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of its soft and flexible body gradually crystallize into the
hard and flinty shell which is incapable of moving save
as propelled by the snail. Thus, as the house of tne snail
is crystallized snail, so matter is crystallized spirit. And as
the house of the snail remains stationary when not moved
by the snail, so matter is immobile save when moved
by the spirit. But in the course of time ihe snail's house
goes to decay. The matter of which it was formed is broketi*
up into minute particles and becomes available for the
building of other flexible forms it may become the body
of a snail again. So, also, the crystalized spirit matter
is reetherialized and becomes spirit again. Matter evolves
as well as spirit, for it becomes more ethereal, more flex-
ible, and more amenable to the impacts of spirit when it is
built into different forms time after time.
Thus we may say with the Christian Scientist that all is
spirit, that which appears as matter being in reality spirit
in a state of crystallization, and we may also agree with
the materialist that all is matter, for spirit
which has not
yet crystallized into matter will eventually do so. It is
a mistake to consider anything in God's Universe as un-
real ; both matter and spirit are real. They are the positive
and negative poles of God.