Article January 23, 1960 Issue

HEALING THROUGH UNDERSTANDING TRUE IDENTITY

JOHN OGILVIE HORNE

In the material world an individual is identified by his bodily characteristics—shape, size, gait, or expression, or even by his voice. But how is he identified in spiritual reality? In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy asks this question (p. 477): "What are body and Soul?" and in her answer she includes the statement, "Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the reflection in multifarious forms of the living Principle, Love."

One's reflection in a flawless mirror is substantially the same as his body in front of the mirror, and the reflection cannot lie or bear false witness. Even more so, man, created by God, reflects God in all His perfection, and this perfect reflection cannot lie or bear false witness.

In Science and Health we find the question, "What is God?" answered thus (p. 465): "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love." The man of God's creating, Christian Science insists, must reflect all that these terms imply. There could not be a reflection which differed from the original. Since God is incorporeal, the true identity of man is incorporeal, matterless, spiritual. It expresses the harmony, health, order, activity, and dominion which belong to Principle, God.

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