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EOSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
ness has ceased the life passes on, leaving the forms behind,
and then they are dead. Thus the question should rather
be "How did the dead originate?" for life is it has neither
origin nor termination.
QUESTION Xo. 172.
What is matter? Is it not unreal?
Ansiver: There are various theories of matter. If we ask
the materialist he, of course, maintains that matter is the
one reality ; that all and everything is matter and that noth-
ing can exist except
that. The Christian Scientist is of the
very opposite opinion. He holds that matter is nonexistent
a delusion; that everything that is, is spirit, and so those
two classes of people are the very antitheses of one another.
But the truth is between.
When God desires to manifest, He emanates within Him-
self the thought forms of such a universe as He desires to
create, and these archetypal ideas arc spirit when first ema-
nated in that central source. But under the influence of
time and space, they slowly crystallize and become that
which we know as matter. This is a similar process to that
which we may observe in the case of a snail. The juices