By his resurrection Christ Jesus taught that Spirit, not matter, is the substance, the ultimate reality, of an individual's life. He showed that spiritual activity demonstrates man's inseparability from the Father, the one Life, and that no one is destroyed by death. Eternal life was the theme of Jesus' ministry. His example was evidence that man emanates from Spirit; he does not emerge from matter as the biologists of today would have us believe. Jesus said, "I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father." John 16:28;
The so-called death of a mortal is nothing more than an incident in the human experience. In real being, man reflects Spirit; so his life activity goes on forever. This activity is what defines the real man, the man who comes from the Father and returns to Him. The insubstantial belief of life in matter continues, however, until it is made to disappear in the presence of the Christly activity of the real self. Good, not evil or fear or mental penury, is the substance of that true self. And it is deathless because the good it embodies is deathless.
When Jesus reappeared to his disciples after his three days in a tomb, he made no distinction between mind and matter, nor did he claim that soul and body separate in death. He said, "Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have." Luke 24:39;
