What moves your arm? Mind. What mind? Mortal mind. Is
there a mortal mind? No. Then you have come back to – nothingness. God does not know anything about the moving of your hand.
If you control your hand, move it out and back, can you not
control the clouds also? Yes. I am now speaking from the material
sense. In immortal sense there are no clouds and no storms. When
the workmen could not finish their work if it rained (and it did not
rain for three weeks) and my neighbor could not furnish milk
because his well was dry, and the next morning he found three or
four feet of water in his well and it had not rained and he asked if
we were witches or prophets here, I did not depend on clouds or
storms but upon higher power.

Man cannot change his true self if he would.  He cannot undo God’s work.  Carpenter, Gilbert, Fragments Gathered From Unpublished Items Ascribed to Mary Baker Eddy, p.87)

There is no Matter – 14

     A further proof of this is the demonstration, according to Christian Science, that by the reduction and the rejection of the claims of matter (instead of acquiescence therein) man is improved physically, mentally, morally, spiritually. 

     To deny the existence or reality of matter, and yet admit the reality of moral evil, sin, or to say that the divine Mind is conscious of evil, yet is not conscious of matter, is erroneous. This error stultifies the logic of divine Science, and must interfere with its practical demonstration.  (Eddy, Mary Baker, Unity of Good, p.36:16-26)

There is no Matter – 13

     From the beginning this lie was the false witness against the fact that Spirit is All, beside which there is no other existence. The use of a lie is that it unwittingly confirms Truth, when handled by Christian Science, which reverses false testimony and gains a knowledge of God from opposite facts, or phenomena. 

     This whole subject is met and solved by Christian Science according to Scripture. Thus we see that Spirit is Truth and eternal reality; that matter is the opposite of Spirit, — referred to in the New Testament as the flesh at war with Spirit; hence, that matter is erroneous, transitory, unreal. (Eddy, Mary Baker, Unity of Good, p.36:4-15)

There is no Matter – 12

     Force.  What is gravitation? Mortal mind says gravitation is a material power, or force. I ask, Which was first, matter or power? That which was first was God,  immortal Mind, the Parent of all. But God is Truth, and the forces of Truth are moral and spiritual, not physical. They are not the merciless forces of matter. What then are the so-called forces of matter? They are the phenomena of mortal mind, and matter and mortal mind are one; and this one is a misstatement of Mind, God. 

     A molecule, as matter, is not formed by Spirit; for Spirit is spiritual consciousness alone. Hence this spiritual consciousness can form nothing unlike itself, Spirit, and Spirit is the only creator. The material atom is an outlined falsity of consciousness, which can gather additional evidence of consciousness and life only as it adds lie to lie. This process it names material attraction, and endows with the double capacity of creator and creation.  (Eddy, Mary Baker, Unity of Good, p.35:13-3)

There is no Matter – 10

     Touch.  Take another train of reasoning. Mortal mind says that matter cannot feel matter; yet put your finger on a burning coal, and the nerves, material nerves, do feel matter. 

     Again I ask: What evidence does mortal mind afford that matter is substantial, is hot or cold? Take away mortal mind, and matter could not feel what it calls substance. Take away matter, and mortal mind could not cognize its own so-called substance, and this so-called mind would have no identity. Nothing would remain to be seen or felt. 

     What is substance? What is the reality of God and the universe? Immortal Mind is the real substance, — Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love.  (Eddy, Mary Baker, Unity of Good, p.34:14-27)

There is no Matter – 9

     Sight.  Mortal mind declares that matter sees through the organizations of matter, or that mind sees by means of matter. Disorganize the so-called material structure, and then mortal mind says, “I cannot see;” and declares that matter is the master of mind, and that non-intelligence governs. Mortal mind admits that it sees only material images, pictured on the eye’s retina.

     What then is the line of the syllogism? It must be this: That matter is not seen; that mortal mind cannot see without matter; and therefore that the whole function of material sight is an illusion, a lie. 

     Here comes in the summary of the whole matter, wherewith we started: that God is All, and God is Spirit; therefore there is nothing but Spirit; and consequently there is no matter. (Eddy, Mary Baker, Unity of Good, p.33:26-13)