No one has shown greater love for God and man in thought, word, and deed than Christ Jesus. He always identified himself with the Christ, his spiritual selfhood. "This Christ, or divinity of the man Jesus, was his divine nature, the godliness which animated him," we are told by Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health (p. 26). Jesus was forever aware of the Christ. His consciousness was the Christ-consciousness, entirely above a mortal sense of existence, entirely above a sense of man as a mortal. Christian Science teaches that the more Christlike one's thought, the more evident one's true individuality, and, conversely, the more material one's thinking, the more in evidence the false sense of oneself as a mortal.
True individuality is our spiritual heritage; mortal selfhood is our largest trouble maker. He who has gained, even in small degree, an understanding of true individuality has to that degree subordinated the false sense of self.
Identifying oneself with the material senses beclouds the vision of God and of man's spiritual identity. The false sense of erroneous selfhood, pointing to other gods, engenders the beliefs in matter, sin, disease, and death. Christian Science demands that every thought shall be consecrated to the worship of the everlasting Father, eternal Life, which mortal sense cannot comprehend, which mortal belief cannot destroy. Spiritual sense reveals God, the Soul of all existence, who perpetuates His own individuality in man through Mind. Thus spirituality leaves no place for the mists of mortal sense.
