When Mary Baker Eddy stated many years ago, "We tread on forces. Withdraw them, and creation must collapse" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 124) her words preceded the discovery by physicists that matter is interconvertible with energy, which can be released for either destructive or useful purposes of power.
Mrs. Eddy made other observations, equally important, which natural scientists on the whole have not yet acknowledged to be true. For instance, she says (ibid., p. 293), "Electricity is not a vital fluid, but the least material form of illusive consciousness,—the material mindlessness, which forms no link between matter and Mind, and which destroys itself." A little later she continues her explanation in these words: "Electricity is the sharp surplus of materiality which counterfeits the true essence of spirituality or truth,—the great difference being that electricity is not intelligent, while spiritual truth is Mind."
Christian Science delves into the nature of matter, using a basis different from that of the natural sciences. It declares that electricity or any other form of matter is the phenomenon of a mind that is not God. The mental makeup of matter must eventually be acknowledged if matter is to be brought under the control of divine Mind, or God.
