Article December 30, 1939 Issue

No Shadow of Materiality

HORACE B. KNOWLES

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes (pp. 109, 110): "The three great verities of Spirit, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience,—Spirit possessing all power, filling all space, constituting all Science,—contradict forever the belief that matter can be actual. These eternal verities reveal primeval existence as the radiant reality of God's creation, in which all that He has made is pronounced by His wisdom good." This profound statement, revealing, as it does, the allness of God, good, and the perfection of His creation, enables us to realize that no shadow of materiality has ever come between God and man in the light and harmony of true being, which was established "when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy."

Since God is infinite Spirit, or Mind, and since He created man in His image and likeness, man is spiritual, not material. Therefore, the claim that evil or matter exists as something real is seen to be false, and therefore powerless to interfere with God's man, to whom was given dominion over all the earth. Whence, then, appears the so-called mortal, material man, with all the concomitants of evil—sin, sickness, disease, and death? We have already seen that God, Spirit, created man in His image and likeness, and Spirit, filling all space, cannot produce its opposite, matter. It must therefore be obvious that man is not mortal or material, but immortal and spiritual.

There is but one creator, in whom "we live, and move, and have our being," as St. Paul declares. All the suffering of humanity results from the false belief that man is a material being, living in a material body, and capable of thinking good and evil thoughts. Believing that he is subject to unseen material forces outside his control, one often regards life as useless, a daily round of monotony, with little security or pleasure. What a joy it is to know that this is only a fable! By turning away from it and acknowledging man's inseparability from God, one can maintain his God-given ability to think and act wisely and intelligently, thereby experiencing good in all his affairs and expressing health, joy, happiness, and well-being.

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