No truth in divine Science is more fundamental and more important to understand and demonstrate in the present stage of human progress than that of man's eternal individuality. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 331): "God is individual, incorporeal. He is divine Principle, Love, the universal cause, the only creator, and there is no other self-existence." This being the nature of the great universal cause, God, it follows that His individuality is universally expressed in His creation. That is to say, every idea existing in the divine Mind is eternally individual, and this fact is unassailable and demonstrable. The carnal mind's depreciation of this truth, by insisting on a humanly personalized sense of God and man, is responsible for all human limitation and untold suffering. But an appreciation, even partial, of this great fact opens up to the human mind unimagined vistas of unfoldment and achievement.
Jesus' demonstration of his true selfhood, or the Christ, resulted in the works of healing which he did and the supremacy which he manifested over material conditions. They were not isolated events or achievements, but the incidental and progressive effects of his demonstration of divine sonship. He referred many times to his eternal individuality, notably in these two statements: "I and my Father are one" (John 10:30); and, "Before Abraham was, I am" (John 8:58). Furthermore, he demonstrated the truth underlying these statements when he conversed on the mount of transfiguration with Moses and Elias, and later when he appeared to his disciples after the resurrection.
The most satisfying achievement open to humanity is the demonstration of man's spiritual and eternal selfhood. To know oneself rightly as the man predestined by God from all eternity to be spiritual and perfect is the acme of demonstration. In working to this end there is no competition, and the way is open equally to all. This way is the understanding of divine Science, which cannot be blocked by human circumstances. The following words, occuring in "Hamlet,"
