No subject before human thought today is more compelling than that of man's continuous and indestructible individuality. No idea is riper for comprehension. And no conception is more generally resisted by suppositional evil, whose destruction rests upon the demonstration of individual manhood as God created it and Christ Jesus revealed it.
In the ascending revelation of spiritual truth Christianity has risen in Christian Science to unfold the fact that man is spiritual and perfect and forever individual. You and I will be our individual selves eternally, never absorbed into Deity by spiritualization and never merged into a single man by it. "Absorb" means "to cause to disappear or lose identity," but Christian Science declares that all identities are maintained in their distinctness and individuality as coexistent ideas of the one infinite Mind, God. Every demonstration of Christian Science is the revelation in some measure of individual man, of his character, his health, his activity, his environment.
"God is individual Mind," says Mary Baker Eddy in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 101). And she goes on, "This one Mind and His individuality comprise the elements of all forms and individualities, and prophesy the nature and stature of Christ, the ideal man." God's ideal man—His highest idea—is endlessly multiplied in Mind's expression of infinite individuality. This is evident in the terms which Christian Science uses in describing man as Mrs. Eddy reveals him in Science, such terms as immortals, reflex images, infinite ideas, sons and daughters, spiritual beings, divine children, individualized ideas. We find in Science that each of us, in his real unabsorbable identity, reflects the same infinite Mind, but each one does so in an individual, God-ordained way. Isaiah must have glimpsed the truth of man's perpetual distinctiveness when he said of the creations of God (40:26), "He calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth."
