PRESUMABLY, everyone wants to understand his real identity and to express it more and more perfectly. From the early training of a child and on through the years, self-expression of some kind takes place, and character is developed, but not always satisfyingly, in spite of earnest efforts. A child, and even an adult, often feels as though he were being pulled two ways, and this sense of mental struggle proves detrimental to the development of talent and general efficiency. Yet man's true identity exists in all its original and definite perfection, and Christian Science enables one to discern and express it rejoicingly.
In speaking of "the Science that Jesus demonstrated," Mrs. Eddy writes on page 21 of "No and Yes," "This Science demonstrated the Principle of all phenomena, identity, individuality, law; and showed man as reflecting God and the divine capacity." Man's identity, then, is exempt from any hazard or duality, for it originates in divine Principle and is maintained by it. As such, it is distinct from genealogy and from human theories regarding heredity. Christian Science has annulled many a seeming handicap by showing an individual how to demonstrate his relationship to divine Principle with increasing exactness, fidelity, and joy. In the case of every man, woman, and child, it is in God alone that man's real identity can be found.
When tempted by suffering, temptation, or any discord, one should at once declare with conviction that God endows His likeness with the divine capacity to express righteousness, intelligence, health, wisdom, purity, and every other good and perfect gift. Man's spiritual capacity to express God's harmony and completeness is established through spiritual law and has never been reversed or annulled. One who turns to Christian Science for healing must therefore cease arguing for the peculiarities of his case. He must put the whole weight of his thought, effort, and aspiration on the side of his unalterably true identity as God's child.
