Article May 23, 1994 Issue

In the only universe there is

Mark Swinney

There is nothing more to the genuine identity of each of us than what is spiritual, Godlike. Man's identity is entirely the product of the Mind that is God, divine Spirit. As there is no creative power in addition to infinite Spirit, there is nothing to man's identity in addition to spirituality.

"Spirit, God, has created all in and of Himself," states Mrs. Eddy. "Spirit never created matter. There is nothing in Spirit out of which matter could be made, for, as the Bible declares, without the Logos, the Æon or Word of God, 'was not anything made that was made'" (Science and Health, p. 335). The sum total of man, the entirety of his nature, his wholeness, is exclusively spiritual—exactly and solely what God is expressing in him. God's creation and the belief of materiality are not related. So for God's expression, material birth and death are out of the question.

Today, and more than ever before, our world is investing billions of dollars and incredible effort attempting to care for the health of mankind. Most of the present health-care systems are based on the assumption that man is either entirely material or a material shell, possibly inhabited by something indistinctly spiritual; that he is a fragile mortal, on a journey from material conception to the "death process"—and nothing more.

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