Article January 3, 1976 Issue

[Original in German]

Only One Person

JÜRGEN NICKELS

"Don't take it personally!" "That wasn't meant personally!" "Now, please don't get personal!"

These are not unusual remarks in daily life. "Personality" seems to occupy considerable space in general thought. Why?

That mortal personality is vulnerable, that one can tread too close to it, or offend by not honoring it, reveals one of its basic characteristics: It is obviously greatly dependent on what others think. In fact, it lives on our belief in it. A sense of personality is not something actually existing but an image that one conceives of someone as one imagines him to be. Mrs. Eddy says in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health: "The world believes in many persons; but if God is personal, there is but one person, because there is but one God. His personality can only be reflected, not transmitted." Science and Health, p. 517;

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