What a great blessing it would be if we might awake to find ourselves free from the false sense of self to which each of us refers as "I." We should no longer bind ourselves with such thoughts as, "I am overburdened; I am growing old; I am a mortal sinner." We should be loosed from bondage to a self which we intermittently love and distrust, have hope for and despair of.
Christian Science enables us to attain this freedom. It does so by replacing the tyrannical, idolatrous concept of "I" with the true and lovable concept of man as a spiritual idea. In the Glossary of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gives us a thought-rousing definition of "I, or Ego," which reads in part (p. 588): "Divine Principle; Spirit; Soul; incorporeal, unerring, immortal, and eternal Mind. There is but one I, or Us, but one divine Principle, or Mind, governing all existence."
