WHAT is spiritual identification? It is the process or act of recognizing one's true selfhood. This identification is the process whereby one relinquishes his mortal, material selfhood, to find and establish his spiritual identity as the child of God. It is to become consciously at-one with God; to cooperate actively with all the purposes and effects of the law of God, good.
This process requires consecrated, unceasing, intelligent obedience to the divine law in every minutest detail of human thinking, and must be carried on "till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ." Ever since the beginning of time, mortals have sought to understand immortality and to reach out for a comprehension of that which is beyond mortal sight. Prophets and apostles proved their unity with God through "signs following." Jesus of Nazareth, the greatest demonstrator of man's true identity the world has ever known, said, in meek denial of his material selfhood, "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do." Paul, voicing the same thought in his first epistle to the Corinthians, wrote: "I judge not mine own self. For I know nothing by myself." When the revelation of Christian Science was given to Mary Baker Eddy, the law of spiritual identification was made scientifically reducible to human comprehension, so that every individual who searches may find the way to the true understanding of God and of his own identity in relation to God.
How wonderful it is to know that the way has been marked out so clearly through the light of the Bible and the revelation of Christian Science, as given to us by Mrs. Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and her numerous other writings, all of which shed so much light on the Scriptures that not one earnest, faithful seeker need miss the way! The way is plain; but the accomplishment of the purpose to become identified with God through the application of spiritual law requires constant prayer and effort, because of the apparent density of the supposititious mortal belief in a material creation with all its etceteras of evil. Every thought that comes not from God is false, and must be" rejected to make room for the right idea. When one thinks of this, the task seems Herculean. But there is only one moment at a time; and the time to work is now; and the power of God is behind every right purpose to carry it forward to fulfillment. Every thought that is the offspring of a belief in a material creation is false, and must be cast out that one may be purged and purified to receive the coming of the Christ, Truth.
