MARY BAKER EDDY, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, makes the unqualified statement (Science and Health, p. 283) that "Mind is the source of all movement, and there is no inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious action."
"Inertia" is defined, in part, as "indisposition to motion, exertion, or action; inertness." It is also defined as "sluggishness."
The physical senses testify that matter is real; and inertia is the seeming result of this belief. But what are the spiritual facts? Christian Science teaches that divine Mind and its ideas alone are real. Only that which manifests God is real. Whatever manifests the qualities of God is an expression of reality. Is matter Godlike? Does matter or mortal mind manifest the qualities of God? No! Christian Science reveals that the mythical copartners, mortal mind and matter, are wholly unlike God—hence, unreal. They are no part of God's perfect spiritual creation; and there is no other creation.
