In the Science of being, consciousness of self can never be separated from consciousness of God.
Self-consciousness scientifically, and therefore spiritually, understood is the individual expression of the consciousness of God. It is not human, but divine; not mortal, but immortal. This consciousness of man is the consciousness of God, because in divine verity there is no other. What is outside this one infinite consciousness is, in scientific terms, a state of unconsciousness—is insensibility to what alone is real and eternal.
"Consciousness," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 480 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "as well as action, is governed by Mind,—is in God, the origin and governor of all that Science reveals." How long men accept as actual a so-called state of consciousness which because it is mortally mental, without true knowledge, therefore denies the omnipotence and omnipresence of the one Mind, or God, depends upon their awakening to reality, to that awareness of self which reveals the Christ.
