Mrs. Eddy: “I could not at once bring myself to write down the thoughts that surged in upon me that substance was not matter. . . . I would lay down my pen and say, ‘I cannot write it.’ It seemed so contrary to all my experience and yet there was the heavenly message, ‘There is no life, truth, intelligence nor substance in matter.’ . . . . I saw. . . that the true man was spiritual and that the fleshly body was but the false belief of the false material sense” (Reminiscences of Irving C. Tomlinson, p. 125, The Mary Baker Eddy Collection, The Mary Baker Eddy Library).
“The works I have written on Christian Science contain absolute Truth, and my necessity was to tell it; therefore I did this even as a surgeon who wounds to heal. I was a scribe under orders; and who can refrain from transcribing what God indites, and ought not that one to take the cup, drink all of it, and give thanks?” (Misc., p. 311).
“Here comes in the summary of the whole matter, wherewith we started: that God is All, and God is Spirit; therefore there is nothing but Spirit; and consequently there is no matter” (Unity of Good, p. 34).
“St. Paul said to the Athenians, ‘For in Him we live, and move, and have our being.’ This statement is in substance identical with my own: ‘There is no life, truth, substance, nor intelligence in matter.’. . . . If Christian Science reiterates St. Paul’s teaching, we, as Christian Scientists, should give to the world convincing proof of the validity of this scientific statement of being. Having perceived, in advance of others, this scientific fact, we owe to ourselves and to the world, a struggle for its demonstration” (Retrospection and Introspection, pp. 93-94).