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Get to know your spiritual identity
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
For a very long time, people believed that the world was flat. That belief, which was so entrenched that it was considered fact, never changed the structure of the planet, did it? Some courageous adventurers—and a new, accurate perspective—helped everyone see that the earth is a globe.
Similarly, to admit and act on the fact that man—in the generic sense—is 100 percent spiritual may sound as radical as the first person who proposed that the earth might be round. Yet just because everyone has been taught that the human state of existence is primarily physical, with a little spirituality thrown in, doesn’t make it so. But while we’re thinking of ourselves in material terms, we aren’t able to reap the benefits that are ours as the spiritual sons and daughters of God.
Soul, a name Mrs. Eddy used for God, is the true source of man. We each exist here and now as ideas of God. It’s not like we don’t have identities—we do. But just as the world isn’t flat, our identities aren’t physical. As the expression of God, our substance is spiritual, and we possess the ability to perceive, express, and enjoy the spiritual goodness that is truly ours.
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Mark Swinney is a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States.
