Again I ask:  What evidence does mortal mind afford that matter is substantial, is hot or cold?  Take away mortal mind, and matter could not feel what it calls substance.  Take away matter, and mortal mind could not cognize its own so-called substance, and this so-called mind would have no identity.  Nothing would remain to be seen or felt.

What is substance?  What is the reality of God and the universe?  Immortal Mind is the real substance,—­Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love.

Taste. Mortal mind says, “I taste; and this is sweet, this is sour.”  Let mortal mind change, and say that sour is sweet, and so it would be.  If every mortal mind believed sweet to be sour, it would be so; for the qualities of matter are but qualities of mortal mind.  Change the mind, and the quality changes.  Destroy the belief, and the quality disappears.

The so-called material senses are found, upon examination, to be mortally mental, instead of material.  Reduced to its proper denomination, matter is mortal mind; yet, strictly speaking, there is no mortal mind, for Mind is immortal, and is not matter, but Spirit.

Force. What is gravitation?  Mortal mind says gravitation is a material power, or force.  I ask, Which was first, matter or power?  That which was first was God, immortal Mind, the Parent of all.  But God is Truth, and the forces of Truth are moral and spiritual, not physical.  They are not the merciless forces of matter.  What then are the so-called forces of matter?  They are the phenomena of mortal mind, and matter and mortal mind are one; and this one is a misstatement of Mind, God.

A molecule, as matter, is not formed by Spirit; for Spirit is spiritual consciousness alone.  Hence this spiritual consciousness can form nothing unlike itself, Spirit, and Spirit is the only creator.  The material atom is an outlined falsity of consciousness, which can gather additional evidence of consciousness and life only as it adds lie to lie.  This process it names material attraction, and endows with the double capacity of creator and creation.

From the beginning this lie was the false witness against the fact that Spirit is All, beside which there is no other existence.  The use of a lie is that it unwittingly confirms Truth, when handled by Christian Science, which reverses false testimony and gains a knowledge of God from opposite facts, or phenomena.

This whole subject is met and solved by Christian Science according to Scripture.  Thus we see that Spirit is Truth and eternal reality; that matter is the opposite of Spirit,—­referred to in the New Testament as the flesh at war with Spirit; hence, that matter is erroneous, transitory, unreal.

A further proof of this is the demonstration, according to Christian Science, that by the reduction and the rejection of the claims of matter (instead of acquiescence therein) man is improved physically, mentally, morally, spiritually.