A Student of Christian Science has vivid recollections of hearing, during the latter part of her school years, the subject of perpetual motion discussed with great fervor from a purely material standpoint. She felt that the ideas expressed were quite beyond her ability to grasp or comprehend and left it at that. However, since she has taken up the study of Christian Science, light has gradually dawned on this as upon many other subjects which at one time seemed puzzling and paradoxical. It is being seen that no material viewpoint or explanation of any mortal object or theory is satisfying, that in order to find the truth of all concepts, it is essential to start from the standpoint of God, divine Spirit, Mind, as the only cause and creator of all that really exists.
Christian Science teaches that perpetual motion is spiritual, not material; that matter, being temporal and subject to decay and total annihilation, cannot be perpetual. On page 283 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy makes a concise and dynamic statement about perpetual motion in the following sentence: "Mind is the source of all movement, and there is no inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious action." The realization of the truth contained in that statement helps to restore to normal, harmonious action any stoppage or stagnation of the human mind or body. Mind, not matter, is responsible for the movement of man.
Because Mind can never become inactive, man, the manifestation of Mind, is forever actively expressing intelligent ideas of Love, Life, and Truth. He is inseparable from the blessings which these ideas bestow. It is unthinkable that God's man—the man God made in His own likeness—should be capable of inertia, stagnation, apathy, or ignorance of good. Man is, was, and ever will be coexistent and coeternal with Mind, expressing its perpetuity and perfection.
