True individuality is without egotism. It is the counterfeit, the false mortal selfhood posing as something that it is not, which cloaks itself in egotism.
In "Unity of Good" (p. 27) Mary Baker Eddy, differentiating between egoism and egotism, writes, "Applying these distinctions to evil and God, we shall find that evil is egotistic,—boastful, but fleeing like a shadow at daybreak; while God is egoistic, knowing only His own all-presence, all-knowledge, all-power." Unerring, eternal Mind, "knowing only His own all-presence, all-knowledge, all-power," can lack nothing of infinite good, wisdom, intelligence, strength, beauty, completeness, and perfection, because this Mind is all-inclusive. Ego, or Mind, conscious of Love's allness, must be loving, lovable, lovely, and beloved. Apprehending, seeing, only the power of good operating everywhere, it is without thought of competition or comparison.
Spirit, being the substance of all reality, can know no disintegration, no ebbing and flowing of health and wholeness, no waning of perfection, completeness. Ego, as Principle, being a law unto itself, subject to no other law, knowing no other, embodies law and order untouched by any mortal belief of chance or change. It is without fear; it can have no knowledge of sin, disease, time, or death.
