Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to header Skip to footer

Articles

TRUE SELFHOOD

From the April 1947 issue of The Christian Science Journal


The revelation, understanding, and acknowledgment of true selfhood are indispensable to the progressive unfoldment of the student of Christian Science. "God is All-in-all. Hence He is in Himself only, in His own nature and character, and is perfect being, or consciousness. He is all the Life and Mind there is or can be. Within Himself is every embodiment of Life and Mind. If He is All, He can have no consciousness of anything unlike Himself; because, if He is omnipresent, there can be nothing outside of Himself" (Unity of Good, p. 3). Herein Mary Baker Eddy with her usual lucid spiritual discernment and keen comprehension sets forth the perfect nature of the one Ego, God.

Our Leader, in her writings, refers to God as Supreme Being. The understanding and acknowledgment of God as Supreme Being carries with it a warmth and depth of feeling; peace, poise, and tranquillity. With this apprehension and acknowledgment comes the certainty of God's entireness, allness, oneness, omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniaction.

Christ Jesus perceived the divine nature of God so vividly that he declared God to be Spirit; while to Moses came the realization of God as the great I AM. Christ Jesus' understanding of God, of His allness, onliness, and infinitude, never fluctuated or diminished, but ever increased in progressive unfoldment and uninterrupted continuity.

Sign up for unlimited access

You've accessed 1 piece of free Journal content

Subscribe

Subscription aid available

 Try free

No card required

More In This Issue / April 1947

concord-web-promo-graphic

Explore Concord—see where it takes you.

Search the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures