Matter And Spirit

[PH196]

The Material creation is the counterfeit of the Spiritual World. The Spiritual is real, the Material is Unreal. There is a correspondency in the Spiritual and Material World's, Life is in Spiritual and Death is in the Material. 

 

The spiritual and the physical creations or rather the spiritual and physical worlds, for each is separate and  distinct, and the physical is the manifestation of the spiritual, or to be more exact, the like of the spiritual, constitute the dual creation or dual existence. To be more exact, the spiritual universe is self-existent, or what the scholastic world calls "God," and is the Creator—by the scholastic world we mean man-made theology. The physical universe is the product of the energizing force of the spiritual universe and is the creature. In other words, the spiritual world is the Creator and immortal, the material universe is the creature and is mortal. The physical universe exists for the want of spirit and mind and thought in Consciousness of the Soul—It is a Mortal Concept. It is Cell Life and of the Senses —and there is no Real Life in what is termed Cell Life and the Senses. It only exists in the Consciousness of the Carnal or Mortal Mind—Cell Life is the Carnal or Mortal Mind. Soul or Real Life is Mind—and not of the Physical Senses.

 

There was a time when matter did not exist--when the material creation was a nonentity. A time existed when the material universe did not exist. There must be a spiritual intelligence--and that universal spiritual intelligence must be eternal. Either matter or spirit is eternal--that is, existed without a beginning. The materialist must admit this proposition. All must admit it regardless of revelation. That either spirit or matter exited without a beginning is self evident, that either spirit or matter was all and the infinite and in the beginning. Matter is the phenomena of the material senses and does not exist in soul senses.

That matter has no innate intelligence must be admitted. The rock, the stone--cannot think and cannot know the laws of the universe. Therefore, there must be an intelligent force, which governs the created universe.

 

God is light, life, Spirit. God is good, and God is love. If God be Spirit, the opposite and the absence of God, must be matter. If God be love, the opposite and the absence of God, must be hatred and malice. If God be light, the opposite of God must be darkness. If God be life, the opposite and the absence of God, must be matter and death.

 

The scripture indicates that before the material creation was created, the universe was all spiritual and that God, the Universal Spiritual intelligence, reigned in his spiritual Kingdom and that there were spiritual creatures--members of His spiritual kingdom. These were angels--holy and spiritual in their nature. They were begotten by God the Father, and conceived by God the Holy Spirit.

 

The scripture teaches us the the Devil--Satan--one of these angels--rebelled against God's spiritual universe and the spiritual laws which govern and regulate it--and became the Fallen Angel.

 

When these spiritual beings rebelled against His universe, its laws and its spiritual nature, they partook of the opposite nature and became the opposite in their attributes to God, His spiritual laws and spiritual universe. They partook of the nature of darkness, evil and death, which is manifested in the material creation and the fleshly man.

 

Revelation indicates that the Chief of the spiritual beings who rebelled against God, God's spiritual laws and God's spiritual universe, is the Devil.

The power of the fallen spirits, their nature and attributes, which are contrary to God and to God's spiritual universe, are manifested and represented in the material man. The spiritual man was created in God's image and in accordance and in harmony with God's spiritual nature. The material man in his fleshly nature, who is conceived in passion and born of woman of the nature of the fallen spirits, which is death - the absence of God's mind. That is why humanity dies in this fallen state. Death is the negative and the absence of God as life.

 

John 8:44 Jesus said "If God were your father, ye would love me; for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father, the Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, you believe me not."

 

Here, Jesus compares the physical man, the first material man, who was created by lust, as the son of the devil, the devil here representing the fallen angels who rebelled against God.