To begin with, I will quote a few familiar sentences from the Bible, which seem to point us to Truth ; viz : "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven ;" "The flesh and the spirit war with each other ;" "The body profiteth nothing ;" "Take no thought for the body ;" "Willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord." Do not these words pronounce upon matter, and material thought, as having no power to give us an understanding of the spiritual kingdom and God? The truth is, we have to drop material sense, and and open the door on spiritual sense, to learn of God.
The fact that we think, and therefore exist, does not prove that we exist as matter ; it simply proves that we exist. Now in metaphysics, all things resolve themselves into thoughts, and thoughts are ranged on one of two sides, Reality and Supposition, as follows :—
Reality.
Good, (God,)
Infinity,
Life, Truth and
Love, or the Trinity,
Substance,
Intelligence.
