Article June 12, 1937 Issue

True Identity

MILDRED P. KINDY

Each one of us has a possession which is distinctly his own, and which could belong to no one else; something from which he can never be separated, and which he can never lose. It is his true identity.

"Identity is the reflection of Spirit," says Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 477), "the reflection in multifarious forms of the living Principle, Love." Our identity, then, is our true self in the likeness of Spirit, God; it is what Spirit, God, knows about us. Our true identity is indicated by the good we are reflecting. This identity is entirely spiritual, entirely separate from what mortal mind or material sense tells us about ourselves. A false mortal picture of identity is material personality, while the true identity of man is individualized spiritual reflection.

We sometimes read of cases of mistaken identity where one person is taken for another. This mistaken sense is always based on confusion, and results in discord. The understanding which Christian Science gives us of our true identity, as children of God—spiritual, pure, perfect, harmonious—destroys for each one of us the belief of a mistaken identity, material, impure, imperfect, and discordant. When any suggestion of evil claims to pose as a part of our thinking and identity, we can rise in the strength of spiritual understanding and refuse to admit, accept, or believe it. We can conquer and dismiss the evil suggestion as a claim of mistaken identity.

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