Article November 12, 1966 Issue

True Identification

ALFRED MARSHALL VAUGHN

Christian Science points to the importance of identifying ourselves as we really are, the image and likeness of God, Spirit. Spirit cannot know about matter, about corporeal personalities, or about a material world wherein there are sin and sickness. So man, God's reflection, cannot know about them. It is helpful to think of ourselves as spiritual ideas, reflecting the true consciousness. We shall have made a good start toward this goal as we earnestly desire to attain this perfect consciousness and reason often about what God knows.

One can know what a mortal knows only when he identifies himself as a mortal. Sin, sickness, lack, unhappiness, and other discords come from thinking as a mortal thinks. To the extent that one identifies himself as spiritual man, he is lifted above the belief that he is a mortal, knowing matter and evil, and can overcome the discords that mortal man experiences.

When one has a problem, it will seem less real to him as he reasons that it is only to a mortal that a problem can be presented, for God, who knows all things, knows nothing about a problem. As one realizes that he is spiritual, conscious only of what God knows, he recognizes that the problem cannot be presented to his true selfhood as God's perfect child. Then he will see God's law of harmony operating in the situation.

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