Article January 3, 1959 Issue

THE WORLD AROUND US

JOHN M. TUTT

The bald statement, "There is no matter," is to the human mind as futile as it is shocking. Mary Baker Eddy bulwarked the negation of matter with the affirmative, "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 468). This is from what she herself called "the scientific statement of being." In this we have the entirety of creator and creation, and both the subjectivity and the objectivity of existence, Mind and thought, expressed as the real world around, a universe of ideas.

But even though we agree with the statement that there is no matter, this of itself does not divorce one's view of the world about him from the evidence of the physical senses. One still has to deal with a matter cyclorama which to his senses constitutes his existence. He still seems to live, move, and have his being in matter. Regarding this finite outlook, Mrs. Eddy has said (Unity of Good, p. 8): "Everything is as real as you make it, and no more so. What you see, hear, feel, is a mode of consciousness, and can have no other reality than the sense you entertain of it."

Far more important than the mere denial of matter is the raising of one's sight to the true view of what we so ineffectively see as material objects, man and the universe. Since it is true that we do see what we believe, then our view about us and our experience are just the flowering of our belief.

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