Article August 20, 1979 Issue

God's man is original—never duplicated

PETER B. VANDERHOEF

Why is it that two people exactly alike have never been seen or—for that matter—two snowflakes, blades of grass, or leaves of a tree? Christian Science explains the blade of grass, the leaf on the tree, the star in the heavens—indeed the multifarious beauty and design of nature's handiwork—as hinting at infinity, a quality of God.

God, divine Mind, is infinite. God's infinite nature is reflected in His creation of countless spiritual ideas. Man, as idea, possesses God's qualities, which are identified and expressed individually. The individual expression of God's being is distinct and unique—it can never be duplicated. Mrs. Eddy, our Leader, tells us, "The one Ego, the one Mind or Spirit called God, is infinite individuality, which supplies all form and comeliness and which reflects reality and divinity in individual spiritual man and things."^{Science and Health, p. 281;}

From the human viewpoint, there are many mortal minds and human wills, which often conflict with one another. Mortal mentality inflicts humanity with suffering—with discord, sickness, sin, abnormality, and so forth. But this mind is only the counterfeit of the divine Mind. Mortal mind can't create, destroy, distort, or duplicate Mind's creation.

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