you, oh Good, deny this, then I deny your truthfulness. If you say that matter is unconscious, you stultify my intellect, insult my conscience, and dispute self-evident facts; for nothing can be clearer than the testimony of the five senses.
Good. Spirit is the only Substance. Spirit is
God, and God is Good; hence Good is the only
Substance, the only Mind. Mind is not, can not
be, in matter. It sees, hears, feels, tastes, smells
as mind, and not as matter. Matter can not talk;
and hence, whatever it appears to say of itself is a
lie. This lie, that Mind can be in matter, — claiming
to be something beside God, denying Truth and
its demonstration in Christian Science, — this lie I
declare an illusion. This denial enlarges the human
intellect, by removing its evidence from sense to
Soul, and from finiteness into Infinity. It honors
conscious human individuality, by showing God as
its source.
Evil. I am a creator, — but upon a material, not
a spiritual basis. I give life, and I can destroy
life.
