposed to this prolongs sickness, sin and death, making that which is immortal in understanding, mortal in belief. When the belief of Life and Intelligence in matter disappears, its physical manifestation will cease, and mortal man return to dust, and why? because be was simply a belief, and this belief an error, instead of the reality of being; for man is not matter, and never dies. To prove the body called mortal man error and not Truth, wehave only to find it mortal. The belief of Life and Intelligence in matter is destroyed; but Life and man, still are, and ever will be.
Matter is not the medium through which Spirit acts, or is manifested. Spirit is never individualized, and there is no medium for it. Spirit is infinite, because it is Intelligence, what then can limit it? Again, to Spirit Intelligence alone is Substance, and there is no matter. If the body was intelligent, it could never return to dust, for mind dies not, and Intelligence never developed from matter.
Physiology makes man both Spirit and matter; and this error would make man mortal. if brains are mind matter is mind; and a stone, a lesser degree of man. To admit Spirit is not in matter, and then say it is manifested through it, contradicts facts, for matter manifests mortality only, and Spirit is immortal; not a glimpse or manifestation of Spirit is obtained through the erring or decaying. Spirit is positive to all things, and if it passed through matter it would destroy it, or become negative to it. Metaphysical science, dry and abstract though it appears, should not be overlooked for the transient and mortal sense of things; health, harmony and immortality are gained through spirituality only; and this will be understood sooner or later. Truth has but, one department for its students, and but one branch of education, viz., the science of being.
Every week the readings from the first edition that are broadcast at 11:30am on Saturday are very timely. They always contribute to my understanding of the Lesson, the Bible Study, and my life in such an instructive way. I am very grateful that this church offers all this wonderfully supportive material. Thank you!
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