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Matter = NOTHING!!

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Announcements › Forums › Matter — March 21st, 2021 › Matter = NOTHING!!

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  • March 19, 2021 at 12:12 pm #12381
    Ldshap
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    Definitions of “matter” from various sources: That which is visible or tangible; physical object; occupies space; has mass; composed predominantly of atoms; the observable universe; the formless substratum of all things which exist only potentially and upon which form acts to produce realities; Christian Science: The illusion that the objects perceived by the physical senses have the reality of substance.

    Characteristics of “matter” (appears 732 times in the textbook, and 534 in Prose Works) from this week’s Lesson citations/What is “matter”?:
    • Has no life to lose
    • Has no truth
    • Has no intelligence
    • Has no substance
    • Is erroneous mortal belief
    • Is unreal
    • Is temporal
    • Is material
    • Did not originate in God
    • Is not eternal
    • Is not substantial
    • Can never be sick
    • Is the medium of man
    • Has no consciousness or Ego
    • Cannot act; its conditions are illusions/false conditions
    • Cannot talk, ache, swell, have pain, or be inflamed
    • Is wholly inadequate to affect a man
    • Only has supposed organic action or existence

    Miscellaneous Writings: “God is All, in all. What can be more than All? Nothing: and this is just what I call matter, nothing.” (p. 26:22-23).

    I am SO grateful to know, thanks to our beloved Leader, that “matter” is just A BIG ZERO – NOTHING – NO THING!! Such glorious freedom from fear this gives us, as “. . . why should we stand aghast at nothingness?”!! (S & H, p. 563:7).

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