Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force - 12/17/1916

​ S THE UNIVERSE, INCLUDING MAN, EVOLVED BY ATOMIC FORCE?

December 17, 1916



Golden Text

Ps 107:8

Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 





Responsive Reading

Ps 106:1-8,13,44,47,48

Praise ye the Lord.  O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 



Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord? who can shew forth all his praise? 



Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times. 



Remember me, O Lord, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation; 



That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance. 



We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. 



Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea. 



Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known. 



They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: 



Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry: 



Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise. 



Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen.  Praise ye the Lord. 





Section I

( 1)   Gen 1:3,4,31  

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 



And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.  And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 



( 2)   I Chron 29:11,12  

Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. 



( 3)   John 1:1-4  

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 





( 1)   69:2-10  

The scientific fact that man and the universe are evolved from Spirit, and so are spiritual, is as fixed in divine Science as is the proof that mortals gain the sense of health only as they lose the sense of sin and disease.  Mortals can never understand God's creation while believing that man is a creator. God's children already created will be cognized only as man finds the truth of being.  Thus it is that the real, ideal man appears in proportion as the false and material disappears. 



( 2)   525:17-24  

    In the Gospel of John, it is declared that all things were made through the Word of God, "and without Him [the logos, or word] was not anything made that was made." Everything good or worthy, God made. Whatever is valueless or baneful, He did not make, - hence its unreality. In the Science of Genesis we read that He saw everything which He had made, "and, behold, it was very good." 



( 3)   545:10-15  

Man, created by God, was given dominion over the whole earth. The notion of a material universe is utterly opposed to the theory of man as evolved from Mind. Such fundamental errors send falsity into all human doctrines and conclusions, and do not accord infinity to Deity. 



( 4)   475:28-31 The  

The real man cannot depart from holiness, nor can God, by whom man is evolved, engender the capacity or freedom to sin. 



( 5)   303:10  

Whatever reflects Mind, Life, Truth, and Love, is spiritually conceived and brought forth; but the statement that man is conceived and evolved both spiritually and materially, or by both God and man, contradicts this eternal truth. All the vanity of the ages can never make both these contraries true. Divine Science lays the axe at the root of the illusion that life, or mind, is formed by or is in the material body, and Science will eventually destroy this illusion through the self-destruction of all error and the beatified understanding of the Science of Life. 





Section II

( 4)   Eccl 1:2,14  

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. 



I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 



( 5)   Is 59:1,2,9,10  

Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 



Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. 



( 6)   John 6:63  

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 





( 6)   189: 18-4  

The human mortal mind, by an inevitable perversion, makes all things start from the lowest instead of from the highest mortal thought. The reverse is the case with all the formations of the immortal divine Mind. They proceed from the divine source; and so, in tracing them, we constantly ascend in infinite being. 

    From mortal mind comes the reproduction of the species, - first the belief of inanimate, and then of animate matter. According to mortal thought, the development of embryonic mortal mind commences in the lower, basal portion of the brain, and goes on in an ascending scale by evolution, keeping always in the direct line of matter, for matter is the subjective condition of mortal mind. 

    Next we have the formation of so-called embryonic mortal mind, afterwards mortal men or mortals, - all this while matter is a belief, ignorant of itself, ignorant of what it is supposed to produce. 



( 7)   190:17  

This mortal seeming is temporal; it never merges into immortal being, but finally disappears, and immortal man, spiritual and eternal, is found to be the real man. 



( 8)   547:15,25  

In its history of mortality, Darwin's theory of evolution from a material basis is more consistent than most theories. Briefly, this is Darwin's theory, - that Mind produces its opposite, matter, and endues matter with power to recreate the universe, including man. Material evolution implies that the great First Cause must become material, and afterwards must either return to Mind or go down into dust and nothingness. 



The true theory of the universe, including man, is not in material history but in spiritual development.  Inspired thought relinquishes a material, sensual, and mortal theory of the universe, and adopts the spiritual and immortal. 





Section III

( 7)   Ps 66:1,2,7,8  

Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands: Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious. 



He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves.  Selah. O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard: 



( 8)   Ps 18:30-32  

As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. For who is God save the Lord? or who is a rock save our God? It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. 



( 9)   Ps 21:13  

Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power. 





( 9)   135:9  

Spiritual evolution alone is worthy of the exercise of divine power. 



(10)   335:18-20 Nothing, 25-26 Mind  

Nothing but Spirit, Soul, can evolve Life, for Spirit is more than all else. 



Mind is the divine Principle, Love, and can produce nothing unlike the eternal Father-Mother, God. 



(11)   551:9, 24-27 Darkness  

    One distinguished naturalist argues that mortals spring from eggs and in races. Mr. Darwin admits this, but he adds that mankind has ascended through all the lower grades of existence. Evolution describes the gradations of human belief, but it does not acknowledge the method of divine Mind, nor see that material methods are impossible in divine Science and that all Science is of God, not of man. 



Darkness and doubt encompass thought, so long as it bases creation on materiality. From a material standpoint, "Canst thou by searching find out God?" 



(12)   68:27-30  

    Christian Science presents unfoldment, not accretion; it manifests no material growth from molecule to mind, but an impartation of the divine Mind to man and the universe. 



(13)   295:5  

    God creates and governs the universe, including man.  The universe is filled with spiritual ideas, which He evolves, and they are obedient to the Mind that makes them. Mortal mind would transform the spiritual into the material, and then recover man's original self in order to escape from the mortality of this error. Mortals are not like immortals, created in God's own image; but infinite Spirit being all, mortal consciousness will at last yield to the scientific fact and disappear, and the real sense of being, perfect and forever intact, will appear. 





Section IV

(10)   Gen 1:6  

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 



(11)   Gen 2:6  

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 



(12)   Is 50:10  

Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. 



(13)   Is 51:6  

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. 



(14)   Ps 150:1,2,6  

Praise ye the Lord.  Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. 



Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord.  Praise ye the Lord. 





(14)   523:7  

The creations of matter arise from a mist or false claim, or from mystification, and not from the firmament, or understanding, which God erects between the true and false.  In error everything comes from beneath, not from above.  All is material myth, instead of the reflection of Spirit. 



(15)   522:25-29  

    This latter part of the second chapter of Genesis, which portrays Spirit as supposedly cooperating with matter in constructing the universe, is based on some hypothesis of error, for the Scripture just preceding declares God's work to be finished. 



(16)   524:28-4  

Could Spirit evolve its opposite, matter, and give matter ability to sin and suffer? Is Spirit, God, injected into dust, and eventually ejected at the demand of matter?  Does Spirit enter dust, and lose therein the divine nature and omnipotence? Does Mind, God, enter matter to become there a mortal sinner, animated by the breath of God? In this narrative, the validity of matter is opposed, not the validity of Spirit or Spirit's creations. 



(17)   467:29-3  

    Reasoning from cause to effect in the Science of Mind, we begin with Mind, which must be understood through the idea which expresses it and cannot be learned from its opposite, matter. Thus we arrive at Truth, or intelligence, which evolves its own unerring idea and never can be coordinate with human illusions. 



(18)   191:8  

    As a material, theoretical life-basis is found to be a misapprehension of existence, the spiritual and divine Principle of man dawns upon human thought, and leads it to "where the young child was,"  - even to the birth of a new-old idea, to the spiritual sense of being and of what Life includes. Thus the whole earth will be transformed by Truth on its pinions of light, chasing away the darkness of error. 





Section V

(15)   Job 3:25 

For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. 



(16)   Is 35:4,6,10 

Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. 



Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. 



And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 



(17)   John 5:2,5-9, 14 

Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 



And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath. 



Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee. 





(19)   260:19  

    Mortals must change their ideals in order to improve their models. A sick body is evolved from sick thoughts. Sickness, disease, and death proceed from fear. Sensualism evolves bad physical and moral conditions. 



(20)   199:15-22  

    Mortals develop their own bodies or make them sick, according as they influence them through mortal mind.  To know whether this development is produced consciously or unconsciously, is of less importance than a knowledge of the fact. The feats of the gymnast prove that latent mental fears are subdued by him.  The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. 



(21)   480:26-3  

    The Bible declares: "All things were made by Him [the divine Word]; and without Him was not anything made that was made." This is the eternal verity of divine Science. If sin, sickness, and death were understood as nothingness, they would disappear. As vapor melts before the sun, so evil would vanish before the reality of good. One must hide the other. How important, then, to choose good as the reality! Man is tributary to God, Spirit, and to nothing else. 



(22)   339:20-25, 32  

    XXXII.  As the mythology of pagan Rome has yielded to a more spiritual idea of Deity, so will our material theories yield to spiritual ideas, until the finite gives place to the infinite, sickness to health, sin to holiness, and God's kingdom comes "in earth, as it is in heaven." 



Our various theories will never lose their imaginary power for good or evil, until we lose our faith in them and make life its own proof of harmony and God. 





Section VI

(18)   Eccl 3:14,15  

I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him. That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. 



(19)   Ps 145:10-13  

All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord; and thy saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power; To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. 



(20)   Eph 3:20,21  

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end.  Amen. 





(23)   502:28-3  

The universe reflects God.  There is but one creator and one creation. This creation consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and forever reflected. 



(24)   503:10  

In the universe of Truth, matter is unknown. No supposition of error enters there. Divine Science, the Word of God, saith to the darkness upon the face of error, "God is All-in-all," and the light of ever-present Love illumines the universe. Hence the eternal wonder, - that infinite space is peopled with God's ideas, reflecting Him in countless spiritual forms. 



(25)   295:28  

Brainology teaches that mortals are created to suffer and die. It further teaches that when man is dead, his immortal soul is resurrected from death and mortality. Thus error theorizes that spirit is born of matter and returns to matter, and that man has a resurrection from dust; whereas Science unfolds the eternal verity, that man is the spiritual, eternal reflection of God. 



(26)   266:27  

Man is the idea of Spirit; he reflects the beatific presence, illuming the universe with light. Man is deathless, spiritual. He is above sin or frailty. He does not cross the barriers of time into the vast forever of Life, but he coexists with God and the universe. 



(27)   557:18  

Divine Science rolls back the clouds of error with the light of Truth, and lifts the curtain on man as never born and as never dying, but as coexistent with his creator.