Everyone wants to be able to be active— to move normally and naturally, without giving thought to doing it, regardless of their age, size, or apparent human history. But does having our thought focused on matter as the source of life and movement give us the strength, agility, and uprightness we want to experience? Does it enliven and invigorate us?
The first chapter of Genesis in the Bible refutes the belief that matter in any form gives life or action. Here we are told that God created all. Within this creation, everything moves in harmony. There is only creative, useful action; nothing is destructive or discordant.
God's creation expresses the activity of God, the divine Mind, and only in the divine Mind, which is infinite, does this activity take place. The claim that matter or the body originates or controls man—gives him strength, vitality, life—is contrary to the spiritual fact that God, divine Love, created all and created it Godlike. "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Gen. 1:31
