Editorial March 21, 1983 Issue

How do you identify yourself?

DeWITT JOHN

A name, a signature, a driver's license, a number assigned by a computer—we're apt to use them all. But there's so much more to right identification. What about the thoughts we think about ourselves? And what about the confusion so many people feel, in today's high-pressured society, over questions of identity—or loss of identity?

Such issues lead to a deeper question: Do we passively accept the limiting concepts that would define us on a mortal basis? Or do we actively know our real identity according to what's true of God and man?

We find the contrast between true and false identification (and what we can do about it) spelled out plainly in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. There Mary Baker Eddy writes: "Absorbed in material selfhood we discern and reflect but faintly the substance of Life or Mind. The denial of material selfhood aids the discernment of man's spiritual and eternal individuality, and destroys the erroneous knowledge gained from matter or through what are termed the material senses." ^{Science and Health, p.91.}

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