The tendency of present-day material evolutionists is to identify matter with the manifestation of force. This material sense of force is manifestly not a substance-matter, but a manifestation of mortal mind. Surely it cannot be divine Mind, for the divine Mind, God, is, from His very nature, incapable of producing the inharmony, which appears in the material world. In fact, the wisdom of this world generally concedes that material sensation is a function of mind, and that the mind, not the eye, sees what it believes; the mind, not the ear, hears the inharmonious sounds.
The only relation this mortal sense bears to the divine Mind, is the relation that discord bears to harmony. Discord manifests itself only when we fail to apprehend the Principle of harmony. Apply this active Principle of harmony, which is divine Mind, and the discord disappears in the same way that darkness disappears before the light.
Much can be learned of the unfoldment of divine Principle through a study of mathematics. No one ever saw the basic law of mathematics with the material eyes, yet every one who undertakes the simplest combination of numbers or things is working in obedience to its harmonizing influence. This law is far more comprehensive and potent than we are at first willing to admit. The business man is advancing in its understanding when he introduces book-keeping and other accurately working systems. Our trains and cars move on schedule time to maintain this harmony, and we are continually recording measurements to express the same harmony. These illustrations might be greatly multiplied.
