Article August 12, 1950 Issue

TRUE IDENTIFICATION

LOUIE ALLEN

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy this interesting question is asked (p. 477): "What are body and Soul?" The answer reads in part, "Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the reflection in multifarious forms of the living Principle, Love." Knowing well how careful our Leader was to give every word its rightful place and meaning, we can profitably consider this answer and thereby become better acquainted with our true identity. A dictionary defines identity thus: "Sameness of essential character.... Selfsameness; oneness." A great teaching of Christian Science is not only that man is one with God, but that he is the image and likeness of perfect Mind, thus in no way material, but spiritual and perfect.

The beginner in the study of this Science may ask: "Is my body spiritual? Did God make it?" Here wisdom demands a careful answer, but it may certainly be pointed out that Mrs. Eddy shows clearly in her writings that identity is solely under the control and government of the one Mind, God. Gradually the student learns to identify his selfhood with reality, to know that his incorporeal being manifests God's nature; and he learns to reject as unreal the living evidence of the material senses, wherein exist all beliefs of flesh and suffering. The outcome of this right identification is divine healing, bringing more harmony into his experience.

We read on page 332 of Science and Health, "Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness." This true idea which is voicing good to our consciousness is assuring us that God is our Father-Mother; that our identity is spiritually created and is constituted and governed by God's law of harmony. It is a comfort to realize that the man of God's creating is sound, invulnerable, whole, pure, and free; that he has no contact whatsoever with physique, with matter, or with material beliefs; that he lives in Mind; and that God is his Life. Let us identify ourselves as this man, whose every quality is derived from God, his Maker.

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