What Is the Body? ~ Ernest Holmes
"When man first awakened to self-consciousness, he had a body with a definite form, showing that Instinctive Life - which is God - had already clothed Itself with the form of flesh. Body or form is the necessary outcome of self-knowingness. In order to know, there must be something to be known. Some kind of a body (or expression) always was and always will be, if consciousness is to remain true to its own nature.
Body is a concrete manifestation, existing in time and space, for the purpose of furnishing a vehicle through which Life may express Itself. The physical Universe is the Body of God; it is a manifestation in form of the Mind of God. It is that Creation which - while It may have beginnings and ends - of Itself neither begins nor ends. The manifestation of Spirit is necessary, if Spirit is to come into Self-Realization - hence, Body.
We say that body is composed of matter, but what is matter? Science tells us that matter is an aggregation of small particles arranged in some kind of form. We are also told that matter is in a continuous state of flow. Strange as it may seem, we do not have the same physical bodies that we had a few months ago, they have completely changed. New particles have taken the place of the old, and the only reason that they have taken the same form is that something within has provided the same mold. Our bodies are like a river, forever flowing. The Indwelling Spirit alone maintains the identity."
"When man first awakened to self-consciousness, he had a body with a definite form, showing that Instinctive Life - which is God - had already clothed Itself with the form of flesh. Body or form is the necessary outcome of self-knowingness. In order to know, there must be something to be known. Some kind of a body (or expression) always was and always will be, if consciousness is to remain true to its own nature.
Body is a concrete manifestation, existing in time and space, for the purpose of furnishing a vehicle through which Life may express Itself. The physical Universe is the Body of God; it is a manifestation in form of the Mind of God. It is that Creation which - while It may have beginnings and ends - of Itself neither begins nor ends. The manifestation of Spirit is necessary, if Spirit is to come into Self-Realization - hence, Body.
We say that body is composed of matter, but what is matter? Science tells us that matter is an aggregation of small particles arranged in some kind of form. We are also told that matter is in a continuous state of flow. Strange as it may seem, we do not have the same physical bodies that we had a few months ago, they have completely changed. New particles have taken the place of the old, and the only reason that they have taken the same form is that something within has provided the same mold. Our bodies are like a river, forever flowing. The Indwelling Spirit alone maintains the identity."
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