"Form, outline and color are ideas that Mind has expressed, and they never leave their spiritual and immortal basis for one transient and material."—Mrs. Eddy, Science and Health.
" Infinite Mind cannot be in a finite form. It would require an infinite form to contain an infinite Mind."—Ibid.
Form is not to be confounded with matter, and all philosophers attest this, Form is apparently the necessary symbol of finite force. While every several form is mutable and temporary, there is an endless succession. Real forms are spiritual, and are but the modes in which finite powers exist and operate, and become mutually discriminated and manifest; and they must therefore exist so long as there are ideas, or spiritual beings, in existence, or forces in operation. No war waged for their utter extinction can succeed. All finite things immediately known to us are of some form or shape, or are associated with it. Our very thoughts are, for the most part, subject to the regulative laws of space and time, as conditions of their expression.
