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A real atom is spiritual

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Announcements › Forums › Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force? – June 17th, 2018 › A real atom is spiritual

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  • June 14, 2018 at 11:47 am #6697
    Colleen Mostika
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    “The only intelligence or substance of a thought, a seed, or a flower is God, the creator of it.” (“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy p. 508:5-6)
    I am learning that all real atoms are composed of Spirit, God, Good. Material atoms are not made of real substance; Spirit, God, Good. God doesn’t make a material atom that can decay.
    So, material atoms are images and not the real substance of what Life is.

    “Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause.” (“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy p. 313:23-26)
    I am getting a better understanding that I need to consistently look through the material appearance, good or bad, and keep finding the Truth behind what seems to be. Moral courage is helping me to do this; to be honest and pure and see others that way, too.

    June 15, 2018 at 8:13 am #6702
    Gary
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    This is a very important subject, and one we need to be very careful with. This is all about how one “sees” things. To see God at work in everything that we “see” is to see everything in its true nature. It’s not that there are two kinds of atoms, a “material” atom and a “spiritual” atom. The atoms that we “see”, that appear to us as material, do have a real substance, and that substance is Spirit, God. To recognize this, and not to be fooled into thinking that there is any life, truth, intelligence, or substance that is material, is the challenge facing each of us. Albert Einstein caught a glimpse of this, which explains why he recognized Christian Science as the “ultimate” science. He, and other nuclear physicists, recognize that the building blocks of atoms are not material at all, but are ‘forces.” Mrs. Eddy wrote about this many years earlier in S&H: “We tread on forces. Withdraw them and creation must collapse. Human knowledge calls them forces of matter; but divine Science declares that they belong wholly to Mind, are inherent in this Mind, and so restores them to their rightful home and classification.”
    Mrs. Eddy also realized that this was one of the points that was most difficult for the human mind to accept, and warned her students not to venture into explanations of this phenomenon, but rather work to demonstrate it. I find that this gives me plenty of challenging work to do every day. As Florence wrote in her blog, it’s good to be reminded that God is All.

    June 15, 2018 at 10:04 am #6703
    Colleen Mostika
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    Thank you for this helpful clarification!

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