There is never a limited man! The Scriptures declare that man is made in God's image and likeness. They also state that God is infinite. This being the case, man, the image and likeness of the infinite, must be infinite also; that is, he must be without limitation in every quality. As the expression or effect of the divine cause of all creation, man is unlimited as to health, happiness, activity, and abundance. This is the truth universally and eternally present regardless of what the human consciousness seems to believe about man. Christian Science does not bring this truth into being but reveals it as the fact now, a fact which needs only to be accepted to be experienced.
The unregenerated human consciousness, that is, that human consciousness which has not yet accepted the light of Truth as revealed in Christian Science, believes man to be limited in every respect. It believes him to be a corporeal mortal, limited as to health, as to happiness and contentment, as to supply and activity. Having accepted these beliefs as true, this unenlightened and false sense of consciousness sees limitation everywhere. This false sense of man, this limited so-called man, is not real or true.
Mary Baker Eddy, in discussing "The Human Concept" in her book "Retrospection and Introspection," declares (p. 67), "The first iniquitous manifestation of sin was a finity." The first manifestation of sin in the human consciousness is a sense of limitation. Mrs. Eddy indicates in the sentence preceding the one just quoted that sin involves a sense of separation from God. Thus we inevitably arrive at the conclusion that a sense of limitation is but the manifestation of the belief that man is separate from God—perhaps created by Him, but turned loose to wander aimlessly about like a wound-up Christmas toy which crashes against a chair or runs down somewhere on the other side of the room. But in reality man is always the perfect and unlimited reflection of the perfect and infinite Father and is always under His control.
