Article January 1, 1955 Issue

IDENTITY AND INDIVIDUALITY

HARRY E. DE LASAUX

"God is the Life, or intelligence, which forms and preserves the individuality and identity of animals as well as of men," Mary Baker Eddy writes on page 550 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Here is a valuable revelation of the nature of true being: God's creation has both identity and individuality. This is significant, for identity without individuality would imply a creation composed of an infinite number of ideas without distinguishing qualities.

But this is impossible, for as Christian Science reveals, each identity has individuality as part of its essential nature. There are no duplicates in God's creation. While each one of us reflects all of God's qualities, so that in Truth no one expresses more of the divine Mind than another, yet each one of us has his own individualized way of manifesting Life, Truth, and Love. This individual manifestation is the very wonder of divine Mind's consummate creative power.

You and I and everyone are in reality the individual expressions of divine Love. Not only do we exist as particular entities—reflections of the Mind which is God—but we also possess instantly recognizable elements of individual character. God's plan is infinitely varied and endlessly beautiful, and He causes it to be expressed.

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