Article September 1, 1945 Issue

Matter Occupies No Space

ROBERT J. HIGHLAND

Christian Science teaches that God is Spirit, and that He is All. In that superbly concise summation which she calls "the scientific statement of being," the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," declares (p. 468), "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all."

When the truth of this statement is understood, even in a degree, one begins to realize that there is nothing in spiritual creation unlike Spirit, God. But when it is not understood, the question inevitably arises, What then is this manifestation called matter—Spirit's opposite—and does it not occupy space?

A student of Christian Science was asked to give metaphysical help to a friend who seemed to be suffering from an organic disease. While he was declaring the nothingness of the false claim, his consciousness was illumined with the realization that neither the diseased organ, the body which seemed to contain it, nor any other manifestation of matter occupied space anywhere. All were merely the objectified beliefs of mortal mind and could no more occupy space in God's spiritual universe than the material objects in a dream could occupy space in the room in which the dreamer was sleeping.

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