Article December 20, 1982 Issue

Understanding true substance

LARNED L. TUTTLE

What is true substance? How can we visualize and describe it? To consider matter as substance would block our perception of true substance. Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health, "Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay."^{Science and Health, p. 468.}

It is obvious that matter does not fit this Christianly scientific definition. In fact, by its very nature, matter is the antithesis of that which is "incapable of discord and decay." This leads us to the inevitable conclusion that Spirit, matter's opposite, must be true substance. Science and Health confirms this conclusion when it tells us: "Divine metaphysics explains away matter. Spirit is the only substance and consciousness recognized by divine Science."^{Ibid., p. 278.}

We need to dispel the tenacious belief in matter's substantiality in order to clear the way for this higher concept. Christ Jesus' acts of walking on the water, feeding the multitude, rising from the dead, appearing through closed doors,^{See Matt. 14:14-32; 28: 1-10; John 20:19.} defied the accepted beliefs regarding the nature of substance and presaged a major change in the concept of what it really is.

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