 | CHAPTER X - SCIENCE OF BEING Science and Health with KEY to THE SCRIPTURES |  |
One cause supreme
That matter is substantial or has life and sensation, is one of the false beliefs of mortals, and exists only in a supposititious mortal consciousness. Hence, as we approach Spirit and Truth, we lose the consciousness of matter. The admission that there can be material substance requires another admission, - namely, that Spirit is not infinite and that matter is self- creative, self-existent, and eternal. From this it would follow that there are two eternal causes, warring forever with each other; and yet we say that Spirit is supreme and all-presence.
The belief of the eternity of matter contradicts the demonstration of life as Spirit, and leads to the conclu- sion that if man is material, he originated in matter and must return to dust, - logic which would prove his an- nihilation.
| CHAPTER X - SCIENCE OF BEING Science and Health with KEY to THE SCRIPTURES | |