The herald., 1921-01-20

of physical letters, theology Is cleanSed /
of the misconcepts of creed and dogma, |
and medicine is relieved of matter and |
properly related to Mind. Thus spirit !
ualiZation of thought raises the con- |
cepts OF science, theology, and medi- |
cine to a higher basis, reveals them to
be in truth modes of divine Mind, and !
restores them in human consciousness !
to their rightful place, from which |
material theories have debased them. .
The Leaven In Science.
Physical science from the first has
been fettered to matter 1t does not
pretend to deal with ultimate cause.
Rather it accepts matter as its start
ing point, leaving to theology the ex-
PLANTATION of origin. Thus natural
science makes of matter an absurdity,
an effect without a cause. Matter hav-
ing no origin, the conclusion is in.
evitable, though not admitted by phys
les, that matter has no existence in
fact. From such a basis, this so-called
science, with altogether material in
consistency, declares matter to be in
destructible. Now it is true that mat
ter cannot destroy matter. The de-
struction of matter can never be ac-
cOmplished by other than the dissolu-
tion of its seeming reality through the
recognition that Spirit is the only sub
stance. Matter and the human mind
are like kaleidoscope, where in the
minute particles of myriad colored
glass are seen to be going through a
continuous process of construction and
destruction of marvellous figures, a
| ceaseless alignment, breaking up and
re-alignment Contemplating the ka-
| leidoscopic history of humanity, its
| struggles, it's unrest, its present state
of fermentation, one is struck with this
obvious fact; there has never been any
real progress in matter. Always there
! has been change in matter, in inces-
SAINT action and reaction, building up
| and tearing down. But these muta-
tions are changes only of form. No es-
sential progress occurs till the leaven
of Spirit works in human conscious
ness that fundamental change from the
material to the spiritual. All perma-
nent progress is mental, spiritual, not
material, and is manifested humanity
in the overcoming of matter. phus
mans true advancement has been re-
corded not in material history, but in
spiritual development. The truth
about anything begins to unfold to
human consciousness at the vanishing
point of matter-beliefs about 1t.
The atomic theory was the founda.
tion of physics, when Mrs. Eddy dis
covered Christian Science. Briefly,
this theory taught that in the process
/ of subdivision of matter, point must
be reached at which no further divis-
ion could be made. Physics termed
this irreducible particle of matter the
atom and unon it raised the entire
structure of natural science, including
physical man. Instinctively l felt the
untruth of It.. In college, and later In
medical college, l questioned the
atomic theory, and found myself al
ways reaching back Of the material
toward primary cause. Now l know
that even then the leaven was at work
in human consciousness. To me IL
never seemed logical that there could
be an indivisible portion Of matter.
Anything that could be divided, con-
tended, could be divided again, and so
Indefinitely. Before my college course
was complete, the atomic theory be-
gan to crunble The atom was split In
two, and not only in. two, but was di-
vided many times, until at last matter
as matter disappeared. Freed from
limitations of the atomic theory,
thought began to expand and the con-
quest of matter received an impetus.
: Chemistry, physics, >the arts, gained
the benefit of liberated thought ana
MANY useful inventions came, giving
evidence of mans dominion over all
the earth. The disproving of the
atomic theory to be the final statement
-of matter necessitated further explana-
ton and so physicists have been ad-
vancing from one theory to another,
, until they have concluded that matter
/ is energy, or force, OF to be down TO
| the very minute. matter is just holes
in the ether" More than fifty years
ago. Mrs. Eddy said something that
, amounts to very nearly that when she
!, declared matter to be nothing more
than a phase of false belief. Physical
: science. under the influence OF the
leavening, is slowly, by devious paths
approaching the point where Mrs. Ed
| dy began, namely the identity OF mat
: ter and the human mind. Mrs. EDDY
! needed not to be a pedant to conclude
, that the essence of matter is mortal
, mind, for hers was divifely inspired
course which passed unerringly over
: the intervening steps necessarily taken
by human reason and research. The
ancient philosophers taught that mat
e ter is but the subjective state OF hu
:. man consciousness, that In the words
S of Mrs. Eddy. Mortal mind sees what
Q It believes as certainly as it believes
!. what 1t sees. 1t feels, hears, and sees
q its own thoughts" (S&H. pS6, 29-31. J
, But Christian Science alone reveals
!. the fact that neither matter nor thu
!. human mind have existence save al
= the mis-statement of cause and enect
/ the Misunderstanding, OF God ana HI
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