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do we fight something called matter?

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Announcements › Forums › Unreality — October 2nd, 2022 › do we fight something called matter?

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  • September 26, 2022 at 6:30 pm #15482
    jacodebr7545ba
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    I don’t want to annoy anyone here, but I like to share my simple but uplifting thoughts. What is matter? It is mentioned all the time in our Christian Science literature, so that one might be tempted to think is is something real that we have to fight against.
    What is Spirit? We are told we are spiritual. Does it mean spiritual persons or things are something invisible, like a ghost or a phantom, or like a thin wisp of mist? Is it matter that what we perceive with our corporeal senses?
    Does it become “matter” if we can see, feel, touch, smell and hear it? Almost forgot taste.
    I started to understand that everything I can be aware of, must Spirit and spiritual, even my elbow.
    So when I see people, I try to see Spirit in manifestation. Only the thoughts of God’s heart, to be seen, felt, touched, etc. (Psalm 33:11)

    “From the infinite elements of the one Mind emanate all form, color, quality, and quantity, and these are mental, both primarily and secondarily.” S&H 512.
    I concluded that we are spiritual beings NOW, even while we experience (or dream) this body with all its biological functions, limitations and needs. God’s creation, Mind’s ideas, are not vague, indistinct, unclear, hazy or lacking definition. Eustace wrote: “Is the action of the stomach or liver something apart from Mind? You are conscious of it through communion with Mind.” But I may be wrong.

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